Best Purging Poems

When I am honest with my belongings 
I am amazed to find that I have surrounded myself
With things that I thought I could not live without
Once upon a time…..

But once upon a time is long gone, and these things
no longer give me joy, or make...

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My porch must be miserable
Full of empty boxes 
Thanks to Amazon’s daily deliveries

I had not noticed until today
But it is unbelievably noticeable
I wish the delivery men would take the empties away

My front door looks shabby
Needs a fresh paint job
But it is a mural and not...

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Entered in “relevance”
Exit by consequence….

To the measure of temporary.. and unequal flaws,
While passions “unknown” court an unseizeable throne,

Ignite the cerebral and  insight in emerging stages, 
As the “wise” of life contends and contests,

Amid turbulent changes and far ranging rage!
On such signs ends an age...


©Joe...

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Musical nonsense – purging thoughts

Songs of the heart fill the notes on the sheet
Black upon white in the fanciest lace
Strings out of tune to the places they meet
Melodies wane in the moments we trace

Choruses christened in sweet water glow
Ring through the valleys while villagers sleep
Echoes...

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Brief phase of purging
Debris of the past rising-
Essential living....

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As my fingers punches each letter
And vandalize the blank wall
Purging what's inside, at most all bitter
The lonely journey of the bliss less soul

Why? Of all emotions
At most I choose the time of my pain
To evaporated into the clouds
And turns the season into rain

I am looking...

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woman, oh woman
even after your
constant, daily
treatment of abuse
I demonstrated
I could have been
your karate kid.

In your defense
did I not impulsively
stand tall between
two warring giants
me, a whippet of a kid
arms outstretched
like sabre swords
pleading don't hurt
her....
taking blows
meant for you.

You the one that 
inflicted pain 24/7
twisting the
tender skin off
my...

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May 18 Scripture Meditations Based on Psalms 79-81

Key Verse – Psalm 79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR PURGING AWAY MY SINS

Thank...

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Sin swept ... 
another soul carried away
on the winds of self-destruction
Wrong way living,
unwise decisions made with a gilded heart
Sin loves to appear 
as something other than what it truly is,
giving you a mask of illusion 
so you can’t see what you really are
Choking all the...

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Temporary nirvana (albeit elusive),
nonetheless I strive to access
attaining bliss mine soul bless
exceeding exhilaration winning
(with fewest moves against

deadly opponent) bittersweet game,
where life analogous playing chess
mortality embraced hesitantly, I confess
gnarled, knotted, pitted... old fingers
wrinkled mottled flesh doth dress

unavoidable senescence
upon body politic mortality doth express,
though severely myopic,
yours truly...

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Whenever my thoughts begin to gather dust
 And my stressed-out mind begins to slowly rust
 I'm inclined to purge it with guided meditation
 The calming effects refreshing. It begets elation



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I thought about vodka, I thought about sleep.
I thought of the world, laying idle at my feet.
I thought about a pick me up, I'd though to push you down.
I though about the little things I couldn’t keep around.
I thought about him and every single him...

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January 27 Scripture Meditations Based on Leviticus 21-24

Key Verse – Leviticus 21:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR...

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December 2 Scripture Meditations Based on Hebrews 1-2

Key Verse – Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat...

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combing my unkempt hair
unraveling years of not caring
my freedom knotted with reckless abandon
untangling each strand of dissatisfaction
cutting as curls fall away
each length a strand of injured time



January 30, 2023

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