Long Oversees Poems

I went out for the newspaper at the usual time this morning, shortly after 5AM, (yes, I'm one of the "odd few" who still enjoys the crisp feel of a morning paper in my hands),...

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I inherited a restaurant, from my parents who had retired.
It was a classy one, and only the best of staff were hired.

Overseeing its operation, was genuinely a labor of love,
As the noon warming sunshine, oversees...

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Within my quasi moat toad lily padded immediate environs

Meaning the corporeal complex edifice
housing these lovely bones, 
where linkedin logorrhea ably
strives to break out 
in meaningless song 
yobble hum hum diddle dee dee
and dance courtesy 
an...

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I had never before glimpsed the sea, and I had often felt the lack,
As rainbows sense the lack of luster, so they keep on coming back.

I dwelled in a pastoral area, quite far from any...

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Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing 
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product 
eternally preserved within 
annals, chronicles, epistles, 
et cetera of human civilization 
and it's discontents...

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Only God can see perfectly what is ahead four years up the road.                      ...

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“Dwellers of the Ancients, is all be seeking The Fallen atop?
Well… be advised and turn back for to entertain he will not
It's been far too long since mortals have come before our sight
And above all,...

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Propped and propelled by God to live according to His purpose*
Upheld am I to enjoy earthly existence midst divine upbringing
Ransomed soul of mine keeps seeking daily restoration and revival
Pursuing His will, pleasing Him well with...

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The simple things in life are what I want most.
A pretty flower, instead of a beautiful rose. 
A little house n garden, instead of a mansion by the sea.
An ordinary car to drive, instead of...

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Some Glimpses of childhood Memories

The town where I grew up seems much the same 
Its many features yet retained
Still central fountain that caresses the sky
Its hazy droplets against the winter dregs of sun
Gone, the regiment...

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(Dedication: In Memorium, Jane Reichhold, haiku poet)
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Once upon then
Only men wrote haiku;
Jane broke trends when?

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Eulogy lines
Fate oversees;
Suicide note

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Death by choice
Broken by water;
Drowning excavation

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Famous haiku poet
Pain drowns life;
Fibromyalgia

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So much reason
Drowns ripe season;
Decay instructs

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Pain gathers more
More than...

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That’s my Cecilia sitting over there,
with brown eyes and wavy hair,
a joy that’s truly blessed my life,
even since she became my wife.
But things were not always so
if you go back twelve years ago,
she said her...

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In the morning I heard howling in the air,
The most rooted oak bows in awe and swear,
In the prior gleam of sunset, were greeted with pride,
In perilous fights, our flags and stars never hide. 

What...

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Message from Heaven
By Michelle Morris
26/02/2022

When you're down
And feeling blue
He will comfort you
He will comfort you

When your life
Is burning down
He will douse the flames
He will douse the flames

When you feel alone
In this big, big world
He will...

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An awesome allures dances amid your words.
Bearing thoughts at daybreak until hope stays life.
Carmel candy lips wait for your cupid’s arrow.
Daisy chains you saved for happily-ever-after.
Eloquent egression when depression arrives.
Fields of fresh flowers float to...

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God is beyond that which we can imagine
The mind cannot conceive the magnitude,
All our man-made images, idols fall short
We have no language for the pulchritude
Of a Being in Divine Creative Majesty,
Our feeble conceptions do not...

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Carolyn Devonshire
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Carolyn:  Commendable poet who composes cheerful charming comments.
Articulate, admirable, agreeable, author awards an absolute awakening.
Romanticism redeemed by her reasonable reverberating reflections, regally. 
Owns the odysseys’ omniscient...

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O~n occasion, the mind accretes to, "the hurt," when facing
V~icissitudes; blinded by, "the better nature," causing to
E~fface the focus from the Architect while simultaneously
R~aising questions why. Impatience encourages the 
C~ollaboration of misery to consult with...

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Today I woke up early…as I am prone to do…before the ebony of night gave way to morning blue.

As I stepped outside to walk listening to the crickets croon…the sky was illuminated ever so softly...

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One wish was all it took to become
that realistic dreamer too bold and fearsome;
challenges taken weren't insignificant
to defeat the slickness of the ruthless tyrant!

And he suppressed the kid's aspirations transformed
by need not forced choice into...

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Cut away the shame
The shame that drives us all insane 
Insane animals we’ve become in our pain
Our pain is the oasis of your soul's spirit within
In the times of tribulation, always remember
Always remember to believe...

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A dove in white attire gave a letter in its claws
To a sleeping bird prince soon to get applause
The dove sang a tune to cast off the sleep’s darkness from him
Drowsy, the sparrow read “Your...

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Dread clutched her throat
As captains picked their teams
Even though she had desire
She never allowed herself to dream

He watched them divide up
Into groups of ten
He was number twenty-one
It was clear, no one needed him

Friends all married...

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An old man tries to find his wings.
Once he flew up near his puppet strings. A calm loving stare between his wondering eyes. Remembering that day as he search the sky. A stinging passion near...

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Elephant trunk palms column, canopy claps hands
   Undergrowth glad heart shape leaves spiral 
   Navigator vines map branches, brace boa banyan 
   Utile duenna diary with my duties conspiring...

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