Best Provident Poems

Blot out the whole emerging gesture
To demonstrate leading astray thy pace;
Don't rebound to toil and wrestle,
Be temperate tilt not at any rate!

Outrun ne'er surpass in...

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Zero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no...

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Not just the sky itself—they are every ocean and stream—
filled with reflections of rainbows, waterfalls and rain.
Windows of beauty fringed in verdant shades of green.

Not...

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“… The 1986 revolution in the Philippines … brought an end to the martial law imposed by Marcos’ regime in 1972, and saw the accession...

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I Believe in You- A short letter to America
By Curtis Johnson

Dear America,

At times, I have doubted myself and questioned you
I have cried bitter tears over...

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to you 
u r my gift from almighty God
                ...

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A war in heaven reluctantly concedes
To the lullabies in the night singing softly
Covering us in heavenly whisper blows
As feathers falling light so grace intensely ...

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Live Oak, emphasis on the Live,
hundreds of years older than me,
bolder than me, demystifying history
through skin and bark.  So, what am I 
at 70?--an...

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Having reached my retirement age
now look back on all of life
taking time to ponder on it all
picking out the highs from the strife

The consequences of...

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A war in heaven reluctantly concedes
To the lullaby's in the night singing softly
Covering us in heavenly whisper blows
As feathers falling light so intense and gracefully...

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Washington is the state that I have made mine,
Adopting it at the age of twenty-four.
Shaking off the snow and cold from other climes,
Home for me...

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You,
celestial climber,
agile acrobat 
of the scrub pine.
You,
of the branch,
the thistle-fan grounded
in agoraphobia.
You,
for whom the fig tree 
swells purple
with passion,
I would have this
nothing and this
no one...

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Still Not So Great

"Clarity is the enemy of confusion."
-- the definition coherent

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"Blirky exists."
"Can you define Blirky?"
"Blirky is...

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May 25 Scripture Meditations Based on Psalms 102-104

Key Verse – Psalm 103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that...

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Situation

Switch off mind’s clutter and swish with your soluble soul
Seize the second swirl away seizure’s silent convulsions
Sequence sequesters surpass surreptitious soliloquies

Resistance

Ruminating reason and ravenous rapture...

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