Long Lightens Poems

Good evening Ladies 
May I say, I am honored and privileged
As this is the first ever time
I have read in front of a woman’s only group
And a fine group of bovine beauties you are

I truly...

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Written 22 December 2023
Forgiveness Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Robert James Langouri

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"MY LOVE"

Who is the one beside me 
holding up my weight? Always 
there no matter how much is 
on her plate! Her hair so pretty 
with that shiny Auburn gleam, 
her eyes a soothing brown...

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On Humor Throw Some Fire

Here is how on humor to throw some fire;
Read all of my many poems in their entire;
Idea can present,
With my consent;
Things upset Trump making him perspire.

Jim Horn


Trump and Trouble

Trump always had...

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That moment, when you realize its time.
Time to eventually climb, those golden stairs.
Preparing your thoughts, your mind, body and soul, through the layers
Layers of fear, layers of all things that placed you onto your knees.
With...

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No where is where it is – can't be found, so there
No where is where it goes just sits and waits for your despair
Scratching your inner most private thoughts, with words of hunger and sadistic...

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Isis in the Smoke
 
A hush has rested this quiet afternoons sunless wing
While his thoughts hang on a trembling tip between nowhere and knowing
And the flowers in his garden drip diamond drops of rain
The cool...

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Tonight as candles flicker, she is sitting at the table
where her husband sat (before he passed away),
working on his daily crossword puzzles, 
seeming most content although
the nest they’d pieced together gradually had emptied 
and grown...

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When you find your early your already much to late all this time now you over compensate
A rush towards the front so we can crawl to the back always flinching from the timely attack
anticapation explodes...

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My heart is inditing a poetic matter
My tongue is the workmanship of a divine potter
My glossa is the verbal-scripter of a meditative writer
These words are the instinctive outburst of my soul
Liken to the boiling fountains...

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You asked me for a dance one night, ’twas late one New Year’s Eve,
and as I held you in my arms, your shape did wend and weave;
a sudden kiss as midnight struck (I thought it...

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Left out  to defend my  broken wings down that path of my own way to survive all I known heartaches headaches  every day struggling to make it out here alone on my...

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Look in the eyes, twinkling light, so alive... caressing the heart, breathing life across the soul, inspiring joy within the one who knows that love comes from above – by poet



Shimmering whispers of musical notes
Fresh...

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Growing up,my mother loved me with all she had,
Like my teacher,she taught me alot; social behavior;
To my attention,she brought rules of love
In a friendship or relationship or any connection;
Defining a friend as a precious gift...

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Add #8
'Kimmy's Bliss?' Find yours too (on the yellow brick road)!
'Courage' leads to adventure, 'Brain' lightens your load!
But real 'Heart' is the answer we're all looking for,
She's a 'Wizard of Ah's,' (1) you will come...

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Just to look at this angel is astounding,
She gives me eternal shivers down my spine that shift down and give me cold feet, Her with
a symmetrical spine, wings on both sides with a width far...

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Arising in softest sapphire,
Shimmery as the night,
Inviting silence to release her,
Tears flowing, thick and sincere,
Breaking through melancholy,
Trembling with dark dread,
Erasing all the soul’s vivacity –
Erasing the existence of her memories.

Appearing in somber ashen,
Overcast by doubts...

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Dancing vibrant hues
Blink in shades of blue
Peafowl, A majestic bird
Our nation's pride

Peacock -  Pride of India
Come, visit and enjoy
All are welcome, yeah!!!

Yellow sturdy physique
On glimpsing him, the forest shrieks
Bright black stripes on body regal
Stands...

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It's unfair how the most beautiful thing in this world is also the ugliest thing, it's unbelievable how something that brings so much light and joy could be packed with so much pain and darkness,...

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In the first instance under the engine chassis,
Battling complex automobile designs in heat,
Struggles to displays sleek lines in tops delight,
Prayers from bystanders so the car never restarts.

Pay this one for pedestrians joy could serve for...

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June 24, 2023 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 9-12

Key Verse – Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

LORD GOD,...

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The heart that melt in a distance
The heart that shows its weaknesses in public
It is easily surrenders to what has defeated it 
The sound of poetic thing that coughs out the great mentality to wash...

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a smile you never forget


In Yokohama the moon is so bright
there is woman watching TV tonight
today the rain fall and she got wet
and she wears a smile you can,t forget

when I am having a long...

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To get to deep wisdom that transcends mind,
first plot coordinates of reference,
aware that we’re floundering about blind,
having accorded ego preference.
Shallow and narrow is our sense of pride,
dwelling in the shadows, knowing not light,
negating conscience that...

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A collaboration by Sara Etgen-Baker and Constance LaFrance
For the International Contest, A Poet's Crush Collaboration
Sponsor, A Poet Destroyer 5/18/2024
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Oh, to be loved by a poet
To be the poem that ignited their pride
To be the one...

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