Long Ascertaining Poems

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling...

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Graces for the Loved and the Lost

To the sweet graces afforded to us from above 
To the hand of tender guidance that is only born from Love
To the broken boxer taking off his boxing gloves
To...

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Friendly pirate wannabe flies his Jolly Roger...
while surfing cyber seas today March 2nd, 2021.

Actually yours truly quite a literate codger
(ah shucks just missed being draft dodger)
no not for baseball team, but Vietnam War
circa November 1,...

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Trusted (non Trumpeting) Flora And Fauna Emerge Out...
Of Hibernation To Rejoice Arrival Of Spring 2019

Accordingly, other than
meteorologists plenti schooled
ascertaining onset of temperate air
more particularly otter den non humans
unassumingly (ferreted out), who bear
the tidings, when that...

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Emergency Circumstances 

A heavyweight contender for the Consellation Crown
A ready to wait pretender of a serious genuine frown 
A street sweeping vendor in the middle of a mid-western town
A parcel marked return to sender while...

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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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September 8 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 11-13

Key Verse – Matthew 11:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to...

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December 26 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Revelation 13-14

Key Verse – Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord...

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July 27 Scripture Meditations Based on Jeremiah 1-6

Key Verse – Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and...

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I: in the 70s

At sixteen, looking through a magazine,
I came across the picture of a girl
whose character was Mary Ellen in
“The Waltons” show I watched on Thursday nights.
Her look was that of mine when I...

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Already noticeably marked
increase in daylight
yours truly courtesy affected
qua heliotropic phenomenon
finds me noggin gently being tugged
upward and westward ho toward sun
after dark mine talking head 
rests downward and eastward.

Soon very indistinct
environmental intimations 
regarding onomatopoeic
ubiquitous murmurings,
whereby old...

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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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Life so complicated, so vindicated
Life never so simple in the dimple
Smiling, pining, piling up pressure in indicated
Moments and torments in a pesky pimple

Germinating on a face hitherto serene
Driven bonkers when complication that conquers
Spaces and territories...

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i've had it up to here dear for i fear the rear end of the deal makes me feel so surreal that i kneel and repeat which makes me sink to my feet when i...

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"all of us are on a journey and the answers are unspoken"
                       ...

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God gives me second chances with His love, verily unconditional
Conquering my failures of grievous frustrations
Asserting me His truth; thus “I can rise again by His grace!”*
I thank Him for girding me along my faith…
Anchoring my...

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Human race, don’t boast on the casualty coast
Frisking, seeking, pricking and nicking the truth
On a continental coast as to your truth you toast
Sending to Coventry the uncouth

Pummeling the truth, belittling the youth
Whose views you deride
As...

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The bettor I set forth, the less you appear to care. 
Hence, the best I attempt, the farther I prosper. 
It looks that you cannot complete this assignment. 
For every solo blink, sheerer gets incitement.

The time...

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May I write, if you don't mind please?
It seems there's much I long to say,
Haul up the bucket of ideas from my deep wishing well
That reaches Heaven as well as Hell.

Break loose the constraints from...

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A. Anarchy

Amber autumn aflame
An aroma of ash appeases the adamant arsonist; the artful anarchist
An audacious attempt at attacking back at our arbitrary accommodations
The ascended advocate us to abide as they affirm their advancement through annihilation...

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All around is calm at midnight
The day has been might and tight
I might have lost my sight
But I can still remember to cite

This is my sleepless night at midnight
Lies in your eyes need no witness
We’re...

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you and i were the 'good kids'
only spoke when spoken to
never picked a fight
didn't color outside the lines

later we learned that they
were sifting through all our art
ascertaining who lay on the
extremities of the bell curve
who...

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Perfunctory story
For my Lord's glory
Captures the nature and signature of the history
 
Lived during the pilgrimage
In which I don't have to rummage
For breath, thought or image
 
Cos the Lord always by my side
Not for a...

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All those days have now turned to years
So unwilling to listen to all those inner tears
And yet as another day will soon begin to set
You are so clever in avoiding the fisherman's net

For as each...

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As the cloud hasten through the scene,
The mood of the firmament did change.
The moon did her bowl fill,
As the cloud and the firmament did range.
Gradually, her eyelids began to leap.
Oh! Again.she began to weep.

The moon...

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