Lags Poems

Agreement By The Sea

...The ship has been rocking from shore to shore
battering over rough waves  and endless seas
that came to the restless shores more than fifteen years ago
the temperature has risen to over a hundred ...

Slavery

...
Chains that clatter, rusted tight,
Steal the warmth of morning light.
Backs are bent, hands are sore,
Lashed and broken evermore.

Fields of sorrow, cotton white,
Torn from dawn till dead of ...

So many leaders

...
leaders fill the scene.
yet progress lags behind them,
state's path stays behind....

In a silent world, where dreams are woven like an unseen tapestry

...In a silent world, where dreams are woven like an unseen tapestry,
Artists draw with untamed longing edifices of light reaching towards the heavens,
In the twilight of consciousness where thoughts ...

Reflections

...We have been bestowed with a mind to discern,
which implies we have some measure of free will,
so life choices we make, is the way we learn
but if heart lags behind, we suffer until
the lamp of l...

January 1st

...I awaken tired 
coffee lags with no sugar 
new resolution...

Poker

...All cards are on the table
Esau holds kings and queens
His secular greatness is swift
Many chiefs reign in Edom

Jacob draws but two's and three's
His family lags behind in Egypt
Becoming slav...

The Greatest Father Ever

...Unlike any other king, my father is the most powerful
He can build a mansion in seconds still he chose to be humble 
He prefers giving to taking for this is his principle 
Sacrificing himself self...

Tragic Perfection

...Somewhere deep within the machinery of life, in the nearly unfathomable growth and division-by-replication cycle, one was not like the others. And then, an unlikely pair… A cascade resulting in an av...

Old Age Footles

...Behold,
Too old

  Life, tough
   Days rough

Legs slip
Words lisp

  Cheeks cave
   Spirits rave

Knees jerk
They irk

  Lungs weak
   Bones creak

Nerves shrink
Joint...

Played With

...Their playing with their clocks again
Their playing with their flags
Their saying your mortality
has no more time than lags

Their offering up your screen savers
and offering up your lives
The...

Imprimaturs of Time

...The imprimaturs of time
  passed up by carefree minds ~

turn around to seek
  whomever lags behind...

A Prayer For Survivors

...It is a time for congenial chants,
for keeping a reverent pace
with the hymnal steps of the heart.

The year lags behind us
setting slowly now 
laden with all its bygone woes.
The days are bec...

Begging the Question

...Backup book, Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal,
prequel to The Magnificent Obsession,
lags behind, but clarifies its kernel,
secret key for a medical profession.
The basic skills of healing are...

Stop Waiting For Another Mandela

...The whole truth has be illuminated by history
Without learning from the past there’s no victory
We don’t need another 27 years on Robben Island
We don’t need fingerprints of foreign hands
Enough ...

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