Life Etched Poems

Written: April 24, 2024
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To what avail are scriptures etched on stones?
Of much, in every way, but not an end:
the rocks cry out in deepest, awe-filled moans
to bear a...

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A wrinkle on a face
And scars from another age
We witness life with grief
While some explode with rage

Due process served us all a fitting term
Until we...

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Dark clouds rise from the blue sea of sorrow
Surge in the storm wind onto my eyes’ visage
Dissolve to turn into torrents of tear to flow
Like...

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A trip to the river front
On a breezy Sunday evening, 
We five of us --
Our three little ones, and
You and me,
Dwell in laughter and chatter...

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Non exchangeable 
biodegradable 
Given time may be changeable 
However 
Forever 
Insatiable 

Thrashing out the tempo of life
Misses a beat when presented with strife 
Within Private...

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There Are Times, 
That I Feel My Soul, 
Has No More Value,
Than Faded Ink, 
On Wrinkled Paper.

The Stories Of My Life,
All Erased,
Smeared,
Or Torn Away.

My Tears...

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The community cemetery adjoined
the rear fence-line of his property.
Broad, rolling green acres landscaped
with varieties of shrubbery and trees.
Monuments in lines, rows, and diagonal patterns. 
Most...

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The sun has set upon the hills
The moonlight glares as my body
Awaits the embrace of dreams.
 
My mind wanders, my thoughts drift
A noise stirs in...

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Enemys throughout, the day they very met
fighting tooth and nail,with both warrior hearts
dominance of the town,being the ultimate prize
hatred adding fuel,enlighting inferno to prevail.

My best...

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To gaze at you makes me weak in the knees
Your breath upon my neck gives me a rush
You tantalize me as you toy and tease
Those...

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Sifting warm sand 
through my fingers,
shimmering fine grains 
glitter my palm.
Sand,
filled with life’s memories
of nut brown days
of summer.

A soft silk breeze 
formed dunes
with our dreams...

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Etched upon my mind
A masterpiece has begun
A first draft of a portrait
Upon its wall has sprung.

Features chiseled so fine
By the masterful hands
Of an unseen artist's...

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I paused today
Put cares away
And finally let
The moment stay

Saw feathered skies
Through children’s eyes
Let time stand still
And realized

This life of gain
And gathering in
Pursuits of gold
Desires to...

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nobody was there,
yet words were there,
some rewinding,
some reliving,
some confusions,
some grudges,,
some problems,
some heart burns,
some sadness,
some bitterness,
some moments of truth,
some idiocy,
some bravado,
some comparisons,
some desperation,
some plans,
some objectives,
some relationships,
some...

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