Long Freshening Poems

STRAWBERRY SWEET 
Strawberry scent 
At the picnic place
Late in the afternoon
Birds singing up in the trees
With the joy of spring season`

The basket half empty all the pies gone
Red wine from one glass, but we had...

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"Invisible"



Trapped
within 
4 Walls 
A ghost 

escapes
it's prison 
through 
unlocked door

beyond
freefall
a bird
now soars

The Ocean 
calls the wild
Sargasso in
Me

Rochester’s 
Mirage 
ecstatic 
Bacchae
 
Maenad 
possessed 
submerged
Blue-Green

(Ladylabyrinth/2020)
for my daughter, 
Georgia






“Come Near Me” / Massive Attack – Ghost Poet
https://youtu.be/KY0TZQTwwbk






“There is...

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Exracted from Gerald Nforche's Epic, The Slave's Tale


-Across the Atlantic, 1793-

And as days tumbled away, we staggered
Along, knock-kneed, dead beat and haggard.
Our bodies singing to the tune of the whip
Whizzing on morsels of flesh, so...

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Down many of the coalmines in Yorkshire , Safety dictated that an alternative means of escape
had to be found just in case anything ever happened to the shafts that raised and lowered miners to their...

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Nursing dreams around a campfire
Bleeding inspiration through the smiles
Laughter like blessings raining down
On the hearts who share this sweetness
A whisper of dreamy wonder twinkling
Like stars who wink at the night sky
From their home on high,...

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A Blossoming fig splashed with sunlight to paint it Green,
rooted the earth against the winds,
branches stretched
Abroad,

To cool with the breeze, traveling stems,
fresh leaves on, like wig
on a lawyer's yet 
childless its
bore,

though chastised by its season,
and...

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It had been locked 
for longer than I want to remember
Firmly locked no spy hole
No keyhole
Nothing 
to give away its secrets.

I had forgotten about it
It was designed so that it wasn't like a door
Just part...

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An empty cigarette box is smiling at me with sadistic condemnation,
His snarled yellow teeth rattle inside the open box.
"You're out," he announces victoriousely,
"Replace me once more, child." 

The cardboard container commands what I must follow,
To...

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Discrimination,
Through my windows,
Touched my skin,
And nailed down my soul.
I were born untouchable,
My colour was dark,
My loving nature was dying on the stretcher,
My tongue tasted,
The sweet and sour; a taste.
The colour of my black eyes,
Flamed fire...

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I am a seed
Small but large
Holding in my hand the future
Of a journey yet unborn

Breaking out of my shell
This cage I've been locked in
IT has been far too long

I spread
As much as I can
As strong...

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"Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps." —Charlotte Brontë


Spring heeds His...

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Tonight I sit and wander
through stars~ my perennial
freshening sparkling...of old familiar
constellations – 
                   attention drawn
to some dim...

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The highway bridges
Remnants of conversation 
Clothed in ethereal blue.
Variform clouds
Stark white or gray
Bandage my heart.

Brother’s litany
Of thanksgiving
Floats above my head.
Mom and dad were
Good parents.
They worked hard.
Cemetery gates swallow us
Sleek and black
Like a raven
Plucking its prey.
Attendees’...

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The wind is made of haunting souls that
moan and groan in whistles and whispers.

Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

The wind blows to the south and turns to the north;
round and round it goes, ever returning on...

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Not sure what it is
about this land
that grabs you
but I was grabbed
long ago.

Trip ends today,
last night I stayed up late, 
sipping remaining whisky
as the red sun set 
neath hill's dark shoulders.

Crisp morning
up before six
lake like...

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The air is shivered; to displacements whim.'
From the Ides of heaven’s sphere
As smote was the skin of a cosmic drum
Throbbing walls of pressure ‘push in’.
Then down as silvered mail, are droplets thrown
Disgorged from Yahweh’s mighty...

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I got this glittery, ruby-red, smudge-proof lipstick the other day 
and I really have to say technology is what separates us from the apes.

Well, technology and hair.. and.. - ok, let’s not dwell on the...

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Hope lingers in the fold of  Angel wings
 Symbol, here on Earth, of all things gentle hearted
You carry us when all in life is darkening

You steady us and guide our feet from faltering
Although ...

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'Tis still beneath a cloudy sky
where the river’s flowing gently by,
Red Gums live an artists dream,
dead brothers… lifeless in the stream.

Reed beds brown along the bank
have winters chill now here to thank,
as does the willows,...

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Goodbye jackets and cardigan of wool,
session is over for going to school,
all were enjoying warmth of quilt,
now can get inside the pool

spring is arriving jumping around,
lets get up on workout ground,
temperature not warm so cool,
air...

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September…

More an emotion
Than a month
In many ways

More than the sum 
Of it’s crisp
And bracing days

More so a taste
Of days of wine 
And fading roses

More than just the smell 
of leaves and smoke
 in our noses

More...

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Shadows stretching eastward
Setting sun in daylight lost
Fall creeps in on chilly fingers
Grasses matted by morning frost.

Trees comply ablaze with color
Flashing signals in Autumn’s roust
To feathered, clothed, or furry creatures
Storing food or flying south.

Grey fog gauzing...

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Rising artist artfully
Weaving palette poetry
Crafting beauty brilliantly
Painting living lovingly

Radiating like the sun
Growing, glowing little one
Sharing, caring, never done
Giving love to everyone

Freshening like summer rain
Watering the famished plain
Raising rows of golden grain 
Making meadows bloom again

Feeding...

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Blackbirds singing in jackboots

Women freshening and powdering 
in the Men's room

A child is born without square eye's
and cell phone permanently attached
to it's inner ear

Traversing footsteps under a star
with both maternal loving married
parents expectantly awaiting a
cradle...

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Thoughtfully thankful through prayer I grow.
Serving my Savior, sweetly onward I go.
Thank you Living Lord for loving me so.
Thank you sincerely for sunshine or snow.
Thank for graciousness, goodness and glow.
Thank you for frolicking fun to...

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