Long Fallibility Poems

Spiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord

Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before it begins, before I begin?
If so, then to what purpose...

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I'm not crazy about political poetry
Because politics feel a bit ... soiled to me
But as a requirement for the contest
I will say the following, as a humble opinion ONLY ...

I do not know the man
I...

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As night draped its cloak over Baltimore's sleeping form,
A cargo ship, the MV Dali, sailed to greet the dawn.
From the bustling harbor shores it had slipped away,
Bearing goods for far-off lands, under the sky's dark...

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The death penalty, a practice rooted in antiquity, continues to evoke controversy and ethical dilemmas in modern society. Despite its purported role in deterring crime and administering justice, the death penalty stands on shaky moral...

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See, I try to make sure my facial hair is
symmetrical on both sides of my face.
It’s not. I know it’s not. You may not be able to tell, but it’s not.

I don’t get much chest...

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Bless* me indeed, Lord, as Your child You’ve rescued from hell’s damnation
Praise be to You for securing me within Your gracious compassion 
Keep me feasting in Your peace and joy of assured eternal salvation
As I...

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August 1 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 48-50

Key Verse – Jeremiah 48:31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come,...

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* Many years now since this very talented, very HUMAN guy left us … those holes never fill, and he is sorely missed. (This is a form I invented called “Tredicum Plus”. *

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ODE  TO  A  NEVER RECEDING ECHO
For  Onyebuchi

Day  and night in an eternal combat.
A  truce : the eternal cycle of night and light
Lost in the ruse of an  eclipse.
Where...

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Freedom is a complex state to capture in words.  So much, that when asked as a young man in a foreign country, how it might feel, I never could describe it.  When you...

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With time we were linked to one another

Governed in a world with thin lines and dynamic rules

Whose origin, center and end are broken yet standing sustained

Between the borders that divide earth surface and the source...

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How do I write a poem about me,
What story is there to tell?
Do my words paint pictures,
Do they cast a spell?
What would someone say if he wrote a critique
About what it is that makes me...

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Inspired by by the brilliant TV show, "Justified": Episode 12, "Fathers and Sons" of Season 1. 

Enigma for the ages
By Michelle Morris
12/01/2023

She enters silently
The room is half-lit and still
There is a peace in her resolve
There...

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   time …

drips as color, inked and puddled
minutes like sable bristles, bound
laying down the hours as fading bands of value
what are the shades of a life - of a person?
how do aim and...

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Have I not told you that what you mistake
for madness is but the overacuteness of the senses?
- Edgar Allen Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart
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I have seen men forget to Look at themselves
And ponder on their souls...

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Great Lakes mariners fear the “Witch of November”
Winds blow fiercely in the cruelest month of the year
The crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald would concur
If in November ’75, their ship hadn’t disappeared

Capt. McSorley made his last...

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I used to be teen suicide, less full of myself
to wonder a future unknown borrowing a want 
of perfection in strength of movement, a posture of 
glazed movement, gymnastic skills of love, purposeful of 
thought...

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With Your Arms Around Me

With Your Arms Around Me 
I can get through any day.
When I can hear your heart beat
I’m then compelled to pray.
O Lord, how I need you
To keep Your Arms Around Me
Don’t...

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Hent my heart from wandering concepts of affection.
Recant the murmurs of insecurity that riddled my temple.
Like a slow wound toy awaiting release from a child's grasp and attention.
Toss and birl, whipsawed into the oblivion of...

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Ink and Sand - The Test
Ink and sand... the test
  The last stain of ink on our Constitution,
is legible until the moment the last grain of time measured falls.

  Thoughts, ideals and determination...

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Sunshine and Shadows

Life, a story of sunshine and shadows
tears and tidings
joy moments so rare of priceless value
surged into being with the ringing of a bell or the sounding
of a word
a terminal saga of gladness and...

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If I am but a man, then be it so. 
And I eat strength and breathe fallibility. 
But I confess, to be man is a gift by 
one name and burden by another. 
Heartbeat and...

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OSAMA
Obdurate Sadistic abductor as Machiavellian now abashed
Senseless Saboteur with Sabre sword,
Ablutions of wickedness as apology from vagrant
Mercy and peace mixed fleetingly against unprovoked America and the innocents
Abomination of true God explained as religion, hatred, wickedness,...

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Those who thinks rights do not come with responsibility, 
Have not thought about the probability,
Of their own fallibility,
Or their degree of naivety, 
When it comes to their ability, 
To avoid accountability,
If those above them have...

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