Long Reassurances Poems

safety in number
not quite, not yet
but safety and comfort
trusted ones select
reassurances in subtle ways
challenges in gentle ways
guidance in assuring ways
thought-I am safe
lost though I fear I am
unsure where I'm headed
the new goal not focused on...

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Skin pulled tight over gaunt faces,
hollow eyes looking out at me,
fearful of what they see,
dreading pity,
empathy,
apathy,
wanting form me
only an ear,
an ear i’ve given  too many times
from those too many times
so tired is this ear
that...

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Late within this certain night, 
Reflections of a friendship gone astray, 
Spiral above my thoughts as I readily ponder
What should be said if I were to speak
One last time to you my old freind

For unlike...

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"Love in the Time of Uncertainty"



Like the tide of the ocean
coming and going
with its calm seductive 
hushed reassurances and
vociferous remonstrations
dragging me towards the undertow
I have placed my trust in lovers
that come and go like holidays...

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If you believe professional athletes
should punch their Free Speech Rights out
when they punch in their employment clock,

Why is it fair
to also believe
you have not twittered out your violent
and racist
and sexist
Free NonViolent Speech Rights
when you laid...

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Now this is betrayal at the highest,
I’ll explain the situation without sounding bias.
We've…., looked at each other for as long as I can remember,
Seen each other's nakedness, even commenting on our, member.
Spoken words of encouragement...

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Hail Mary, full of grace,
               the Lord is with you.
The Lord is with me too.
He whispers in loud soothing words
 ...

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The Wind Blew Cold

The wind blew cold upon our faces,
we turned our heads towards the east eyeing a muted sun,
clouds in their weary way sagging, formless:
the moon resists it’s rising assent skyward.

Oh orb, on which...

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I am writing this poem just for you
You know who I am referring to
You are the one that tosses and turns as you can’t decide if this dream is for you
The Lord has promised a...

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"Random Acts of Kindness"

you send the devil 
his reassurances 
of forgiveness 
through love
the blindness
corresponded
some generous
catharsis 
in a moment
of delusion
the sticky web 
nullified
words sent 
words received
morse code
S.O.S.
S.O.S.
S.O.S.
beats 
the pierced heart

the invisible bleed
next level love
the shining haze
bars...

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You want to hear me say I’ll love you forever.
And yes, I well could say those very words to you: 
For after all, they simply state the current truth.
But at the risk of seeming callous...

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With his wisdom and my charisma, we shoot strong magnetism.
To be his girl is simply magnetic phenomena.
His love is instrumental loving me without words, reassurances me that I can be his girl.
I do not need...

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What do you need right now?

I feel like I would enjoy a long retreat
from human voices,
a free to reverse
get out of jail vacation
from inside voices,
especially my own.

Who would keep you entertained?
Who would you listen to
with...

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You left in the warm golden afternoon
While the sun was still shining
But the fiery sun has set by now,
and cold and bitter rain is pouring.

A tear slips down my lonely cheek,
I remember why I’m crying,
When...

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I heard bankshots last night,
sounded like vault robbery for sure
These startled eyes, which got rudely awakened,
saw some masked bandits
mute walking on a one beam teller ...
not cash registering one word

No safety deposit reassurances were heard,
only...

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I was here last week

using the blood-stained tears of adversity to document the quarrels of my mind on 
your walls 

The passion that went into each stroke 
held tightly in each breath 
could not be...

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Learning to let your words
stand as spoken,
a broken place in my heart 
is reaching to find hope
in an inhospitable space. 
I sit in my bed and dread, 
searching for the bravery 
to accept comfort in...

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Good intentions gone unseen
Is it just coincidence
That all my intentions have gone unseen.
It doesn't matter what I do
There's always a distraction to intervene.

As it messes with the rule book
Exceeding Boundaries in its lifes pathways.
I can't...

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I knew it was over when I started waiting more,  
Talking to me became to you just like a mundane chore.

I knew it was over when your texts got shortened,  
Our fights became...

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Is it just coincidence 
That all my intentions have gone unseen. 
It doesn't matter what I do
There's always a distraction to intervene.

As it messes with the rule book
Exceeding Boundaries in its lifes pathways.
I can't remember...

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If God were to smile upon me as in the days of old
If he gentled my step and blessed me
with soft spoken reassurances of love—

If He were to rise on my behalf
with righteous indignation,
and only...

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You, my life, my love;
What more can I give to you?
You have my heart,
I've pledged my soul.
No matter your reassurances,
that doesn't seem, to me, enough;
I yearn to surrender more, give you even more than I...

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Mom

In every memory I have of you,
I hear a smile in your voice.

   Even as my soul weeps at its loss.

Still…
After twenty years,
          ...

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I swallowed an apricot seed when I was younger.
Everyone told me it was hard work to grow fruit trees

especially when winter marches south and tries 
to pry all those tiny orange dots from stubborn

wooden hands....

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A sound that I have come to love
Reaches my ears through night
And when the darkness threatens
He protects and shows me light
Clouds and stars swirl in his eyes
Do tell occasional thunder
And when his reassurances I hold
I...

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