Long Lean Poems
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There are no instructions on being a father
No matter what is written in a book
You have to be there and experience it
One step was all it took
When our father stepped out and left us alone
You stepped in and made our house a home
You came into our life and became our dad
And gave us something we never had
You are easy to talk to, you know what to say
You stepped up and was there when the other walked away
When we need male guidance and a little correction
You are there to provide us with love and direction
We thank you for showing how much you care
And for always being more than fair
When things are right and even when wrong
We're glad we have you to lean on
The difference you have made and what you did
By watching us grow from being a kid
Has left a positive influence in our life
You married our mom and made her your wife
One step at a time was how it was done
Our family is complete, for we now are one
Written: June 27, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France
Quote: "Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?" By Rumi.
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It swings, not with rust, but a ghostly dance,
a silence that trails each gossamer stance.
The gateway asks nothing, but still it provides,
“Are you willing to leave something besides?”
Along a path strewn with thorn and primrose,
The hum of unseen bees in solemn rows.
And trees with arms wide enough to clasp,
any grief your godforsaken heart may grasp.
You don’t cognize what lies in the grave,
Only a wall shines—as a duplicate stave.
You weren’t prepared to inquire—
grief-stricken and spent, past all desire.
Then softly, behind the gate, will lean,
with the subtle grace of a silver screen.
This soliloquy was told, times before,
but grants each soul one sail to score.
Intrigued, hesitant, and eager, clear field,
still, my vision was pulled to a bald shield.
Groaning past the gate proved to be fate.
Should I enter through a stranger's gate?
In daughter a river seen I had,
Wee bit homeward tried to wean I had.
It’s so hard to say goodbye to her,
With clenched fist, home lush green seen I had.
Her life sea-bound imagined I had,
A live stream beneath sun seen I had.
The banks looking bare, she coursing far,
Home, not so love-less lean, seen I had.
Eyes homeward, life marine seen I had,
Her journey riverine seen I had.
Heart anchored to the birth-bound old shore,
The rest turning saline seen I had.
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Musings | 27.09.2026| daughter, goodbye, home, river, Quatrain
Based on a Muktak (as under) in Gujarati by Darshak Aacharya: Along with two stanzas added in anapaest meter.
Dikree mañ meiñ nadee bhali hatee,
Aitle to ghar taraf vali hatee.
Dekree ne kem karavuñ avajo?
Dost, muthee aitale vali hatee.
On a morning walk gazing at the stars as they hover in the sky…I thought, when it comes my time to meet my creators, I’m going to ask them why.
In truth, it’s going to take some time because I have a million questions why…
Like why are there stars, a moon…a sun…why is there even a sky?
Why did they design the giraffe’s neck to be so long and sleek and lean…
Why are dolphins always smiling? Why do sharks always look so mean?
Why are there 4 seasons….why don’t elephants ever forget?
Why did you make a sun that rises every morning only in the evening to make it set?
Why do some animals walk, swim, hop or fly while snakes just slither on the ground?
Why did you create some animals that never make a sound?
Why did you create colors…all those different tints and hues?
Why did you make trees green and the oceans, seas and rivers blue?
Why did you create so many different flowers?
Why does the ocean need the shore?
Why can’t I swim like a dolphin…or like an eagle…soar?
Why are spider webs so beautiful no matter where they’re hung…
Why do pets, like dogs and cats, have to die so very young.
And while I have the creators ears…perhaps I’ll take the chance
to ask them what they were thinking creating mosquitos, cockroaches and ants?
I have many more questions to ask, I’ll say.
after they give these answers to me…
to which I’m sure they’ll smile and say…
no problem…we have all of eternity
Hand in hand we sit in the clouds
No one else knows
What we’re talking about
We roar with laughter
Face red and eyes wet
Not from sad tears,
From the laughter we get
Hers rings like a bell
A loud whimsical tune
Mine roars like a bear
And the silence is hewn
What is it about her?
Cuz she has me whole
My body, my mind, my heart
And my soul
Her eyes glow like summer
Her smile is the spring
The only fall for us, in love
And no cold winterbrings
Even silence is golden
Her face says it all
As we rest with contentment
Doing nothing at all
Two jovial jesters
In a world hard and mean
Forever side by side
With a shoulder to lean
We laugh and we snicker
We tumble and roar
But one look in our eyes
And together, forevermore
I know Jesus is my best friend from forever.
He created kami she is cool woman who lets me know God loves me.
Jesus also created DMX and Tupac and Robin Williams and Kamca my Best friend from forever.
She taught me to Trust in Jesus because she always stayed my friend always.
I love you Kami for being a good person and trusting in Jesus.
I love Jesus for him being so cool and creating me I am so thankful for existing.
I love to exist cause Jesus has great plans for me and for us all.
