Long Provident Poems

Zero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no Iliad, no Odyssey.
No universe
no black hole
no zodiac
no hero
no mission, no...

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thought:
     ever so pink   
     extremely fluffy    
    rather intelligent      
   positively...

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You never cease to amaze me with your powerful, awesome poetry
It fades away my depression and anxiety as my fretfulness and fears dissipate
You never please evilness and malice in your words of peaceful liberty
You throw...

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I Believe in You- A short letter to America
By Curtis Johnson

Dear America,

At times, I have doubted myself and questioned you
I have cried bitter tears over you, but never doubted you
The real you is not all...

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A war in heaven reluctantly concedes
To the lullabies in the night singing softly
Covering us in heavenly whisper blows
As feathers falling light so grace intensely  
Escaping God's whitened watery coves

And somewhere up above
I believe there...

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A war in heaven reluctantly concedes
To the lullaby's in the night singing softly
Covering us in heavenly whisper blows
As feathers falling light so intense and gracefully 
Escaping God's whitened watery coves

And somewhere up above
I believe there...

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May 25 Scripture Meditations Based on Psalms 102-104

Key Verse – Psalm 103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR PITYING ME

Thank You for...

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"Circumstances circumcision
 all diced up in false religions 
failure to disagree
 but yet they agree
 will have their own guilty plea
 the truth of life and lots of trees
cleanest the air in and out of...

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Having reached my retirement age
now look back on all of life
taking time to ponder on it all
picking out the highs from the strife

The consequences of a stammer have been mine
thinking over all the negative effects...

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“… The 1986 revolution in the Philippines … brought an end to the martial law imposed by Marcos’ regime in 1972, and saw the accession to power of the first woman president, Cory Aquino.”

Freedom songs...

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“Man became a living soul”
when the LORD God Almighty
“breathed into his nostrils the breath of life…”
according to the Scriptures’ Genesis 2:7.

Such truth makes my soul divine
always delighted for heavenly communion
ready to have fellowship with the...

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to you 
u r my gift from almighty God
                 see things which are bad and good
   ...

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Every time miserable fear grips my heart
torturing each chamber with woeful grief
afflicting harshly, leaving panic-dart
to sorrow, overwhelmed by unbelief…

In moments of crises tormenting my mind 
distress-filled, losing assured hope
beleaguered, confused where truth to find
anxiously groping...

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As I stand alone held in place
 I am embraced
 He's beside me
 deep inside me 
provident and prevention provincial 
essence inside me
 open mind my eye... We are One

So profoundly beautiful and intimate expression...

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Blot out the whole emerging gesture
To demonstrate leading astray thy pace;
Don't rebound to toil and wrestle,
Be temperate tilt not at any rate!

Outrun ne'er surpass in celebrity quartan,
Submission ties settle better productive gain;
Prepare to ignite flame...

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that indian, he ain't come to town
still, summer's started windin' down
you can feel it in the air some how 
this season's seasoning, time to avow

do soldiers march with cadence strident?
as sure of battles outcomes provident
as...

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Live Oak, emphasis on the Live,
hundreds of years older than me,
bolder than me, demystifying history
through skin and bark.  So, what am I 
at 70?--an eager pup, wired
to write.  So, what are you, old...

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Not just the sky itself—they are every ocean and stream—
filled with reflections of rainbows, waterfalls and rain.
Windows of beauty fringed in verdant shades of green.

Not a trace of sadness shows for things that cause her...

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Situation

Switch off mind’s clutter and swish with your soluble soul
Seize the second swirl away seizure’s silent convulsions
Sequence sequesters surpass surreptitious soliloquies

Resistance

Ruminating reason and ravenous rapture restrict and resurface
Reticent roads as they relinquish romance and rhapsody’s...

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How close it was but sadly not to be
  with chosen numbers falsely provident -
deserving no such serendipity
  lest I remain reckless and delinquent.
Mine are the sins of a Protestant son
  for...

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Caring deity wandering reflection,
love light celestial inward perfection.
Luminous serene time maternity,
conceiving womb sustainity. 
Silent voice drifting flow,
water of mercy and compassion beau.
Provident sphere radiant shade,
heart endurance to be not afraid.
Beyond all conception,
drifting towards the ultimate...

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Washington is the state that I have made mine,
Adopting it at the age of twenty-four.
Shaking off the snow and cold from other climes,
Home for me is Washington forevermore.
I'm enchanted by her many vales and hills,
Not...

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