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Best Vagabond Poems

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The Vagabond
The deep delved path winds in the wood,
chasing with ghost-breaths and leafy hoods,
arbor-brawn the winnowed path crooks along;
whispering with what future song?

To ill desire and...

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Categories: vagabond, corruption, loneliness, loss, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Acorn
Stay - One more golden morning –
Linger - One more silver night –
Abide tiny child born of my desire
To encourage a new life;
Watch with me...

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Categories: vagabond, autumn, blessing, change, goodbye,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Cloud - Recited
http://youtu.be/X5lfjFatgZU

Floating in the sky...
Changing patterns fill my eye...
What will you become?

Vagabond and wanderer...
Riding wind so high,
No matter where it blows.
You thumb your way to places
I...

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Categories: vagabond, me, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life's Stories
His eyes are dark, but, there's still a spark. 
There are canyons in his face.
His lungs are gone and it won't be long,
'Till his heart...

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Categories: vagabond, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Relativity of Beyond
Bacteria, too small for human eyes
engage their fight for life within our midst,
so unaware of Earth's gigantic spies
with microscopes and slides, who co-exist.

And tiny fish,...

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Categories: vagabond, life, relationship, space, universe,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member More Secret Selves
I've been wondering about our secret selves...

The vegetarian smoker
The introverted joker

The soldier with the peace sign
The anonymous byline

The accountant with unfinished sums
The deaf musician's steel...

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Categories: vagabond, conflict, identity,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member When Days Turn Into Memories
When days turn into memories
and time becomes a journey
of peaceful purpose from my traveled trails

where jagged rocks are formed in the mind from emotional upheaval
and...

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Categories: vagabond, introspection, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
Mermaid Epitaphs
  As heartrose epitaphs
swathe earthly echoes
   with swelled up  w a v e s
  of spiritual sirens,
sea-fairies collide
  with...

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Categories: vagabond, deep, destiny, emotions, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Truth About Truth -
Truth burns at the center of all occurrance,
it is a heat that motivates appettites to enlarge,
truth is a multiplier of quests, 
satisfaction always arrives at...

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Categories: vagabond, sports, future, truth,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Fool
The Fool   (Octodil)


Fool that I am
I roam alone,
A ragged vagabond
Unaware of perils
That haunt the obscure paths of life;
Into the unknown I wander
Led by...

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Categories: vagabond, crazy, journey,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"



Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly...

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Categories: vagabond, dream, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Ghosts of Gettysburg
This sacred soil that once resounded with the musket's rattle,
Imbued with mingled blood of Blue and Gray spilt in brutal battle,
Now stands serene with only...

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Categories: vagabond, historymen,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anything Is Possible
It's possible, I've lived and died before. 
My restless soul, a wand'ring vagabond
Arising swiftly, only to abscond
And cheat the soul collector at death's door

Each time,...

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Categories: vagabond, death, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Gift, the Truth, Hope and Its Sweet Promise
The Gift, The Truth, Hope And Its Sweet Promise

Your hope- you have gifted unto me
unto me, a vagabond shifting sand
a flightless bird lost in its...

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Categories: vagabond, art, creation, deep, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Fled As I Sought Yet Another Day, Verses Born From the Illusion of Immortality, 1977 Part One
Life Fled As I Sought Yet Another Day,
( verses born from the illusion of immortality, 1977) 
Part One

As I went beyond that black veil,
Having trod...

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Categories: vagabond, appreciation, art, destiny, fate,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs