Long Approving Poems

On a magnificent morning, in the fragrant month of July,
I was heading to a new job, amidst the golden butterflies.

For I had been hired by Nasa's, Langley Research Center,
To work on new projects, and to...

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We disagree
I want to breathe people
Feel a timeless, immortal pulse
My solitude is anonymous observation
Strolling in unnoticed contemplation through worlds stacked upon worlds
The Flâneuse
My sustenance is colorful variety
Diving into the expressionism of bizarre fringes
Taste testing any...

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An Echo Poem

Original: This Much I Know – Poem by Lora Colon of PoemHunter
Reprinted here with permission.

Soon the sun will set in this valley
Where I’ve roamed for many a year, 
So many questions left unanswered,...

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What is a credit score? It is a 3 digit number that companies use to decide “IF” they want to lend you their money by giving you a loan or approving you for a credit...

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My internal experience of depression
today shames
external ecology of elation,
all I might know as warm extended family
of profoundly peaceful impressions
still bare surviving
at end of this slow-fading thread.

This morning
one Epictetus sentence
speaks of blaming left-hemisphere dominant GodVoices:

"People are...

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Of late I find myself talking at length 
to my dog – just “puppy talk” at first.
Then with a familiar grown-up vocabulary
 
most doting dog-owners use – and nothing 
beyond a dog’s mental grasp, depending...

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There is a spot in my grandmother’s home
It is reserved for guests
Older aunts and uncles on a visit, the parish priest, old friends that grandma wanted to impress
I have always wanted to sit in it,...

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"Has solitude ever led your steps down a forest path . . . "

                     ...

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Quiet Soul

1963
Her skin is that of alabaster. Wide circles of red rouge pronounced her thin lips and each cheek.
She is soulfully unique.
Her hair of dried stalk was approving to her eyes of vacuous emeralds.
She traveled...

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The Foreclosure
By Elton Camp

It might seem unwise or funny
A house to buy without money.
My middle-income job isn’t stable
To save a reserve, I’ve been unable.

But such negative talk I truly hate.
It’s no valid reason I should...

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For T. Ganesan (1931-1985)

It is as though an unjust hand punished you
As if the Adlerian guiltless position in the constellation wasn't enough
    toppling you from a pedestal
 
You were groomed for position
...

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When Marcelino Manuel da Graca aka Sweet Daddy Grace came to town.
 At an early age, I must admit that I was excited along with the majority of the Black community of the South East...

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April 4 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 1-4

Key Verse –2Kings 1:6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto...

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When you meet death, smile as if greeting an old friend.
The fear you feel, is the fear that death will not notice how you've changed.
The lessons you've learned, the tears you've cried, the smiles you...

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A snowflake dropped from the clouds
Unto our roof it bewildered the crowd
It is so sensitive and so sweet
With a heart courageous and ready to speak
It survived the heat and the harsh weather
For it is always...

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November 30 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Timothy 3-4

Key Verse– 1Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which...

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Thanks for seeing me, if you please
can I now get up off my knees?
Where do I start? I've made a list
forgive me for the one's I've missed.

Can we go back to '77
when you were in...

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November 3 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Romans 15-16

Key Verse – Romans 15:16  That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the...

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December 2 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Timothy 1-2

Key Verse– 2Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ...

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January 5 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 16-18

Key Verse– Genesis 16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I...

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October 21 Scripture Meditations Based on Acts 5-8

Key Verse – Acts 6:3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint...

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“Metallic skin"
I dont lotion anymore
Such acts would soften an  amour now immune to abuse.

Its now 8'o clock and I can tell that mommy is already asleep.

I prepare a clean skin to be dumped in...

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Despite cosmetic surgery to stave
inevitable demise cheating grim reaper
indefatigable measures undertaken
buzzfeeding mortal legacy bajillion
dollar industry remaining eternally

youthful cold comfort knowing eventual
degradation conquers biological aging,
yet open casket bestows approving
nods upon aesthetic corpse denouncing
any telltale evidence rigor...

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January 6 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 16-18

Key Verse – Genesis 16:2 … Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY SIN-RESTRAINER
				
Lord God, You are my sin-Restrainer by Your...

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October 27 Scripture Meditations Based on Romans 1-3

Key Verse – Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that...

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