Best Urgings Poems

As quiet blackness deepened
I lay awake my heart in check,
The cool night wind blew
And welcome silence grew…
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Unanticipated music exploded
Roused me from bed rest, 
I tiptoed...

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restless sleep, struggle out of bed
walking like a zombie, newspaper read
thought patterns familiar rise, am in their grip
over cravings nurtured thus far, we once again...

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Today, the local daily papers highlighted a man of honour...
Deserving of his honorific title Datuk bestowed on men of honour...

Given his loud and strident calls...

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I look upon a dam today
That nature didn't build
The water wasn't gentle
As the rocks will soon reveal

The danger it is producing
From rain and melted snow
Has...

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 (my mind hath looked 
upon the speaking face of earth and heaven
as her prime teacher......[Wordsworth])  

I saw two butterflies wrapped in silent passion,
Her...

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Hail Mary, full of grace,
               the Lord is with you.
The Lord...

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Promises of passion,
my urgings unspoken,
a glamorous gossamer garb.
Sexy, sultry, shameless,
I'm luxurious lace:
enticing and ethereal.

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11...

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A displaced soul drifts lackadaisically on a lukewarm tide
Of drugged confusion
Eyes blind and ears plugged with her own bewildered ramblings
She does not know where she...

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(Dedication: For Ann, the love of my life, who walks with me smiling. Thank you.)


Opt for a path that observes life's pulse and play,
Deeper and...

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If ever I should sigh, humor not my sadness,
Lavish upon me not your ready sympathy,
Nor soft urgings to slip hard work’s harness,
Banish for me woes...

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Gentle Spirit let me hear You.
Let me hear Your tender voice.
Let me feel Your gentle urgings.
Let me not yield to my choice.

Draw Ye ever closer...

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So oft I'd heard its soul intent
the performed center, not rebound
could bury once and then compound
the years between, cycle's renown!

Now given over to the Earth
no...

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Meet swift short take in tale that shows,
Impress words brief that offer more;
Charm can now make the story glow,
Reach captures grief plus fond galore;
Observe fond...

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Standards rejected
 by pulpit acceptance
 of degradation,
 send age old values
 spinning and spiraling
 open mouthed
 into
 immorality’s dung heap,
 frosted with
 the new normal
...

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WordScape Triptych  #1

Coming from the Underworld as a ghost, just sauntering out of the depths like you did;
With all the rest of us just...

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