Best Stanch Poems

Written: December 12, 2023, For Shadow Hamilton Contest
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People can only thrive on this wealth scale
With undying faith, we admire our flag
Sullen calm and dearth of prowess prevail.

Just few people groove stanch affluence gale
whilst...

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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 chipped away at my soul.

At my first job as a hairstylist they sentenced me to their delusions of what this...

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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 with flow of blood, I will be freed

No suture will I use to stanch the flow
The healing balm my heart...

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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 me defenseless
Weak
Paralyzed by fear

You can go about
Your daily life
Taking the whole world in your stride
Yet you’ve left me in my...

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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 waters perpetually abound
Farther reaches than the shoreline
Love ardently remitted is my peace
Carrying to me sweet scented melodies
Of shadowed moments icily...

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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 long ago,
Bewitched by all to tell.
But in a dark and lonely night, 
Is when the madness fell.

I was just a...

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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 not a feeling of shame or guilt, it is the feeling you get when someone has taken your heart away....

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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 where plucked delights
yon mangoes, guavas, and papayas...
stands a Granny Smith apple tree.

Flour demonstrate a chopping board, rolling pin and
some countertop...

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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, divergence flutter coup 
Through impenetrable tangle of trees.
Sinful, depressed, slate shadows wily drew, 
Leaden silk veil amid deceptive ease. 

Pinion...

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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 forests --
Tree for trees -- 
Progress always comes
In infinitesimal degrees
We don't know when 
To call the fight
So we tear down
The...

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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 the pain and darkness dims your eyes.
I yearn to soothe your silent cries.
I watch in helplessness as you struggle with...

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Dream 
        Swim through
          Cream the treats
            And follow keenly

The stream
Of the trying glue
Making up awesome beats
Of sounds...

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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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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, set your face against Gog,
      of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech...

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A Place Not Meant To Be
           
PART: I            (810 of 1487 words)

#1: A Day Begins
Sand grains station elevated for want
in the cool starless relics...

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