Best Unhurried Poems

One spring day meandering in a meadow,
I saw a butterfly whose beauty matched that
of May's azure sky.
With blue silken wings like that of a fairy,
she...

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The Language of Blue

Sinking into the lyrical language of blue
Prime layers of still solitude speak
 With muted voices
  In sapphire soprano rhapsodies,
Lines of bass...

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Their human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with...

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One day, perhaps if I could spend the night, 
I would stack your hearth with firewood, 
and we would sit together on your couch, 
you,...

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I lived my best in season of the sun,
those yellow, mellow days when cares are flung
to June’s warm breeze, and childhood is begun,
a field to...

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1  LONELINESS

(Message of hope dedicated to all those that have been through such an excruciating experience.)


Loneliness:
Painful
Agonizing
Merciless 
Unbearable solitude,
When you are present, Time immobile remains,
And
Each...

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Emblazon pigment leaves in autumn 
    Sun's lull shadow playing possum.

Autumn rich hues of amber, anticipating
  Slowly trembling, slowly falling,
 ...

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Clouded skies somberly cascade
upon motionless vistas,
floating unrehearsed melancholy hues
where muted feelings roam
on an autumn morning echoing
a weary winter dream

I sit beneath a weeping willow’s
unhurried leaves...

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Quiescence 2-6-24
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Quiescent

Snowfall resonates in unison’s octaves,
 In low tones of falling flakes’ pink vibrations,
Waterfalls of snowflakes in gentle billows
Pulse in halcyon – 
The resting heartbeat...

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Like butterflies, your words I catch
And store them safe away
In my heart’s little treasure chest
For my soul’s rainy day

Then like butterflies, I let them fly
To...

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A Sonnet To Growing Older

My heart now speaks to me of ageless things
 Of solitary walks down country lanes
 Of quilted calico with simpler schemes
...

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"The ocean calms and soothes the soul despite being a great force that ends lives in all weathers, we don't question the ocean. The strength...

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not a dim voice in the back of your head
not wisdom and words from those who are dead
not just some long forgotten equation
not a bandage...

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Gently their world now breathes fresh life
into a dormant winter’s heart;
for behold the leaves are rife
with fragrance, zest and strength to start
their lives anew as...

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EATING    OUT

Seated uneasily at the edge tables,  café males alone, silent  -
Focused on eating, heads moving, looking around to defend,
Guarding...

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