Long Striven Poems

(4.)
As Midnight Hours Call In More Darkened Hosts

Slow flows a river of doubt and regret
foaming its swirling eddies and sad pits
cavernous echoes one can not forget
nor withstand jagged cuts and hardest hits!

As sun retreats and...

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“Words We Cannot Escape”

Words we can no longer speak

we tap dance over keys 
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand 
Autumn now gone 

across white-washed notes fixated on stark enclosed walls 
the scent of old Lavender...

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Zero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no Iliad, no Odyssey.
No universe
no black hole
no zodiac
no hero
no mission, no...

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They tell us once there was a crow.
Wavering alone in the peril zone 
The feeble is not straight on a clue.
It has been winging since the era of stone.

The crow saw the cost of the...

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appropriate advice from the THIRUK-KURAL to those* who would be King: VALIARITHAL - Understanding the Wielding of Power, K473 and K474
[*like presidents, prime and chief ministers, dictators or even modern-day "emperors" under the guise of...

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You gripped your hands around my neck.. 
Looked into my eyes with hate and I still love you. 
You proceeded to drag me with no regard for the pain you’d inflict on me 
Right onto...

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My world today is a pallet of grey
like the skies above without my love
in the thermals the eagles soar
within my heart the feelings roar
crystal grey clouds shadow my life
the joy I hoped for has become...

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Character.

That's where the biggest measurements,
truest tests of worth
should lie.

And yet, 'tis not so.

Sometimes, mostly, I believe
that it's indeed enough.
That being a good man
is enough to keep me afloat.

Sometimes, rarely, . . . 
I don't.

How many...

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Your arrival predate mine by two generations
Five weeks now since
Your permanent departure
Internal thoughts conflicted
Forever reminiscin’
Your heavily influenced overture

13, a younglin’
Curtain rise’s inception
On my personal narrative
Shaped by your first instruction
Of the working traveler’s adventure
And the stupidity...

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WE SEE THE PICTURE OF "THE CORONAVIRUS" IT REALLY IS A SIGHT TO SEE! THE SIGHT OF THE CORONA-VIRUS IS TERRIBLE AN IT IS A LIFE FORM,AND WE KNOW AND REALIZE WHO IS THE CREATOR...

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Linda

Linda Blair, is a woman with too much care
in her heart for so many, who seem to care not.
This forces me to wonder ?, what it is they have got 
that entices her, lures her...

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Today, we had an in day. Fran curled up watching some movie or other. I tidied up the gardens after the recent wind and rain. Then I prepared dinner and put it in the oven.
So,...

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Because of the puerile quality of my work, as you know I have been very 
reluctant to participate in any contests.  However, Garrison Keillor has
set up among his readers, a competition that I have...

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Most people aren’t blessed with all the zest 
Of money, power and fame,
But live their lives in “quiet desperation,”
As Thoreau once famously claimed. 

As for me I once believed 
I was headed toward the stars,
But...

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The greatest holiday gift I ever received  
Goes back so many, many years
Before my life became turmoiled
And before my tears for fears

I was a child like many out there
Torn, strewn and split of kin
Mother...

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When I was young, life was hard, money scarce,
	three meals a day, a luxury.
Although some days, my folks went without,
	 never once did my sister or me!
We lived, we loved, we laughed and forgot,
	the heartaches...

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The scenery she changes, 
years pass and it feels like the lows become lower,
the pain heavier to bear.
She keeps giving herself open endedly,
hoping to find some piece of humanity.
This big bad world she feels has...

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" Spectrum Of Passion "

The deepest depths of my soul
has been reached by few, so few 
for this is my inner-being
that I do not share easily. 
I prefer to reserve the right
for anybody to judge...

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Not then as mingling personage,
and its resort,
nor as linguistic parsonage
in moments scored!

So also referenced structuring
the church in ford,
oft marks the course in buffering
a message heard!

The sight of Christ, so ruffling
with wonders chord,
all else is stemmed...

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The times have fallen hard now, to scenes played on 'unmade' roads
Without my volition, and despite intentions, goals;
Indifference took precedence; a lust of life was part,
The key to understanding then, as now,Was placed a piece...

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Stand for your beliefs 
Despite tribulations and blues
Worry not about physical, psychological or metabolic reliefs
But defend to the hilt the values

Defining, refining and buttressing your personality and character
From infancy to adulthood
Where values and beliefs are...

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First off, I see that though invisible,
how infinitely precious that you are!
My universe is incomplete without you,
and will be forever, 
since you cannot be destroyed--
modified, perhaps, but so may anyone.

Indeed, by virtue of selection,
you are...

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It has stood for decades along the county gravel road.
Skittering mice and barn owls now call it their abode.

What was once a stately building is now a shambles,
Surrounded by barren fields and prickly brambles.

Where once...

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An ox released from its yoke was I
On the day my son gained his first full time job
That yoke of responsibility 
lifted from my shoulders
A burden which had become
Almost too difficult to bear
The crushing weight...

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They sang in the streets
Neon lights, buzzing night

Glasses raised to celebrate
Times are good; precious late!

They danced on the sand
Pale moon nestling in clouds

They walked hand in hand
His cigar smoke forming clouds

They settled in the bed
Made...

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