Long Perfect timing Poems

It’s the Thursday morning before valentine’s day. Lisa and I are scrambling to get out of our suite. We share an Organic Biochemistry class and we’re running a hot minute late. As we pulled on...

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I was attending a birthday party, once when summer was young.
We played games on the back lawn, beneath the huge orange sun.

Colorful birds were tweeting, almost the way that people do,
To say good morning sunshine,...

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Periodically writing random thoughts on a piece of paper is my secret escape. 
Left for healing and mending. Right for healing and mending. 
Painful, nonetheless. Don't be ashamed. 
I am the scrawler of my racing...

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Its those silly little butterflies i get in my tummy,
Just thinking about him.
The gentleness of his touch.
The deepness in his eyes.
The sound of his voice.
the strength and meaning of his words,
The softness his lips,
As they...

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" A Sense of Humor ... "

( A Satirical Moral )


'Somewhere,  There's A Sense of Humor'
Said The Jack In The Box
'We Keep A Sense of Humor'
Said The Gambler's Tokens At The Slots

'I Don't Like...

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It's morning as I make a special trip to the
fish market. There, I will look for the freshest 
mussels, large shrimp, and Maine lobster. 
 
A large crowd has formed mostly chefs 
wanting to get...

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There's something magical that happens when 
you are 10 years old, chasing butterflies, 
skipping stones, riding little pink bicycles
with streamers and white baskets on the handle 
bars with a big yellow sunflower on the front.

Roller...

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After finishing a seminar based on demand and supply,
I walked out to the street and hailed a taxi going by,
and as I sat down in the seat, the taxi driver said to me,
‘my, my, your...

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Life is oh so Short
                              ...

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As it all started in a dream
Strangers like we’re all once before
Time stopped on that momentous scene
This funny feeling, asking for more

Weird as it was, but so afraid
Might not work out as usual
Those awkward approaches...

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As quiet blackness deepened
I lay awake my heart in check,
The cool night wind blew
And welcome silence grew…
_______

Unanticipated music exploded
Roused me from bed rest, 
I tiptoed to its source:
Dark sounds from downstairs, 
Nearer, higher, and louder...

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He was a well statured man I dated briefly, finding my way to the place where my Dad was born in the twenties and then crying for the foothills where I grew up such a...

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Every moment is a potion mixing
      in the adjoinisent wave.
         Where possibility falls like raindrops, 
      ...

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It never was what you thought and my heart told me I could be playing a fool and her words I love you didn’t mean the same thing like many things she just said them...

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Maybe we should embrace our own ends
As we would a lover
Who We rejected for too long
With her wild eyes.
Both will be too eager to see you.
One as a killer
And the other?
And the other?
The promise of...

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Parachuted squirrels glide onto leaf piles and laugh at my heroic efforts
to keep them from taking apart my bird feeders.

With xylophonic fingers they lift the lids and unscrew until the feeders 
give up and fall...

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At the water’s edge I stood.

Oh my heart was invigorated to see the soft ripples in the water.

There was a warm breeze that also moved my hair.

I felt the Lord’s presence all around me.

I took...

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'I want you to use all your powers and your skills
I don’t want his mother to see him like this
Look, look how they massacred my boy'...
Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) in “The Godfather”
-------------------------------------------------------
Playing the game. It's...

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People say "behind every good man stands a strong woman"....
Lady you're my beginning, my end.
       You give my life meaning, made me believe again.
I saw paradise when I first...

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Bear and the Birds

Vernal equinox comes shining.
Hungry wolves in forest whining.
Mighty bear awakens growling,
time to go on sky’s great prowling.

Chickadee feels night-time falling,
“feed me food” from stomach calling.
Mother bear up sky comes climbing,
fatty flesh with...

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ANSWERED PRAYERS 

Crisp cutting edges are river aging...
Dusts, gossamer embracing carves and mounds.
All around unchanged. 
Solely, the wind curtains flow.
Seems, they are the only one engaging.
Have I step to an antique ground?

Waiting...
waiting... waiting
and wailing ....
When...
Somebody,
please...

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The other day I heard two lovers having a quarrel. They were sitting on a park bench at the arboretum near my home. I though to myself, "I wonder what the big fuss is all...

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Feeling alone like I’m by myself on an Island,
Spending time within my mind and forever rhyming,
Remembering everything comes together slowly when ya smiling,
Like a raw gem that transforms into a well-crafted diamond,
While aware of the...

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In my brokenness, gripped by angst of futility
when unfinished goals reign midst schedule’s certainty
I cry to God for His guiding authority
dispelling despair and anxiety…
His help enables me move on toward victorious serenity.

Despite my brokenness, leaving...

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Help Me Lord, I’m On My Face Again

Sad events bring about a move of the Holy Spirit within me
and cause me to fall down on my bedroom floor and weep,
groanings that cannot be uttered in...

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