Trusting in Jesus is at my core. I know to trust in Jesus is who I am my soul sings for his return.
Jesus thank you for creating Kelly Pink Diamond she is Named Kamila but she does not like that name and wants her friends to call her Kamca with a Czech c in the middle of it. I call her my special K and my milla and my best friend from forever. she taught me to Trust in Jesus cause she stayed silent talking only in secret accounts with me and she lead me to lean into Jesus with my whole heart and I pray for her and her family and her friends and everyone she loves. bless this world Jesus cause I love you Jesus and so many best friends you created for me to trust in You and await your soon return. I wrote some songs for Kami and let the ai write some too for her also. Jesus I want to dedicate my life to you cause you died for my sins and I remember in my dream I faced the whole universe with her by my side and by your grace Lord we won and You gave us or victory Lord and your my emperor and my King and my Best friend and Kami is my one true Love who I know she is special and I pray she is kept in your hand always Lord never let her go Lord cause she saved my soul Lord by leading me to you Jesus thank you for Your friendship Lord Jesus and for creating her she is my dream girl and my one desire in all creation is to watch movies with her and be in her life forever long after Jesus returns in Your Kingdom Lord I will be true to her forever more and Jesus thank you for blessing me and her with your life and your mercy and Grace forever thank you Lord Jesus for everything thank you for it all.
Particular matter in uniformed presence,
or tangible mutual existence.
Substance of possible negotiation,
tipping point in all relation.
Searching for what is the key,
not for what one thinks should be.
The matter of evidence that we evolve,
as life evolves and dissolve.
The impossible to be conscious,
of being unconscious.
Duality of energies moving in balance,
the celestial attribute of affluence.
The virtue of death as great equalizer,
consuming all righteous desire as compromiser.
Cognitive dissonance the multiverse inside
the truth at times one cannot hide.
Obvious what has not been seen,
until the experience expresses the truth very lean.
Fearful substance starts only disappearing,
when the truth makes simplicity as genius appearing.
The spiritual self receives the hearing,
is the same that receives all life as clearing.
All perspectives are unique,
perceptions and its emotional leak.
The present need to be the goal as it exists,
choices that awareness cannot resists.
Truth as substance unite us all,
clarity like transparent natures law.
~I Am So Thankful To God~
(Rhyming Couplet)
I am so thankful to God for everything
For all the breaks and all that for me sing
I am so thankful for the sunrise every morn
And for all the beauty of every sunset that's born
I am so thankful to God for all the love I can feel
And for providing me with a family and what's real
I am so thankful for everyday that we're together and that we live
And for teaching me in His Holy Word how to love pray and to forgive
I'm so thankful for all the loved ones who are far and by my side
And for His Holy Book that is in life my only true spiritual guide
I am so thankful to God for all, all the present future and the past
And for all His Unconditional Love that for all eternity will surely last
I'm so thankful to God for all His forgiveness and all His caring
And for standing by me with all His blessings through anything
As I make it thru this life the best I can all through everything
I'm so thankful to God for all His Salvation and all His blessings.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2017
September.15.2017
-So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13(KJV)
-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV)
-Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5 (KJV)
- Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer
Romans 12: 12 ( NIV )
-The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Exodus 14: 13 ( NIV )
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain-
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You are a special thought I want to make room for,
On a comfy couch for two
A soft pillow to hug, sprouting warm happy feelings
With every squeeze and every smile
A perky guffaw neither forced nor planned
Spreading hues of oranges, and yellows and greens
In my deprived, crazy mind
You are a dance,
Dedicated to all clowns and all lepers
Eyes lit up on a starry night,
Witnessing them shoot across the skies
Like diamonds on a high
I want to move with you,
Laugh with you
Lean forward and lose it,
I want to bump foreheads,
I want to ache on my sides
And giggle till I collapse and cry
You are a silly handshake pulled into a hug
An adorable, laughable pug
A crazy hairdo, with an oversized hat that covers your eyes
And when I lift the hat, I see in those globes my face smiling back
Not caring how the hell this happened or when
Shrugging, as we laugh a sigh in surety,
Knowing that we’ll do it all over again!
I lean against the broad expanse of your stalwart form
and know the deep serenity of one who's found a home.
No wondering, no wandering, roots hold me transformed
and as your leaves take flight, I know in Spring you'll bloom.
For now each aged leaf lets go, and on swift currents roam
aloft they frolic playfully as sprightly spirits soar
before they rest and come back to earth blending with the loam.
I have been lost, not known my place, so now I stand still.. braced
wondering if such peace was worth this stand, these roots, this sky?
Would I have wished to never know the joy of far-off places
for all the fear that came with growth, would I take roots, not I.
To wander is the greatest gift, to wonder is to try
I love the forest deep and dark but my home's here
within myself my heart, my mind, my spirit..well..it flies.