Best Untrod Poems

For one who was my first most precious love,
who drifted into my life like fresh snow,
he’s still the guy that my impressions of
remain like snow untrod upon although
it was late summer when he stirred in me
such dulcet longings. Like a butterfly,
my heart went dancing when...

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Forgive me Father, 
for I have lived
these years apart 
with silent heart
that beat so quiet 
in defeat 

Unheard, unseen 
neath face serene;
the face you'd 
come to know
and loved,
your son 

Forgive me Father, 
for I've denied
in word, in deed 
to serve one's need 
so near and...

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Stare-well.! gazing..As emotions and souls to your Majestic fields aspire..
Temporal surrounds me, ambiguous background; below crested fallow moons.."
Amplified." Intensity' as stellar images fall silently; while cresendos of beauty abound
Innumerable shifts of light and dark in shaded displays make play! & re-plays are seen.
Roaming tails of...

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First, I was a horse,
proud, fierce, untamed.
testing the texture of one continent,
competing with the winds and tornadoes
to achieve the ultimate granular vortex,
testing the manhood of the Cheyenne,
twisting the blistering ropes of the Sioux,
defying the white man with bared, scornful teeth
and a rusty, booming cloud of...

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Parsing time

Along the slope he leant
  with his caved-in shoulders   
  not standing on end
one foot upturned
   the other curled
                   ...

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large feathery snowflakes gently fall...
a panoramic overlay conceals blurred landmarks...

young lovers walk holding hands
explore untrod virginal snowy paths
beneath a faint watchful moonlight chaperon...



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on October 14, 2017 for contest MINIMALIST sponsored by NETTE ONCLAUD  -  RANKED 4TH...

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You split yourselves in countless sects, In classes high and low;
Think you the world its gifts will still on such as you bestow?
Who now forgetfully neglect My Rasool’s Law sublime?
And whose lives write them clearly down As servers of the time?
To whom now other customs...

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I ask, dear God, how can this be?
     It rends my soul and stabs my heart!
How could they pass those bills, decree
     these inhumane new rules will start?

It rends my soul and stabs my heart...
  ...

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In this the third
Week of April
I loofahed from top to my toe

Every inch of
my scaly magnificence
bidding the lost parts go

Always loving a monday,
   A first,ground zero
A change

Whether August or May
Or dawn of new day
I eagerly sought to know

To be at the pop
that starts...

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So proper and prim in my Brooks Broithers suit.
( I loathe that Obama! I much prefer Newt.)
Decorum at all times, when in public view.
( Dwelling on feelings would render one blue.)
An Ivy League background, a young trophy wife,
(I prefer peace and quiet, an absence of...

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Forgotten paths
Untrod valleys
Lonely nights
Quivering hearts
The lonely journey of life
Befriending the pain
Confronted with a brutal truth
The cold heartless stony truth
Pleading with the angel of death
To spare him the agony
To let his soul gently sleep
In the arms of the maternal sea
Under the hot Mediterranean sun
To toy with...

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Oh, children of a lesser god-
defects can steal your life away,
as you are judged by how you look,
or if you hear or speak, or see;
if arms and legs fail miserably-
or minds perform imperfectly.

We fail to see the worth inside
which often cannot let us know
that sometimes-...

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We walk down paths
         previously untrod
Dancing lightly on the earth
   we come to the conclusion 
that the dark angel 
        has decided to leave 
us in peace
So, for...

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Every day I went away
  Near fifty years of work
Pleasantly I spent the day
  Midst temptation's lurk

Pretty women all around
  Everywhere I turned
Dazzling smiles, alluring frowns
  For so many my heart yearned

Alas, I was a married man
  A trooper, faithful...

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Without conspiring, vision sees through truth
the affectation multiplies exclude,
as if a band notorious were sleuth
and fought together, undersized by youth!

The victor sees through eye of victim's brood
did hesitate it not to challenge rude
and stir the violence, needed interlude
while assuage estimated is the clued!

The battle rages,...

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