Long Betides Poems

As we spoke to our son last month, it felt like 'A Twilight Zone'.                     ...

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Nestled is the slender twisting trail canyon between timeless steep 
aspiring mountains and meditative sopheric sea waters 
The frail road deepens into lofty thickness further from the harsh 
volcanic valley where passion’s throes are ever...

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Each cock that crows in the morning
mourns the death of dusk.
The silent sunrise reminds sages of the 
reality of human mortality.
Thirsty, mother-earth drinks the teardrops 
from the soiled skies;
ever hungry, the garden feasts on ...

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Love like hope betides,
nature is her ere scene,
what if the world would host, tis,
things flowing monsters, if wise, otherwise,
oh!, I think that the earth,
has blue and green and red...,
a little calendar of this savannah.
 
As...

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The great mother to whom I cry
But when will your mind be to laugh
Or mouth in joy of peace it seeks
When will happiness to brethren smiles
To him your joy afar in miles
The treasure your children...

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An orphaned paradise where wounded feet
Must hymn the breath which gave it life and light
Despairs for harmonies which subtly meet
In whirlpools where bright genii wake to fight. 

Asleep along the foaming shore there lie
Two citadels...

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I  used to love the stars in the skies
until I saw the sparkle in your eyes,
my heart once fell for a gentle Dove
until you flew into my world with Love.

You are a timeless tale...

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Why to you have sides, front, back, 
left and right besides, betides?
I'm offside, on no one's side.

Why regret and hide the gnarls, 
scars and wrinkles on your hides? 
Why be ashamed of the 'love-me-dos', 
cut...

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Sunbeams flood into my room like a tide on the rise creeping in.
Woe betide me be, wet or dry, warm or cold, enlightened or beam blighted.
Dawn bears beams of revelations, comings and goings, flotsam and...

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ADVERSITY

Adversity strengthens us...and God uses it to help mold us into stronger souls.
Adversity prepares a soul to be more passionate and purposeful about the things beyond mere 
mortality
Adversity increases wisdom when we allow God to...

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The world is Dying…
Mother Earth Is Crying...
"Man, man, man…
You have caused me much pain…
Even if I rain hailstones on him...He is still stubborn"...

"Man, Man, Man…
You cut down my Hard Grown Forests …Without replanting them,
You Plunder...

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Fittingly hallowed gods must intrinsic majesty hold.
Even before deities invoked weigh the caller's case,
The deity's potent title should alone spell the balm,
And tint with nourishing grace the supplicant's face. 

Woe justly betides gods modelled by...

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(Out of Eden IV)

I’m cross as I cross The Cross
And wonder as I wander
My Spirit has rejected the spirit in me
For fear that it’s fare is fair.

The cause of my ‘coarse’, of course
Is as tied,...

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Years lay over, 
tilt to shed tears, 
from eaves of leaves 
that sway, stay and, 
stray away to far beyond.

Lay, lady, lay.
Come allay your fears
and I'll let your colors shine,
if you'll stay with me, for...

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My burning red raw, bloodshot eyes,
strain expectantly, under reluctant skies,
counting fingers, with tearful sighs,
longing for sunbeams, that will defiantly prys,
to open cracks in gray clouds, at sunrise.

An eye soon cries when a spirit expires,
lowering a...

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In the pool of eternal peace I lost my tears,
the flood of faith sweeps away my fears.
Each morning bloom shows forth your grace
as the rising Sun flushes my heart and face

You are good when all...

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Written for a couple who love Shakespeare and are getting married Sat. 02 
Oct. 2010

This isn't a tragedy as in 'Macbeth',
'Hamlet' or 'King Lear':
Nor is it a 'Comedy of Errors'
to bring a heartfelt tear.
It isn't...

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I see the tears of tribulations
and life filled with afflictions;
but hear the blessed savior scream...
Come to the Healing Stream!

My arms are open for you,
I am sent to see you through.
Come in, come on O weary...

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      Staircase shifts as my footsteps climb
      Trapeze tree swing, springy arm chimpanzee
      Undulates gripping limbs, gym sublime 
 ...

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The restless lizard climbing on the wall
Can hardly fathom where the end may lie
To his audacious quest, and this is why
He does not know that, in the end, he’ll fall. 

Again he tries but then...

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Wealth is worthless to a sinking soul,
Success is a gift and not a golden goal.
Rotten riches is like resentful roses.
Prosperity pursues all pleasant purposes.

Woe betides the barn built on bribery,
The cocoon of the corrupt crashes...

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