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 to its source:
Dark sounds from downstairs, 
Nearer, higher, and louder 
Till it reached the hallway.
He grasped my hand, 
Whirled it...

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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 trip

recognising piquant dilemma, distanced from joyfulness
we reverse attention polarity, choosing playfulness
as an experiment to begin with, soon addictive
before we know...

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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 for those holding the reins of power....
To better buck up in all matters of governance,  to honour pledges while...

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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 caused problems to others
Where the river flows below

The rocks that surround the dam
Have for centuries stood
And gave into the urgings
Of...

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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 heart-shaped wings splayed flat against the sill
Her torso throbbing in anticipation...
Himself, hovering gently to hold her still.
I saw their sleek...

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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 November 2017

Entered in the "Knit Your Fabric" contest, sponsored by Nette Onclaud.
(5th Place)...

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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 floats
Nor how she came to be there
Her mind is a murky haze
A miasma of amnesia born of overwhelming strife
She comprehends...

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Hail Mary, full of grace,
               the Lord is with you.
The Lord is with me too.
He whispers in loud soothing words
           ...

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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 clearer as experience vivid,
Etch a present moment fragment in plain stay.


Sense oneness in all nature speak so candid,
Emotive knowing as...

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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 chanted in a tired litany. 

The bitter fruit of my failures turns sweet,
For the spirit rises on what defeat has...

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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 watching and wondering what you were going to say;
Tell us young Beatrice what shavings you encountered in your intrepid sojourns;
Regale...

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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 to me.
Let me feel Your presence near.
Holy Spirit Thou art welcome.
Enter in and dwell Thou here.

Give me wisdom, give me...

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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 search or wandering can contain
the final call, summized in worth
and vestige given, subtle gain!

What final makepiece can entail
a journey's fare...

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Teenaged girls are rushing to grow up,
The dating game is calling their names,
little do they know, that the game
is filled with sinister twists and turns,
fatal errors that can make a life unfurl,
Nevertheless, thay all want to have first hand
experience, despite all the urgings and resistance,
teenagers...

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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
 from godless kitchen.

This putrid dish is
 fed into hearts
 through entertainment
 propaganda machines,
 along with urgings,
 of public figures,
 who...

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