Heaven Free Verse Poems

As a submissive and passive lad...

and boyish looking sexagenarian
with similar disposition,
I revel(ed) reading in general
(and spent carefree idle summer days
squirreled away with tomes
of posthumous authors)
buoyed...

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Lord, please put summer on pause...
everything is perfectly bathed in jade and bronzed.
Even the curbside weeds are beatified 
in the lemon dropped sunshine.
Everything is in...

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Somewhere in time
Lost long ago
He had his only true love
All his life, he wondered
What one more kiss would have been like
How it would have felt...

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Is God sorry about free will
& why give birth to demons
like Henry Lee Lucas
and Ted Bundy,
and the child abusers
I don't see the sense,
stranger, playground
and my...

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“The essence in us is the same as the essence of the sun.” — Unseeking Seeker
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At the beginning—
before Satan lost his place in heaven,
Man had...

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Said the TV’s weatherman,
a bright bloke on grey suit,
and with weeping eyeglasses,
“There’s probability of precipitation.
It’s going to rain from coast to coast.
Umbrellas, raincoats and rain...

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The false prophets abloom again
just like they were at the turn of the century.
Afterall, 2000 is a huge number
and huge numbers beg for huge events...
the...

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Whispers spoken…fears awoken…we all say ..there is no way whatsoever that he can play on the 2nd day..his foot’s broken..

But whatever…this is the.. oh so...

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He sits in the back.
Not because he wants to—
but because he’s tired
of being picked last
when he dares to show up at all.

You don’t see him.
Not...

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In Gaza, the mothers don’t sleep, waiting in darkness, listening to the sky that’s been raining death  -- nothing to inspire a fairy-tale to...

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Of all the world
the many seams
no wonder
at times divided

Of all we know
of right, and every
right’s been wronged

Yet we try to mend
and forgive -- 

Despite the...

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Your name, a prayer itself. 
Jesus, how you love us. 
Your name brings peace to the restless. 
A peace that keeps you praising on the...

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Raindrops float on her face
Like a tender kiss
She never had before

Her passion –
How much more romance is left
Life is brief

There is a star up in...

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* This was the first poem I ever entered into a contest, and it won! (Thank you to poet/judge John Hamilton). It is about a...

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