Long Restless heart Poems

HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF

People often say to me 
“What can you tell me about yourself” 
guess it’s my duty to explain to them 
and so I look them in the face and reply 

My...

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Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise! to beyond where breakers break long-suffering shores
pitiless the grind of...

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I wish I could be clearer too
But when a mirror comes to view
I find reflections blur the tons
Of promises I've yet to keep.
The virtues to which I aspire
Just kindling in God's cleansing fire
A testament to...

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O This little piece of earthly paradise alas is finally mine

This little piece of my very own garden of Eden
carefully preserved in it's natural state has not
yet managed to become defiled by mortal man
and yet...

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Woke up this morning missing the country way of living,
This city life is just breaking down my stride,
I’m yearning for the rolling rocky mountain highs,
And the deep lush valleys startled by ancient pines!
Sky scraper towers...

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The one with a shattered soul
even if he rebuilds himself anew
he would still feel the ache

The one who hungers for flawlessness
even if he's attained mastery
he would still perceive defects

The one who covets dominance
even if he...

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Proem

After Sir Thomas recovered the Spear of Destiny and returned it to the Pope at the Vatican in Rome, he remained there for several months serving His Excellency, attending meetings, and recovering from several minor...

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Through wanderings of dreams that simmer beneath closed eyelids,
A man chose to remain silent, waiting in vain for vibrant moments.
Wrapped in the warm cocoon of faded security,
He saw life turning down a different street, laying...

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As I lay awake at night, and cry without a fight,
I shudder from fright, and try to forget tonight.
I hear the tremble in my own sobs and screams;
I can’t seem to shake the effects of...

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My Dearest,
I think of you by day…dream of you by night
Your ever enchanting embrace has grief stricken a once cold heart
The beckoning of your lips has erupted a resting volcano, imploding as if embers of...

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In the shadow of reason, a forsaken house can be glimpsed,
An forgotten place, where memories are just pale echoes.
In the pockets of the soul, unachievements linger,
Massive dreams, lacking the spark that could be.
On the field...

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Saint Augustine so eloquently stated, “Our hearts are restless until we find our rest in Thee.”

Restless heart, “Listen to the silence”
The whispers of kindness inspiring joy
Wherever it reaches, beyond the wings
Of caressing gentleness, meek and...

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It started with such pretty words
The words that took one's breath away
They dripped too sweetly from his tongue
That's how it all began
 
The years, the months, the hours paved
the road that led the heart astray......

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As the daybreak ascends and the morn’s fresh dew is revealed,
the crack of dawn whispers while the willows sway in the wind,
surges of scattered sun beams stretch across the emerald field, 
and roots birthing stems...

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Against the pale October Moon, a lone howling cuts
Through the chill of the winter’s night, gleaming yellow
Green eyes flash in the forests wilderness wild.
Sleek mystic swift of feet, white powder chameleons,
Living by the creed of...

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In youth, I lived in gray
Gathering pearls, blood, and dust of those before me,
Straying beyond lines of black and white
Testing-Detesting- Spoonfed sweet lilac by society.

My roots twine deeply into the soil
Spreading different directions like a
Child's...

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Jim 1 

Divorced from the outside world as if you have never heard
changes in the back of my head egg shelled in design & form
some may insist on cursing the very day they were born
Dionysus...

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Anu need to know love
Flawless way to know - your heart
Seeking the soul outside of external beauty
There is no hesitation, no obstacle.

Love doesn't want to know all this
Only sweet courage knows-
And the pleasure of the...

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An agonizing decision's consequence 
Has left him second guessing 
Scattered pieces of his heart 
Are cause of two things missing
Two precious littles came into his life
When he began dating their mother
They soon became his pride...

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I thought I read love in your eyes
Now I know better
Than to assume and presume ties
Free us from the guess fetter

That had my eyes blind
Locking me up in a sentiment prison
Where you floated unkind
To glorify,...

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Sweet laughter and devotion, I have shared with none.
This restless heart so tired, of being all alone.

I’ve tried the life of Paul, but it gave not enough.
My heart is overflowing with aching, needful love.

Lord, bring...

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i've been bathing in the 
cascade of love's abyss-
ravishing in barren
moments that ignite my
intimate desires

rinse me and dry me with
crimson cloth,
so that i may be redeemed
by your fount's reverie

the constellations knew 
your captivating touch 
would...

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I met November;
with its calico seals of Samhain
slain in a fair death
and bled by symptoms of naked hours
and loneliness.

I shivered with
the Strange dread,
not of predator
or prey
but the threat
of being siphoned too deeply,
into phone -cord spirals;
into...

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When in bed and I'm alone,
I reflect upon my past.
All the hours spent awake,
My pulse is racing fast.

My restless heart beats louder,
In the middle of the night.
An unquenchable desire,
And a fire burning bright.

With your love...

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Her bathrobe hangs forgotten by the door.
Her clothes strewn all across the bedroom floor.
And I find that I don’t care anymore
For she’s still with me.
Her makeup takes up all the counter space.
My lonely toothbrush hasn’t...

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