Long Chancing Poems

Feeding the soul glimpses of grace,
Treasured hope and lasting light, feelings
Forever penetrating the soul who knows…
Love is like the most beautiful star, glowing
Always showing its intentions, bound by emotions
Yet colored in hues of the most...

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Once upon a time there was a brave man
he loved the princess and she returned his love
the king saw a chance to test the young man
he set him three tasks to complete to win her...

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Gambling with the hope that comes 
To those who know His love, His grace, His mercy –
Risking the heart, the soul, the wonder
Of a love that came to us through His cross,
His gentle sigh, embracing...

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When I was a lad and somewhat brash
I often read the poems of Ogden Nash,
whose humourous rhymes on many themes,
was motivation for my own poetic dreams.

Later when I took to reading Edgar Allen Poe,
more of...

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In time when night turned to dawn, I could see, 
It all appeared like sheer fantasy. 
Light-hearted, I put on my office hat, 
And hurriedly in my horse carriage sat 
To drive away myself to...

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A journeyman once spelunked in a cavern beneath a marsh,
Whose oily layers of algae and water made his mission harsh.

For the cavern's entrance stood in the middle of the massive swamp
Full of gators with sawtooth...

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Of first embrace and broken glass
I cherish that first spark
New light upon our forest' dark.

Do you recall that northern wind? 
It came at first so swift
Perhaps our growing light enraged
Poor Hopelessness', her whims denied
Inspired shadows...

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The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things. ~ Hans Christian Anderson

In the aching of a silent tear,
Soaking through laughter’s voice,
Gentling the darkness, the...

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While rummaging thru papers to shred...

Earlier this November fourth
two thousand and nineteen
your truly long in the tooth 
(er...in dentured) wordsmith
rifled thru miscellaneous papers to shred
unwittingly chancing upon

report cards enlightening me,
academic, emotional, social...
characteristics, née significant
figurative "red...

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Stories dared not whispered, legend of great thinker. 
Artificially created Atlantis, maze search for law-giver. 

Hushed lips speak no evil, silly little monkey cliche. 
Privy ancient knowledge, not clear as light and day. 

So-called peace-loving...

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Once, 
About ten minutes ago in the year 
2006 or 
2549, depending upon which avatar or
 Messiah is consulted, I  
 Tumbled out of my bed to the 
Untranslatable 
Predawn
 Cackle of 
Frantic voices
Descending.
...

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Atmosphere peers in as witnessed guide
Playing silent the light a curse of the eye
Distant drum beats, 
blood keeping time as the encampment 
machines turn 

Seer flips an hourglass 
measuring the polarity and equity of the...

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Third Rails
                by Odin Roark

One’s temptable 20's say “flirt with it.”
40's say “not on my watch.”
60's say “made it across...

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Remembering my friends, from each and every day
Just like water our friendship is still, and here to stay.
Comparing friends to water, you'd be amazed to learn about
How similar they always are, in my mind I...

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It is impossible
for you to understand,
All the love my heart has for you,
so please take my hand.
I want to walk with you
upon the warm sand to make you understand
how glad I am to have you...

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Right now I feel depressed
I thought I had all my old 
awful memories repressed
but with a swift kick, and a scowl
all plus more have regressed

I keep losing my baby girl
over and over and over again
my...

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Frozen Ground

Everything differs on frozen ground,
Brittle stalagmites obscure green skywards,
Whilst all around damp is the sound,
That crunches the breakfast walk.

Semi-permanence becomes a mirror to our image,
Bifurcated bark life agonises brown skywards,
Its so easy to lose...

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BURKA
Being housed daily in a cage of cloth
Heavy and burdensome I yearn to be free
As a person in a straitjacket I scream
My yoke is colored black 
It is hot inside my burka yet there are...

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My mother owned a female Pug
She loved as though she were her child.
She was a perfect pet for Mom,
With disposition sweet and mild.

All of Mitzies pups were purebreds.
They brought good money when they sold.
Her sweet...

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I seem to have started a series of cat poems.  My dog series was so fulfilling.  The cats are both real and imagined, from my own owning, or friend’s.  Hope you enjoy!

Carroll...

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Come New Yeear’s Eve 2021
           ————————————————————
A bagpiper parades on a street
Where no one sees, but hearing 
   the music as in the sunlit-shadowed...

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My Pilot Light

In a hidden crevice
between soul and skin,
there is a flicker, 
a tangerine flame
blazing through black abyss;
illuminating infinite veins of strength 
that light like gun powder;
a thousand volts of survival 
searing through my core.	

There...

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Did I ever impasse
Only destiny to reach
The very essence
Of my solitary confinement?
 
Can I ever greet 
another dawn
without a sign of iniquity
Of infinte curses? 
 
Will I ever explore the eternity
the world and those ancient...

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Little waves of light, reflecting darkest night,
Embracing shadows, so alive – feelings to recite.

Little wonders, growing, soft and silent, flowing,
Coloring hearts, so graceful – amazing, mind blowing.

Little whispers, rising, fragile but so energizing,
Breathing hope through...

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Here I go again
Dancing the Monster’s fancy
Until the curtain

Final curtain call
Chancing all my sanity
Final curtain fall

I went off my meds
Let the Monster out instead
To control my head

Daemon’s back as well
He tells me drinking is swell
As...

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