Long Amiably Poems

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. 

So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still...

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Old Mr. Nicholson
totters across the town square
to the barbershop where
Clive has cut his hair
for the last forty years or so

Not hardly needing
even a trim
but pretending
he has a reason besides
the gossip waiting within

Inside, the shop smells...

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I asked a scientist to make an olive's leaf,
So green with its juices,
Smelling spring and sweat from gatherers hands.
He answered that he couldn't.
I asked him to make the light of the sun,
Reflecting its warmth in...

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The woodland's sights and scents add a piquancy to the affair

By the moonlight's inky, starry gaze, so fleeting to retain

To dawn's fragile light shadows benignly filtering through

The damp, earthy undergrowth a mossy bed convenient

An ample,...

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A genuine hero isn't one that's flawless     
Arguably not the one garmented with 
Absolute forfeits but one who is purely 
Accountable in securing relationships 
Amiably without trade of another life.

Fantastically feeding...

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From the east it went majestically to the west
to the North it brings blessing and peace 
To the great inhabitant of Nkporo.
Its waters the south amiably to the favour of the hills
Mountains and the green...

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Through

Every artist has a dream,
That a masterpiece made by imagination
Might manipulate the morality of millions
Amiably molding minds 
Into an improved method of empathy
Through impression
A painter paints a portrait of peace
Possibly provoking the population with pictures...

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COFFEE IN A CAFÉ CALLED CONTENTEDNESS

He’s content…….
Yet uniquely unrepentant 
He’s content with his surroundings
Content to do that which he must…….
With trust

Content, 
occasionally, 
to do something he actually enjoys
With poise
I suppose ninety-six years tempers one’s desire...

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he was walking along amiably,
unconcerned and all alone,
a group of unknown mafia came along,
an began cajoling teasing him on,
in more ways than one,
he ignored them to full and went about his way,
looking to get out...

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When imbalance of life churns hapless poignancy
And the zephyr of inequities breezes melancholy
Dissonance reverberates echoing pathos of grief
Seeking exaltation within metaphysical profundity
As hushed posture conjures up humbling catharsis,
Leaning in quietude, questing paranormal vitality,
Liberating from bounds...

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Vera Selena (Osburn) Hinshaw - June 4, 1935 - July 19, 2018

Thank you, dear Vera, for nearly 66 years of marital bliss!
How I cherished our time together; you, my love, I truly miss.
Ours was a...

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Now they do leave and go their distant ways.
Don Jose rides with Arracho to shore
as Segundo brings ladies home with bays.
The destination's hacienda's door.

Sound of iron rims on cobblestone turned heads to see Alcalde's wife
and...

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Sensuous as a kiss, gift of romantic dreams, 
Your essence I feel as you tiptoe stealthily
Alluring sensibilities, revealing amorously
Silken ruby lips sparkling on work of beauty
Embellishing tiny dimples upon rosy cheeks;
Oh! the mystical you, loving...

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Almighty God* I adore
Author of faith, approved by Your atonement
Accept my acknowledgment and admiration of Your anointing.

Awed by and adorned with Your advice
Abiding am I in Your avouching assurance 
Apprehended against abominations, arrayed with holiness’...

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i am posting this in hopes that those who entered my contest with more than one line of poety will correct their line to read as only ONE line.
One of my examples was this:

Accepting, diligent,...

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Quaint town, orange sky and spitting roosters,
a trail of mosaic remembrances translates
into lavender hints of folks’ spiraled notes:
women balancing baskets of corn
strewn on the hips, a siege of  fluted weeds
meshing  with tropical winds...

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AN AFRICAN WOMAN

The lady in white has make me insane
With the blissful frangrances of her laughter,
Clouded with a beautiful image of love.
She is the art of my love's story riding
Holiness in the courtyard of my...

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Somehow I had loved you so,once…
When we relished vintage cherry wine until
The last pitch of a guitar man drifted along
harbour’s bay…and how our shared wishes
gushed around Trevi fountain, tossing coins,
rummaging  new souvenirs that became
endless...

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It's a New Year again,
Time to turn another
page -- though I am
far from new~

closer to Old Sage.

Time to forgive...and let
go... -- as seasons flow
the cold of January
will leave our North~ 
Southern breeze will again 
melt...

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I watched the “news” this morning.
Chicken Little ran around squawking
Two women talked amiably after describing
scenes of horrific violence.
A homeless puppy was found
cared for and now needs a “forever” home.
Thousands called in looking to adopt it.
A...

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                    Autumn fire on azure ambient
          ...

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Minutes in, days out, I would succumb
To an electric wave of heat:  this once
Tidy dress lined in cotton and quilt now appears
Scratched like a hand-me-down cloth;
My  upper ribs  tossed into a furnace
While...

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If these aren't the walls to hold us
Let me loose
If charm and features aren't in my company
A thought won't do
It wasn't me 
Yet they carved out pieces of my flesh
to fit into
If it isn't you
Please...

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I’m lodged in this train on a top spot
yet alone...while others trace a  blue noon amiably,
As  dewed  mist  holds me immovable
From my row ... the  toot  of a loud...

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Framed moments zoom, a night of review
as vignettes glide on frazzled woodland
     of her mindscape like leaves  brushed
 in violet before moonlight’s  pause.

Every motion, every image bursts
  ...

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