Long Break off Poems

This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
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Catharthis...
neglect of the art and it's form is such a beautiful start
let go of the pain
let go of all emotion
the hatred is spread thin
Touched and such beautiful notions
I know you are striving
to be with you're...

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Colors in the Dark
When I was younger I’d get scared too easily,
my mother was patience pushing back the monsters in the closet with a simple wave of her hand
as i grew my mother didn’t have...

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My healthy right mind 
is not one likely to retain left brain
disparate details
more than elastic and interconnected trends.

So it has been with U.S. religious history recall.
I live immersed in impressions of indigenous communities
without investment in...

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I grew up on the right side
          Of the wrong side of the tracks
I hit the ground running
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Charms of Dusk, 
A Pure Baptist touch, 
Display lurk of a rush plus battle scares
Of blood and rusk what have this man endure, 
Even, if this is a man or by luck a higher evolution...

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There,  they are with their scary galaxy of thoughts! 
Those that wanted us to sing those songs they never
sang with the moon and the sun.
Those that wanted us to dance the dance they
never danced...

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You have gone to another place
Far away, where I can’t possibly follow
A place of light, laughter and love
Joy that colors the thoughts in warm
Welcoming whispers of hope

This place is lively and dancing with
Compassion, completion, colorful...

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Being used.
Take everything out of me, 
& on the days i’m not wanted, 
I am left emptied 
all of the way out.

A pleasant ‘medicine’ to show others just how good I make you feel, &...

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LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY


You have come to the altar, for remorse, forgiveness and peace;
Now before you can even open your eyes and get up off your feet;
You must find the inter praise,...

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When in swanky restaurants, 'tis easy to daintily dine on cordon bleu,
But dining on lobster requires deft finesse without humiliating you!
For what its worth, I offer the following that I've learned o'er the years,
To show...

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To be honest, I’ve been dreaming for way too long
There are times when life was like a typical love song
You tear down the walls between us in a blink of an eye
You really helped me...

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I sit out here nothing to do. Waiting for school to start.
All around me ,solitude.  The great nothing.. I watch the birds. Seems I have a crazy imagination.
These birds have their own society. ...

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The sparkling goodness imprisons an autumn sun
And takes me back to the tender days when I was very young
When I'd help my Mama pluck them off the ground
Tart fallen pippin apples which the warm brisk...

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She's quite an intellect 
A beauty skinned in fair reasoning
Clothed in fumes of rationalism 
Her eyes were made up with eyeliners of 'what's your next plan'...
Her face was polished by the sixth sense
At least, so...

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I am at one with myself
I am the tree trunk that grows from the ground
As the branches and twigs move when the wind blows
I myself remain robust

Extentions of my life break off and die
Or just...

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Girl please tell me
Tell me what to do
I just can't understand
Why I'm losing you

I can't make your family like me
So I won't even try
But you can't listen to your mother
And tell me goodbye

True love comes...

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A son to his dad:
What is a 'successful life''?
Instead of answering him
The dad took him out
And  began to fly a kite
to his son's surprise
who couldn't hold his breath for long
and interrupted:
Dad, the kite is...

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Vaporized by the mere cruelty of life,
the smoky intoxication of reality puzzles my entire soul.
As pieces of my puzzle break off into the abyss of time
and disappear for all eternity.
Some things they are not forever
just...

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It was just another campfire the old couple sat around…listening to the crackling of the wood…watching the flames push off the ground

Watching as sparks break off from the fire to be free…to fly…to soar…just another...

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~Shooting Stars~
Persied is back, he travels every year they say,
Why does he come to us? I heard a little child say
Persied is a shooting star…the mother simply said
Well why don’t they shoot him then so...

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She said we could climb one of those TALL TALL TREES
And that we could make it though they sway in the breeze
She said, "This is it through the WINDOW UP ABOVE"
"We're real lucky to find...

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Wild willow tears
A poignant elegy to ecstasy
weeping as if embraced by a light breeze
Suspended in a sad splash of water

Her eyes drooped
regarded the aqua pond
There are willows in her bay
Her tears are trickling down
You are...

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Momma Has Dementia

I miss my mother so terribly
yet, she still walks the planet today, 
still looking like herself, her smile and her laugh
but her thoughts are only on yesterday.

But, let me look back at her...

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In my younger years
I searched and I searched 
To find
To hold
Just a small piece
A minuscule piece of happy

Other people
Smiled and laughed
They seemed to be holding large chunks
I looked at them with awe
If only
A small piece
Even...

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