Best Ramshackle Poems

Temptation’s collars
choke life out of me.
Truth the greatest gift,
it costs everything,
just one breath away.

Doubt takes the joy,
walked the fool’s quest
too long, discern;
deceived – elect.

Every tongue
will confess,
our Spirits

to kneel
before

Christ.

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Written: 12.22.19 – 12.23.19
Title: A Ramshackle Faith
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
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Maestro! I lost all the keys, all the lost keys
but I'm just a smudgy decoy, right? 
awoken after the rising superstition
awoken after the old wheelchair genocide

I was bored in this theatre marionette
as a hopeful jackdaw, as a monstrous cyanide
disembodied voices took my luminous ladders
to the...

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Contrary faces, a ramshackle masquerade. 

Strengths stance unwavering in face, though weakness taunts, 
gaining momentum to take its place.
"Fear nothing but fear it's self" the age old adage turns battle cry for the seat of life.
Roots digging deeper through sinking soil, as foliage trembles and...

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She wrung away ache
With meteor rains;
Threw flare coloured stains
Into tomorrow's 
Skies, hoping to flee.

She followed star's
Patterns too far
Into the night.
Too far to see.

Galaxies help
Aid her deep
Repair. To

Tell her
She's not

Lone.

12/12/2019
A Ramshackle Faith
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A global index,
strive to intermix
with the universe
and it’s creator, 
find a point of view

Cosmic order
inspired journey
discovering
questions of faith

Doomsayers
predicts man
in ‘Star ships’

invades
God’s own

Help!

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A ramshackle faith
unattended lies
withering on vines
thirsting for the truth
of parched memory

Doubtless sparrows
mocking the mind
chirp happily
in denial

moments pass
lost in time’s
endless search

for then
is now

lost



©12/10/2019

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If the moonless night
slept, sheepish it'd be.
Strange, fresh dude not cool 
chit chat about him
awkward and painful. 

Where is a loo
or rear window 
to crawl out of, 
I'm so tempted.

Bragged he loathed
his girlfriend.
He purred, one

more date.
I said, 

no.

12/29/2019




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