Long Careworn Poems

I walk o u t...

I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture between life/death/rebirth
gnaws at my marrow This dilemma-kudzu
coils tight, constricting tomorrow's breath

Death...

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Good new,good news He said to me
'I have the power to set you free'
'Come ,along this path we'll walk',
I listened closely as He talked;
Eternal life and 'new life' within
upon Him I place my sin,
peace,wholeness and...

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Eldest daughter – I Praise

Twenty two years ago
     December twenty second,
two thousand eighteen
"star student" born
this papa (and most
     likely thee birth mother)
     initially...

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Broken, this aged vessel
fractured by fate in matter and mind
careworn and cracked like creeping veins of window frost ...

          (but colder in my solitude, I surmise)

Oh,...

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“no!” …

he said, “they’ll ne’er take Piccadilly!”
then downed a pint in one gulp …
tucking five pounds under the edge of
his sodden Churchill coaster,
“bloody awful price!” he grumbled quietly,
turning sharply on his heel to
depart the pub...

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Sunday afternoons
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i abandoned my self, and reached out with all my heart
to a God whom i knew could help me survive
and keep me from coming all the way apart
and for awhile i was so truly...

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broken, this aged vessel
fractured by fate in matter and mind
careworn and cracked like creeping veins of window frost ...

          (but colder in my solitude, I surmise)

oh,...

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O Judas (It's All About Jesus)

There was a man, a fallen man
whose destiny would be perdition.
He was a thief and betrayed his friend.
This we received in our tradition.

A better friend no man could have.
His love...

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moon …

beams that burn -
that turn my surgings to slag
my teeth to serrations,
hungering …
can those silly sentients not see the
verity in my veneration, you?
do they truly think it’s only art, 
only … verse?
that my blood...

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With glorious primordial certainty
  the sun will rise, the sun will set;
likewise you languish knowing what you're about,
  you know what is and isn’t so;
  yet, ultimately, you don’t.
Chained to the chromium...

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Day pulses within budding blue eyes.
She lays solo in the rickety bed -
a hand-me-down from a cousin removed.
Dust bunnies swirl and dance overhead
in the early morning sun, beckoning her awake.
A chill in the air sends...

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although revenge is said to be sour in the stomach
but sweet to the mouth and that is why it doesn’t matter 
what happens afterward,
the old fool sharpens the dagger
to take revenge on those who made...

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Scads of decades ago...

Metaphorical mama's yoyo
came undone, unleashing woe
doggone wizard of oz sought in toto
afore final picture show
would play staging pro
sic cuter determining
irrevocable fate oh no!

Approximately this time of year
(circa mid December) as
Christmas holiday doth...

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I endure my arrogance like a leftover twin  
absorbed during gestation,  
seeing myself in everything, not only the eyes  
that watch me rocking back and forth in a corner 
in order to...

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The Allegory of the Cage

I have not written much of late;
I toil in my hamster wheel.
While ev'ry sage of ev'ry age
Will gape with wonder at my cage,
And speak in voices small and still
About my stilted,...

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Goodbye Mom, my two older brothers cried.
1930 – I was born, our mother died.
1932 - Daddy remarried, careworn
yet in time three more daughters were born.

Goodbye, peace and home, So long, 
1941, Japan attacked British Hong...

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"The streams are my veins."
                 --Constance La France

Along the shores of the Ohio, I now call my home
My heart...

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Tranquil day, Spring on the flood, 

birds busy with their careworn caution  

just see how their skills unite to feed 

and stay the course of life as plants

via for so successful photosynthesis 

as we...

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Tranquil day, Spring on the flood, 

birds busy with their careworn caution  

just see how their skills unite to feed 

and stay the course of life as plants

via for so successful photosynthesis 

as we...

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I wanted to believe you  
when you said there was no such thing as Hell.
I wanted to believe you when you 
said that pain was just an illusion
and that I could find eternity in...

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He tills within the buzzard's flight 

this cruel land he calls his home, 

ewe and wether, milk and bucket, 

broken spirit, ne'er to roam. 

He's stuck for good, the laws of nature 

guide him, be...

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He tills within the buzzard's flight 
this cruel land he calls his home, 
ewe and wether, milk and bucket, 
broken spirit, ne'er to roam. 
He's stuck for good, the laws of nature 
guide him, be...

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...inspired by 'The Airy Tomb' by R.S. Thomas


He tills within the buzzard's flight
this cruel land he calls his home,
ewe and wether, milk and bucket,
broken spirit, ne'er to roam.
He's stuck for good, the sacraments
will guide him,...

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He tills within the buzzard's flight 
this cruel land he calls his home, 
ewe and wether, milk and bucket, 
broken spirit, ne'er to roam. 
He's stuck for good, the laws of nature 
guide him, be...

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He tills within the buzzard's flight 
this cruel land he calls his home, 
ewe and wether, milk and bucket, 
broken spirit, ne'er to roam. 
He's stuck for good, the laws of nature 
guide him, be...

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