Long Stalwarts Poems

In my New England town
our local Democratic Party runs everything.

Some would argue these local celebrities
and self-promoting treasures
to posterity
rather over-run everything,
and surely we could find some truth
in this way of seeing,
but we are learning a spirit...

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Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon

Tantamount to shrugging Atlas off mine bony, 
   ill suited,...

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Challenged by the visionary speaker decades ago
I had a dream to become a tribal missionary to spread heavenly glow...

To make myself engaged in every discipleship engagement
involving in worthy tasks of counselling settlement...
 
Looking forward to...

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In the depths of Van Gogh's starry night,
A passion burned, and a soul took flight.
Colours swirled in a cosmic dance,
His paintbrush, his fervent romance.

Michelangelo with marble white,
Carved life from stone, a glorious sight.
David emerged with...

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Non Human Sensate Beings Linkedin, Sans Omnipotent Bonds

Extant latent forcefields transcend
across avast panoply multitudinous biosphere
scads of diverse living entities
innately born with
inherent capacity to care
embedded within cellular

pith and marrow,
sans plethora of unlike those
pesky conniving Facebook organisms,
the...

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November 6th 2018 - election day

Later today after
     all votes get cast
post final countdown,
     the winning candidates
     ought to be known
  ...

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On those days, magazines would exist
Innumerable writers used to contribute
Ours mightn't appear for a long time
We would look into the magazine sadly

Great stalwarts would always succeed
They would be lauded by many fans
As we would get...

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Through The Valley Page 187

From reality, now only a memory 

Pfc. Tony May crawled over to Zbozien to give him some protection when the first smoke rounds struck between the line of hootches and NVA...

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They say “You are only as strong
as the person standing beside you.”

There have been times when that thought…
frightened me, for the person standing
beside me……..was……..well……
let’s just say….. I didn’t choose to stand
beside them.

Perhaps it was a...

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And if by love they should be saved
lift them by angels
in innocence to a horizons trumpet

They who have fallen unnumbered
to the hate of bullets
and the factions of brush aside politics

And then by flag those nations...

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SLOW POKES
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


A gut wrenching sight I witnessed this morn
A tragic  encounter that left me forlorn
I saw stumbling wrecks of what was strong
Bent over and lame not much time to prolong
They are seniors...

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Ode to Autumn

Pumpkins on porches, crudely cut, ferocious faces
Wisps of white smoke melting into cold clear skies
Hands held as if praying, to crackling fireplaces
Odors of allspice waft from plump pumpkin pies

Cold swirling winds, skirling leaves...

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Even as I prepare my departure,
Boys of tomorrow, I think of you.
I'm leaving behind for you
What I inherited from the departed,
Lest I become like a rock 
Which knows not its children.

Take heed dear ones, someday,
You'll...

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Enfeebled by suffering, my steps refused to abide my call
              Tears streamed down when opportunity gently walked into my life
  ...

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New Year 2012

At last year’s New Year bash in the ballroom at the hotel, had two 
hundred guests, this year 45 guests and the room was chilly and 
had melancholic echo of yesteryears.  A...

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Cancel Culture, Black Lives Matter,
Me too movement, Gay rights too,
Social media so much chatter
Have a gripe, just join the queue.

Pro-choice stalwarts, pro-life hawks,
Farm to table, Save the earth,
A world of slogans, countless squawks
A new cause...

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Hear ye this last call for lonely hearts:
Vanquish melancholic darts
upon fortress of true love’s ramparts
securing compassion-propped stalwarts
braced by God, along His comfort-carts 
fortifying and blessing blissful starts…
…as He ends gloom; and despair, He thwarts.

This summon...

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Stalwarts of fondness will last for eons,
a humble candle flame that glows as neon.
If my love for you is at a searing depth,
dyes pierce the air as beams on breadth.

Only love can heal the molten,...

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Beautiful lions without presumption or stare,
Rightfully existent in time, contribution and air, 
Ending fright and despondency from stalwarts, 
Asking nothing but your reaction, leaning and heart:
Thwarted by trends, images of culture and expectation,  
Hearing...

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I threw a grand party
I invited all my Celestial friends
The clock was ticking
I hardly had time to breathe

I invited all the stalwarts
The stars the planets the comets the moon
And then there was me the sun
And...

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old couple

The evening is dark, and the street light tells 
the leaves have fallen, except for two stalwarts holding on
 but they will not be there at first light.
On our walk, we stop at a...

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We write of love, we
write of glory, we
develop heroes for
our story.

Heroines, damsels fill
our dreams, desire and 
passion write in reams.

We are consorts of the
meek and the bold, in 
truth and honesty our
words are sold.

The ink...

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Drifted deep in wintry dark 
she's in decline, as useless 
as a sailboat in a storm.
Once a haven for hikers, 
a shelter for stalwarts and strays
till the mountains gave summons,
now forlorn and disregarded, 
like a...

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Drifted deep in wintry dark 
she's in decline, as useless 
as a sailboat in a storm.
Once a haven for hikers, 
a shelter for stalwarts and strays
till the mountains gave summons,
now forlorn and disregarded, 
like a...

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Drifted deep in wintry dark 
she's in decline, as useless 
as a sailboat in a storm.
Once a haven for hikers, 
a shelter for stalwarts and strays
till the mountains gave summons,
now forlorn and disregarded, 
like a...

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