Long Shinned Poems

What I Dreamed That Night

Looking out of the window
While snow fell to the ground
Reminded me of a dreamed
And the peace of mind I found
Before I fell asleep I
Had many questions
 In my heart
On how to...

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I walked alone
along a sandy and lonely beach.
The raging waves from the sea
crashed onto the slimy sea shore.
The riding waves were white and bare,
but when they violently crashed, turned white and black.

I walked along the...

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Xiou Xue
         ‘Little Snow’ her story. ( my son's family 'home helper)
Ma wars, with earth to conjure a meal,        ...

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A sweet flower's funeral
displayed in the cold months
of snowy weather and bone chilling shivers.
A sweet flower burned away, dried up;
buried six feet under.

Oh, my sweet flower,
how you once bloomed with no remorse,
like a madman blooming...

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Few hearts to mortals given 
who seek and breathe design
who will not settle for less than what
gives full surrender to heart and mind

My mind was ever moving
in regions dark to thee
with depth that groaned to...

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She’ll always be our family’s valedictorian of sight…
For
 She was the no nonsense type of woman who gave all of her love and insight to the world…
That was her gift, her sight and God’s sun...

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This is a song by Rascal Flatts that I have requested to
                       ...

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I walked too many miles
and ran so few feet
that my heart skips beats
when the women pass me by

Here I am,
alone in a world of loners
and beast and man alike
sleeping on park benches
smoking cigarette buds
and breathing...

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Float above you 



My cat
Though small
Is a 
Mighty hunter.

Often trophies
She left
On my door
From her nightly stalking.

A robin that
Will never fly
Trilling couplets 
In cloud stained skies.

A mouse that will
 Never scurry
In the wood-grain walls.
Chanting lays
About the...

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I would like to be able to repay you
For everything that you've done.
But I doubt that I will live long enough
Because that list goes on and on.

You have been my angel,
My soulmate, and best friend.
And...

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Come see! Come see! shouts the children.
For this day there has been a baby born.
His parents traveled many days and nights,
all the towns, cities would not allow them rest.
They were so tired, exhausted, the woman...

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As stubborn as my daughter can be
She wouldn't move
She stayed in her room and cried
I peeked inside her room
And imagined I would see a young doe 
Wide-eyed and with tears 
Peeking back at me between...

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Will it be from tribulation that shall cause us to separate
The stress of a situation causing us to chose such a fate
Each day brings a new trial weighing upon our shoulders
As there, just underneath, that...

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Our Love

My heart starts aching late at night,
When I start dreaming of you.
Remembering all the memories of light,
All the good times and the bad with the feelings due.
I'm crying every night,
Because of all we lost.
I...

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To the little girl I used to be, 
I should have helped you get free . 

Remember those days we wanted to fall to the ground, and our hearts emotions weren’t aloud to be found.

Feeling...

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I met an angel today,
in the bright sunshine
as houses burnt down
and the fire department showed up to
ash and dust, rubble of the past.

She was beautiful,
with starlight Hazel eyes and 
a cute smile.
Her teeth shinned bright...

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Weakened by the illnesses of life my body required 
assistance to breath.  It progressed to the machine 
totally doing all the work.

Life can wear you out to the point of a wringed out 
towel...

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        Poets' Playground


We can hide from life with umbrellas 
of daisies.
Walk in forests pretending we are 
cute as squirrels.
But, alas we live in a real world.
You know~ the...

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When Peg laughs like Liz
deep woman-hearted laugh
eating beef jerky on Mesa Verde

the good hearts and smarts of women
come back to me, not guessing
any better than they at the time what love

meant, leaving them behind in...

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Bright and so bright as a star
Dangling in the brilliant sky
I stood staring in the sky
Stood feeling like a hero
Stood feeling like a crowned star
Stood shinning like a dynamite diamond
Stood feeling more than a hero
With...

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God shinned his light 
And said you will be a mother 
tonight
I have a daughter that is 
beautiful  and kind 
I know I can call on her any 
time 
She is pure and honest In all 
that she...

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I escaped the dreadful gleams of radiant light
which pierced my sight with it's blazing rays
I couldn't see anything before me, it surrounded me
I saw nothing at all

So I closed my eyes to the blasting light
Which...

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Alders sway in the wind
Like dawn of immortality destiny has grinned
Towards the unknown echoes mind has shinned
By the self connected destiny soul and expanse are twinned

Everything created has seeds of its own destruction within
That is...

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Behind these blue eyes is a story, a memoir, a biography. A story that tells so much. So 
much has happened behind these blue eyes. So many tears have fallen from them, so 
many smiles...

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Spring morning,
quiet. One coyote,
three deer 
running in snow.

What else have I seen?
A sparrow hawk in mid-air snatch
a robin, a sharp-shinned hawk catch
a rabbit in its talons.

A deaf mute in a pear tree.
Not one wolverine
in Utah...

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