Best Surety Poems

I wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I...

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I chase you through the alleys of my mind
Your quickened steps ensure you're out of reach
My tears collect then run much like my feet
You cannot...

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Frightend children under the baobab
Of elders discourse playing
At the deep edge of rites
Of passages
With no Atlantic dream.

There is a beauty here
Before the other world began
Forgetting...

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I feel your anxious pivot to create
We flow the same irresolute way,
Often in raging storms
And sometimes in playful gallops
We see ahead 
That path onto the...

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Some people you meet ...

Creep their way into your being
Like a kitten chasing shadows and dust
The pounce FAR more important than the prey
Little bits of...

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Anne Murray did have quite the flurry, voice as a brook without crooks
 Canadian born, songs of forlorn, beautiful vibes, I subscribed
Such singing as a...

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The snow mobile stops and sinks to the level of the snow, no more to go
Which way do I take for shelter the sure or...

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so many times beneath the stars
our lives are lived for fate and scars
infancy seems to abound
from everywhere it screams its sound
too loud to hear the...

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Moment a desire arises 
we become joyous
Mind starts ruminating
We are hooked on to it

What began as a mere thought
Now controls our mind, actions
Mind thinks about...

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In a world decayed by tyrants and greed, 
Serving the human for the human mans creed. 
Separation and conflict, the terms we now know
Where once...

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You, my love, you
Entrusted me into the burning arms of fervor,
Rested your knowing fingers upon skin ever glistened with tears
Graced the breath I dared to...

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In the morning, he was tetchy, but gentle,
Sitting beside me till my eyelids opened
I sat up, yawning, and rubbed my eyes
His hand brushed a dry...

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like a grumpy ogre the twisted old tree stood guard
notched scraggy boughs reached out in fierce surety
naught had ever compromised its task
in its dutiable charge

the...

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Our lives are long highways of twists and turns.
Some signs may delude us, point the wrong way.  
There are no roadmaps to aid as...

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WISH UPON A STAR

eyes drawn upward —
   like a candle on a cake
first birthday or too old

the lottery is billions upon billions
 ...

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