Heaven Free Verse Poems

Rose red, white, pink, or yellow, is not merely a rose.
It has the beauty and fragrance to hypnotize us all,
Jasmine and Gardenia have fragrance so...

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I wander, surrounded by the hush
of 
heaven.

There is a red hibiscus blooming
in the summertime garden.

The sight of its touch enamors me:
a morning
kiss.

It’s a new day.

I...

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I love that she sees me as I would be, 
And not as I am. 
That she tolerates my half century faults
As a passing phase....

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There’s a place, a space 
Parallel to ours 
I wear the same face 
Have the same shoe size 
But I wear fancier duds 
It's a...

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Inspiration line #4 - I Can't Believe I Thought That 

once when I was much younger 
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The sweet smell of 
Spring in the air
Heaven has spoken
As the birds sing I hear 
Cardinals and robins
Wrens all so brown
Nuthatches and sparrows 
Flying all...

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It happened on a Monday.
Thoughts, drifting
From one moment to the next,
Reassured by the kiss of a past,
Buried by the last chance,
Remembered by the heart who...

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Death always keeps looking for me
Hiding in the shadows like a thief in the night
If I am not here I will be somewhere else
When I...

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My Heart Skips a Beat

My hurt skips a beat at the
Mention of ur name
My mind blazes in flames whenever I think of you,
Just the smile...

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For once this is not fiction

Can you change the past?
I yearn to,
But on condition I carry with me
All that I have learned.
But you cannot change...

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Construction workers, fishermen,
hands broadened,
reddened cracks in the wintertime,
teachers, office workers,
a standing cashier feels aging
in her legs,
careers extended.
Can it be just a few more years til
they...

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“The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.” Emerson
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Slash, Loblolly, and Jelecote~curious names
     for the majestic pine and...

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I stood …

on a mountain
not nearly the highest
but the air was clean … seraphic
cold, but not bone-chilling
keen, that it restore the marrow
and course the blood...

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"Without Within"

It just takes one over-zealous do-gooder 
to set the dominos of destruction on a roll
and the war begins 

without within
within without

heaven was trampled that...

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"There was a Great Silence"


There was a great silence in that place, a kind of peace,
you sensed them, the unseen removed, all around you,
yet, all...

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