Best Rumination Poems

Bless the deviled eggs and the preacher’s children.
Grab a piece of fried-to-perfection chicken.
Coca-cola cake or banana pudding?
~ Prodigals welcomed






January 29, 2019
Sapphic Stanza with a JUX Poetry Contest
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Rumination on the ruination of water

A pleasant clearing with lots of grains
but only a touch of water,
the trickle trailed through transparently
and so the migrating chickens stayed,
but as the flock expanded there emerged 
the problem of the water flow 
both quantity and quality
To waste means want,...

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We claim to love
but foolish pride swallows apologies
wrecks reconciliation and forgoes forgiveness
rendering sweetness bitter
it is an emotional hoarder
an insatiable sin
incessantly collecting resentment
commoditizing the priceless
bankrupting unity and burning optimism to ashes
it is an assassin’s bullet shattering the windows to the soul
it is a death kiss
pernicious and...

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Are we those sprinklers on in the rain?
trying to convince ourselves we're not insane
maybe we were born to hug the shore
yet as the days pass we would bore
for we are meant to last, no more
than a majestic sand castle, or
the stash of bills under your...

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i can say 
they are unwelcome
yet secretly
i invite them in
ask them to stay
tell me a story
as if it is not the story of me
the meaning of me

teach me something
new or old
false unreal at best ephemeral
a truth a lie no matter
it dies in the light of...

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Trials, persecutions
It's unbearable sadness,
Makes the heart numbness....

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Buddha teaches the value of meditation
   and that intuition is renown to creation.
      For we are all but reflection’s notation,
         some Yin and Yang without segregation. 
   ...

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RUMINATION OF A ROSEBUD

Spring imagines
the thorns in her stem
why provoke far season

6/5/2017...

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Of all relationships, both ill and good,
In life, none are so deep as motherhood.
Some will say it’s simply procreation
Which needs no further interpretation;

As some point out, although it seems widespread,
Some species do not need it to be bred;
Or else that motherhood is only worth
Gestation’s term...

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Rumination

Pain !, what a depressing situation !
Gain !, is what one derives, with creation.

If life’s story were only written by the hand
of us alone, we would surely be a different man !

Oh !, how great our lives would be
 if we, but could or would...

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I thirst for your intellect-
               you quench with knowledge

         I starve for your notions-
         ...

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Drawn recollections 
think for yourself cocktails 
mercy bills of sale...

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Profundity


            It is not the size of the brain that constitutes high intelligence

            It is the profundity of the essence within that exudes...

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Sitting in a dark room meditating

Sitting ruminating and contemplating

About myself and my life

When out of the dark a voice spoke out

'content yourself with who you are

With who you discover as you meditate

Rather than concern yourself with who and what others think you are

For that is...

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