Long Stop dead Poems

My momma was big on naps when I was a girl.
Until I was eight years old, she sent me to my room on summer afternoons.
It was probably because of the heat in the south,
The way...

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There is a woodpile in my in-laws’ cellar, and some coal, but other rumored things also.
And it has been there a long time since anyone tripped down these broken concrete steps.
Maybe twenty or thirty years;...

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DEAD END STREET --WHY do dead end roads Exist


"Are you my enemy, if you’re not my friend?
Alternative exit without exit should be posted dead end
When “Google” tells you turn right at the bend
Daylight night time...

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The jealous wife

Just an ordinary day
Lost in my own thoughts
I think of you
What happened to us?
Where did it all go wrong?

I take a walk into town and stop dead on my feet
I see you, with...

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Walking along from the public house late that night 
My lantern giving just a little light
My thoughts as I walked, was I very late?
The time unimportant the year eighteen thirty-eight.

A scream I heard, from a...

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Overwhelmed

Sometimes it feels like it will never be OK
It goes on and on and on
Darkness creeps in and you cannot see the light
Prayers seem to have fallen upon deafened ears
Does evil continue to win?
Destruction and...

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Morning arrives, out of bed, coffee beckons, 
Pass the hallway mirror, reflection directions. 
Stop dead in tracks, return to check the vision 
Looking weary despite night's invasion. 

Closer inspection of my face 
Hair receding but...

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Push your records over to the floor upsetting your ever so neat pristine world –
feckin’ mess! Know your actions before you do them, ha!
Catch me now, around the shop you chase me red anger on...

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It’s Maysville Kentucky’s own,
Laurie Ginn writing her poetry.
Snuggled down in the hills,
There’s no other place to be.

With an active happy life,
Her heart overflows with joy.
She loves our Heavenly Father,
And has two 6’2” teen boys.

She has...

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I frown into the mirror.
What happened?
Yesterday, we were newlyweds.”

"Fifty  years ago," he says.
“You lost half a century.” 
There's my husband, slouching
in the recliner, thinning hair,
frayed collar, expanding stomach.

A slow smile spreads across my face.
I...

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Slowly...ever so slowly...
White transition to shades of gray and black
Fallen into darkness...
Falling into oblivion...
Falling into the abysses shadow...
Falling...falling...falling...

Others...plead your name...
Calling for you...
But you can't see them...
You can't hear them...
They always try to help...
But deep...deep down...
You...

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All clocks stop dead as the time demon prepares to strike me again
A pause in time just to grind me down 
 As the clocks strike on its thirteenth hour
The time when darkness starts to...

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The passage through life is like an unchartered river leading to the sea.
The uncertainty of the flow is always something that’s real
You may move very fast or hardly move at all. 
You may traverse a...

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TWIN    BUILDERS


Took a break  from  years of research
And worked  in a  small town building a new church.
Local priest there resembled  me, so they said.
Old ladies in the...

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She had now where to turn to
She had no where to go
she ran down beside my street
Crying out of pain

And from my window i watched her cry
So painful it seemed to me

But then some one...

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~*~

Close your eyes
To your surprise
Wake up never recognized..

Time beyond the looking glass
Nonchalantly travels past
Without a single question asked..

Judgmental eyes stare in vain
A victim of a curious brain
Begin at the beginning then start again..

Like falling...

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my feet punch the dull, rugged pavement as I slink down the cool quiet night with only the harsh stale lamp to highlight my way ahead. A presence is felt as the hairs on the...

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I met him a long, long time ago,
denim clad and dusty leather boots
sitting astride a motorcycle
He took off his helmet; I stumbled
only to stop dead on my hazed tracks
and crashed in his ocean sapphire eyes.

Scattered...

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Do you race to win?
Seems to me we really do.
Like the win when we compete.
Or do you want to be like me?
I’m never first, can’t you see.
I have three speeds that I go.
There’s stop, dead...

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Stars moving in the night

A strange happening, a strange sight!

I watch in trepidation or puzzled freight?

There's something else out there beyond the night.

A cold stillness fills the air

I see them moving now as a pair

They...

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hooves echoing against the ground. 
His eyes met with a certain lass. 
Joyful at heart. 
His eyes tried her on, alone with limitless possibility. 
He thought of his coat. 
Warm, comforting. 
She fit him perfectly....

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All eyes stare up in the night sky.
An amazing red moon stares back.
All these questions, but no real reply.
Red moon, red moon, who are you?

All thoughts of creation stop dead in their tracks.
Cosmic awareness is...

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What if I said one more time..
Would you get what I meant? 
What if I said, in a few hours my heart would stop dead. 
What if i told you my heart has been hard as cement?
What...

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