Long Gleans Poems

Back when the strange appeared uncommon, 
I knew I was just beginning 
To scratch the surface of the truth.
So I got myself a shovel.

As I dug deeper, I discovered my scent so jaded
As to not...

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As Barbarossa roars into the East.
its southern barb cut swiftly to the core.
And as it raged the slaughtering increased,
consuming any force that stood before.
His swift barrage devoured the ranks of Red
as iron divisions consummated death.
These...

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"Voluntarily solitary confinement;
He's my eternal involvement;
I live in a single thought; 
With the free loving heart;
I'm isolated with the Creator;
Separated from my old self;

Deliver He's everything I am;
I am everything in Him;
I'm intimate in time...

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The Bucket List

Imagine if you will, a scene unlike any other,
Sipping Espresso daybreak, foothills of snow that smother.
Pavement Café in Zermatt, first patron of the morn’
Eyes glazed in wonder, the magnificence of Matterhorn.

Imagine if you...

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Blue Light Bulbs and a Bottle of Bleach and The Incandescent Must Win 
(part 1)
 					By: J.R. Wren

A wilting flower and a blade of grass
No presumptions of the way things ought to be
Feeding plenty on...

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Written: October 1st 2023
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In the ocean of silence, I’m stunned 
Astonish by its grandeur as I descend.
A comely curtain of conciliatory calm
Elapse the chaos, surreptitious and warm.

In the hushed embrace of the twilight sky,
A...

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Imagine winter never ends
                       Pristine landfills, gleaning giant mountains
    ...

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News-ing Not Musing

Writing my heart out, 
every morning of every day. 
I am looking for positive things to say, 
in a very negative world. 
Prayers help. 

Family comes and goes. 
Friends too...
lost to sickness, and...

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Dear Guardian Angel

O dear guardian angel,
   Why do you pick these wee night hours
For your dances of invisible radiance?
Aren’t  you to be leaning over 
In cradling protection while I sleep?
Instead, your cape...

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Driving to work on a spring day,
A masterpiece is painted with a tint of sun ray,
    On the parkway, going fast
           ...

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Occured, Endured and Reassured

Body was born and will end up being old
And about all of life there is a story told
About existence of each desire and goal
Arrival of each one as it starts to unfold.

Someday...

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It's wrong to deny what your heart desires
If it's right, set your hormones on fire
No need to fight the temptation
Let out all of your sexual frustration
Don't hold back, let your imagination loose
Take your wild side...

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Dawn paints lush landscapes and woodland scenes
shades of lavender and rose, blended with gold.
Nature reaps the credit for the things we behold ~            ...

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Quote: Nature is flawed yet flawless, the ground likes your toes, and that your ponytail endears the breeze. (By Poet) 
               ...

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Exploring the Forest,

Uncovering insects,

Discovering cool things.

Streams trickling across the screen,

Beautiful sounds for the scene.

The birds chirping,

Wandering Fields of green,

A Garden goes unseen.


Once She was pristine,

Balanced and clean.

Then came a being,

Their Trash and Machines.

Acting Obscene, power...

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Winding path through the tawny wood
Hanging branches form a shadowy hood
Dangling vines each spindled fold lace
Slippery, svelte moss cloaks the base
The vented light peeps through fibrous trellis
Addled mind with beauty to encase
Swerving shadows creep down...

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Green colors my soul with a shimmering sheen.
Rainbows amid clouds or in plankton filled seas.  
Enlivens the world; shares sun’s sparkling scenes.
Entice, now, my spirit; let earth’s majesty beckon. 
Natural splendors, displayed like emeralds...

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The Direct Path

Born into bondage,
save God, who’ll assuage
fears ego does spew,
which thought forms renew?

Mind-body’s a boon,
if we so attune
in-form consciousness,
with the That Oneness.

Beliefs we follow,
very few let go.
How’ll we rise upwards,
merely chanting words?

Religion a crutch,
distanced...

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Two artists that once danced on high trapeze...
then fell to doom, his death a fate unkind.
All hope bereft, her sanity soon flees.
Life lingers on, enduring crippled mind.

In steel-toed boots and shabby overalls
she takes her toy...

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Eureka of Archimedes was part of his daydream,
Thomas Edison nurtured his dream in bright light like gleam;
Could sleep ever overwhelm Alexander Graham Bell,
Till he heard the noise from the other and fell in a spell...?

George...

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Enchanting

Fairytales make life’s romance enchanting,
Beguiling souls, entrancing, enchanting.

Reality can change dreams’ to yearnings,
Thinking of tomorrow’s views, enchanting.

Peaceful thinking ignites inspiration. 
Ending fights and frights with right’s enchanting.

Haughty hearted men may stay in shackles,
The modest souls...

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Clutching at her notepad like stones of precious sapphires
She shuts her eyes in hopes of extinguishing raging fires
In her somnolence, thoughts through her mind float like fireflies
Whilst her pen gleans her teeming brain all else...

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The moonlight shimmered on the winding road
A chilled wind rolled to battle and smite
Slicing through the fog and croaking toads
There was a blood curdling scream heard that night

The fog's hand choked the throat of graves,
as...

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A man still in the darkness
Who has never seen the light
Is better than a man toying with darkness
From the vantage point of light

One knows and lives with the pain
The other sees his own injuries and...

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*** Bucket List ***

   I want to discover the regions that rise
Up from between blades of grass and climb
To alien atmospheres; I want to examine for traces
  Of fingerprints left on guitar...

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