Long Bearable Poems

Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that inhabited the clean air
that once use to live there.

he made...

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"Don't get too close"

(Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze ...)

We are taught from day one
Not to get involved ...
"Don't get too close to your patients,
Or the emotions will get the better of you"
Don't get too close ...
Don't get...

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The feeling of comfort

Is one of the most incredible and humbling

Emotions that has ever flooded through my veins

And caressed every nerve in my body.



Having all of your troubles be lessened

And the ache of your troubled...

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Do not read if offended by human imagination 
as this will appear heretical to religious people, 
and perhaps nonsensical to everyone else

As far as I can perceive this universe began 
the moment I was born...

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Ruminating vagaries of life May 2nd, 2021

(conceived while in utero
which loosely summarization in toto
of this ordinary Joe Schmoe,
who did wade nine months for a roe
at mercy of obstetricians status quo,

giving me a jump start to...

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What a busy day it was today, hospitals needing extra
Staff as the pandemic increases in rate, numbers and deaths,
My desk is cluttered, a challenge as two of our
Recruitment staff are off sick, one with Covid.
I’m...

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I woke up from a dreamless sleep 
My vision came through fuzzy and confusing 
A cold, sharp ringing painfully pierced my ears 
And irritated every sense 
The familiar numbness stung my brain 
And caused a...

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I see him lounge beneath the pecan tree, 
nursing his alcohol as he hides from his young cousins. 
They want to play army men with him some more,
but he has already been losing for hours....

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When the days become so tiring and the mind does not want to rest
Many thought race in the midst of the mind where it gathers
Torn from reality comes the moments that rest unlocks
Bearable to see...

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It felt heavier than he anticipated.
It was cold and clumsy in the sweaty palm of his hand.
He stared at the hard black object 
Somewhat amazed at how easily he was able to acquire it.

Unsure how...

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Reyna E Griffin
23 august  2021
Grade 11

NOVEMBER
Life is starting to feel like  NOVEMBER again. Ah yes, an odd statement if you have no context of how it truly felt in NOVEMBER 2020.
  ...

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I arrived at heaven’s doorway and found my friend, Walter, sitting on the front steps.  Walter had passed years before me.  I was surprised to see him still waiting in front of heaven’s...

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I wrote the Invisible man poems many years ago. These poems, and I have not submitted them all, was for a little girl who died in a road accident. They are a tribute to her...

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Freedom
We are off the chain, 
But we let up the rein. 
Endurance flows through our veins, 
But we still live in pain and disdain. 

We have much, 
We gain less. 
We hold the torch, 
But...

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I worked today and I didn’t think about you at all
I was happy when I came home
Ha! Home that’s a joke isn’t it, yeah . . . 
I’ve never been home, never been, for never...

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2022 Polar Vortex - Across Wide Band Of North America

Power outage here within 
mine happy hunting grounds 
(as well the ghosts of Lenni Lenape),
viz Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania
December twenty third 
two thousand twenty two wrought
(lasting greater...

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A little red fox 
Entered the forest one night
The moon failed to pass through the canopy
A dark crunch he felt, as he walked each time
 
He wasn’t scared though
He didn’t have a reason to be...

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Feeling the cold winds on the feet is bearable
There's always a blanket to shield the hail

But what about the cold hearts that once emitted warmth?
Whose presence was like sunshine ripping through the grey clouds

Safe to...

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In the suspended time 

In the suspended time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve,
I think of you. 
Time has passed, much time, and you have said in 
Clear words of silence, that you wish me...

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On the path of life, shadows wander,
In search of souls that should love, should cherish.
But the harsh reality reveals itself, a naked truth,
Those to whom you offer goodness ignore you, reject you, or even humiliate...

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The night was lonely when my pills called for me. Stock piling them, not knowing if they’ll ever be used. I told myself I’d take them if life still didn’t get better. So down they...

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Since Covid emerged upon the scene…from the moment the virus Gods begot it….
Deborah and I were thankful, relieved and extremely proud…never to have caught it!

We vaccinated and prayed to every God… to the sun, the...

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JESUS by Joan May Donnelly Ellis 

 Jesus, You are the Brightest Light of Love
 A hearth fire ablaze on Christmas Eve
 A child's uncommanded hug
 The flicker from a candle's flame
 A Hand whose...

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March 1 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Samuel 21-24

Key Verse – 1Samuel 21:2 … The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout...

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I know a man who went to the zoo but they wouldn’t let him out,
So hairy was his body that his heritage was called into doubt.

He asked to have a lawyer but none of them...

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