Long Firmed Poems

Oh unto to us a child is born!
Unto to us a child was given!
This special child came from
God the Father in heaven's
lofty heights above. All because
of God's redeeming love. *

Oh Christ the Lord was born
unto...

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We though she was just feeling alone,
and we wanted to be there for our friend,
but what happened when we stepped inside
shocked both me and my wife to no end.

The wrinkles faded away from Di’s face,
hair...

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Bottle of tears is my first version of this poetic legacy series
Skeleton of tears is which the venerated versatility carries.
This might be called as a sequel of alacrity or prolongation
But best before this is a...

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An abode you can drive down a road is a trip,
but the learning curve’s steep. It’s a help to be rich,
strong, and good with your hands (for things often go wrong
that you will not expect)....

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Employed by Boeing before I retired
An engineer, then into management
I had good writing skills, as were required
When I wrote, you could tell what was meant

Poetry wasn’t of interest to me
For the first seventy five years...

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HEAL THY SELF O WOUNDED AFRICA 
                (no to XENOPHOBIA).
      
Wake up a voice shouted...

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Death calling

Very few are talented; gifted to discern the undetected sleeping peacefully, Whispering tightly sworn secrecy. Few are specially hand-pick curse to detect.
Numb wind- gentle breeze, cold air breathing salty rusty slightly decayed; mask in...

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When I first planted trees I thought it was for shelter 
From the ocean gales blast, and the wild rain lashing rain. 
I needed to help them, so I built up some fences.
I needed to...

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I feel bad that you all got to stand on my path for your livelihood said sandy, Sandy will be less harmless in the days ahead. Sandy is glad to have a short life span....

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Twickenham's green mead is dank and gray
The sun behind the clouds has gone away
In the drying woods a solitary soul, O alone,
So alone, translate grief to incessant moan.
Nature shows its one with us, in all...

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You found me grounded when my wings refused to fly,
toting truths of noting, you paused to view my sky.
Was soon that I thought once and you concurred twice
that you and my wings were a mutual,...

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I’m a Pessimist 
We will cry even more 
The misery will increase
The suffering won’t stop 
We won’t get away from life with ease 
We are the gloomy creatures 
We are sentenced to grief 
What life...

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OUR SIGNATURE OF RAIN

(for you Arlene, my True Love—  
     Valentine’s Day 2017)

Our signature is of the rain
it rained on our wedding day
relentless it rolled off new love
and on through...

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Once I remember, I was pupil a decade behind
Nada flowing in my gist,but parent rememberance
Who toured, Pearls me a day and infinity
To be onto twinkle today's milieu
Oh a nibble was a villager of its effects!

Abhorring...

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A Brian Strand Premiere No 1224 Poetry Contest, Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Written: June 20, 2023

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Zealous
reflections
wrest my heart
humble
pitapatting 
Honed
toward my ears 
A thrum
glides
alone
Into a
scene
within
finger
tipped
firmed
curved
notes
Seeking each chord
of tempting harmony played
intimately in heartbeats among
the rivulets of  ...

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Once I finish oiling rusty joints and dusting these old bones,
it's time set off on down the trail.
Where I'll head I haven't a clue;
by heaven perhaps to find you.

No, not some yellow brick road,
a highway...

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The cigar cutter hung loose,
as my index finger ring shone,
I ringed the cutter with abandon,
thinking ,waiting and thinking,
something meshed my mind,
and clouded the smoking of cigar,
my mind probably in areflex,
thought that lighting it would be...

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On Day One God created the Heavens and the Earth
   On Day Two He firmed up the sky  
On Day Three to dry land He gave birth  
   On...

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The sun hung low
over the valleys girth,
ready to enter 
the bosom of the earth.

Dust rose up
into the blood red sky,
a line of horses
moved as if to fly.

At the end of the forest
they hastily turned,
towards the...

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POETRY IS OUR NAUTURE N' 
STRIDE,(LIFE..) TO LET GO!! 
EACH PEN STROKES A UNIQUE 
*POWER* VIBRANTLY BLASTED 
COULOR: EN~SYNCED WORDS, 
JUST DIFFRENTLY EX* 
PRESSED..(IMAGINABLE!!)
WE STAND ON FIRMED LAND; 
FULL OF LOVE N' NOT HATE; 
WE...

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THEY LAUGHED, HOW HE WORKED HARD ALL NIGHT AND DAY,
THEY TEASED AND TAUNTED HIM ALL LONG, BUT HE COULDN'T SAY.
A PERSON WHO IS BOUND TO DO SOMETHING HAS 3 THINGS ON HIS LIPS,
SILENCE. SERIOUSNESS AND...

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Dear Mary,

Wholly, In the name of my Ilah

I shall begin to strive...,

wearing my heroic glamor

and set forth a knight without Armour

 

O ye,

bell the ring of happiness;

here I am to confess my adorable joy,

yester-years my...

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she wrote 
that she
confirmed me 
meaning her 
flight

i knew
because
we con
firmed
each

other 
it seems
dinosaur
ages ago
before

the supposed
comet hit
wiping out
exsistance
even while

they were
digesting
suggesting
suddenly so
violently i can't

even breath
while trying to
write this but
i'm a bit of
a survivalist

but my poetry
only exists
because
of her
and

so she
becomes
more...

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am tempted in you, serious

and jingled so much furious

it was nice with you FIRDOUS

yet am wasn't curious about you.

 

blind I was, sha:

I met you AISHA

as good as you are

I became the winning loser
 

I...

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Players in the stadium
Patient as waiting soldiers
Seek stirring to signify
Attack artillery emboldened

Provisions are messages
Loaded with fresh opening 
Responses rapidly fired
Lonely's ease encroaching

Place plus time is firmed
Balaclava covered burgler
Creeps comically around corners
Salivating, smiling, eager

Tally the touches,...

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