Best Standfast Poems

Fields where the bondman’s toil
No more shall trench the soil,
Seem now to bask in a serener day;
The meadow-birds sing sweeter, and the airs 
Of heaven with more caressing softness play,
Welcoming man to liberty like theirs.
A glory clothes the land from sea to sea,
For the great...

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lichen heart, 
of mossy bones,
kerosene humors in burning veins;
this anxiety in the night;
like walking wounded, 
needle toe, 
jumping at the squeal;
ink well vertigo,
dark in the blacklight;

random is a thought,

careless is the impulse,

closet full of negligent whim,
soul on the rim of a colder pool;
shroud stains on...

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I standfast, ready on the shoreline. 
Waves roll in, crashing at my feet.
They invite me softly, they call my name.  
I jump right in, they take me home....

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Be drift the moon across cloudless sky
to shine it's light upon the cloudy I
beneath her gaze my darkened days
where time has slowed and doesn't quickly fly
 
And crowded are the days in lonely thought
considering those I know untimely bought
thoughts take course in their own remorse
upon...

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Love all the elements exposed to.. growing up free,
gentle winds, warm rays, light snow.. all nurture me.. 

Bowing down head, believe.. I love soft rain most,
sprouting up untethered, I wind up round fence post..

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