Long Pitfall Poems

~ With  The  Lord ~
( Magic  9 )


~O~


 With Jesus we can all attain salvation, all
 He reinforces all the good and great things that I know
 He picks me up for...

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A boy and board in Brooklyn
bedeviled by the breath of baroque battles
bemused with a belligerent brain beauty
and befriended by battlefield bravado, 
the chessmen championed his ego
wickedly warring to a visionary's voodoo,
those soldiers of black and...

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Solitude breeds malignant nemesis
couched as woe seated heavily
within mine angst
riddled quavering psyche
blinding clairvoyance 
debilitates enthusiastic frequency
wavelengths propagate unfounded
probable future destitution

predicated upon intractable lifetime mired
within groveling penuriousness
"dirt poor" accursed fate
pervaded plentiful not ready 
for prime time...

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(fear not stalwart reader, the sword of Damocles just grazed thy chest when fate found us a place to call home).

to avoid the pitfall of prospective homelessness
which near future prospect 
   induces existential...

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written just a couple weeks before the lease at prior abode would expire, and no affordable habitat....just by happenstance and a thankful invisible hand of destiny.
* * * * * * * * * *...

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Still waiting for the peace to establish,
The grudge for each other must finish;
67 years is not small period,
To see the 2 nations fighting weird;
Even the Germans made their wall fall,
And the Americans ended civil war;
Politics...

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No matter existence (mine) lamely, mostly, and nearly spent...

I barely experienced
getting clothed (think fashion wise
as metaphorically swiftly tailored
harried styled mortal)
approaching naked truth
regarding life, liberty

and pursuit of happiness..,
nonetheless yours truly forever gropes
in the darkness of ignorance...

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One month into summer 2022 elapsed here...

Within Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania,
thus far marginal rainfall for season
nevertheless...the hazy, hot and humid dog days
meanwhile (gad) Zeus  
tiredly huffs and puffs...with a growl
regarding thunderstorm unable to make headway

against...

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June 28 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 25-28

Key Verse – Proverbs 25:10 The great God  that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. 

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY...

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One Month Into Winter 2019 Elapsed Here...

Within Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania,
thus far marginal snowfall
yet...the Furies of old man winter
huffs and puffs...with gall
unable make headway

against invisible firewall
shielding this area 
of the keystone state haul
in tandem with the...

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Football, volleyball, baseball, softball, 
Racquetball, handball, basketball, hardball. . . . 
There're lots of sports in the world you play with a ball, 
And you can't play any of them if you're an oddball. 

If...

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Awake before the alarm clock started ringing
Lying abed as song birds serenade me, singing
Listening to chirping lyrics, I linger with a smile
Then get ready for work; my weekday lifestyle

A daily ordeal of honking horns and...

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No torrid steel rod cauterized my wounds
I could not lick the festering gashes clean
Your sharp-bladed tongue bit too deep
fangs plunged with each vile cursed scene

No mere prick or scratch did you inflict
as thorns draw drops...

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No torrid steel rod will cauterize my wounds
I cannot lick these festering gashes clean
Your sharp-bladed tongue has bitten deeply 
fangs plunged with each vile cursed scene

No mere prick or scratch did you inflict
as thorns draw...

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I used to think I was so weak
A sickly spineless shred of humanity
Puny, cowardly, skulking
I used to think I deserved all of God’s punishments
That He was right to bombard me with despair
After all I had...

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Don't you have heart to do the right,
 Why you want to go in the way where future isn't bright;
 Don't waste your parents’ upbringing,
 Your acts can never be forgiving;
 Start making love with...

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Dear men in the house of David,
Look not at women in the bathroom 
And fall lustfully like King David of
Ancient Israel, he did it and God cursed him,
When skimpy skirt women are seen by,
Close your...

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MIRAGE

Life is such stuff as dreams are made of.
Living the Oliver Twist is never enough
And will forever play the gluttony
Even in the midst of it tempest or harmony
It will always tower above the cloud-capped towers,
Under...

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I have an idea for a poem,
a collection maybe
of all-encompassing rhymes
that satisfy each emotion,
separately and together.

Once it's finished
no one will need to write a poem again.

There will be an epic
that details a personal journey
which takes...

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A sad Reg Baker was kissed farewell by his wife and family,
before he boarded the evening train that traveled through his country.
He was as nervous as he'd ever been, because for old Reg you see,
had...

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There is no explaining it
how my hands in finger joints 
in loose expectation to elbow and shoulder
crave and ponder
the empty space which was you
some involuntary response
to thoughts so naked
a soft entrapment of desire
and rides a...

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Decade behind Memories buff,
Insight-now said set off;

Lifted me - reserved Coach
Shifted Corner for Window watch!

Head back to -where I belong
Setback by Playing tune;

Steering hands across Avenue,
Greeting Warriors deployed in each Queue;

All worn Herb Head-gears in...

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We have vision 
We are the equality of God words
A craftsmanship born to serve God
Each of us has a dream, and this dream there is a gift, a gift to live a dream and 
a...

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Just Because

Just because we are trying to sell ourselves and poetry
Doesn't mean we have to do it for a profit. 
Tell me one famous poet who was trying to make a profit. 
Trying to make...

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This is my job, changing young minds;
showing them the route to numbers and rhymes,
giving them knowledge of a brand new day, 
and how to kindly have their say.
I had no idea where the road would...

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