Best Pathways Poems

Oh we made our choices in life and tried so very hard
Nothing’s easy when the old school buried deep mentally,
Being street wise we fought many times our lives put on guard
Till we came along and touched each with our candour gently.
Yesterday at the castle or...

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Written~ September 12, 2023


My cozy home, encircled by emerald pathways.
California autumnal beauty, created that way!!

This blessed day, He painted with magical rays,
Come on down, observe the deep, green leaves sway,

Saturday and Sundays are such glorious days here,
Grandma not hiding behind glass, there is nothing to...

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Winding  down wrinkled bumpy lanes ,  halting steps not taken back 
Barefoot strolls over hot rough  streets,  skimming across smooth asphalt tracts 
Friends,  neighbors and lovers  after  all turned their backs 
Life shows once again its  cruel...

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All dark, foreboding pathways seek out light,
though shadowed, bleak, mysterious and long.
Does not bright day cede all its fire at night,
and seeing this confirms that both belong?

From blazing sun we often need escape
to waters cool, or sheltered place of rest.
Does not the night unfold its...

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Parallel smoky white lines carve paths as
passage marked 'cross cobalt sky;
homeward-bound seraphim.

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(C) John C Michaels, June 2017...

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The changing face of things to come
is threatening to all,
security in what we know
is where we like to crawl.
To move us on to pastures new
needs pressing intervention,
indeed its true, necessity 
is mother of invention.

Alas not all face challenges
with openness of mind,
there’s those who fear to...

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The pathways we follow
   are too oft chosen for us

Our birthplace or breeding 
   as to flowers their seeding

Schools and society too have their way
   framing whatever they want us to say

Hearts need to express their deepest yearnings
 ...

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so many road blocks and exits along the way
each day a choice given freely to each 
to take whichever road they choose
did you think about it before you started walking  
or did you wait until you were in the middle 
of your journey and...

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A vertical line of point on a beach is a starving starfish. Enterprises of ravishing seagulls. Swoop swap. Thresholds of alignment. Delivery of stone reason. No rhyme. Under a large bridge a worm sits playing a banjo. Jolting it's head. And an abacus fancies a...

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Where pathways probe the lonesome place,
And foxes tease with tails to chase;
Rabbits crouch beneath the hedges,
And grey mice play amongst the sedges.

Frogs that squat on rocks in streams,
Croak their songs to pipe their dreams;
While butterflies drift where faeries hide,
And sunbeams dance while shadows died.

Beneath the...

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Separate Pathways

If you want to fill your heart with hate;
If you want to bicker, argue, and debate.
That's your prerogative if you're so inclined;
To be intolerant and asinine.

You may spew venom and vile;
Choose to be aggressive and hostile.
That's on you and your karma's deal;
But you don't...

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Lazy clouds hang in the sky 
But darkness shrouds their evil play 
They wander here to me this day 

I hear a grumble, not a sigh 
An evil breeze has much to say 
It led me to this place today 

Was just out there she...

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pathways through light
never ripping at the seems
a beauty so pure...

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Oh, that magical age of 5 -that long-ago time 
when memory sharpens and events recalled
get compartmentalized into something more
than mere wisps of mist! Infancy’s vast fog lifts!
My own childhood more vividly recalled began with a country lane
which took my younger sisters and me away from...

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I fear the day our words cease to say
How much I need your love in every way
As our love is tested in such a mind-altering play
You know I pray in every way for God to take us away
Just like we planned it from the very...

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