Contends Poems

The Struggle for America's Soul

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    The struggle for America’s soul
        now almost 250 years old

    Shoulder-to-shoulder at her border
        freedom contends with law’n’order

    From ‘Give me liberty or give me de...

A Masked Requiem for a Virulent Era

...A cold berating 
light-erasing rope
survives
relentless
entropy
(another year ends
 another variant contends)

Desolate debris in 
empty
erroneous caves
swallow 
blank pages
    submerge...

Vigil for the Light

...My life depends on utter defeat to this implacable foe.
Yet, my anguish contends to strike him a fatal blow.
He was born from my dream, to stand vigil for the light.
Now in confrontation, I am in ...

Diaphanous Dichotomy

...A rainbow or counterflow … symmetry,
Time marks a question measured to wrangle,
Quantity taxes or pay quality.

First, the chick or egg, begs the novelty,
Harmony and anarchy vie tango,
...

Sonnet for Kellie

...Some say your words act as a balm

A fleet of sweet tidings

Sailing into a gray dawn.


With white sails riding

On the heels of a grand mast

That sways without invoking

A need for tr...

Sonnet for Kellie

...Some say your words act as a balm
A fleet of sweet tidings
Sailing into a gray dawn.

With white sails riding
On the heels of a grand mast
That sways without invoking
A need for true ballast.
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INSANE POETRY RUNNING AWAY Part 01

...Gathered among lovely nymphs, whose grace shines brightly like eternal stars

Their vibrant essence lingers, embracing radiantly,
In the dream-laden air, does my love pursue only a fleeting vision...

Connected To Last Entry

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   ...while true feminists say that they are feminists because they care for the well-being of women, the modern feminist group, True/Active Feminism does exactly the opposite. They use the for...

the symphony

...New York City is like a cobblestone symphony,
where jackhammers and footsteps form the rhythmic timpani,
sirens and honking taxis, are the cymbals, that provide sudden bursts of energy,
traffic’s ...

Under the vault of shadow of unfulfilled love

...Under the vault of shadow of unfulfilled love,
The sweet poison becomes the purpose of bitter days,
When the heart, caught in the tender dance of beginnings,
Gradually sinks into the labyrinth of ...

Alms And Tithes

...ALMS AND TITHES
 
Alms, spontaneous like a gentle breeze,
Tithes, a steady stream, a spiritual ease.
Both hold real value and kindle light,
In the acts of giving, souls take flight.

In worlds...

Songs of Nature COS No 6: AABB

...Ascends a moon, grays an eye-fools goodbyes,
reviews disciplined portrayed nature sighs.
Nightwings greet dusk, whorls up into absence,
ebb star pivots, another consequence.
Penitent pose submiss...

Too Bizarre To Believe

...Anthony Blinken in Israel to plead 
     for a humanitarian pause
  Though Israel contends it would aid Hamas' cause

  In the West folks think that Hamas supports the people of Gaza
     but th...

Little Girl On the Tube

...A few days it’s been 
since I rode the Orange tube 
out from Enoch, nothing new. 
Amusing myself with literature,
the glue that contends 
our oneness.

As I dissolved and fancied myself 
uniq...

And

...An apparitions favourite word from punctuation-less sentences that continue on, on, on.
Cope without it you useless fools a flick suffices.
Semi-colon, colon, joining words thrust through the large...

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