Best Shrives Poems

Traveled long
 I come afar
Guided by a star 

Hear echoes of voice within

I am aching 
from blues and bruise
Yet, I languish to cruise
Nothing to lose
This I choose

Afire you came
Bold brave but tame
You spun great change
Breaking me from woos
Melting winter, heralding spring
An oasis to my arid...

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"L'évasion L'oiseau Blue" 

An exodus of dreams
like a flock of beating wings
melt upwards into endless sky
there the unreachable, 

the bluest blue 
of dreams so high

fleeting upwards ever upwards
the call below pulls in its nets
the fleeing mind and breath 
washes back in, listen -

the ceaseless 
cajoling...

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All within the taiga glade,
Their raiments gilt in comely shades,
The burgess shrives vagrant souls.
A garth of god for men alow.

Whereinto the roots may grow,
We wayfarers may never know,
For we waltz twixt sky and earth-
Domain of beast and realm of birds.

The elders of the greenwood lie,
On...

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