Best Stretching Poems

Julia's that special someone 
who comes into your life
Besides a thrilling poet
she's a mother and a wife

First you don't understand
exactly what she means 
but later on you grasp
Julia's more than she seems

She isn't argumentative
uncaring or aloof
just takes a little time 
and knowing her is proof


I'm...

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evening stretching
weeping willow snow tinged
airs and graces






entry for Charles Henderson's haiku vs.senryu competition...

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                                  I want to confess
(I need penance and absolution) before I go...

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Stopped for a rest on my drive back home
Got out to stretch my legs
When I got back in I noticed a change
It surprised this hard boiled egg

The gas pedal was closer than it was before
A fact it made me holler
“What's going on? I'm really quite...

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Stretching in early morning,
Earth wakes up yawning.

People stretching in early morning,
one with the dawning....

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If love is healthy
perhaps health is a form of love,
like synergetic relationships,
witnessing awesome consciousness
of bilateral co-arising events 
as love connection,
healthy function.
All, or at least most, circuits and systems 
positive co-empathic functioning.

So hatred would be pathology,
disassociating circuits and systems.

But, what about apathy?
Apathy and hatred,
a pathology monoculturing...

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I trace my fingers along the stretch marks
I feel no child from within
I feel a rock, hitting an unknown surface
I feel it invading me everyday

I cry more nights than any child would
I cry when tears no longer fall
Just moans…like the night it happened
And I crawl...

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Stopped for a rest on my drive back home
Got out to stretch my legs
When I got back in I noticed a change
It surprised this hard boiled egg

The gas pedal was closer than it was before
A fact it made me holler
“What's going on? I'm really quite...

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You see them stretching
bending each leg back so far
boundaries tested
overextending limits
~ Then they run a marathon...

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I find at least one difference
between owning water and energy outright
and co-owning water and energy delivery systems,
transport infrastructures.

The latter is cooperatively optimal.
The former is resiliently impossible,
unsustainable hubris.

I also find it not necessarily true
that colonization can never end--
For individuals,
families,
schools,
prisons,
faith communities,
municipal communities,
corporations,
economic and political communities,
gardens and farms,
nation-states.

Colonization...

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Take my hand, Lord I'm reaching,
 My arm extended
 Barely able to touch you. I stand on
 The edge of the far side of this shadowy cliff,
 As high as I'm able to bare, the sight
 Of you, Lord, causes my eyes to blister from
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July 17 Scripture Meditations Based on Isaiah 19-23

Key Verse – Isaiah 23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR STRETCHING...

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I wish I could stretch time, 
balance it out, 
place it back in perfect design, 
trying to manipulate my rhyme,
Letting my creativity flow through my mind, 
Yet my efforts vanish like smoke and that’s fine, 
feeling like I’m god’s attempt 
to achieve perfection, when expectations...

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We stretched
the sugar coated
sweet taffy
all day long
taffy snap back
into our mouths
and roll down
into our
childish bellies
as, we buzzed
our wings
through the
tall switch
grass of home
in a dragonfly
happy mode...

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Pleasingly Plump

Obese, bloated, overwrought with contrition
Lainey hung a chart of each yoga position
Couldn’t deal with stretching
Mice she’s still fetching
She defies my lectures on nutrition
...

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