Long Rosy cheeked Poems

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
					1 Cor. 15:55
1 Dread conqueror! Destroyer of all, 
Thou---the king who conquers every king
Thou---restrained by no wall
Thee a captive none shall bring

2 Swords 'gainst...

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taking an early walk along the shore
awaiting for the royal entrance of the new day
through His Love Divine---
I hear the whisper of the cold and gentle wind into my ears saying:
the arrival of your majestic...

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March

Sweet, bitter March,
last year tears haven’t dried out up 
till now and yet you
are already at the door,
knocking lightly!

Sadness is still flapping over my head like
a frantic goose, what have you brought with you
to silence...

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For my adopted grandmother Nancy Enloe

I met you at a friend’s house,
standing stately on your cane,
tall and rosy-cheeked like me.
In your smile, I basked and thought,
“Long-lost cousin, could you be?”

Like my great aunt...

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In the Dark Night Sky

In the Dark Night Sky, a “Pale Moon” now arises suddenly, 
With clouds of ice sparkling in a frozen-cold ring around it; 
While your bright, rosy-cheeked face appears as a paste-like
Image...

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Full and ablaze with luminosity
The November moon hung low
A young couple out for a walk
On this night filled with 
crimson and gold leaves
Blanketing a path
Filled with hopes and desires
Stopped to gaze upon the 
Star-lit sky...

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E nchanted by the elements, Goddess Earth excitedly
A rises, anticipating all her awe-inspiring artistry; 
R eveling in the rapture of the rivers’ ripples or roses’ rare redolence;
T antalizing us with her talent for turning out...

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A joy it is to see
planted in his honor
A Memorial Tree
Roots, memories of Milton
and a kind act for the ecosystem
Forget-Me-Nots shall be written
by your poetry pals, ‘till then
RIP
Lewis Milton Hankins
[Poet]
December 5, 1941 ~ December 22,...

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Steel Gray skies with threatening rain and restless wind
My breath gathers as mist on the inside of the window pane
...as I watched for the school bus

A slender birch tree with spiral scars 
of flayed bark...

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Sung to the tune of "Winter Wonderland"

Merry Solstice Bells

Deck the halls, hang some holly
‘Cause it’s time for sport and folly
Winter is here
Let’s be of good cheer
Ringing out the Merry Solstice Bells

Gather ‘round the blazing fire
Tell...

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"Wedding Dress"



Innocence 
betrayed a white page
divesting romantic notions
of a pristine life marked
by sibilant soft-tongued seduction 
green apple plucked
wrapping serpentine legs like vines 
rosy cheeked blushing 
a student smarting around
Garden of Arden's Puck
captured essence 
from a...

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Christmas was never about God for me,
it was memories of warm laughter, rosy cheeked joys   	
for if God was the point, whose God would it be?

Xmas was about giving to your protégées.	
Long, long,...

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We walked through the park, it had just turned noon,
In a cloudless blue sky, sat a pale crescent moon.
Dressed 'gainst the cold we tramped through the snow,
Tingling cold fingers, our noses aglow.

The pond it was...

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Sea Of Love

Holidays on gilt kissed shores 
In the season of suns
Is a dream after every wintery travail

With springy feet I had scoured the soft sands
Running a relays with assorted sea-shore temptations -
Corals, kites, sandy...

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Saved from my own cloaks of darkness; torn from grips
of deceit. I lift my prayers to sun-blushed skies.
The truth, I share, in shades of pink. In worship,
undaunted, rouge-stained dreams turn to gold. The lies
no longer...

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Winter’s snow softly falls, flurries
invite me to a magic kingdom -
naïve of bitterness.  Cold and warmth
tethered together -  in lover’s arms, in hats and coats,
ethereal frozen hands over a chestnut fire.
Rivers made with...

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House stands in mock defiance
of blustery winds that blow,
ice crystals pelting windowpanes,
precede the winter snow.

Barren limbs stretch to sky,
frost hardened furrowed fields
await the winter season,
anxious for spring yields.

Landscapes agonize for change,
snow flurries soon appear,
covering white...

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the spring rains have come 
with the promise of cleansing and rebirth
striking the earth with a   slap
resuscitating the bed of worms

the air itself becomes  comes
thickens with longing   scrubbed
and beaten to...

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Shivering moonbeams twinkle, 
whispered snowflakes flutter in their light
Hand in hand we stroll along flurried wishes,
leaving footprints of desire

I wrap you in my arms
as ice crystals sparkle on your lashes
and I see a warm spring...

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Polling the masses and the upper classes
Sickly sweet smiles, just like molasses
With duplicitous skill they fail to give answers
Spinning the words like ballroom dancers 

The lips that kiss the rosy-cheeked babies
Are the same ones that...

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