Long Cajoles Poems

A Flirtation With Love (Parts 1, 2, & 3 finis)
#1 Sue's Legacy (Has A Home In My Heart)

Sure, each touch that enjoins us to life has Love's sparks,
one less photon (warms retina), dies but informs
that...

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In Ordinary Cups

The blades of winter grind into the ice
like blood on a bitten lip
two lovers spin and twirl
The days pass from teacup to teacup
in the peaceful silence of a solitary nest.
From gentle easy sunrise...

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PARALLEL AUTUMN SURPRISES


A ferris wheel of no return, she stood with rosy cheeks so fair; both day and night just wide rocky bridges of light and dark. All she needed was bulb of fresh start.....

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The ancient scriptures are both boon and bane
on one hand holding out a ray of hope
yet also becoming a thought form chain
letting us not with light of truth elope.
Each breath we take anchors us deeper...

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There in your gaze your anger
steams past swollen cherry lids
and your confusion is lost in your glazed stare.
The beauty of your dreams now disappears.
You cry,
and the pain seems washed away.
The tears stream, welcome,
dripping from your...

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A cartridge filled with a horde of shackled emotions, am I,
Trifle feelings loiter within me, until she elicits them out,
Wizened by time, she knows that otherwise I might turn mordacious... 
God guides my pen and...

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"Snowflakes Melting before the Diadem"

Winter is coming
and what then?
the dreams frozen 
snowflakes falling
we succomb 
tongues out waiting 
for manna, 
pills swallowed
for the diadem
needles of pine
instead of thorns
bedded,

the sweet sleep 
is coming, 
slowly it cajoles
swiftly it...

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Green fields of grass and black boys in white
Sir Lancelot and round table and frolic sights
The children of slaves so bedecked as knights
Spectators shadeless sizzling in fusion of light
O come let us play upon the...

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CHRISTIAN
Concern,compassion,comfort
CHARITY !
Commitment,consensus,concord
COMMUNITY !
Comunion,converse,counsel
CONNECTIONS !
Constant,candid,confession
CREED !
Conviction,contentment,completeness
CARPUS !
Contributor,curative,crusading
CHARISMA !
COVENANT !  CHRIST ! CHURCH !


Fine 
words
           it's
          ...

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Why Poetry Must be Read Aloud

The poet caresses the purity of the
blank white page, seduces it, whispers
to it, teases and cajoles, coaxing
from the emptiness a depth of
solace, the fullness of a lover’s smile.

His words are...

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Here now we live in body-mind,
wherein our heart, loving and kind,
cajoles us to slow down life’s pace,
free from feral cravings that bind.

Be this as it may, life’s rat race,
estranges us from love’s embrace,
dimming God’s light...

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Words run away
No rhymes now;
Rest in jest

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Love knows the way
Faith anchors hope;
Peace sums joy

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Come what may
Peace of mind stays;
Style knows the way

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Touch of good earth
Orchard of plenty;
Delightful harvest

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Weather forecast
Thundery showers;
Bright sunshine smile

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Old couple here
Parkway bench...

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Ago I watched a woman coax
A fellow back from death.
Sand clung to the drowned
Man's shoulder, briny fluid
Dripped from clustered hair
Breath pushed lung to throat

In that moment inelastic life
Crashed back upon the dead
like a shadow tsunami
A...

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Dadi
Sitting on the doorstep,
She looks at me with her loving eyes.
So weary, I ponder,
They seem to be holding so many mysteries.
They abound with untold tales,
I wonder.
I vow to myself; these stories, I shall hear someday,...

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We are dishwashers and bill payers, we have day jobs and night jobs.
Some of us are retired, I am not, because I know too many 
who died after they did that.
They lost their purpose, and...

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Every picture tells a story, 
it is doubly so of faces; 
ah, what tales the tigress tells 
at dim lit bars in far flung places. 
Feline smile on feral lips, 
reflections of an almost life;...

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Empty Speeches 
©2012 C. Brent Cloyd

Gone are the columns, gone is the crowd
Just twenty thousand, shouting loud
Gone is the hope, debt was the change
Stale words remain, empty and strange

The air is filled with Biden baloney
He...

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ephemeral are objects heart desires
fleeting is joy and lingering is pain
cause of suffering is seeking outcomes
ignorance is our sin, desire the chain

simply recognising that body-mind
is an earth vehicle, an interface
which we as eternal presence ensoul
by...

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Down the long lane to love lost
Lie silver times covered in dust 
Mansion of misty memoirs
Stands amidst stale desires
Built upon romantic strains of musical moods
Now over melancholy tunes, history broods
Haunted by ghosts of phantom love
An...

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Slow seduction, with magnetism rising
Innate aliveness in celebration
Blissful, boundless rapture scintillating 
As lower mind slips into cessation

No measure or size or calibration 
What is, is simply joy enlivening
Upon mind body vaporisation 
Slow seduction, with magnetism...

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Egocentric, engaged in games of one-upmanship
I developed a jaundiced and judgmental eye
Over time, losing over mind-body my grip

Belied expectations oft made heart sigh
My reflex response was to put others down 
Mocking both the living and...

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“Let silence teach”, the master said
“that soul may be by God’s hand fed,
whence graced by His touch, we ascend,
on choosing to be by love led.”

Inertia cajoles us to blend
with the crowd that we may defend,
attachments...

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This is the story of two lonely souls....
Who found each other, without cajoles...
Neither had ever had a mate....
Yet Jack and Gill decided to date.....
They felt an instant connection....
As both were Chefs and had a fixation....
One...

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“All that is, is a splash in the ocean ~
Why for then needless thought flow commotion”
~ quote by poet


Seeking God's love and light, heart's yen for zen,
        ...

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resting endowed functionality
as bestowed by the universe
a stirring yet arises in the heart
to emote a melodious verse

humming pulse of innate aliveness 
cajoles us to dance on life’s stage
we pause awhile in the bardo
where fires of...

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