Long Sensitivities Poems

Driven insane by sorrow, there’s no tomorrow to cure it…
Honestly, I’m in vain and so guilty…feeling way less than legit…
I’m holding you close in my optimism and its memories along with it
Torn apart by negative...

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AS A KID AND BEYOND

did I ever wonder?
what my upbringing brought for me;
and did it disappoint
or just bring feelings to resurface,
but never sensitivities 
of deep down and personal,
and did I really care
of what there was...

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“The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gathered up gold, And now he is dying…Old age, begin sighing.”- Thomas Hood


In the amber hues, kissed by scarlet
Soothing whispers in laughing hearts,
Music, trembling...

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There were tears, salty and silent
Combing a path down my face
In rivers of longing, hopeless and desperate
Miserable and as dark as dusk’s heavy pace
Never allowing a piece of light to glimmer
Through the shadows of dread
Darkening...

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https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/awakened_1251824 
My first childhood recollection of becoming aware of the opposite sex 

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/uncle_michael_1251117 
A defining death of my uncle and surrogate father 

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/martha_and_mary_1251647 
I am a restless soul and always seeking to be active. I...

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Poem shortened due to size limit
Full Poem: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/softdevlife/contributed_articles/master/Poems/thinkbeforeyoudo.md

"Hold on my child! Watch your step!" 
My father could say enthusiastically to me
"Think before you do!" 
"The more you think first, the more abundant your life will...

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The Voice Within.

Somewhere in the depths of me,   in a place I cannot find.
    There lies the seed of longing,    for that to which I’m blind.
I feel...

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The elders speak in timeless tones to reconcile the past,
And offer truths from which we choose to fill the roles we're cast.
But though the sage will muse how well the truths can guide our way,
So...

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Gone are those times,  if ever such times were seen
When rustic shepherds shepherd their flock on nutritive green
Shepherds now lead their sheep to calamity and damnation
But today, the sheeps cry out for urgent and...

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Takotsubo


My grief would overtake me.
There was nothing that could shake me.
I could not get out of bed. I had nothing but bedhead. 
Hygiene was lacking, and I was constantly snaking. 
I could not move at...

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“ GOD … How I Appreciate The Complexities ! … “
I Appreciate The Intricate, Just-So, Subtleties
The Intellectual Nuances and Imposed Perfunctories
That Separates Our Minds, From The Minds Of Beasts …

… Oh, The Ingeniousness of Thinking...

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Run Away

Ticket counter still open but
	no planes departing
Ticket plus dog scheduled for 7:10 AM
	(Twelve Hours to nowhere)

Bag packed with who knows what.
Sidearm.38 snub-nose holstered on hip and loaded,
	permit signed by Sheriff himself.

Boarding pass left on...

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You promised me anticipation
Of a fantasy future upon introduction
Happily ever after, you offered
But don't ask questions until info conferred.

Tentative and with inward questions afire
But with soft love in my heart for what I admire
I turn...

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Dew slips down the gentle leaf,
Unburdened by the sunlight’s reflecting
Grace over the mountains, misty
With remembrance, beautiful like the burning
Wonder of a painting, only these colors
Can’t be created by any hand other than the One
Who created...

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Pieces of me
Like wind blowing through trees
Barren of leaves
In the winter of my dreams
Falling softly, like autumn thoughts
Caressing the earth
With exciting auburn, crimson
Colors of hope
Brilliant, vibrating, baptizing
The sensitivities
In visions, prose, poetry
Alive with those fragments
Of me,...

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For as long as I can remember,
I've always felt plain.
I’m sure I’m not being a lunatic.
“Plain” is not just an assumed name,
It was young, and had grew.
Contrary to morning leave dews,
Unfortunately it never went away.

To...

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A poet is a man with words,
And words a weapon are.
His words are sharply stropped and so
He makes them travel far.
He makes them cover many miles, 
Emotive  ones at that,
Digest those miles, absorbs their...

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There were moments when my prayers were lost in the winds,
I felt only the turmoil like a troubled sea under a cloudy sky,
fears and tears, echoes of deep pains,
so deep and lonely, like a boundless...

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Why Are You Here At Poetry Soup
Sponsor:Jerry T Curtis

Alone with the innate ability to accomplish my passion for writing...
months came and left, 
years flew abroad,
no one listened, no one cared,
I was just me and my...

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We have strained the edges of the universe,
you and I together, seeking, searching
on cosmic trails for justice love and fear,
I loved thee then, as I love thee now, forever.

If I were but to die, it...

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It is early on in life that Pride meets Ego. In 2nd grade in fact. Pride sits quietly admiring the gold star at the top of his drawing. Ego, sitting close by, slaps Pride on...

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there were moments, times in my life
when I couldn’t pray – all I felt was strife

there were fears, tears, leftovers from grief
so dark and lonely, I couldn’t get any relief

there were sorrows beyond my understanding
night’s...

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My drapes are drawn tight,
in the morning of our afternoon,
after the fall – beyond the light
of a silent evening spent.
Dusk spits a new shine
upon the facets of my mood ring
and sunrise alarms me again.

Fish hooks...

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My love is black widow spun
Got a red hourglass abdomen,
and a deadly sac of emotional poison

Don’t let my eight millimeter eyes
zoom it’s spider focus on you
Or my Daddy long-legged slender fingers
will digitally creep closer to...

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Shavous, True to Us
Rosh Hashanah of Fruits,
Literally, When Tree Fruit Blossoms,
Figuratively, Free Do-It Creativitus,
Earth was Created for Man's,
Improvement by Applicus,
Of Torah Chiddush Wisdoms!
1st 2,000 Years were Barren "Tohu"-ous,
Post Har Sinai, Inventous Peoples' Brainstorms,
Thus, Mortals, Sans...

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