Long Behooves Poems

Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard...

since being a student in grade, junior and high school
analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves
quite aware that finger muscles atrophied
veering off on a tangent...

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Interview with The Most Beautiful Suicide -Evelyn Francis McHale - May 1, 1947

So Evelyn, yours is one of the most famous of suicides, since you chose to jump from the Empire State Building in 1947,...

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Dear fellow poets – the young and the young once,

Modern poetry to me is “today’s poetry.” It presents poetry from the hearts of current writers using their own unique styles, which are influenced and inspired...

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I’m the unknown gardener my name is mentioned in the bible, but no one need honor me. Just a pauper, I was in the garden that day, but my only contribution to grace works was...

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“I’m the unknown gardener my name is mentioned in the bible, but no one need honor me. 
Just a pauper, I was in the garden that day, but my only contribution to grace works was...

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In the setting sun the Sioux Tepees look like vandalized pyramids,
the Tetons themselves appear as though angels raped
by the savagery of centuries yet noble in barbaric beauty and warrior ethos,
a Scalp Dance is begun, torches...

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i sit lonely. the crowded restaurant is thick with sound. i pick away at it moving back into the stagnant silence of my own comfort. the air is nasty here telepathically abusing my thought patterns....

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One Last Chance


I ask YOU GOD right NOW, for there is nothing righteous in me.
 Please dear God, I admit my sin, fall fresh upon me,
 my life by your spirit, and set my heart...

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Most everything written
(and learned ya in school)
     Yukon coon sitter, (and bet
     your bottom dollar) tibia bunch
     of contrived information

   ...

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please allow ample delivery time 
     per arability of friendship
and hoop fully this acquiescence 
     can render an accord shared 
     via exchanging...

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i sit lonely. 

the crowded restaurant is thick with sound 

i pick away at it 

moving back into the stagnant silence 
of my own comfort

the air is nasty here 
it telepathically abuses my thought patterns

still...

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Never make deals with devils or run from them                          ...

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Mama Matron Kudos to you 
Aunty Nurse thanks a lot
But you heard my cry 
Where you were laid fairly dead
And I could hear your voice
Where I was making noise
You kept asking 
Where is my baby?
All...

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That’s how she saw me

A lying jerk
Filled with mal-intent
And inebriated twist of the devil’s tongue

She removed my smile
My patience
My need for her

She was a professor
with a Masters Degree in Investigative Drama

Drinking shots of animosity and...

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An angel of the Lord said to Mary
God has need of you
A shift is about to occur in your life
Something bold and brand new

If you allow yourself to be redirected
By God's mighty hands
You must then...

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A smile, a wave and goodbyes were exchanged
She said she would try to remember the good times
After the misery they had endured 
He replied he would seek the silence of the night

It had been an...

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Oh Father teach me to love again
It behooves me too love again 
give me the love that you display
 agape
Teach me to love again

You're never ending Grace this place affectionate love benevolent
Teach me to...

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We Are What We Lived

A “Happy Home” grows happy adults.
A “Miserable Home” grows miserable adults.
A “Love-able Home” grows love-able adults.
A “Hateful Home” grows hateful adults.
A “Peaceful Home” grows peaceful adults.
An “Angry Home” grows angry adults.
A...

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You think about love and a companion 
You dream about a lifetime of lore 
You're hoping, but for love ever after 
That you find your Prince Charming 
But at last all is written 
You find...

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Welcome
to the age of the bully boys
 pulling little girls curls and stealing others toys
 unraveling the flag as it unfurls of a nation divided
 shouting louder and defiant babblery so misguided
 posturing without intelligible...

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How do you measure success in your life
Do you track what you give to the poor?
Do you monitor what others do with your gifts
Or just let them walk out of the door?

How do you judge...

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the angel on the mantel 
comes from an old wagon road 
that cuts from desert brush
into the burnished hills
where creosote breaks up and scatters 
at the base of the Chiricahuas
where Fort Bowie Calvary slaughtered 
Apache...

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It's only a paper-mache
moon, they say, too cool, 
too full of interstellar space
to sympathize or stress about
lovers, kings and fools.

Or is it? According to Deutsch
the so-called final ignition
into outer space
is a product of man's meditations
moving,...

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My New Years resolutions were never anything to write home about
they usually involved losing weight, giving up smoking…you know…the traditional route

But I have never smoked and on most days I am happy with my weight
so...

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Have you ever woken one morning
with an anxious and troubled heart?
When life makes the soul stagger and stumble
and you ache your strayed soul to summon,
Fierce though your flesh be pleading
It hurts your heart and muddles...

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