Long Crossroads Poems
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History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
crossroads, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks,
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps flapping, bright colors...
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Categories:
crossroads, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form:
Narrative
The StenchI woke up this morning with courage over my back and wisdom in my hat
I was determined to put an end to the sneaky kangaroo rats
No one had done me anything but I was reeling...
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Categories:
crossroads, america, courage, destiny, encouraging, endurance, england, longing,
Form:
Narrative
No TitleI have slept but I have not slept
I have not slept but I have slept
For the first time in two years
I slept without a word of care
No codes, no crossroads
No railroads, no shiploads
No lizards no...
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Categories:
crossroads, america, betrayal, character, emotions, environment, food, gender,
Form:
Narrative
Cocoons Hibernating In SummerI made a U turn at dusk as dark night creeps upon me
I tried to catch my breath from the horrible smell that was stifling me inside
I did not know which way to turn...
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Categories:
crossroads, america, angel, christian, community, environment, insect, truth,
Form:
Narrative
A New MythologyThere is a new mythology emerging,
Howling from the hind end of the pack,
Scorching the composted leavings
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame
Showing the way for true rock & rollers.
It’s...
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Categories:
crossroads, allegory, mythology,
Form:
Blank verse
2020At first, it wasn't my father's Oldsmobile.
Then, there came a longing for a new identity
with an invasion of one morphing after another.
Next thing I knew, there was 'no' Oldsmobile.
It seems that so many things started...
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Categories:
crossroads, america, anxiety, christian, christmas, god, hope, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
A JourneymanA Journeyman
Prologue and Epitaph:
I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone
1) Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...
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Categories:
crossroads, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
At a CrossroadAt a Crossroad **
Treading down the I ...
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Categories:
crossroads, faith, god, inspirational, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Concrete
Crossroads To HeavenMy heart stopped, you see
Three times, thanks to foolishness ...
But within the horror of it all I learned something ... extraordinary
And the following is, for ME, Heaven ...
~
There is a...
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Categories:
crossroads, appreciation, faith, god, happiness, heaven, joy,
Form:
Free verse
Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"
The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson
Life spent in The Hard Sell
Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia
mouth sucking a loaded gun
blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity
from heart to lung to brain
you’re a...
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Categories:
crossroads, abuse, addiction, angel, depression, forgiveness, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Moral Mortgage of Mice and MenThe moral mortgage of mice and men
Yours truly quite astute,
especially regarding cute
little field mice, also known
as meadow voles,
which imprecation one doth emote,
when aforementioned animal burrows inside
leaving pellet size poop in their wake
suddenly presenting...
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Categories:
crossroads, adventure, animal, appreciation, august, bible, cat, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
...
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Categories:
crossroads, august, christian, discrimination, hate, immigration, islamic, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
White the Lowest Sky
"White the Lowest Sky"
Cries the Lowest Sky
tear drops fed as manna
o’er the littlest warrior
face raised to ultra Light
The 3
that sit in Ultra Gamma
there cries the lowest Sky
the voice that ever hears you
Cries the...
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Categories:
crossroads, freedom, love, trust,
Form:
Free verse
Where the Four Roads MeetWhere the four roads meet there is lots of concrete
Where the four roads meet there is much deceit
Here I am at the crossroads, wondering which way to go
Here I am at the cross roads...
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Categories:
crossroads, blessing, break up, endurance, environment, forgiveness, good
Form:
Narrative
Booth Made Famous On April 15th MdccclxvBooth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV...
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").
Ever since early forerunners
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted
across trackless expanse extant
upon planet Earth),
modern Homo Sapiens...
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Categories:
crossroads, animal, confusion, family, fear, hate, history, men,
Form:
Free verse
Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 3“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern...
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Categories:
crossroads, mythology,
Form:
Prose
I Heard the Wise WordsI HEARD THE WISE WORDS
The day wise words were spoken
It was over near the beaten path;
Where I first heard them uttered.
“Beware of the fool in his folly
Who may be clever in presenting his story;
Only for...
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Categories:
crossroads, life, voice, wisdom, words,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Classic Vinyl Love PoemThe radio plays their song
And two hearts beat as one
To the rhythm of a tune they call their own.
The gold and platinum vinyl spins
Creating the sound where love begins.
If only for the moment, they have...
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Categories:
crossroads, hope, love, music,
Form:
Free verse
No Brave New World
In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats,
skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes,
you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness
wronged-vaped, winged
to the wilderness by their covens,...
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Categories:
crossroads, art,
Form:
Rhyme
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel birth cords sinuous
sensing the ground seeking the...
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Categories:
crossroads, bird, death, grief, hope, life, sorrow, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Twenty-One Scenes of Life and Poetic ThoughtsTwenty-one Scenes Of Life And Poetic Thoughts
That Resplendent Scene
winter white landscape
frozen limbs on ancient trees
old snowshoes ready
Robert J. Lindley,
Haiku, 12-08-2015
Fleeing Visions
dark shadows, death waits
sun burst upon bright new dawn
moonlight on lake shore
Robert J. Lindley,
Haiku, 7-09-...
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Categories:
crossroads, appreciation, art, creation, dedication, life, poetry, words,
Form:
Haiku
Diary Notes: Lament At DawnDiary Notes: Lament at Dawn
…at the...
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Categories:
crossroads, french, holiday, introspection, paradise, paris, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
The Apollo HorizonI am not a sanctuary
do not come to me for sanctuary,
I am a supernova, the Saturn V rocket
prepared to penetrate the highest blue sky
with a 6.5 million pound payload ride,
my rocket shell steams...
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Categories:
crossroads, adventure, dedication, faith,
Form:
Epic
Eric Clapton InspirationEric Clapton (born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England)
British guitarist who influenced rock.
Later became a famous singer-songwriter.
Clapton was born to a teen mom and a Canadian WWII soldier in England.
His grandparents mostly raised him.
He...
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Categories:
crossroads, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form:
Bio