Long Roadmap Poems

Growth should be the ultimate criterion,
nucleus and kernel of every annual pledge,
for myself and other people who might gain,
from a heartfelt commitment such as mine,
that monumental new year down the clock aptly named,
global village stepping...

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Who would milk the Tigress
				
                				    wears no armour    gasmask
				pail within squat thighs
					nor bloodless...

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I need others to understand the reason for all this writing.  I need to explain to others that this writing of poems and short stories is not about me. I feel compelled to write,...

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Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing on the walls

You gaze at me with pools of wisdom
Infinite...

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the cemetery is still this Autumn day
as rain falls like kisses of love on my cheeks
to mingle with my tears . . . 
memories have shook the ocean of my sleep
so, I have come to...

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The mirror reflects a lifetime etched upon my skin; a canvas of stories whispered through maturity. I stand before it, middle-aged and exposed, my nakedness laid bare. My image holds no judgment, only truth—an unyielding...

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Don’t be like me
 
Don’t only find your creativity 
When your four leaf clover turns out to be a weed
Don’t take that extra moment to rest 
When you get knocked down
Don’t close your eyes and...

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a woman who had been crippled and infirm for eighteen years long
had a chance encounter with Jesus who healed and made her strong
that woman had been in bondage she was bound up in her life
now...

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The road was mostly broad and straight with ample lanes.                         ...

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"Untwisting all the chains that tie the hidden soul ..."
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I never saw him coming nor did I feel his shadowy presence.                       ...

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Inspiration line #4 - I Can't Believe I Thought That 

once when I was much younger 
           I was living with a boyfriend
the promise...

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everyone wants to be successful, powerful and rich
people want to be affluent, well to do and find their niche
we all want to achieve our purpose and rise into our destiny
but we must understand there's a...

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I

Ah what thrill’s life if guts we’ve to get lost!
To lose way once in a while is no sour sauce—
But way to live. Lose way haply pay cost,
A stone that goes about gathers good moss.
Let...

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“Slips the Blue Satine”



Desire bites 
a sonnet ripped 
where the voice projects
through glossy cherry bit lips
down a telephone line
wrapped around long legs

speaking soft words
welcoming you in like a quilled whip

Freedom bites
a too serious sonnet smiles
then...

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I'm not good enough.
I long to be good enough, yet that dream has not yet been realized and I wonder if it ever will be. 
Lately I feel empty and hollow. 
How did I ...

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Recognising that we are all of this,
in as all that’s manifest and vast space,
as direct knowing, not a mere premiss,
is non-dual wisdom, garnered by grace.
For most of us, who’re yet rooted in mind,
the truth absolute...

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All Eyez were watching him....watching and waiting
Someone was waiting ....hating him          ..........baiting him....
Red blood of urgency, was surging and urging him......
Fate knows the story, it is...

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 "If only God would take my grief and
 gift me yesterday and tomorrows. "

                    ...

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      . . . I am lost in a sea of memories
that scar the roadmap of my bleeding soul;
my words-    the highway to my deep pain.
I...

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Her fragile skin so very soft
disease has not yet stolen.
What too has robbed her insides
her strength's have interwoven.

Her character is the roadmap
that's become her body's canvas.
Interlacing each stitch with memories
new Life would be her solace.

Waiting...

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Among ourselves as missionaries with and for the migrants,
our ministry enables us to explore God’s love for all people;
it may entail a great deal of sacrifice or total self-giving,
in pursuit of God’s kingdom being shared...

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swan song
.
you made my world bigger
then smaller
then so large 
i did not know east from west
as i stood so alone 
in the middle of desire 
and that proverbial non-place…
wantonness
.
i showed you boats on the water
and...

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"What is our life but a succession of preludes to 
an unknown song whose first word is surrender."

          Quote by _Constance


My life has been one...

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