Long Nudges Poems

thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
  apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
  my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
  impatiently, she waits for me
  securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...

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Passion and compassion vibes flow
Let the flowers grow, you know?
Yes, you know...because it’s shown
In your oceanic eyes...it’s like an ice cream with its favorite cone...it’s flavorful and all alone

Your voice is depicted in shimmering, scrumptious...

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My auntie winter's icy breath wacked my bare face hard, when I step out earlier on
She gave me the cold shoulder and iced me out with a frosty glare for no reason at all 
it's...

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Mystery Of The Poltergeist

It is said, “All things in balance”,
yin has it’s yang, plus has it’s minus,
all things in balance is natures way.

There is however another important factor in this design,
the mean, the balance point.
This...

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Ode To ‘Mother’ Creator ©
Not only is it a marvelous happen chance in being able to have ‘shares’ in Mother Nature’s flora creations 'first hand'---
But, we are then granted to sit before her, these ‘set...

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What are fair and effective nudges
for too much freedom of wounding weaponed speech?

Maybe equal freedom to listen nutritionally
and not speak toxically?

What's a fair response
to competitive over-investment in fear-mongering--
Threats to hold your breath 'til everyone sees...

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God doesn't work through us because we're flawless. Rather He works through us in spite of our imperfections ~ A.W. Tozer


I did it again, I say to myself
Ashamed, humiliated, falling apart
I did it again and...

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Contact 

Standing in a field, camera in my hand,
Scanning misty pines, haloed hill so grand.
Many miles I've traversed, now lost all sense of time,
Morning dew underfoot, dappled light is sublime.
The green plants of this earth,...

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Shot Three Times 
 
  Laying on my float enjoying the sunny day as I did so many times before yet 
today was going to change my life forever. 
As I lay there tanning...

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The Voice Within.

Somewhere in the depths of me,   in a place I cannot find.
    There lies the seed of longing,    for that to which I’m blind.
I feel...

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Long Ago,

I gave my life to a vision beauty,
And it ruined and blessed my life forever,
I met a taskmaster, who was relentless,
He showed me my sin, sin after sin, and I could barely bare it,
But...

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Once upon a time her cat dissolves in my arms 

one night while she was at work
and once upon a time
because what i did that night 
will never happen again
i promise, i promise
i broke into...

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I hear a whine, I hear a call
I thought I was asleep
I'm sleeping no more

I hear a cry, I hear a pain
I can't just sit by, I can't just remain
Through the window pane, through the...

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Nestle in deep slumber the mighty Kublai dreams
of lapping cold milk, eating fresh meat, running wild
with hundreds of his doggie friends

Little Genghis shoots up from bed and darts out
running to room to room to sniff...

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As evenings dark began to close in
a little girl wipes her nose on her sleeve.
Listless and hungry she walks in the snow
a poor and lost soul, one cold New Year’s Eve.

Her dead mothers slippers were...

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Alarming heart wrenching
     (stabbing non-abating
with genuine appall
     ling brutality) zing
across screen, or
     in print exacerbating
forcing, imposing viewer,
     and/or reader...

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She sits half-dressed next to the nightstand trembling… a constant reality once the night is ready to put her to bed...She shuffles her fingers over the top of the dusty leather bible she always keeps...

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Oh, I remember back, when young -
the pirate tales from grandpa's tongue -
where peg-legged men with but one eye
had sought their treasures, chanced to die.

Now Captain Pirate had a hook
and he cared not from whom...

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NOT AGAIN THOMAS

On Thomas meowing at the front door this morning, on opened the door instead of coming in, he ran across the front garden and lay down next to the front garden wall and...

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~Yesterday~ 
I stood confused in a hole so deep 
So dark and miserable, cold and alone 
Scared and fearful of the unknown 
Nothing but grey clouds filled my sky 
Filled with rain and thunderous roars...

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The Tale of Gallina Canyon, NM  

Red sandstone, sheer cliff monuments awaits the morning breeze, and high above the canyon floor an eagle sores with ease.

As shadows of the mountain cliffs retreat from the...

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It’s warm and cozy in bed when I detect a cat quietly sauntering in the room.
Up on the bed corner he jumps, and then sits, just staring at me I imagine.
Just a few minutes more...

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The endgame 

And the cemetery was
nowhere to be found
yet was so present
in the shallow depth
the graveyard of the mind

No tombstone unturned
fragmented torn and twisted 
sorrow flowing down 
encrypted alleyways 
and Thanatos’ call 

Searching to imprint
coffin’s...

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I have a pussy cat, my cute mischievous pet.
She loves me more than anyone, I can bet.
Among felines, she is so smart and clever,
Too adventurous, never once a bit demure.

Sleek and slim she is with...

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....I ALWAYS used to feel like I was swinging in a hammock on a warm spring 
afternoon... 

....enjoying a long moment that seemed to made for me...
...slowly swinging...

...the minutes drawing me closer into unity with...

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