Long Ready to hand(p) Poems

While sitting in my bed, different thoughts raced around in my head; there was one that stood apart from the rest. With it came a moment of clarity, a deeper understanding, and a sense of...

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‘WHITE COLUMN RESSURRECTION’

Even now you stand poised with memories of a corned cobbed pipe in one hand-tight gripped lapel in the other-perched against thick southern charmed columns positioned on a once so powerful veranda .

Peering...

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A dull ache becomes masked by a generous shot. More and more opium pours into her trampled vein. Her heart slowly beats, the mania creeps, and she slowly loses a piece of herself. Drowning her...

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'Twas the night before Christmas, all children were in bed
Elves were loading the sleigh, for Santa's big night ahead
A heavy fall of fresh snow had now covered the ground
The whole world was hushed, there wasn't...

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What if we knew that the grass is greener on the other side of this life?

What a joy to it would be to have the comfort to live strife free after a life of turmoil?

What...

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The worker bees, are a hardy bunch,
They wake at four, and prepare their lunch.
It’s off to the mines, for another day,
To stir the pots, and earn their pay.

Their hard hats on, with small yellow lights,
Standing...

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I fell asleep, a moment of peace, all true in all moments that will explain my world in a dream.
I came upon a door that was easy to open, I felt it as if it...

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I went up the dark and white stair cases of my apartment, with keys ready in hand, upon 
arriving at the black door that leads into my house.  The echoing sounds, of my door...

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There is an aura for the moment looking gloom 
Closing in on climatic resolution known as high noon 
Weather was dealt the color grey 
Heavy clouds outdoor on this day 
Blocking the sun from peeking...

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Wake

What is that noise?
I have heard it before?
In the ramblings...
of my loved ones words? 

I must get up and seek it out.
I rise like the house is on fire...
but in fear of being alive, 
but...

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Born in a neighborhood where crime is the law
Mom dragged me out before I had learned to talk
Out of the frying pan, into the flame
Into a new hood where it all was the same

Do children...

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THREE KINGS IN SEARCH OF NEW AGONG

So you see lah! dese three big noise fellas come last time outstation
To Judea now got Israel - visa ready, (back-hand donation)

Dey pretty dam clever also high class, all...

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I love the smell of the lake at dawn,
It's so peaceful here, just to sit and listen
No sounds but the waves slapping,
 against the shore.
Birds  fly by undisturbed catching
 the mornings breeze.
I've watched many...

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MET HIM
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Barco do Boa Vista 2 

Windswept, worn and weary sails
You might think that this boat ails
But with sound and sturdy, solid mast
She sails the ocean's waves at last

There was one here not long before her
But...

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Cheese dip slip


The cheddar and gouda were ready, my hand with the knife very steady
The party was moments away and I had to be quick

The chips and hors d’oeuvres were all plated, but still I...

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After I thought a while it seemed clear
it wasn’t the yap, yap, buzz, ring, chat
that drove him away from the city.
Nor the police alarm yaw-yahing 
saying danger or someone hurts.

It was the hands. Hands reaching
to...

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The orange globe hung over the horizon ready to hand over the torch

To a waxing moon ready to watch over the cycle of disbelief and hope

An epilogue to old beginnings and fresh start to the...

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The Map

In life we choose the direction of our feet, 
often by the way those around us expect us to go. 
Shockingly, striking out on a new road, 
or moving beyond the comfort zone of...

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Welcome friends, time for an education
let's digest what Mark 9:23 is;
"...all's possible," even for your imagination
"...just believe," and you won't miss.

You see, Jesus told this young man
that all's possible if he can believe;
just keep your...

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WITHOUT A WORD OF A LIE


Please Sir, I’m sorry my homework is late.
I tried very hard to complete my verse.
But I’ve had writer’s block, which isn’t great,
And last week it seemed to get even worse
But...

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The Angel Tree

In the mall there is a…
plain green tree, 
with tags…
It has names, without faces.
It has stories, with few words. 

Wishes and fishes that make kids happy, 
Any small thing ready at hand. 
It...

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Transcendent places, from where speech returns,
where heavy hearts sigh, a pensive soul yearns,
where minds are wide open with nothing in sight,
where swords are not drawn, but steady the knight.

Here, all the world...

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A meaningful living seems me as 
To teach one’s grand mother,
To suck eggs, to make the grade,
Gracious living: ideas and thoughts,
Imagination and explanations,
But deeds, knee high to a grass hopper.

A merciful living touches me as...

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They roam the streets
In rags. The air about them
Reeks of unwashed and unshaved pits
With their unkempt hair
Only the bold would dare
Look them in the face
Market women keep their eyes
Peeled and alert
A broom or stick ready...

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