Best Touchstone Poems

Take me to the tombstone 
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf...

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I picked you up
like a “shiny” newly minted copper penny 
it was your kitten...

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You crush to dust, my walls to see, the measure of my cold ennui,

      Though I, a dilettante supreme, am...

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Reformations amities amid poetics tour de force overture within, virtuoso's....

Fatalisms exuberant pas de deux; foreordained this ballet in exquisites verse

To cross dimensions of spatial extent;...

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Love is my passion
Love is my creed
Love is my touchstone
Love is all that I need.

Without love there is no reason
for each new day, new year,...

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Slowly, I draw a deep breath before closing my eyes,
then picture I am floating on a white wispy cloud.
In my nebulous vision, I am not...

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Sonnet #1

A cloying scent this unrequited love
sad saccharine denial of its roots
harsh coo – the chortle of a fleeing dove
escaping from the nest of passion’s...

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Amidst a cacophony of sounds, discordant they're not
Through progressive ears we're internally sought

We, well we await, we await black drapes
Lights are our signal, to enjoy...

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To glance at the jagged hill is a dream
Just as I yearn to amble over its magma flow 
Like a million salmon swimming up my...

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HEALING RUNES
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Of all the stones that are stately mesmerizing
None can heal like my combined, energized hues
How through my iridescent rock I work wonders abating
Stress and...

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I picked you up like a “shiny”…newly minted copper penny 
(How cliché)
it was your kitten fur voice  (O how you would hate that) 
the...

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Upon said corridors heard
Within these walls, stirred
Throw them to the sky
Good Boy Psycho dead

Corridors Epiphany, no dread
Shine horizons, on Half Moon Meadow
Eventual be
Sleeping Giants

When Shadows...

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Could we be doing our best
to invest in Earth's cooperative health markets?
While you sell our most competitive killing machines
to our Saudi Arabian cousins.

Referencing this touchstone...

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In this world
with changing masks on
all measured, with a touchstone

People judges
and are judged
on mere words, mugged

I am no saint
nor a devil
a mere human, being civil

How...

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It was a grey day more or less on planet earth,
But earth’s robots hardly noticed at all
Robot logic so tuned into ones and zeros,
On and...

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