Long Guideposts Poems

Watch me try and live a commital life of social norms, mores, manners, domestication, that tired ritual of boring sexual   for the times at hande, which are still at least 30 yrs B...

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Acknowledging God as the omnipotent Creator
I believe that all components, elements, and substances
both of the Stonehenge and Georgia Guideposts 
originated from the Almighty Source 
Who can ultimately produce out of nothing…
… s t o n...

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They say “You are only as strong
as the person standing beside you.”

There have been times when that thought…
frightened me, for the person standing
beside me……..was……..well……
let’s just say….. I didn’t choose to stand
beside them.

Perhaps it was a...

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We in are in a time of darkness,
A season of sorrow and regret.
Like a great fish caught in a current 
Rife with unexpected, opposing tides.
All are tossed ever farther 
from lives all hoped to access....

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A ferocious sky rattles overhead,
Gathering a vault in electric red
As lightning of fire grills my night, aloud
Like a mad howl piercing edges of cloud.

Rapid the hours’ flush deepening a smear
When sudden gusts of blatant winds...

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Born a soul into a vessel of life
Innocent and pure a spirit riding its ship
The maiden voyage launches without major strife
Where will it guide ones wondrous trip?

The path of night or path of day?
Traveling along...

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Life . . . and of course, living it, requires
    Some freedom with few constraints.
As energy is bound by time and space,
    Along with the will of many saints.

From...

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Love Shines

Love shines in unclaimed shadows
Of tarnished souls like polished platinum,
Like burnished bronze in solid darkness –
A golden lantern of serene solitude –
With luster of the eternal living star
In the moment when time takes a...

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If I have to receive rejections, you would think I could at least get the kind of rejection slips that I would like to get. Here are a few rejections that I haven't received. Yet.

"Unpalatable!"...

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O’ Pat Pattison, you, my brilliant teacher,
I would shower in praises, had you not
taught me better! for cliches void of thought
are as worthwhile as a couch surfin’ moocher!

O’ masterful and deepest sort of creature,
shocked then,...

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As guideposts in the sky to light the way
the heavens’ stars assist our human sight.
Big Dipper asterism holds its sway
in northern Ursa Major shining bright.
When sets the evening sun on earthly cares,
the darkest nights with...

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I wander a vast desert
Emotions chasing like shadows
No sand, no cactus in sight
Only rivers climbing uphill.

I run, drawn by distant guideposts
Haunted by familiar voices, yet strange 
Their kindness masks something darker
A lullaby that feels monstrous,...

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As chill winds blow 
through the town 
  The inhabitants trudge homeward
Through snow and ice 
   they trudge 
Their faces ruddy from the weather 
At the end of their journey 
 ...

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