Long Gloomiest Poems

"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." Mary...

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As I Plot Just One More Day

Desperate as the waking at blackest dawn
I seek only moments within eternity,
for the day upon me is long 
and I do not ponder its end

Forever that blackened door beckoned
in...

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Image: Cloud Fantasy, by Susan Lawrence

On spring's green carpet I repose, revitalizing the soul
passing slow minutes pondering the sky

The lake whispers a morning meditation
as memories abound of cloud fantasies
a thousand ships of condensation dreams

Assorted sizes,...

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I've never ever in my life liked any cats,
I preferred to live, rather, amidst grain-field-rats;
And black cats, all the more, have remained omens, bad,
To see one, is enough to turn the day so sad...!

My sweetheart,...

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Written: September 15, 2023
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In a cosmic world where marvels dwell,
There lies a well where truth does swell.
Under the surface of the cultural tide,
Dissemination of erudition, hence and wide.

Yet, amidst the waves, dishonesty lingers.
Distorting the successful...

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The land is bare;
hard rock and exposed outcrops 
lay open, like the pages of
an unread book for the story
of time is beheld by every
grain contained within.
Time passes slowly and the
land remains the same but
seeds of...

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I am immeasurably honoured to have been invited to collaborate with as fine a poet as Robert Lindley. Our first collaborative process has been very quick, very instinctive and very natural. Thank you, Robert, for...

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In the gloomiest of nights
We navigate the unknown.
Bound by a shared purpose
Our hearts have grown.
 
Without talking, we survive.
I grunt and squeak.
She hints at an adventure.
Her odds of making it home are bleak.

Her words are a...

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They brought me from
there
In chains
Where I born
Where my parents
past
Breathed their last
And still
Prints from my steps
back
There
There
Pains and memories
On ports of miseries
Where men made gold
Out of my miseries
There
They sent me without
hope
To the home
Of their hopes
There

Where

Made I
America
Out of...

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Love is ageless—it is a timeless embrace.
A beauty that transcends the wrinkles on our faces.
With every breath, it flourishes and grows.
Timed just right, it ignites the heart's prose.

It is a powerful dream that dances in...

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Feeling tired and walking slowly humming,
I reach home to get a restful night; it's dawn,
it's the gloomiest twilight in the smallest town
cats are startled by me and start running!

I could crash into the bed and...

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Doubt clouds my thoughts
I don’t see any way out of the darkness
The shadows seem so grim, so unpardonable
Filling my heart with disillusionment and dread
I don’t know where to turn until my prayer
Pleads with Him to...

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Do you see the sky is smirking on me?
And the sun doesn’t shine too bright on me
In my saddest day I would laughing out loud
Coz I know that every vision is just charade

Now don’t you...

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                    oh, black butterfly...

       you're the epitome of grace in...

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You speak the murky secrets when the night falls,like a tipler losses his mind when he drinks. Kindred the words take the purest form of 'Halo' in the dealiest silence. And as soon as it...

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So I looked at my friends, listed a mile long
And to no one can I sing my sad somber song
You’re the only one that cares about what I say
But who am I to complain, or...

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I listen to the silence of the twinkling stars, 
as they slowly fade in the early morning light.
Past misty mushroom crinoline clouds
Dawn winks through breathy eyelashes 
blowing each tiny candle flame out.
Like dreamy silhouettes cast...

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Quiet and artistic yet oh soo realistic,
With a moon shining center whose main characteristic is a light that
can penetrate any darkness and illuminate the gloomiest of gloom
corners of the world
With a optimistic personality whose never...

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Should tardy relief take full years more
To grace fallen visages with angst taut, 
Let kind nature her multiplied joys hone, 
And gild final grins past art's fickle fault.

May saddest souls that now fret most
Gleam with...

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Hope lies Everywhere

Hope is a bird
Soaring through the air
Perched on the tree of life
Cutting through the clouds;
Of darkness and despair 

Hope is an ant
A little tiny thing
But able to carry lots of weight;
Never stopping for disappointment;
Big...

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Hope is a bird
Soaring through the air
Perched on the tree of life
Cutting through the clouds;
Of darkness and despair 

Hope is an ant
A little tiny thing
But able to carry lots of weight;
Never stopping for disappointment;
Big in a...

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A charming town, with bobbing boats
And restaurants or small cafes,
Finds us all bundled in our coats 
On this, the gloomiest of days.

The rain, though, takes a little break;
The Ferris wheel goes 'round and 'round.
At booths...

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I try to paint
with a shock I realize it is giving me no thrill
No joy; for the first time in six years
I return to the middle bedroom 
darkest, gloomiest room in the house
turn on my...

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Homage to Lord Byron.

He...walks in wonder all the night
of beclouded starry skies;
and all that's there is dark, and bright
within his dark eyes...non denies
they sparkle within the stars light,
that e'en Heaven could not deny.

One ray more;...

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               On my hands and knees
               ...

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