Prayer Color Poems

Cooler than Arctic ice
Yet, you warm the palette of my life
With your nearly bluebell shades
Layers of sifted sky
Diluted into the tender grey clouds
That slowly dance...

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The shaking of the big old trees,
Pretty colors in the cool breeze
Falling leaves coming around me,
In October I love to see.


From the oven hot apple...

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Painting You

Before painting, I first sketch you
In my mind’s eye…To compose
The lines, shapes, shadows and lights, 
That work altogether to form a semblant sight
Of you...

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A hum of a name - whispered as a solemn prayer
Lingering in brisk summers eve
Gracing the tree tops and blessing the grasses
Dew collected on fallen...

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cornflowers
   are yawning
      sapphire blue
         in a serene meadow.
 ...

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My calloused black skin got shoved in the soil by a white mans soiled thumb
Trying to make his mortgage off me

Buried
I found friends 
Barely breathing

But...

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As far as Eyes could see
I never thought I could come back to thee
You untraveled my twisted yarn and year knots so patiently
Knitted my soul...

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A surprise snow coaxed night to rare twilight
snowflakes found leaves in quiet midnight air
I will forever remember this sight:
fallen snow--a gentle Christmas prayer--
and a hush...

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Counting Beats

There is a machine, 
that the doctor has, 
it is sheer magic. 
It can be placed on the belly of a mother, 
and the...

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Valsa wrote a pithy prayer poem
That recalled my old Hindu man
As Jesus is a jealous Lord, groom
See John's Revelation. Yet each human
Must know how others...

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Like laughter from a child
Sends a feeling to relish, a light
Into the heart who knows
Their innocent love overflows
With joy, peace and wonder
Feelings that live in...

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We dare
to wear
green hair

They glare
and stare
No fair!

You, there
Please air
your prayer

We swear
we scared
~ Take care...

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Solidary birds sing
   friendly wind hisses in prayer,
   young flower branches sprout
   friendly weather weaves a song...

  ...

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colored leaves fall down
inside food warmth and laughter
a pause for prayer
it's time squirrels cached walnuts
it's autumn's pretty party 


Written on 10/23/2021
For: A THANKSGIVING TANKA Poetry...

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I will wear the wind in my hair
and a pearly smile lips naked bare
that picks up your heart like a prayer
and gives you confidence because...

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