Long Bresee Poems

Every morning
Warning signs are there to greet me
Waking
Shaking
I don't dare to face it 
Fight it 
Try and right it 
Cuz it always turns out wrong

Every feeling 
Leaves me
Reeling from the fear of falling 
Calling
Calling out...

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Describe the way life was meant to be

Cuz every day just melts away

To anything

 

It’s been a while since I think I’ve seen

The way I saw before the flaw

I’ve come to be

 

Another cloud, another...

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The Savior walked on water
The Savior raised the dead
The Savior healed the blind and lame
And then the Savior said

That those who would believe in Him
Could do such things and more
So all my life I’ve wondered
What...

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What lies beneath a sea of numb
Where ships of heart were taken down
Sunk to the bottom with the one
I hated and I meant to drown

For in its hull it carried pain
Instead of what its purpose...

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It seems so very long ago and yet like yesterday
We stood as one and made the vow to love and to obey

Then sealed this vow as things are done ‘until at death we part’
And at...

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A life sustained by water pure
Yet marred by memory of the wine
Like fragrant waft of soft allure
Diminished not by hands of time

Forever clear the water streams
Yet never ends the draw to wine
Forever helpless so all...

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Dim lit, damp and distant corner

Torn from dream of vapor’s fold

Slow descent to worlds divided

Nothing hot and nothing cold

 

Long ago, this soul forgotten

Cast off in the ides of youth

Un-forgiven deeds left hiding

Neath the stones...

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For the calm of new fallen snow lies in silent peace and stillness
Gently covering the loneliness of midnight city streets

And walking in the cold of night, I pause to stop and wonder
How can it be...

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Greatness

Born of hearts desire
A flame of inner fire

Dies to quiet fear
Fades and disappears

Or rises like a dove
To the atmosphere above

Of contempt and envy
Where mediocrity reigns

For doth not heat rises into hovering cold
And light disperse into...

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Haunted feelings carried by
Wings of night as shadows fly 

Drip drop words from pages then
Feed the fire like oxygen

Muffled voices through the door
Phrases heard once long before

Rhythm opened eyes now see
Lost forgotten parts of me

Black...

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It’s hard to find
From time to time
The strength to read between the lines
Of all the things you say
And what you do

It’s hard to be
What you want from me
It’s hard to swing from the highest tree
But...

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So tired of fighting
Don’t feel like writing
Here in the cold of the night
As I sit here and sit 
With my head full of shit
That comes pouring straight out of my life
Like a weight full off...

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I'm wanting to see just what me I can be. 

I'm testing the waters to test gravity

I'm leaping with faith just to see where I land

I'm shedding my cover to find where I stand

I'm spreading...

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I sat today midst the happy smiles
Of a children’s song, and for just a while 
I was happy too, for what else should come
From a happy day and a happy song

But it came again just...

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I’m the one who’s always lost but then the one who’s always found.
I’m the one who’s always there and yet the one who’s not around.

I’m the one who wants to hold it all, but never...

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You saved them then
But fell again
The circle’s in the sky

Divided fence
And happenstance
Don’t care if it’s a lie

Tomorrow’s day
Fades into grey
And blue melts into black

As silent sounds
And crushing pounds
Creep in for the attack

An empty stage
And crumpled...

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"Write me a poem", she once said from her chair
And tell the dark secret that lies under there
 
Dig it up from the deepest and blackest of holes
Tell in poetry what you’ve not told to...

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I can’t stand another year of this
With the sales that start after summer’s bliss

And the songs that play round the clock each day
And the cock-eyed ice and snow

And the ho ho ho’s and the ringing...

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I paused today
Put cares away
And finally let
The moment stay

Saw feathered skies
Through children’s eyes
Let time stand still
And realized

This life of gain
And gathering in
Pursuits of gold
Desires to win

They offer not
But jaded dust
Doomed to decay
By moth and rust

And...

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I hate how I feel

Although common it seems

Having been once again 

What I swore I’d not be

 

Yes, despite all the talks

That I’ve had with myself

Making promises to

Put the past on the shelf

 

Asking Heaven...

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The stars that fill the midnight sky
Or single grains of sand
Cannot compare to all God’s works
Too vast to understand

What number counts the drops of rain
That make the oceans wide
How many hours and days and years
Fill...

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