Long Encouragingly Poems

Deliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams
I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams
Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed
Hanging at the last thread, giving in...

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We’re coming up on the spooky pumpkin-latte season, when days suddenly end, while I’m busy in some sterile, fluorescent chemistry-lab and there’s nothing to do but walk down dark science-hill to the dorm.

Is that rustling...

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It was 64ºf and overcast this morning when Lisa and I started our 5-mile jog to the Harbor and back. We always start our semesters this way. We’re emotionally ready for fall weather and hopefully,...

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Mary, the daughter of some parental friends, is on her high-school-senior college-tour and my mom (on Face Time) told me their plans called for them to be in New Haven over the weekend.

“Would you mind...

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The turf is wet. 
Tinny rap splashes out, booming and the players are bouncing
Like boxers, ready for the air-balls
That they cleanly tap and set on the ground
With the surfaces of their cleats.
The rap is crashing.
The...

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True friends are kindred spirits.
You know they are true friends
When the barriers come down. . .
when nothing that you say to them 
could make them like you less.
And if they feel offended or let down...

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Those city's snowfalls in January
come down to earth surprisingly...
to induce an ideal stillness,and make
with an impressive effect,
lovely sceneries to be instilled
inside the inquisitive and perceptive mind!

Fluffy and swirling snowflakes
give glitter and beauty
to lifeless and drooping...

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I ate roaches for breakfast. Chocolate covered.
He studies my eyes, hoping for a reaction, or a bit of squeamishness.
I say yum yum and lick my lips.
They were not quite cooked, he informs me.
They kept running...

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Mother thy land by all means utter
to find depth an need hug e're

Thy spirit by vast immensely blast
run through veins encouragingly fast 

Yet a cold field remains in thy heart
for th' dear yet of a...

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The night is threatening and cold
I am walking down the graveyard of my past
And I am trying to read
A vague messages of future
Childhood is standing, smiling,
And holding my heart in its hands
I want to join...

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pottery row
lead me to the beach

pottery row
the ocean in now within reach

pottery row
thank you for all the scenery

pottery row
i appreciate the blue sky and the greenery

pottery row
your back roads are so lovely

pottery row
i welcome your...

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The witches dance tonight, he confided, with a leering grin.
I did not understand but recognized his gargoyleish evil twin.
They began to cackle, sounding a lot like witches if you ask me.
But witches are awesome. Their...

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