Long In remission Poems

My love for you is brighter than the Sun
My heart is addicted and you are my drug,
I am committed to this like prison but I am not convicted 
Because my soul has risen, you are...

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Night 3
It’s still in my garden.
It’s back with a vengeance.
I can it see it there, lurking:
face black and white, its tail mocking.
Three nights in a row now.
The eyes and the fur and the scraping claws.
I...

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Night 3
It’s still in my garden.
It’s back with a vengeance.
I can it see it there, lurking without pardon,
face black and white; its tail mocking.
Three nights in a row now:
the eyes, the fur, the scraping claws.
I...

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pure and simple
the smile and dimples
the vanity of being wanted

loved and adored,
 such admiration might
 cause one to be ignored

thus should such behavior
 cause others to favor
simply by the looks of the flesh

eyes can lie
and...

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There are only a certain amount of
the truly good things life has to offer 
1 single person can expect to experience in one's lifetime given our human limitations

Like a cancer patient hearing a doctor tell...

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Before

Before the world was made from space
Before the creation of the human race
Before the planting of the very first seed
There was the emotion of Love and the concept of need

Before the Good Lord made Adam...

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They could have ranged together foreever, in just that way
The moment of experience, un-cloaked and with innocent play
In co-creation perfect, when the Lord frequently appeared With approval and fulness of strength, and nothing he feared
Since...

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He was only a puppy
A golden retriever
I would whistle and beckon
but he wouldn't leave her
For she was his owner 
His only true friend 
and he stayed with my sister
Right up to the end .

In her...

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That curious Roman official

   named "Lentulus" with foresight recorded

   his description of a Man controversial.

   And His name too, for prosperity accorded

   That Man who the Roman...

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I come to your bedside once more,
you've poured our photos and poetry on the floor
an act of apostasy, a grim admission, the room in dim depression,
laying on your side , cheeks heated and soaked in...

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Eight years since I picked up a drink,
rock bottom hit me
           as hard as a wall-
I’ve had ninety-six months to reflect and think,
but before you...

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Movie: Untamed Heart

"AN UNTAMED HEART HAPPENED TO BE 
MY BELOVED'S WEAKNESS"


A first date is so full of lingering whispers and sweet romances,
AN UNTAMED HEART can beat faster given many wonderful chances-
He held my hand gently...

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On this night....

Screaming and yelling is all I can hear
I want to get up, But fear reappears
I swiftly close my eyes But can't fall asleep
I hear a series of shots, From across the street
Once again,...

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I won't be home
not For Christmas
nor for funerals
not for birthdays
Wanted to never see you
on those days so hard to get through.

When you abandoned the sweetness
and chased your dream into the alley
When you thought it best...

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I won't be home
not For Christmas
nor for funerals
not for birthdays
Wanted to never see you
on those days so hard to get through.

When you abandoned the sweetness
and chased your dream into the alley
When you felt it best...

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Growing up in the Catholic Church the rules and regulations were so demanding…
but it was the dichotomy of the nuns behavior I had trouble understanding.

How they could be so brutal in their attempts to make...

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I'll never forget watching the color drain from your face the day you were diagnosed
I turned into a ghost myself, it's one of the days I hated the most
Dreadful were the thoughts of seeing you...

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The summer days are becoming cooler

I think about winter and the lack of sun
to come

I remember a year ago at this time...
My boyfriend had health issues he was recovering from
"Lets go to my condo for...

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I dance with the Devil while the choir sing gospels.
The heavenly bliss of Hell holds me mentally hostage. 
I payed too much attention to the negative temptation. 
Never knew how much the price in Heaven...

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I left the doctors office in a daze. His words would not compute. Cancer soon to ravish me-
Diagnosis Absolute. 
Utterly beside myself,  My mind so ill at ease,
I looked out my bedroom window, and...

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It comes in many shapes and forms
Some from abuse some from wars
Others include accidents or death
One thing is real they are  all bereft

I'm talking about ptsd in remission 
Anyone can suffer from this condition 
It...

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This windfall came from out of the blue
I knew I could well spend it
But then the more I thought it through
I thought perhaps I'd lend it

So I was walking through my town
And stopped in for...

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Time will catch us by surprise; 
Reach out with greedy talons, 
Scratching moments from our eyes.
Bucolic broccoli lives.
Born again Christians, 
Prophets all. 
Born again and again and again.
Each measured moment choose 
Which crier’s call.
Moments laid...

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All dolled up in Easter dress
Watching through the window glass

At children searching all around
For colored eggs upon the ground

Her spirits high as clouds in sky
Her smile bright with vivid eyes

She lived each moment for the...

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Time will catch us by surprise, reach out with greedy talons 
scratching moments from our eyes. Bucolic broccoli lives. 
Born again Christians, prophets all.  Born again 
And again and again. Each measured moment chosen...

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