Long Renovate Poems

The nights dispel wonders and awe 
The days unfold stupendous enigma
Angels are watching over you
As you battle this valiant crusade
A crusade for equality 
A crusade for stability
Enmesh with peace and honesty.
Angels are watching over you...

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There are some things that you have to do, to make your long-awaited dream come true. The morning with all its glory is listening silently to your body, it watches your heart beat for signs...

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Should we invite the neighbors over for dinner?
Their politics so different from ours.
All the more reason. Combat anomie!
He's worried the town's losing population
but opposes immigration. I like immigrants
but hate passing people on my morning walk.

The...

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I still cannot breathe fresh air after tarrying in this place for five long years, I still cannot breath fresh air, my stomach is stiff and the salt is burnt out of the atmosphere, the...

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The Welcome Swallow
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
Every year just before the onset of Spring
The Welcome Swallow visits our farm
We have endured the harshness of Winter
And the Swallow a welcome site for sure

For the Swallow hails warming weather
Brings...

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At one time my neighborhood was new mass-produced little boxes made of ticky-tacky – all looking just the same*
Beautiful affordable, true suburban models, in mid-twentieth century they were truly quite the rage. 
But now the...

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Lonely child
 
Dwelling under this roof that use to be bullet proof
I sit out here lost home alone
With visions of you that I carry when you were still at home
I await daily to feel your...

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If your heart aches, hungry, for the joy of grace,
If your soul seeps fear through the silent moments,
Between the falling tears…

Remember you are someone worthy and worthwhile.
You are so important to Jesus, the One who...

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Date:  Late  November 2049

Damian and Holly were conversing 
In her bedroom. Damian informed 
Her, "I want the babies names to
Be Damian Jahani,  Benachi,  and
Davon-Sahi."  She disagreed.
"Uhmem. I prefer Jofin, Adamahi,
Aand...

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He poured his heart into his work, just his way to ease the pain,
Diagnosed and with a death sentence he decided he didn’t want his last days to be in vain.
He wasn’t the type to...

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It is not The Refrigerator almost empty or unplugged...
It was The Children with-in with All Their kisses and hugs.
It definitely isn't The Cheating Heart that cons and lies.
It was The Hard Working Parents that had...

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Isn't it ironic
How the ones that yell the loudest 
Are usually the ones that have the least to say?
And isn't it moronic how the ones that we should listen to
Are buried by the avalanche of...

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the Terrifying Teens

2010 

The dark days of the great recession
Begin slowly to fade away
Ending my Barbados experience -the best job in the foreign service  on high note best labor officer award


2011 

the president and...

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Dawn, you fall upon striking radiance,
Birds lift the sky using wings patience,
Barren and wizened tree, I trust your vitality,
A sympathy that teams will ignite beauty.

In a palm tree, I sense the vicinity of God,
Insight into...

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Priceless
Correct 

If you are down and find yourself in
desperate need of cheering up

Then laughter must surely be the
best medicine

To not only rectify but turn both
your frown and mood upside down 

Because if in fact we...

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Monarchy Martyr!!!                                 ...

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Small and Extra Large Loo

ma viewed her old man in a helpful mood
her sweetness turned to  a fiery storm brewed
a two sitter for the loo
his and her  tush  fit for two
extra spicy...

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Look amidst the glorious tray
To see the terrain our act has played
Whether for the love or fun of it
The future will tell of what is done

My heart pants 
For that which my eyes do see
Even...

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you rescued me when you did not have to
my being was evicted from my body
my body was banished from the state of my mind
the state of my mind was unexpectedly annexed
the annexation was totally dismembered...

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Along the eroding banks of the Minnesota River
Lies a tranquil scene that will make you shiver
Where nature and man join together as one
Entwined around debris that time has spun.

Acre upon acre farther than the eye...

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Ayo, Once upon a time...
Their was a young brave renegade
That would love someone solely than detonate
Than pick up the pieces and try to renovate
Just so he can runaway, and escape just to celebrate
He'd instigate and...

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RENOVATION
"A battle against yourself is the thorns on a rose." 
                       ~Miranda Lambert

I...

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It grew limbs in another clay house,
eyes shut it supped at that table.
On a day or night it awoke to great confusion.
The little clay house waved its arms
and yelled.

It did not know it was a...

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'Twas April Fourteenth, Seventy-Eight.
Lest any should repudiate
what on this very special date
the two of them were doin',

Let's for a moment contemplate
their entry to the grand estate,
the legal right to procreate
through mutual "I Do"-in'.

Our hindsight intuition
says...

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We gave up our unity

With each and every barrier;

Abandoned integrity

Ushers in each disaster.

 

With our “narrow domestic walls”,

We all live in a cocoon;

Do we ever answer Nature’s call?

How do we expect her boon?

 

We defiled...

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