Long Discerns Poems

I have had a highly redundant,
one might even choose polypathic,
graduate studies experience
spanning my adult life to date.

This began with a semester of Philosophy.
Just enough to learn I wanted something more experiential,
a more embodied communication environment...

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Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...

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If you spill your secrets to the breeze,
Don't blame the wind for laying them to light.
Once said, words are disclosed, even to trees.
And claim peace in the leaves that rustle and fight.
Whispered tales of a...

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(Dedication: For Ann)
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The tale now mints: a hero hears
A call that tints, a choice appears.


It cannot be, this journey quest
To cross the seas, to face the test.


Denial comes brisk, no hero here
To dare grave risk,...

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It was in the sorrow
That I learned to empathize and care
It was in the darkness
That my heart spoke the best prayers
It was in the silence
That my voice sounded tender
It was in the fear
That I found...

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Written: April 21, 2025, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand

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Eat
   this 

       red

...

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Maundy Thursday, we know clearly,
The Christ did say: "Remember me..."

The ritual tale of the Master,
Washed feet availed, fond kiss rendered.

How humble then, that sacred act
Of loving grand in precious pact.

The supper room where The Christ...

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Emotional conviction from a minds depiction
Lays out mind restriction 
But will only bring friction
I can try to explain my explanation
With the utmost diction
Elaborating the reasons for stitching a heart that needs fixing
The slightest concern never...

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There are too many people walking around every single day 
And if you ask them who they are most don't know what to say 
You need to know who you are and how you came...

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The dark truth;
There is nothing good in falling, nothing good in fainting
Just getting hurt, and blacking out.
Blacking out is missing in action and bleeding is bleeding.

There is nothing interesting in dreaming, nothing helpful in admiring
Just...

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Oh fallen star of Bethlehem, your established moment shines,
upon canvas of harsh intent, descendent of heavenly design?

A mighty angel’s leading light to those befallen, pleasure-bent?
Are gleaming eyes  masking spites or, our demands, aspiring content?

Looking...

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Finally after twenty two plus
years of marriage,
a husband (namely yours truly -
hitherto known as Matthew Scott Harris)
exhibits glint of care and concern
toward his significant other,
which wife bemoaned
absent expressions of love
particularly before the
honeymoon even occurred.

I readily...

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i could stare at your very photogenic (albeit invisible) countenance all day (or mice elf Stuart Little as a poor substitute), all week, the entire month, this remaining year, at least one additional decade, boot...

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Thank ye immensely devoted sister Shari
   for availing Shana Aubrey
an expansive plethora of blessedly
   extravagant opportunities
wherein here anatomical fist-sized noggin i.e. grey
matter sponging up - less doable from me
the biological father,...

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May 17 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 33-35

Key Verse – Job 33:4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE...

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I have come to the point of decision
And I have decided in favour of love

Wisdom is not solely measured by experience
But more by capacity for it
I have glimpsed deep into history
I have sieved through its...

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Wonder's Mother, Misery

      Digging up the philosophical topic:
      Disputing bliss as the ultimate state. 
      Argues that striving for worthy...

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while s/he was playing the game
following the rules
doing what her/he was told &
living the life of a 
good citizen,
s/he was walking evidence of 
a system which had worked,
grinding its gears to churn out the
proper amount...

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"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” –Mark Twain


Gray strands, falling over crinkly skin
Where once was reflected beauty and approval,
Now there is merely old age, a has...

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*Image of A Fallen Smirk by DG.

Brace For Impact

Pillar of society, creme de la creme, important person,
   one to be reckoned by indeed.
One who's untouched by palls, frails near a radiant ray
 ...

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God triumphantly fights for our battles as we trust His sovereignty.
He fixes our minds toward His promises’ certainty
Building our conviction through His Word’s immutability…
Let’s esteem Him for guarding us by His love and security!

God triumphantly...

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June 18 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 26-31
 
Key Verse –  Psalms 26:1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD;...

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Tranquil heart, the way to eternal bliss
We abide then in our natural state
God plants on our crown, a paternal kiss
Soul breezes easily through heaven’s gate
Consciousness distanced from fear and desire
Chooses in staid stillness to vaporise...

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Absurdity, chaos, 
strife:
The poet chooses 
virtuous reality.

Sisyphus, a 
titanic wave of metamorphosis, waiting, salted nausea:
The thinker roughed by sand 
a solitary tree in a barren desert 
defies absurdity

by seeking meaning in the absurd.

Authenticity, 
vision, conformity,...

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