Best Stanch Poems

Written: December 12, 2023, For Shadow Hamilton Contest
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People can only thrive on this...

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JUST CAUSE

Without cause, teachers, classmates, and neighborhood kids mocked at my pitiful station of poorness and entrenchment in painful shyness, calling me dreadful names that...

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I’ll mutilate my heart, that’s what I’ll do
Cut out that piece that lives and beats for you,
and then I'll simply wait and let it bleed
Perhaps...

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You can move on
You can see the light of day
But you've left me behind
Behind in this endless night

You can be strong
Invincible
Indomitable
A cherished hero
Unaffected….
But you've left...

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The garden so beautiful in itself,
Was surely one that never looked the worse.
Most beautiful in the world, 
But it held an evil curse.

The story was...

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Had those eyes never locked…
A fragmentary man I…
A love of my life lost…
Soul Mate…
Inimitable…
Without that stanch passion…
Apathetic existence…

Lives drifting disjointedly away
Corridors leading into the present
Our...

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I have this strange feelings twirling in my stomach since yesterday and it will not go away, it is not a feeling of pain, it’s...

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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Apple Pies

A welcome task past wayward primes...

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The unfolding of a bleak mid-night moon, 
Formidable, throbbing, ghostly gray cloud, 
Swirling in rage, with wordless eerie croon; 
Affecting considerable angst shroud. 

Ravens frenzy,...

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I sit with you in uncomfortable silence as your mind rips itself apart.
I feel your sorrow deep In my own heart.
I hold your hand as...

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We don't know who
To include in the march
So we cancel
All the parades
We don't know how
To stanch the blood flow
So we invest it all
In Band-Aids
Forest for...

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park bench drenched
with dreams
that
stanch
dream a bleed
with seeds
crop
the
greed
speak through me
shoulder tap
hand
ruler slapped
dark stench trenched
park bench drenched
?...

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Dream 
        Swim through
          Cream the treats
  ...

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*Image of Winners of Connecting by Pixabay

Close Encounters of the Best Kind

Anon celebrations plumb us adjusts,
preceding months were more compatible,
familial presence friends superfluous,
plain chat wheedles...

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Q:  Who actually begins the Gog and Magog war in Ezekiel 38:1-3

A:  The word of the Lord came to me. "Son of Man,...

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