Best Sojourns Poems

I long to fold my eyes and softly creep

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The fact of losing you wasn't that much devastating. You evaporated too fast like water. And so it didn't give me affright. I know you're...

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beckons darkest day
offering a farthing of
moonshine and starlight —
coupled flesh warm beneath quilt
Winter wine keeps spirits’ bright

beckons darkest day
coldness of the Christ’s sealed tomb —
tears...

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"Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows." - Native American Proverb

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Love the oldest,
Love the youngest,
The smallest,
The broadest.

Imperfectly perfect,
Proudly humble.
Endlessly end,
Peacefully troubled.

Quietly lousy,
Uncountable counting.
Pleasurable painful,
Ungainly gainful.

Resurrecting in killing,
Smiling in weeping.
Coming in going,
Abiding in departing.

Truth in lies,
Open-mindedness...

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Wide, this grand world, with occurrences, rife

On the foam-capped blue, for a seafarer's life

Rich, the adventurer's sojourns shall be ...

Launching deep dreams on a mutable...

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I am the reminiscence of you, since you were once me –
stirred among the strings of sense.
I am the reminiscence of everything you love,
since the...

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As long as stars have dotted nighttime skies
  Has man sought to unlock their mystery.
    We gaze upon their spark with...

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He Weeps
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Holiness harnessed haughtiness.
Heaven's honor hallows humans. 
Heavenly hopes happily hail.
Enemies, earnestly enchant.
Endless errors evoke evil. 
Exhilaration empowers.
Wait...

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Quarantined 

Waking up to this strange dream
First sight is the checkered ceiling
Then the antique bathroom mirror
I see old age and worried red eyes
I see another...

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Gentle wind blows slow from tree to tree,
rustling a question, asking of me,
secrets that lie buried in my dreams,
of kisses and love through hazy beams,
birds...

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A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate

Contractual obligations toward your future self
Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health 
Actual comparisons between poverty and...

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An unforgotten depth,
An unreached ground,
Answers haven’t been found,
A dim lamp stands in the corridor.

He sojourns with a vague understanding,
He seeks to know the reason for...

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Eternity

Many times, I saw my spirit.
Many times, I felt my soul.
In life, I lived courageous.
Now it is time for me to journey home.

If you cry,...

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The Three Islands Sleep!

Sleep, sleep, the islands asleep!
Sleep while the winds blow on her face,
On her trees, and on her mountains and hills,
Sleep when the...

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