Long Sheilds Poems

August is ending with a heat that gives no mercy to the land or man
so intense that the air swelters off the river into the tree tops,
looking ahead, its as if we are passing through...

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September is aging with a cool beauty
and the Missouri seems to be hurrying the expedition
into a world of natural splendor that is impatient to strip our spirit to it's bare light,
in my silent moments of...

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Now that December has descended
with it's roots of ice and skies of snow
our timber fortress is a sanctuary of ethnographic enlightenment
and embassy that entreats the exchange of craftsmanship, 
lately I have been preoccupied with my...

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I wear a veil of iron mesh,
it sheilds me from sensation,
it's like the one that Jackie wore
after Jack's assassination.

I was just a youngster then,
but, deep inside, I knew,
that with that act of violence
came the end...

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the Lord gives us a shield of faith
he protects us at all costs
he picks us up when all else seems lost
he  sheilds us   from the sun rays
and from the the perils in...

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The river smells like damp cotton this morning,
the weather has been so complimentary to our exertions
frost invades the nights nicely and soft sunshine comforts our faces in daytime,
we have been averaging 26 miles per day...

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Damn it!
Crouching low on the ridge with Joseph and Rubin we see
that twenty horses or more are grazing with a group of Indians in the valley,
through the telescope two things are clear
the Indians are young...

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love to sit and write 
  not a poem 
    not a song
        just for fun,
words that ease 
     ...

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thank you Lord for the gifts in my life.
the farah fawcett, the michael jackson my willy wonka,the muhamad ali, the al green.
the prince, the babyface, the elvis presely, the johnny taylor and b.b. king.
the john...

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Roman Politics. 

The coldness of the night merged seamlessly 
with the coldness of daybreak. 
A weak sun did nothing to raise temperatures 
or spirits. 
The Legionnaires leather coats creaked and cracked 
as morning dew met...

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And in mortal men

we often find, in the end,

we are our own mortality.

In that we drive the spitfire beast of ambition into the sun

to dance among stars

with the reins in our hands like firey wings

and...

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An innocet meeting at castle feilds,
we instantly put up, our defensive sheilds,
a chance meeting,two worlds so distant,
the attractment seemed so inconsistant.

Curiosity brought our worlds closer,
my delinquency and laughter really throws her,
ora beacons shone bright that...

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Steep-roofed great oak doors sheen of sheilds
Deep tombs stones shrines honoured dead
distant past creaking of rafters carved red oak
Stones in a mysterious rivers course.............
 the rush of life whirl past ancient ships
Rams skull masks crescent...

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Thru darkness unknown to you
you speak the truth
but no one hears
You're all alone in a world of dreams 
but you can't wake up
No one knows you're gone
The pain you hold is a secret from all
Nightmares...

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He comes and goes like a thief in the night
Pinching and tickling the bottoms of my feet 
It might be irrelevant but its relevant to me
That he takes out time from heaven to still pick...

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I am not as strong as i think i am
sometimes i feel so down
sometimes i am so lonely
sometimes i am so blue
and i sit and wonder
just what am i to do

Im not as strong as...

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Dread felled my fellows hearts, woes unseen from those on high
Bled, swells my fellows hearts, foes unseen from hills nigh'
Crashing, sweeping, weeping, boom and splashing, near imposing doom
Locked in the mortal struggle gloom and gnashing...

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Dancing flowers plop at fullest bloom
in the rustled yellow burnt fields.
It sways an echo after the winds
and hits the grass aside who sheilds.

The dawn casts its tangerine color
after the flattery feilds of Daisies,
and a child...

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