Long Impassable Poems

Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees, 
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage, 
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...

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VIII

In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,              
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate";   ...

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8/9/22

What good if they judge by the color of skin
Got to do better instead of teaching that to kids
Still telling fibs
On either side of the ridge
Yet again another burned bridge
Soul cold like the temperature of...

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I always arise
     at break of dawn,
when curtained solar
     radiance openly drawn
upon a vast
     wasteland, though thankfully
     most (boot...

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The taste of bile treads my thoughts,
Unwillingly my feet must now follow,
Source of inspiration guide,
Restore the signal fires now long lost,
Set beyond the temporal,
A path impassable by mortals,
The stairs of separation, 
I must recount lest...

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As the morning dawns and sunlight
Fades the darkness of night
Stars flicker out and moon turns to dust
And I recall the place of my heart
Here, I reside in Joyville, where I smile
Laugh and dance through the...

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Deep in the forest was an inaccessible cliff
that soared high above the tall tree canopy.
People had wondered for years what lay beyond
yet the landscape was so inhospitable none dared
to try to reach the impassable cliff...

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The antique paint chipped thermometer would not give up it's cache of mercury from it's 
frosted bulb even in the blinding brightness of the sun on the iced landscape.
    I remember peering...

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And this is the origin of victory:
A man once went to sow his mustard seed;
The path to his garden was impassable muddy
And the weather was discouraging awry,
Thin drizzle and heavy downpour alike
Made clothes stick to...

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Rather lost, they stare over the divide,
how best to circumnavigate this obstacle?
They can see a path gently sloping down
but it is far off to the north two days ride.

West is back from whence they had...

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The drums could be heard far away
across the savannah they travelled
spreading, telling the awful news
of the awful deaths and suffering

One village drums talking to another
as much as fifty or so miles away
dreadful news they told...

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What is fear?
It clutches and binds you;
Its clinch constricts your conscience and gestures.
It degrades and damages you;
Its triumph abolishes your own proficiency to prosper.
It stops and holds you;
Its impeccable knack of holding you still is...

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The desperate eyes
 pools of water clean.
The river of her past
 I must travel upstream.

In a moment of time
 I am placed in a boat.
Oars are my hands
 I must not float.

I set my heart
...

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Phantom Vessel - 
	Version One
	
	
	Damaged mind down
	down
	phantom vessel
	distance endless
	leaping chasm
	between two worlds
	no
	Slow roll
	left-hand take
	black marbles
	shade side glance 
	check
	Toward
	Hoarse Jesus whisper
	Listen 
	No need
	No need
	hand hold, right
	Brother follow
	heart hearing
	Jesusss.
	10 times
	Roll away home
	
	

	Phantom Vessel - 
	Version Two
	
	
	His damaged...

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Each year we talk of  911, but time has made it less, my friend.
Have we already forgotten the holes in those lives it left behind?
Their family’s memories will last forever. A whole lifetime…

What if...

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I Can't Wait For Death

And finally take one last breath
where hands of Seth
Thomas no longer clock
freed at last from cataclysmic aftershock
reverberating thru every baited cell
after quaking mine flinty bedrock
well nigh since birth zapping bloodstock,

an existence...

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We had missed five days in
The last two weeks
Due to the ice and snow.
Roads and streets had been impassable—
Freezing rain, blowing snow and black ice.
We started the day late at 10 am.
I greeted them at...

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The land is flooded
rain that never stops
houses lay abandoned
water running through

Still the rain comes
relentless, incessant
roads are impassable
villages cut off

Army busy building
defences that are
all too soon swept away
and still the rain falls

Cattle airlifted to safety
their fields...

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Our winter weather is highly unpredictable
Jack frost often paints frosty ferns on our windows, but we seldom get any snow 
Occasionally we get a flurry but it rarely stays on the ground 
However, I vividly...

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The fresh mountain water, 
cascaded  with  glee,
Splashing and dashing 
over rocks and debris,
Churning  and turning, 
in unseemly  haste,
No time on it’s way to the sea, 
would it waste.

I followed its journey...

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Casualties of an enforced lifestyle shiver in the breeze
Along the rugged roads of old dust and ditches that divide
Rest a group of modest enclosures they call home
Built out of left over wood and delivery slates...

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I’m looking for mine daily 
A gene of combinations and strengths
A blood we share in hidings
Nation and nations as siblings 
A blood of friends satisfaction 

Arouses sense and feelings
Bringing joy in sadness
Strengthening weak to fight...

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The Demon walks with shadowy arms that secretly seize the lost changeling who is bred in the psychosis of knowing the "anti-life" wherein he walks.

With Demon whispers the darts and arrows of discontent are filled...

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I see her sitting there,
I want her to know who I am
But how do you make an angel notice you?
Can somebody more beautiful than life itself,
settle for just an average boy?
How do I approach someone...

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THERE ARE SOME INDIVIDUALS WHO NEVER LET THINGS GO. THEY 
PRETEND THAT THEY’RE HAPPY AS THERE DEPRESSON CONTINUES TO 
GROW. BRING OTHERS INTO THERE SORROW, SO THEY WONT FEEL ALONE 
TOMMOROW. THERE STUCK IN WHAT...

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