Where Silence Listens
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A snow-capped mountain where nobody goes;
a forest thick with foliage and trees;
a river which meanders as it flows
through spaces that nobody likely sees;
an ...
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Categories:
evaded, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Love and light
...The completion I sought evaded me,
even though I lived every dream heart sought,
so I turned to God that soul may be free,
living in the now, unshackled from thought.
Relinquishing each conditi...
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Categories:
evaded, forgiveness, joy, light, love,
Form: Sonnet
I have lived under towering skies, in the shadow of cold, silent laws
...I have lived under towering skies, in the shadow of cold, silent laws,
Never bowing beneath their absolute powers and their flaws,
I sought not the blazing storms in their crystal goblets of might,...
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Categories:
evaded, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Lightning Bolts and All That Stuff
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~ A Lighthearted Look at Cheating on Keeping Kosher ~
Pick my poison, shrimp or pork
closed my eyes, lowered my fork
I’d hankered for that suckling pig
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Categories:
evaded, food, humor, jewish, storm,
Form: Couplet
Reported convergence of science and spirit
...There is a reported
Convergence of
Science and spirit
Seen as evidence
Of a coming
Realization of what
For the millennia
Has evaded so much
Searching..a goal
On the horizo...
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Categories:
evaded, appreciation, science, time, words,
Form: Light Verse
Life choices
...This is is the day
Where push comes to shove
To get what I want
I must rise above
Ignore all the people
Saying this saying that
I’ll use what you said
For this motivational rap
You think you...
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Categories:
evaded, poems,
Form: Rhyme
I became the Bard, because I was outside of myself
...I have stared death in the face
with its huge gaping jaws
most of my life
i have evaded those paws
My families crazy made up scheme
of overdramatizing my diagnosis
made my life a paralysing ...
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Categories:
evaded, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
The Hunter and the Doe
...Her story is hidden in every third word.
Our hunter sought deer. He tracked silently while he bounded over brooks, away, into woods, zigzagging...
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Categories:
evaded, allegory, animal, death, love,
Form: Free verse
If Kingdom Comes, We'll Be Undone
...We are on the crux,
The cusp of kingdom come,
In which our own becomes undone,
Our lands, our bodies,
Shall be seized by the folly of a smoking gun.
Proof of tyranny has evaded eyes,
Ye...
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Categories:
evaded, abuse, america, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme
Bards of Solitude
...My sleep evaded by the rabble running through my head,
I pull about my wrinkled sheets and scuttle out of bed.
I sign upon the secret line to enter Poetry Soup,
and once again, now...
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Categories:
evaded, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Mountebank
...Do you know the movie “Catch Me if You Can?”
DiCaprio stars as the perfect con man.
His exploits of impersonation and fraud
had me - as I watched the film - feeling awed.
In this film, DiCapr...
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Categories:
evaded, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Soul's Cry
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Can you hear what I'm hearing?
I hear a cry, loud and clear,
blowing across the nation from sea
to shining sea; from the lowlands
and valleys in the east to the
highlands and mountains of th...
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Categories:
evaded, america,
Form: Free verse
Alleluia, He Came
...IF 'HE' HADN'T COME AND BORE HIS CROSS...I COULDN'T BARE MINE. AMEN.
Many concerns are on my plate
so many worries…tranquility escapes
I look to the right and to the left
but only f...
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Categories:
evaded, 12th grade, christmas, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Reality check
...“we woke up early one morn, ego shorn
it felt as though we were in form reborn
nodes within stirred, boundaries blurred
our head and heart, with love concurred”
the tree has shed all...
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Categories:
evaded, death, health, imagery, true
Form: Rhyme
Stoic View of Life
...Our path, sometimes grows arduous with bends and twists.
Trials of life keep tormenting us and others.
It's miserable to watch or endure such suffering.
But despite all heartache, we f...
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Categories:
evaded, change, character, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
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