Long Dissuaded Poems

Spawned from the loins that 
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When...

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Hope in me and mine
Surrendered to Christ's lifeline
The gospel design

Satan's stronghold fell
His counterattack to quell
Standing saints repel

Just two percent more
That competition calls for
To heighten your soar

Debtors on the run
For His water, soil, and sun
Only the...

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Grief tears down the walls,
Built by scarred hearts,
Convincing walls, sturdy like the oak –
But not nearly as resilient when anguish trembles
In hearts who have never known the dark,
The soundless shadows,
Fading like a smile who has...

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Only for a moment, 
Does the wind blow in the frosty fragments,
Like stories woven through the gales,
Erasing the night, the pines
With a beautiful cloak of peace,
Silent as the sound of grace,
Weeping quietly in the forest’s...

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IN DUE RESPECT (MY DUE RECOGNITION)

I am not that to my poetry.
We are.
But the thing is, we are not.
You are with me in spirit when I write.
I know this well because we speak into my...

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My incentive, you provide
Behind me, your seat was
My mind, stolen by your thought
To help was my ask, accepted you did
Animosity, was it all in my mind
A fool like me, you are not

Stressed was I, as...

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Just like a mighty, mighty wind My God 
Came and took my shame and sins away
So positively alluring;
This unfolding;
Jesus is coming;
Are you ready, (yes I'm ready)
Hearts wide open;
Choices spoken;
Redeemable times;
These those sins I am confessing...

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The wilderness in Arizona during cowboy days was for the adventurous to journey far away from their home front into the great divide where wolves and coyotes could take their lives.  They were skilled...

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The house is most welcoming, she said.
It is high on the hill, don’t let that scare you.
I thought this a curious turn of phrase.
But I was not dissuaded, for she was persuasive.

My mother and father...

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Nature is love, the complex chasm of a hive,
Each Bee’s purpose, is for their Queen to survive.
A hungry swarm of Wasps try to eat them alive,
Her daughter worker bees defend until they die.
Their unity in...

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Once I wouldn’t dare to be seen
Without mascara and liner
Never doubting that my dreams
Were founded on these little things

Often I chose to just stay home
When I hadn’t showered 
Or used a curling wand

I wasn’t vain,...

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It is in the petty dribble of officialdom
the authoritarian contempt
snarls it’s canine hate of standardization

Vindictive in the files of paperwork
the red tape cold blooded ribbon 
of your demoralisation

Faceless, emotionless
regurgitated institution
the implacable tax on being human

Each...

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In coalesce, do I live no more
My mind is no longer mine to claim
As its owner, you are now
Denying me of every thought
Other than, that of you
To regain control, is not mine to choose

Refute it,...

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Beauty beheld by a devil 
Would fury and lust incite
Taunting him to revel 
At things lovely and bright 
And only annoy and dishevel
The beast like a collar too tight.

Ugliness happened upon,    ...

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The first time I saw you I was on fire,
Your looks sparked off a burning desire,
This made my heart to explode,
which allowed my inner intent to unfold.

Since then,I have longed to hold you close,
to care...

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Another eccentric façade flows decadence
Beside yourself with a quaint mockery
Counting blessings you sought after a hummingbird life
Do the scars that you cherish set you free?
Escaping your feeble yet cynical pestilence
For my exuberance is tainted by...

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Did you see My 'Red Sky' at morning?
Listen to the Lord's stern warning!

Is it loving to sidestep My truth,
To judge My words as uncouth?

To bow to the oppressor's greed,
For wont of material need?

While striving for...

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This love, more than a feeling, it’s twinkling
Like the purple blue on a mountain’s hue
Or lightest rain, trembling with truth, sprinkling
My heart with gentle dreams, yearnings ensue

This laughter, more pleasing than morning dew
Singing hope to...

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Who is under that hat we wondered as she disembarked.
I had never seen such a contraption that was so not easily parked.
It was feathered and fluffed, with flounces that said United Nation. 
Had a mind...

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Dried discarded utensil utterly useless when no

longer perform duties, shun slowly you

and me hardly test water prior to corrupt,

sought drive pile yet high, care not be I

problem, speak lack thought though much

goes into being so...

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Wilderness Of Loneliness
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Mother shook her head in deep despair of the new love I had found.
But Daddy said,” He’s not your type, he is seen all over town.”
I didn’t want to heed them, as I knew he...

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the world changes 
a different kind of dawn awaits us tomorrow
          let no one be
          dissuaded 
...

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Pondering from perch the other day,
a thought grew as two conversed.
Addendum to what you have to say,
gives quarter to him, sacred cursed.
Utterances,hurtful, make others tense.
Apathetically dissuaded with "no offense".

In a tandem embraced scene 
fearful men...

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I should have done the right thing
But my naivety cost me a lot ,
Now I’m haunted by your lost love and loss,
Your smile and face I can’t forget ,
If rivers and springs flow fall into...

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