Long Carved in stone Poems

if you have taken the time to browse through this eclectic collection of self-indulgent foolishness, I hope you’ve been entertained by the quirkiness of its content, or at the very least, annoyed by the pervasiveness...

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Stones do not speak the language of men or of angels.                        ...

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Allegheny rail train has been rolling along since dawn.
I can hear the patchy sounds of the horn ushered by the wind.
Sounds at first are muffled but become distinct as the train gets closer.

Gulls hovering over...

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Mount Rushmore; Carved In Stone

From deep within the earth’s crust,
An orogeny pushes
The batholith upwards
To become ‘The Shrine of Democracy,’
Of weathered presidential faces
Chiseled in rock in South Dakota;
Representing 150 years of history
(From birth of a nation
To...

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Hours later Bud rode a spent, tired horse,
covered in grit and grime from the chase,
as he went he came upon a well-built ranch,
painted white, a respectable place.

Outside a woman was hanging up clothes
with her daughter,...

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Old Ellie’s Fred, he hated Docs. Thought ‘em  thick as two short planks.
Couldn’t pull up their very own socks. To all the lot, he said: “no thanks!”
“I ain’t sick” just let me be.“But we’ll...

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The high road, the low road, did it ever occur to the Thinker?                      ...

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In the year, nineteen an’ thirty-nine, 
in a small town that seemed not to care,
a little girl tried her very best
to dress well, and groom her dark hair.
She’d fight for her life—whatever it took,
an’ survive...

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The wrapes of Grath adorn the path that slammer klingks had tread
when turning spades in everglades to flosticate the dead.
Along the way the snorbels bay at freebled sprutelned
that boogeymen had once again uphove above the...

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Your lover’s drawing straws without you, better bid farewell;
he’d never time for rhyme or reason, so it’s just as well.
Slip out the curtained window quick, the future winks and calls,
ignoring paths of pagan gods, where...

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The divine master is many things:
He is a monolith to which we pray;
He is the light and he is the way; 
He’s in each and every place -
Like the commandments we shan’t debase.

The divine master...

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Some say “it’s better to have love and lost than never love at all”
They also say “if it was meant to be it will come right back to you”
I say “love is the enemy the...

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I have seen men carved from stone
rising above the Black Hills,
I’ve seen ancient trees born back when
Ceaser still worked his will,
felt a thundering water pound down,
and from four Great Lakes drain,
I have known the prairie...

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Standing up on this polished stone as
A bard once upon a time
In the utopian monarchy of my lonely thought
Sharping up the plight for its prime.
As an apostate of vice
On the face of the last dime,
Announcing...

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An ancient land covered in desert sands
where the wind weeps lullabies of lost souls
The pale moon shivers in the cold night
as the wind reveals a head carved in stone

Sharaou, Sharaou
A land when time was new
Sharaou,...

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In the odyssey of days that mercilessly run like grains of sand,
An unseen battle is foretold that we shall wage in the shadow.
The war within our hearts, a citadel besieged by falling stars,
Where every collapse...

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Through, Machu Picchu, Nazca Lines, Cusco, and tunnels 
Through jungle and raging water currents and channels
Among ancient pyramids and Inca castles
Looking for gold and emerald crystals

Kayaking through a raging river down steep waterfall
Just before the...

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It’s always better to move on and not forget 
Why forget when you’ve been around so long
The future never shapes
It’s just some hope for the waste which is the past
I live in the moment and...

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It was the first day of the new school year
The children of Beslan had no need to fear
In anticipation they eagerly left home for school
Some walked hand in hand with Mom and Dad
Others skipped along...

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Careless whispers from sordid lips
Echo through the wooded landscape of hearts.
Destructive wants and needless needs,
Carried on the remnants of rust and bone,
Discarded amongst the fallen bridges,
Where once that precious garden grew—
Abundant petals with morning dew…


...

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is when he of the Mount of Olives
whom you believe keeps the night watch
catches you by surprise with a wash over your spirit
like Baptism, when he suddenly exists "de facto" 
as you are walking, just...

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"How do I begin to atone for all the sin I've done?"
"When even I, cannot forgive every single one."

"There are just certain lines that never should be crossed."
"Not only have I stepped over, I left...

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Lost Sweet Dream {a final goodbye}
by Cate Rock

Let me be your river,
My I never die.
May I be your shelter?
Just let me stand by your side.

Take my life as your own,
Kiss me when you want to.
May...

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a thunderous drum beat 
or a sweet soothing melody 
life flows up and down 
like the scales of harmony 

Imagine-John Lennon 

it's never been hard to see 
the pain that resides in me 
for my...

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Was near high noon in Abilene,
Everybody was at the scene.
Sheriff was stern and standing fast,
Clueless today would be his last.

A mystery man rode into town, 
Said was the fastest gun around.
A Navy Colt strapped by...

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