Long Bequests Poems

Once upon a time, in a land of make-believe,
there lived a magical calendar if you choose to believe.
It hung on the wall, sparkling with a golden hue,
with the power to predict what the future can’t...

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Seven was my number,
When you first gave me that gift,
The tunnel you forever fixed in my heart,
I can make you remember,
 
At home from Jean’s where I’d gone to mother play,
You thoroughly dribbled a hot...

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Expectantly and nervously
I sought an empty chair.
Cousins I hadn’t seen for years
Were already gathered there.

We had come to hear the reading
Of Great Aunt Katie’s final will.
She had been left a wealthy widow 
By my mama’s...

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Avoiding Pain? Suicide Might Help!

I don’t like to get hurt, grok this path that most walk,
so write poems for strangers (I never will meet,
verse few friends do abide short of formal requests)
that reveal mind in...

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To be immune from aspersions mean and vile
May assuage our hurt feelings for awhile
But to really uphold the Golden Rule
We must also withhold words harsh and cruel—by poet

In an upside-down world
Where self-victimization
is a realization and...

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I know you're out there
    I can hear you ... typing, rat-a-tat-tat
      I echo it, but place with intent
       each finger-step...

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I know you're out there ...
    I can hear you ... typing, rat-a-tat-tat
      I echo it, but place with intent
       each...

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Take it to the Lord

Sad and troubled feelings are upon us in different hues 
Deeply disturbed but brave it, showing little or no clues
Bottled inside, turmoil within – the grief only multiplies
The malady when shared...

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As a weary rambler, I'm nearby and resting. 
With arousing, he grasps his ecstatic settling. 
His withered bones are currently lively. 
It's been done multiple times formerly.

Bequests themselves with musings to meditate. 
His danger is...

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She was diagnosed with a terminal illness and had just a few more days,

Yet, she was in good spirits, joyful and her heart was filled with praise!

She got things in order and with her pastor...

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Egyptian goddess
impetuous and pompous
Cleopatra’s conquests
at history’s bequests
wielded a propensity
for dramatic intensity

She snared the great Marc Antony
lured him into salacious surreality
of whirlwind amorous insanity
their thirst for world domination
stirred a most legendary seduction
concocted in the heat of...

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The Journey
 
To save the criss-cross that lay ahead,
Set in epoch the traveller throng along,
With equestrian gallantry to solve the puzzle,
In divine supplication to attain the obligation.
And thus desire to maintain direction require,
With all the...

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Signor Fellini

Imagine us
Respectful of your shadows
Held in suspension by your cinematic mirror

These dreams of yours      
Realized through creation’s gift
Offer such ethereal answers 
To those of us aroused 
Beyond the screen

Your...

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Sunrise in the morning fills the heart with glee,
a new day, a new start for you and for me.
Quote - Poet’s own
To Each Devottee

Sun raised her head in a blaze of glory
Rising from behind a...

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Drink the water of mountain brook
Sweet and clear, it fills you with joy
Try it once, very soon you’re hooked
Much like ale, in thirst, to enjoy

Ancient music, from ages gone by
Is like stream, crystal clear ’n...

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Does a banished beacon beckon?
But of course all beacons beckon
But only briefly if not brightly
Though never as boldly as the baritone
Before balancing bagpipes blowing ballads
But it’s got backbone and backfires
Unlike the babbling bellow of a...

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Spring Rebirth


Spring wakes from hibernation on warm days
     which March allows, near closure of her reign.
But, since she's fickle, wind and snow regain
     the right to visit,...

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In honor of a wonderful, kind person who has been mentor to me and so many others and still gives so much even as time has taken so much from him...


With that rickety shuffle, 
he...

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The primary climate pandemic problem
has something to do
fix
overpower
our Big Verbal Dominating

Vocations listing our best LeftBrain answers
pat and privileged
before deep RightBrain feeling quests
are evenly invited 
into Earth's deliberating DNA dialogue,
much less the likelihood of full and...

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A Taste of Paradise

Passionate, moonlit nights ensconced in my beloved’s embrace,  
A feeling of exquisite pleasure … we’re totally consumed by desire’s fire. 
Restored is our faith in the enduring power of true love,...

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“A penny for your dread?”
Bequests the breath of what is dead.

A wretched reek bequeathed by foul beasts,
Whose beaks do spread the fuel of feasts.

Lack in threat by the vacant mind,
Despite the curse of that which...

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G ifts of the heart are worth more than gold
I ronically possessions are what most behold
V isions of beauty surround us in so many forms
I nspired by grandeur should we not all be transformed
N ature...

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A Conquest- Last line prompt





When ink of romance
subdues respect for nature,
Exploitation begins
treasures seem perpetual,

Obliterated thoughts
drop down the curtains,
Devastation knocks 
on constant failure to unveil,

A wake up call, wake up
with hunger to introspect,
Satiate this appetite
howbeit, the...

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Be not becalmed, but busy, buzzy, bustling; 
bedazzling but not bedraggled;
beloved, bewitched but be not besotted.
Be bewitching, but not belittling nor besmirching.

Begin to be -
become, belong, befriend, beseech, beget
Bewilder, befuddle, bedazzle, 
Make bequests - beguile,...

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