Best Stranger In A Strange Land Poems

Where I walked the mile before
No longer resembles the same soil
Change I know is an inevitability
But I feel a sudden variety 
English is what I...

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Now life spurns me, 
granite and absolute; 
flinches at my touch, 
hardens visibly at my voice, 
morphed to dry-ice opiate in my presence. 

Avoidance of...

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I sat in my yard, revering to the sublime splendor. 
A Setting sun lighted wheat fields with a gold fender. 
The universe is a celestial art by...

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It was another quiet day,
As the hours quickly slipped away.
Shooting from the hip,
On another daily trip.
Away from the troubles of the day,
In a place that...

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"Brightly, brightly, and with Beauty",
quoted Mr. Valentine.
In fullness Grok; to cherish, flock-
this Ghost of Yours and Mine.

I've decided to discorporate
at this friendly hour.
Water Brothers, don't...

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Where, oh where, is God? 
When will the man-child stop asking why,
stop searching for the other, the greater, the bigger
the more glorious presence?

This constant need...

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CRICKETS IN HEAD
I’m a NeoPagan
From the Church of All Worlds
Dedicated to the celebration of Life.
I’m set on a land in the long run
Looking for crackets.
The...

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Like Moses fleeing Egypt 
and finding refuge in Midian
I was a stranger in a strange land.
Having fled Chicago in ‘84
I journeyed east to the
unpromised land...

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I have stood in wonder and disbelief before the mystories of the world            ...

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Written July 31, 2015


In a land
Unbeknownst to me
With no compass to guide
No lantern to light the path that I seek
I look to the north star...

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To Find a Better Life (puente)*

“I can’t read or write
but experience taught me
wrong from right”
were grandpa’s final words to Roberto
as he began his journey on...

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Nine years a stranger in a strange land
            travelling to my island in the...

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how do I fill as look into the ski's at my fallen peers,
  as a child I longed for a way out as the...

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(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today – 
July 17th, 2020)

The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not...

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Welcome to the greatest story ever told, the story of a little boy and his lost soul,
started way back in 69', born a 4th child...

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