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When Thor struck his hammer
upon the flat ground on Earth
it was the pieces withstood the blow we named rock,
constructs we came to know as the...

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What is this unseen power
It changes all that exists into dust
It shapes our lives and our landscapes
It sculpts and changes us.

What is this unseen power
That...

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BEAUTIFUL SADNESS

“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows
brown and sear.”   William C. Bryant

Does...

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Quatrain #55:
CHOICE


Voice sacred trust in words that flow,
Poise knows you must bring truth to show;
Noise is but rust that corrupts good,
Choice now sculpts bust where...

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Lush pretentious garden sculpts to be gleaned.
Fullness of repose with sweet quiet sound,
fruitful, and forbearance draw nature's ground.
The sensuous feel, oft seasons has seen.

Butterflies noiselessly...

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I greet each scarlet dawn
with its promise of renewal
as if it was the first
or the last,
ever to be enjoyed.
The stuff of dreams,
hope gets renewed
with the...

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Draped over the land like a ghostly shroud
a blanket of morning mist
morphs into rolling banks of fog,
soft as an eider-filled duvet.
Dawn rebukes night's claim to...

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Spring, Summer, and Autumn are Her rival,
but they all pale to Winter's arrival.
She is less subtle than the other three,
so shelter's a matter of survival....

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(Dedication: For my PoetrySoup friend Funom Makama.)
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Faith anchors well
Fond feel that tells


Hope knows a sight
Where faith casts light


Love hints and calls
In rise and fall


Dare find...

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The mind of God
populates a universe

there is no distance between
the maker and the made

the expression and the source – 

The Almighty speaks
and the sum of...

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God sculpts man from clay
Theist debates atheist
Man sculpts God from fear...

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Come chase butterflies with me in the sun,
let's race through the fields and laugh as we run.
Start by believing, then let yourself dream,
romp with dolphins,...

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When we look at the mouth of a warrior
We think he never sucked his mother’s breast
The birds that rest on the Iroko 
Does not know...

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It’s all one long poem.
Ephemeral love.
My evanescent queen
Seasonal spirit.  Elemental creature
Sculpts creation; As we define dominion
The space has mastered us
Terminable yet eternal
This amaranthine ghost
A...

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On tundra that is intent to destroy and defy,
the winds and the ice will attempt to deny 
any who are willing to stray across boundaries.
Those...

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