Long Leavens Poems

The Lever (1) of Faith
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The lever we need to move earth, if not heavens,
is Science, my friend, not your ‘take’ on our Bibles
(some mindfart of personal prejudice)! Players
take truth out of context to justify evil.
The...

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Homey eyes of peasant stew
A cozy-colored mossy mew
Stony cottage, snowcheeks bleu
The forest fins for frosted fruits.

The warmest thought speaks crumbly bread
A partridge purr puffs through my head
That grants the grunkest grue a ‘Get!’
To packrat out...

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When I first beheld my creation
And held you in my arms
I determined I would obliterate
Anything that would try to bring you harm

When I suckled you at my breast
Offering all my love without restraint
I determined I...

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If a poem or essay can end with a conclusion or its opposite, either one,
Can it be of any use to anyone?

Do the discrepancies and disparities, dualities and densities, reflect only
    ...

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By Dana Redricks
April 11, 2020

"You were running [the race] well; who has interfered and prevented you from obeying the truth? This [deceptive] persuasion is not from Him who called you [to freedom in Christ]. A...

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Sands of Time

these grains of sand passing by I find
are like the memories of lives gone past
and as these sands of time flow through my mind
I wonder when I will find the key at last

living...

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An adjustment of ageless allure,
Buzzing bees, chirping birds,
Conversations confused, girls play coy.
Disconcerted; demanding; desire.
Early stages evolving each day,
Form like fiddleheads frolicking free.
Geographically girls giggle and grow.
Heartache upon heartache, puppy loves. 
Inquisitiveness highlighting “I.”
Joys and joviality...

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Light leavens leaden doors.

Genealogies of genocide are lost
      in long night rides through thistled trees,
               ...

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She is adorn in henna blooms
Her lips as red as crimson
Her fragrance fills rooms like pillars of smoke
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense
 
Betrothed to One Husband  
A marriage of minds
A virgin hard to find
A...

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A meal worm eats me like a gourd of flesh,
     this slimy beast I dread; two weeks or more
until my heart's (that once was young and fresh) 
   ...

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When doubt and existential angst meet faith,
     the saved hold on and cleave unto their God
through prayer; like Job's wife, apostates oft' saith
     “Curse God and die!”...

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please meet me as the sun is setting
by the old mill road
we’ll spend an evening not forgetting
sharing heart’s abode

we’ll take a stroll down to the river
by the city park
and cling together as we quiver
feeling chill...

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A little leaven leavens the whole lump,  
A moment of festering,
The whole body is thrown off balance,
The whole body is out of coordination, 
A moment of taking off the eyes,
A moment of negligence,
Wound festers...

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Know ye not,
a little leaven leavens the whole lump
Mix in a few little lies,
and make the unleavened bread rise
Puffed up full of pride
Mix in a little leaven,
and you gotta toss the whole batch out
Same as...

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