Best Wilderness Poems

Suitcase in hand, a face polarized against
the frosted window pane, searching verily
for continuity of a life that knew no restraint.
Someone’s Grandfather a considerate Uncle,
life’s situation upon the wane, a link within
the prejudicial chain of forfeited souls. 
One’s transitions ablaze in the haze, an index
to summarize...

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Feeling like a lodger
In my own home
Thankful for my music
And my new found roam

Families and communities
They are just so hard to find
But in April 2009
I found the most precious kind

I found the name amusing
So the button i clicked on to see
The layout was very inviting
Like...

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Hard edged (unreality) you face away from my immediacy (candour eschewing) inimically you parody, offering as nice the complexity of ''vice''exploiting even nature 

(as voyeur and narrator) your intention anethema to the nations, 
as you   coerce ''your creation'' encouraging over consumption, 

with a...

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In the wasteland wilderness of disappointed love
I find you
Haggard and famished
Ravaged by the blazing sun
I find you
Spent and on the verge of death
I find you

I kneel beside your still form
I wet your parched lips with my tongue of truth
Your eyes flicker open
And I see the...

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Captive beauty, in the wilderness aloneGolden moments of a man’s solitudeStands gloriously, as when bliss does hone                            ...

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Yearning for the open spaces, 
Longing for endless sky
I seek out the holy places: 
Desert canyon, mountains high,
Where my soul is free to fly.

And I feel a light is glowing
Deep within me like a flame,
Hear a song within me growing,
Hear the spirit call my name
And...

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Wilderness is a crowded street.

Silence stings the ears of the hearer,
Cacophony of sound, unheard.
Loneliness turns to solitude,
Converse without a word.

Wilderness is a crowded street.
A passer-by nobody sees.
Togetherness now disjointed,
Run! I feel their disease.

Money is their mind set
Full wallet yet they're poor.
A heart of gold inside...

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Why not build a building of the real self,
You mind has jumped off it’s cliff,
Having nothing left of itself,
With the old man dead,
Where is the dread,
Live life instead!

There is nothing left,
But God within myself,
For I have been in a hassle,
In my worldly castle with my...

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THROUGH A WILDERNESS OF
THROUGH A WILDERNESS OF GRASSY PLAIN,

WHERE WAR HAS TOOK PLACE IN A WORLD OF PAINS.

OUR COUNTRY MEN, OUR FATHERS, SONS & OUR FRIENDS,

WHO WERE SENT TO WAR, AND WHICH BECAME OF THEIR EACH DEATHLY ENDS.

THEY WHOM FOUGHT FOR THEIR LAND OR SO...

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Sometimes, I roam a lush green forest...
                 in my mind; birds sing a chorus

               Being...

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I hike as I've hiked a thousand times gone
          But curved like a serpent, the path that I'm on

The scrunching of steps in the snow as I walk
        ...

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The sunset palette of the evening ends the day
with wounded men in blood splayed fields
drenched in suffering upon our land from anger

could that such an evening welcome beauty
and bliss with peaceful intentions
not the turbulent rumblings of our enemies souls
as we lay scattered, hungry and weary
on...

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We stitched our ribbons through your heart
From end to end we threaded
We sewed right to your fingertips
– And every stitch you dreaded

We tramped along your shoulders broad
To weave our little lines –
How nimble were our fingers then
How clever our design!
 
We jabbed and pierced and...

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Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I long to join again
in my brethren’s song..

fading sunlight falls in slivers
through boughs of evergreen needles 
across timeworn trails I tread...

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Sunflower 

Sunflower
Stretching long legs –
Spreading
In dry deserts
Alongside highways –
Vagabond –
Hobo 
Of summer
Blooming
Where nothing
Grows but sand –
No invitation
To make wilderness home –
See
Grace bloom – Sunflower!

5-14-20
Title: Sunflower
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Pick-A-Title, Vol 17 - Yalto...

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