Long Handhold Poems

Mi Madre
Lung of Life
Heartbeat of the universe
Birth of consciousness

Mirror of the heavens
Grains of sand
Beneath my tender flesh

How glorious to gaze upon you
I weep with the realization 
Of you
Almighty in heart
Power
Awareness

Giving life to light
To energy
To oceans...

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Odyssey from Africa 
Chapter 9b (continued)


And this pattern was repeated 
On the following day's journey 
As the day turned into evening 
They again found rocky shoreline 
 
So once more they hunted shellfish 
This time...

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Poems about Allah
In The Name Of Allah
I seek Allah’s protection
Praise be to Allah
The lord of the world
The beneficent, the merciful.
The master of the Day of Judgment,
You do we worship and thine aid we seek,
Guide us...

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Poems about Allah
In The Name Of Allah
I seek Allah’s protection
Praise be to Allah
The lord of the world
The beneficent, the merciful.
The master of the Day of Judgment,
You do we worship and thine aid we seek,
Guide us...

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Dreaming dreams
I’ve finally found my rainbow
Sceaming sceams
I’ve finally found my handhold

Hoping hopes
Climbing up lifes highest mountains
Lowest scopes
Climbing up hills lowest peaks searchin

For,
Searchin for, searchin for, searchin for
Dreams

La la la
La la la la la
La la la
La...

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I am not the famous one. But my pain was equal to his.
He became Chekhov. I became Alfie.
The meanness of the streets that spawned us made him a literary oak, while I became the hollow...

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Not everything is as it seems. 
And no one is ever truly happy here, 
Mostly because we're told to dump our dreams. 

But no one ever addresses our needy fears. 
Somehow, we've been handed the...

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A staff is more than handhold, its worn
to the grasp, trust in what fell down from above.

The llama's sure foothold fits like our staffs
in the rocks climbing upward to the top to the sky.

We risk...

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Hands of America

Hand-over-hand: arduous climb
up the ladder of success.
Hand made: goods from a foreign land,
homeland in economic distress.

Hand-in-hand: dire collusion
with despots of detention
by the leaders of the state
that forged liberty's invention.
 
Underhanded: the undermining
of the...

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Falling

I can’t tell anymore
Which way I’m falling,
At once, I was sure it was down,
But it’s been so long
Expecting to hit ground
That I must be falling sideways.

Is my life so much a trial
I feel I’m falling...

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Straddling is safe with grips each side secure,
    but progress requires the flip flop position, 
    secured on one side or the other, not looking down or back.
It’s iffy...

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Hands

Hand in hand: A romantic walk
with relationship in hand
or palm to palm, high five,
victory ever so grand.

Hand over hand: Arduous climb
up the ladder of success.
Hand made: Goods from a foreign land,
homeland in economic distress.
 
Underhanded:...

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Oh Almighty,
You created my mind, body and soul;
Gave them perfect proportion and order;
You taught me speech and intelligence;

In my forties, I remain a foetus
In three shades and stages of darkness
Without your Light;
Almighty, won't You shine...

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The rain fell hard blinding me
as its drops beat on eyes
open and eyelid shut.
I reached up for another grip,
a slippery handhold on slimy cliff
which was my only way out
of the canyon, with rapid rising surge
dragging...

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Our love is simple
A sparkle in the eye
A handhold
A sneaky kiss

Our love is childish
Running around the kitchen table
Peeking in the shower
Waiting behind a corner….

Our love is boring
 laying on the couch 
 fetching a glass...

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MY FRIEND, AQUATIC

I am supported, gently, head to toe.
By your concern to hold me away
From the hard, cold pool floor below.

I push you with hands and feet,
But you resist and little do you move.
As though...

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