Forgiveness City Poems

Striding into and under the town
gate's

Two brother's came a riding
wolf back

Searching for a capital city on
which to build an empire forth

Subjugating the masses into subject's

And...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Oklahoma City Bombing
25th anniversary
9:02
April 19, 1995
April 19, 2020
Written: By Tom Wright

I only hear the silence as I stride,
twixt granite chairs neatly set in rows.
The 168...

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My City Cowboy

You don't wear boots, 
not the fancy ones...
unless there is a;
marriage, birth or death.
Otherwise, it is work shoes, 
steel-toed, 
and seldom shiny. 

Plain...

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Needy

Wants!
They are so hard to handle.
Everyone has one, even if they don’t want one. 
Some try to hide theirs, but it shows. 
I hate to...

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Feet

Mine sweat. 
Mine are also cold. 
This is a dilemma. 

I get the chills,
so I put boots on. 
I am warm,
and comfortable. 

Then… sweat.

How does...

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The Pipe
(irrigation)

I am a city girl, 
I have never,
until now…

Ridden a horse across the desert, 
held a tarantula for longer than…
five minutes, 
used an incubator...

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Seated on a colt, entered He the great city,
Divinity rides in simplicity.
The boisterous crowd cheered vigorously,
His triumphant entry as His foes watched furiously.
“Hosanna in the...

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POSSUM SONG

You are the same possum
I saw eating my garbage
like a recluse,
your long pointed snout
hissing at me through your teeth.

When I first saw you
I backed...

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A  “God” Touch For New York

T’was still dark on the streets of the city
yet many horns would blare from discontent,
a trickle of His Spirit...

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Nobody cares for the kind of heart 
Hurtful slaps to both sides of the face 
Drenched in self pity quite often
Sadness is a drizzle to...

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Hold roses in one hand,
In the other a dove of peace;
Let's live side by side,
Hold together our souls;
Fight our common enemy,
Poverty and joblessness;
Holy Spirits disappear,
From...

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T'was not easy for my lord.

Walking on that road to Golgotha. 
Heaving the cross, while trudging up that hill of Calvary.
Enduring taunts and invectives from...

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My footfalls echo; touching down before my shadow,

City of souls passing on crowded sidewalks; drowning in self

Deathly cacophony of indifference engulfs our ranks like a...

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Once upon a time there was a city of sins, 
where mean and brash people had their inns. 
Murders, robbery and theft was what they...

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