Long Empathizes Poems

The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray

Apalachee High School,
located in Winder, Georgia
witnessed an active shooter,
whereby the alleged lone gunman
(actually just a teenager of fourteen years)
killed four people and injured nine more
the latter hospitalized with...

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Tell Them

To all who have never known, it's time that you've been told. 


Tell the population to change its ways before these lost lives and souls are all in vain. 

Tell the girls to think...

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Most everything I learned about the history of evolution
feels colored by Julian Jaynes' theory of language
and culture
and history
and icons of ecological systems 
and co-relational functions,
forms and frequencies,
rhythms and ironic, ionic 
win/win polyvagal 
bilateral transparency.

This is...

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Cry into my eyes...hear my goodbyes
Practically reduced to your intricate lies

You sound so beautiful and frankly, I find you dreadful
Letting out your cries that are oh so pitiful...wonderful...

Much like you,
You act so cool
Cool it off...

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A sigh escapes still, immune to overt silence, unabashed...justified
Another teardrop enters the infinite pool of resilience, uplifting...reinforcing
   Another hand empathizes--
          touching, impulsively putting one's...

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Today while we were celebrating Mother's Day at a restaurant, my daughter shared the following story with me.

"I was with Daddy on the plane coming back from Egypt when I saw something that really touched...

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In his arms

In His Arms you bury your head into his chest and release tears of anguish fury and disbelief.
Gently he caresses your back and says those four little words you were longing to hear....

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There was a day set aside for the wedding
but the groom was very much dreading
it would be the same day
his grand final would play
and that’s where it looked it was heading

Alas his worst fears came...

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The huntsman’s horn in
The School Boy is non-
native. But he likes the 

poem, hears a snake-
charmer’s pipe vicariously,
empathizes with Blake’s

boy’s love of  innate 
freedom, and then doodles
in boredom. Next period,

he slips down from
the top...

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There are so many voices heard and unheard in me.
I want to listen to the silences that are making noise inside.
              ...

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Dancing young climber Mandevilla, wears neon green leaves,
adorning the terrace garden with its mounting thin sheaves.
Owner family water daily, the plant is healthy
when they cuddle the plant and trim old leaves, it feels happy
Whenever it...

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Intricate folds open, exposing life nurturing moisture
Delicate, defying it’s true gift
Strong, nurturing and life giving as a woman
Thorns deter those who would thieve her nectar

A variety of rose’s, blooming with life
The multiplicity of woman
Beautiful and...

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The dusty hurling wind guided the darker cloud
Towards the stony shrine of a lonesome mountain.
With a roaring thunder, mountain cried out loud
And tears flooded its bosom in disguise of rain.

The bosom which is full of...

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Troubled souls come seeking my learned advice
Pour out their hearts accompanied by bitter tear,
And share the anguish of their burdened soul
Hoping this lowly counselor’s words will suffice,
To bring some comfort, some freedom from fear
Help them...

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