Best Stood Poems

When time stood still, it found us two
on higher ground. A wondrous view
lay below, for it was spread
with jasmine blossoms white and red
and bluebells nodding in the breeze
nearby weeping willow trees.
We stood there on that hill -
amazed - when time stood still.

We stood between the...

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What is it that our
vaunted intellect supposedly conveys?
That benefits the air and sea, 
summits, life and
broad expanse of land?
Now

Suppose that we 
at some stark moment
vanished one and all—
adjoined by all
matter and assemblage from
our forced and plundered reign?

In absence then of everything
we pillaged and proclaimed 
would...

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Tonight, I marveled at a magnificent full moon hanging in the Colorado sky!

It spread its mellow glow upon snow-capped Pikes Peak, so pleasing to the eye!

Contemplating its beauty as I gazed heavenward in awe,

It occurred to me that this was the very same moon that...

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eggshell dreams

     porcelain heart

cast iron sky






5/12/2019
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Let me stand where the artist once stood,
And see through this mist in my eyes
What the artist once saw, though the paint is now cracked;
Where the artist once stood.

Let me breathe where the poet once breathed
That same air, which she painted with words,
In a swirl,...

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It was a day like every other day, sunny and warm they said
New Yorkers smiling and happy, looking for their daily bread
Taxis were darting here and there, planes flying everywhere
Children were going to school, parents laying down the rule.

Plans were made for later that day,
Meet...

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Where two once stood, now one alone
Left to journey on their own
Gone the love they chose to share
Dashed in the ashes of despair
A heart now turned to stone

How for this loss will I atone
Survive without the love I've known
One broken heart beyond repair
Where two once...

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The sheep stood on the burning deck, when all but he had fled 
Someone had placed the captain's hat upon his woolly head 
So bravely stood the sheep upon his first and last command 
Promoted to high station and to duty's dire demand. 

Beyond the...

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My pen finds pause
my body is broken,
a weighted horror
cleaves my breast

The strings of hope sliced
as I put dreams to the sword,
but hands now whisper to stars
across a fabric brushed heaven

Tomorrow is a lie of mysteries
today is in the now of knowing,
Like burning comets the pain
thrashes...

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If Time Stood Still,
I’d...
I’d... take a suicide pill

I can hear me wife say
“All in a days work”
Just imagine 
Non-stop DIY would drive me berserk

She’ll say fix this, fix that, fix this again 
And I can’t say
I’ll do it tomorrow, she’ll drive me insane
I’ll be on...

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He entered the hall and took a seat
in the back row, trying to be discreet
Something in the expression he wore
seemed to convey that he knew more

I stood before him and said, I know.
He smiled at me, kind eyes aglow.
"Tell me, child, what do you see...

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A Man Stood Part I   Story/poem

A man stood by his window, looking out into the world.
Already in his twilight years, his gaze was kind of lost -
as he wondered - where has my youth gone?

A man stood by his window, thinking about his...

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To my dear son Daniel:
STOOD BY ME

My little boy stood in front of me 
shouting, “You’ll have to go through 
me first when he saw I was in danger.

My boy stood by me when the 
Law firm jobs crushed me into
Debilitation.

My boy stood by me...

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Beaten and Battered
Still standing tall
I'm not the being I was before I took my great fall

They said don't stand to the wind
no you shouldn't dare
sometimes the wind will caress you but most of the time she doesn't care

She held me close
but intensified with a loving...

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The cars drive by in ones, twos, and threes.
Leaves gently flutter in the cool breeze.
I look to the street, then down, then up.
A sense of unease, I sip from my cup.

Outside folks walking slow and quick.
The watch on my wrist starts to loudly tick.
Inside the...

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