Long Future day Poems

I once had a treasured mid-western friend who                           ...

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Halloween Tale, Poetic Dream Of Raven, Poe And I
(Not a contest entry)

When into an unearthed slumber I fell
An accursed storm came with its black tail
Within isles of swirling doom and gloom
I woke, a prisoner in...

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My love and I we took a ride
One beautiful Spring morn late May
Through the winding Maine countryside
We headed over Castine way

We came this way times before
To charming Castine town
Now we had come again once more
To...

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We first met at O’Charlies with her tears and my ears.
We had attended Sunday School together - we joined
another for a couple years. When we returned, her spouse
had died. Proverbial arms were already ‘round her...

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She sits on a street corner with a teardrop in her eye
Wishing she were in the cars of the people driving by
Her mother left with some john about two months ago
The man with the eviction...

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Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts
 …. We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces.
We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

Quote- Winston Churchill,...

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Twas an ordinary scene
On an ordinary day
She an ordinary woman
On her ordinary way

Doing work of little consequence
She walked to Jacob’s well
Never knowing that in future day 
The world would know her tale

For as she drew...

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A LIFE THAT'S LIVED by Brandy Jean Pryor
We live life for the fight
Never knowing if we are right
We just take off and go
Not knowing if we are darkening our soul
Living for only tomorrow
Brings us only...

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Dear DaD,
Please do not think of me and weep. 
I did not die on that dim lit street.
I'm the sun that shines on you in a warm loving way. 
I'm the son you'll reunite with...

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Farmer Father's Words To Beloved Son
(LECTURE, WISDOM, PRAYER PASSED ON)

Hold your horse my son, lets pull in tandem
united is better than single and random
You feed the mules, I will sharpen the plow
later you may rest,...

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The King Of Beasts
By Roy Merritt

I don’t do very much,
I don’t attend to labors
I lay around most of the time 
And sometimes eat my neighbors

I don’t do any of the hunting either
I leave that to...

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FOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

Four Christmas presents were laid down so very long ago,
The very first ones to be given of which that I know.
Seemed not to be much to those ones who may have gathered round
And...

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continued from Pt 1
  

Exactly one year and at midnight, when she turned twenty one,
       Was the darkest of nights that had ever been since time had begun.
There...

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Again, Her In These Waiting Arms


That night, came a flight to the moon
Grand and certainly not too soon
The winds softly blowing from Mars
Majestic rays from twinkling stars
All around love was on parade
Left behind revolving charades
The...

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With tears and a broken heart, I sat alone in the church I grew up in.*
It was just 15 years ago, but life was simpler, and I was innocent back then.
Life is complicated now, and...

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The old Kaufman footwear factory
with it's grand entryway
Marble floors
Granite counters
Important people use to walk it's halls

Pictures of the founders had lined the walls
Intimidating, dressed in three piece suits
holding somber expressions
masters of a previous time

I walk...

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Sand dunes reflecting blazing heat burn tiny feet. 
Undulating waves wash the shores with their cooling.
Morning Glory vines climb high offering a nectar treat. 
Mockingbirds soar above gardens, insect seeking.
Every school-aged child enjoys long awaited...

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When Truly, Deeply Lost And One Has Faith One Is About To Die

Alone and defiant I stood staring into death's icy face
On a knife thin ledge, slippery on a high cliff's so out of place
Panic...

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Mummay  Mummay

Tucked up in bed so nice and neat
A little girl so very sweet
But all is not quite what it seems
She can’t find sleep because of dreams

Her mother sitting down the stair
Enjoying rest in...

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Todo por 15 centavos
Everything for 15 cents
The labour of my hands
The sweat that beads down my forehand
That connect with the chopping of plants and extracting from their roots
Por mis hijos y su futuro me esfuerzo
For...

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"The evidence of yesterday,
Is what we disallow,
The future is a better way,
To live our lives right now."
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A poor, wayfaring man of grief,
Hath passed me on my way,
And though I stood in disbelief,
He stood in disarray.

I...

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There is a place where no one can go, yet you have met me there.
You have lifted me and loved me when no one else would dare. 
I was lost deep with in the baggage...

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Dear DaD,
Please do not think of me and weep. 
I did not die on that dim lit street.
I'm the sun that shines on you in a warm loving way. 
I'm the son you'll reunite with...

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For years I’ve sadly known of one who dislikes me—
A member of my family, whom I do love.
No matter how I’ve tried—solution not to be,
My fervent prayers unanswered by dear God above.

Except I’m granted a...

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The post industrial lack of revolution continues to spew its poisonous fumes,
Into our mouths from its radioactive decay whose half-life is replenished by half of our own.

Plucked ripe from the fruitless laurel of she who...

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