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Premium Member Westward Bound
The past was locked in with very little 'right of passage'.                        ...

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Categories: great divide, childhood, home,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Legend of Bog Hollow
They’d crossed the great divide, to the other side of the ‘Oh My God River’.
Our Trolls were struck by the ‘Bridge Too Far’, it set their hearts, to quiver.
Yes, their curiosity and their great big...

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Categories: great divide, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Creolizing Grace
We often lament long-term effects of slavery
on those enslaved across multiple generations.

Enslavement leads to addiction and codependent denial,
then is taught and mentored to enslaved children,
also separated from family and sold,
until third generations and beyond
were dressed...

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Categories: great divide, addiction, culture, gender, health, love, racism, slavery,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Dragon Meets Wolf Creek Pass
Dragon Meets Wolf Creek Pass
(Inspired by CW McCalls’ song ‘Wolf Creek Pass’)

On a trip to see Dragons’ friend Drag, way out… in Texas…
Crossing the plains, in a caravan filled with, all our little blessings. 
Missouri...

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Categories: great divide, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humorous, imagination, vacation,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member When I Was Young 1970s
I saw one journey end and another begin
I saw my world changed and in a spin 

I saw another end - the end of the band
I saw John and Yoko hand in hand

I saw commandos...

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Categories: great divide, childhood, history, world,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Sacred Sciences
All sacred science
is health science.

All health care
is wealthy spirited care.

If there is such a thing 
as an entirely secular science,
then it is probably an applied,
or "practical" technological discipline
like military science,
how to kill
while preaching a peace-loving...

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Categories: great divide, happiness, health, integrity, language, lost love, myth,
Form: Political Verse
Child of the Sun
Born to this world in sixty-one
Another child of the sun
I entered in the dead of night
To breathe the air and see the light

Though rooted in the Netherlands
Together we would make a stand
The first son and...

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Categories: great divide, adventure, birth, childhood, destiny, growing up, leaving,
Form: Verse
Dreams Part 1
Transformer-changeling, 
liquid currency of purchasing. 
Themes
Selling us your wares as we wade in your maelstrom pool.
Accentuating my cares.
Dreams.
Weave for me-from your electric spool.
Your hourglass adbdomain spin(e)-dling, fondling, sifting, and gonduling me to my destination azul.

Capture...

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Categories: great divide, beach, beautiful, bridal shower, butterfly, caregiving, color,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Unique Wedding Ring
~~A Unique Wedding Ring~~

BRIDES have wedding rings so lovely,
in all colors, some with precious stones,
But you may not have mine, it's too
unique!

BRIDES really are their husband's sunshine,
in dresses traditional or new.
But I was married wearing...

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Categories: great divide, happiness, marriage, poetry, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Redemption
REDEMPTION
One day, when my time was done,
I flew to the place where it was always sun,
And before me lay a fine array
Of palaces and fields where laughter held sway.

As I made my way to the...

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Categories: great divide, faith, forgiveness, inspiration, introspection, judgement, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Looking Back
Searching for mistakes in rich history, I came across the joy I used to feel and the looks that we both used to steal.
What the hell has happened to you anyway, where is the kindness...

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Categories: great divide, adventure, life, lost love, love, wifelife, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Belief Is Your Own Choice
BELIEF IS YOUR OWN CHOICE 

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested from all his work which he had made, in the bible the word of...

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Categories: great divide, allegory, allusion, betrayal, bible, international, irony, nonsense,
Form: Couplet
A Miracle
When do mistakes happen? 
What makes a miracle real?
Who decides what value is worth? who thought of us? who painted the canvass of hills that decorate the evening sky the very same horizon that gives...

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Categories: great divide, art, inspirational, meaningful, prayer, self,
Form: Personification
A Mission of Mercy
In the book of John it relates the history
of Jesus' mission of Christian mercy
when Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman near a drinking well
it was a meeting between two nations whose relationship was one of hell
the...

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Categories: great divide, faith, hope, inspirational, life, philosophygod, woman, god,
Form: Didactic
9-11 Halloween
Mist, Mist..
Why not whisper, why not speak?
When upon thy shrouded depths,
Thou knowest truly, what we seek

Darkness, Darkness
Why be quiet, why not be shrill?
When your hoot and squeal and growls,
Shivers our spine, with unbidden thrill

Cat, Cat
Why...

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Categories: great divide, introspection, life, sad, urbanhowl,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Friend Arthur
An adventure with a friend in the Fall of 2019 became a celebration in the Winter of 2020. We departed Northern California and headed East beyond the Great Divide, beyond which there lies a city...

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Categories: great divide, adventure, america, friendship, sports,
Form: Verse
Terror Terror
TERROR, TERROR
Mist, Mist..
Why not whisper, why not speak?
When upon thy shrouded depths,
Thou knowest truly, what we seek

Darkness, Darkness
Why be quiet, why not be shrill?
When your hoot and squeal and growls,
Shivers our spine, with unbidden thrill

Cat,...

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Categories: great divide, history, introspectionhowl,
Form: I do not know?
The Piper
One can't help but a feeling

With all our country men a leaving...

...and more migrants lining up
at customs door...

Latest figures polled this year
57,000 plus have left...

...in pursuit of work as there is no more...
and the piper...

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Categories: great divide, peace, political, men,
Form: Quatrain
Mask Or No Mask the Great Divide
My muse stopped by today
He knew he’d find me home
With this current virus
I seldom outside roam

The Governor’s making changes
Things are freeing up a bit
I sense with all this “freedom
Corona deaths may take a hit.

So many...

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© Old Buck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: great divide, anxiety, caregiving, fear, feelings, sick, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Unique Wedding Ring

A Unique Wedding Ring

BRIDES have wedding rings so lovely:
in all colors, some with precious stones,
But you may not have mine, it's too
unique.
BRIDES really are their Husband's sunshine.
in dresses traditional or new.
But I was married wearing...

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Categories: great divide, adventure, heartbroken, husband, i miss you, wedding,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of the Life, the Great Loss, the Solemn Plea
Of The Life, The Great Loss, The Solemn Plea

Across the cold chasm of that great divide
were flung the salty tears I could not hide
and epic darkness of a weeping soul
aching sorrows that took a heavy...

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Categories: great divide, art, fate, introspection, life, lost love, romantic,
Form: Romanticism
The Night Glenfell
The Night Glenfell

         A summer solstice candle breezing midst the twilight air  
             ...

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Categories: great divide, natural disasters,
Form: Blank verse
Away
Today I Had Such A Hard Time
School Was Too Much For My Mind
Tears Filled My Eyes
But I Wouldn't Let Anyone Hear My Cries
Additude Was Written All Over Me
Like Grafiti On The Window Sill That You...

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Categories: great divide, me, me, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tinderbox
We hear loud thunder rolls,
but don't know what tomorrow holds.
Have you ever wished that you were wrong?
We all wish that our wait was not so long.
We want the future to be what we want and...

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Categories: great divide, america, world,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Central Time Zone
Chicago to the North;                               ...

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Categories: great divide, people, seasons,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things