Long Postponement Poems

MY FIRST FRENCH KISSES
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

My first french kiss; I was lanky, skinny, barely fifteen
I had the hots for the popcorn girl, she was eighteen
She made and sold the popcorn at the Strand Theater
Our mutual...

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Unquotable quotes – Lawyers:  XX

(No aspersions are willfully or otherwise cast on the honorable profession of the Law. Though I’m not a Barrister, I passed – through self-study – all the subjects at the...

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Twinkling stars were receding rapidly, as I had always known they would,
When rouge sun touched the eastern sky, to color a whole neighborhood.

The timid alabaster moon was in hiding, taking with him, his native luster,
As...

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Even if we were to win
these hunting
and killing
and fishing
and devouring
and gathering
and hoarding
and victimizing
and offending
and criminalizing
and punishing
holy wars
and zealot causes,

We would lose
our vocation
to mentor and facilitate restoration,
ego and ecotherapy reforestation,
healing,
health,
measured in polycultural health outcomes
by all democratically...

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The future called and I responded, armed with scars my years of acquired wisdom and rife experience, declared with voice of reason, a projection of matter, called for fellow age group, but trend and fame...

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Blimey it’s hot
Though moan I must not
As to see the sun high up above
Evokes wonderful memories of summers gone by
Of weeks in the sunshine and temperatures high
With no sign of clouds in the stunning blue...

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Memories are walls
desecrated by graffiti of remembrance

well intentioned people
all around  
and me
playing that „warm rabbit“ game
(take a guess who the rabbit is)

it feels like I'm one of those happy faces on Kerouac's road

I feel...

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Everyone's  a warrior that each one has to strive; 
One may fight for glory or simply to survive. 
The brave may render efforts derived from self-esteem; 
The coward may suddenly take action to liberate...

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Too Many Churches Are Becoming Political…

Have you noticed?  This may seem to be “heretical.”
As more churches are becoming too “political”

What in the world are churches doing “for heaven’s sake.”
Do many in churches think about...

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It wasn't the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could live with,
A canvas woven from moonbeams and delicate shadows on the water's face.
They were seeking a tale in which to slumber, beside a fire...

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God’s Word Gives Truth and Meaning!

As many are seeking truth and life’s meaning.
It’s a lot of garbage that they’re often receiving!

Many have refused God and what he commands!
And have brought a great sin over the...

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This Life We Have…

This life we have is for a brief moment.
On the road to eternity… 
It’s a “postponement.”

This life we have will not be here for long.
This world that we live…  We don’t...

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Long for the tender tormenting touch of her slips, a vermillion vice of the abyssal depths that lay within the merest brush of her breath, a zephyr's caress that set aflame the parched arid landscapes...

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When you are in a confused state
Born thoughts will not be great

For this you must postpone action
For the dying of possible friction

When calmly you try to deliberate
Good and bad, you can segregate

While holding a negative...

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In the Darkened Foyer


There you are again.
Walking this darkened foyer, and that carpeted hallway,
Eyeing the sunken-eyed dancer who forgets she’s not alive;
She’s just passing by all the sickness of dissipated humanity, 
Wrapped in a single...

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Our nation shall soon be
 judged for it's sin.
As we've turned our back 
on God once again.

This country has turned 
it's back on his grace.
As we've "smitten" and 
"spit in his face."

The moral fabric has...

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Our nation shall soon be
 judged for it's sin.
As we've turned our back 
on God once again.

This country has turned 
it's back on his grace.
As we've "smitten" and "spit in his face."

The moral fabric has...

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There’s A God Who Loves You!

In spite of what the courts
 and what people tell you…
There is a God,
 who’ll always love you!
 
No matter how courts try their best to remove him…
His son reaches...

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Despite endless attempts to avoid it
We can't sidestep it forever
At one point or another
We all sail into stormy weather

When your ticket gets punched
You'll be flooded with sadness
Turbulently twisting and turning
In a constant state of madness

Next...

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I canceled my death for you
a postponement on the inevitable 
the choice had come 
I could have walked away
but all things considered
and considering how much I love you
I chose to stay

This decision has had its...

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Please decide firmly your life's aim
Via toiling, success you can claim
In case you are driven by lethargy
Will get wasted your whole energy

If postponement is, by you, made
How can you succeed my comrade?
Very easy to put...

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Lord, I Praise and Thank You!
Lord, I praise and thank you
for this moment.
I give you my life, 
with no postponement!

I repent of my backward 
and sinful ways.
I lift up my hands and
 give you praise!

I...

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Soon mend your ways
Before it is too late
A way to win, trace
Meekly obey not fate

Start your duty now
Don't easily postpone
Contact with love
Over the phone

Make a visit with no delay
Please destroy your ego
Try to find out...

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