Long Navigational Poems

Contemplation is what is required to maintain a healthy mind.  With it, you will have the power to communicate. Without it, you will join that ever increasing group of zombies you will pass by...

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how does anyone go from being good to being great?
what is required in order for someone to elevate?
to be an agent or an angel of the Lord our God
to have been designated because of the...

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don't grab the steering wheel while God is driving the car
just put your trust in Him that you will travel very far
we have a tendency to pray on things but of them we won't let...

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A Town I knew

He was born in a narrow-minded town where a Christian
the party was in power, and there were rules for acceptable 
behavior by stern people who liked to tell others what
is right, of...

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There were words spoken by JESUS that ring loud within me.
They were words never before spoken or heard from another.
He said, "All POWER in heaven and on earth is given to me".
He later said to...

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If there were a diagram of my life's journey,
it would begin in The Southern United States;
and crossing the mighty Mississippi River,
proceed North and slightly East for about 600
miles.

After some 5 years, it would then point...

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Snow is white
He was born in a rather narrow-minded town that had
strict rules for acceptable behaviour, no bars, no restaurant
serving alcohol and no public display of affection.
A Muslim scholar who came to this town by...

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It’s taken care of.
A friend of ours
who owns property by the Ohio river
has agreed to make use of her pontoon boat,
to take my ashes, to scatter them.

I have been working toward this, making plans,
arranging for...

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Standing here feeling the constancy of the trade winds blowing my hair around
I marvel at the bright whiteness of the birds flying in their madly screaming love of 
life
Again I try to focus on one....

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I was chasing shadows in the foggy rain

Written By Dean Masciarelli

Friday, June 25, 2010


I was chasing shadows in the foggy rain
desperately trying to reach my destination

With much difficulty because 
of the storm that I was...

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Born the daughter of a Lemhi Shoshone chief
she was captured by the Hidatsa in her teens. 
And sold to the Mandan Missouri River tribe
where she met and married Toussaint Charbonneau.

A French Canadian trapper and a...

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As long as man has lived upon this Earth
     The quest for beacons of light has endured
Primitive cultures, man’s earliest ancestors
     Found wonder in the moon’s allure

Upon...

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Amidst waves with their varied intensities 

Beyond disasters and catastrophes

Contending and prevailing over calamities

Determined am I to do my mission for seafarers

Effectively warning against ocean-caused wreckage 

Fulfilling my role as good guide...

Guarding and governing toward...

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There was no rotation around the sun
Earth was the center of the universe without rotating
People would literally go Medieval on your ass
Ships on the ocean were frequently eaten by sea monsters
Or fell off the planet...

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It floats through the air effortlessly
Wings beating at high velocity
A navigational marvel instinctively
It's amazing with 5 stages of puberty

With a 4" wingspan it's really impressive
Every one tries to catch one for their collection
They fly every...

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Light of the Guardian Saving Souls                            

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~An Open Book~

My life is quite an open book
For anyone to take a look.
It’s lying there for all to see 
Feel free to uncover the real me.

Within its pages I share my heart.
It’s like a...

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It happens to have dark parts to light 
With its understanding sparkling so bright 
Amidst other attracting convictions
That seem so true nonfictions
To be nailed in stark crucifixions 

Sections in section of different segments designing discourses...

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8/15/16


What you wanted you got close to
But that just won't do

Not going to cut it
If it's something you truly covet

No time to worry about any what if
Try again to be triumphant

One little mistake
And you can...

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Zipping through New Hampshire’s White Mountains
Suspended by a rope through trees
Autumn colors accompany a brisk breeze
Turning your face bright, scarlet red
Don’t look down, just peer ahead
Live joyfully in each challenging activity

“What,” you say, “no engine?”
Sail...

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Luxury liners 

A crew of thousands mostly 
low paid men and women 
who works long hours 
for little reward. 
How to train them to be 
competent seafarers?
Add four thousand passengers 
who know little of the...

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b>Fluids flowing frequent Waterway;
Deep into the Rippling spray;
Engulfing circle mirrors drop isometric views;
Water when I think of the sea; 
So much more bigger than me;
And so comely bubblings supocean nautic water's deep;
Into Dark Matters;
Bearing-
Remembering;...

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Inuit inuksuit (plural of inukshuk) are still often built as navigational aids pointing to mainland or significant transition points between water and land routes.

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