Metaphor Growth Poems

See the thrashing
The panic
Hear the cries
The screams
Know their drowning
With no help
Instinct engages
I dive in head first

The thrashing calms
Panic subsides
Less crying
Screams change to whispers
Support gives purpose
I...

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Echo of distant cries,
quadruped steps deepening into dusk—
wind folding the earth’s breath.
Craftsman of the spider web,
seas of lightning possessing the sky.

Guardian of the other side,
conceiver...

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rooted and growing

Forgiven and sowed...
rooted in God's love garden...
growing gracefully...

...

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As you open that door…
you don’t know that there is 
an ocean behind it 


If you had to choose between feeling nothing and feeling everything,...

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Shouting across the void, I’ve begged for you;
I’ve heard my straining voice fall lost to the
Abyss between us two; Ignoring my plea,
The echo returned not,...

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I press my hands into the ruins of you,
fingertips cut in the quiet rot of ancient wounds
that have never quite been touched.
Beneath splintered ribs, 
your...

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I wish I could tell you
And have you understand
That you are you,
And I am me.
We put so many years between us
And in all that time...

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Believe in me,
Because you cannot be
Alone in your thoughts.
A lie might make true what is not!

Be feared, be scared,
Be ware of what I am.
A love,...

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Maybe the sun was destined to rise from the East,
Maybe at the end of the book there is just one character.
Maybe at the corner of...

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IN HOLY NAVIGATION: A HAIKU QUINTET

Moonlight skies are bright,
My palisaded road clear;
God navigating:-

Destiny awaits,
End of the forest is seen;
God navigating:-

In my life's garden,
I walk a...

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Does it really matter where words come from ?
Aren’t words just words or sounds heard with our ears passed on from one mouth to another...

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My story does not exist within the pages of a book, rather in memories, smells, sights, sounds, behaviors of the subconscious, and in thoughts of...

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So, the glistening aim noticeably passes by,
So, the dangerous motion formidably goes by,
So, the unknown one remains unknown for the time being,
So, one is ahead...

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New rains kiss the earth,
Seeds sprout from the darkened depths,
Life dances anew....

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An Old Man is looking at me
In my heart filled with rain
First, keeping his head low
Tells me he would do anything,
To stop this rain

An old...

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