Long Strivings Poems

In backyards of my history
lies a tidal river
of ebb and flow revolutions.

These revolutions are normally no-news evolutions
back up toward headwaters of crisis and opportunity,
diastatic and polyphonic purest capital boundary roots
for future's river flow investment
out-flowing down
from...

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Age is a verb for opening the door
Into a judgement of the satisfaction
You’ve found in life, by its opportunities
Beckoning betterment and relationship

I agree that perhaps we could’ve loved more
But you find community in your elderly...

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I’m carbon-based,
Resurrection cornerstone foundation laid
Diamond made

These obsidian eyes
sardius shine ...
agate Illuminating
my igneous bright coal face

With volcanic intensity,
my onyx lips glow
And the chest cavity 
			         pressure beneath
	 ...

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~ (~) There was this poll, it stated would you rather be informed of your punctuation 
mistakes publicly or through private message with the helper of your punctuation mistakes or 
yes maybe even not... ....

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January 3 Scripture Meditations Based on Genesis 6-8

Key Verse - Genesis 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO FIND GRACE IN YOUR EYES

To find...

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February 5 Scripture Meditations Based on Numbers 33-36

Key Verse – Numbers 33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the...

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megalomaniac 
wakes up one early morn
with a brand new personal plausible 
excuse &
this will be the answer of all
answers for
her/him, so that s/he may
beat upon the drum
a new web of madness &
stir the masses like...

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Compassion sings in velvet vibrato violin strokes, thrumming upon
an ivory frame suffused in dulcimer tones of need.

Half deaf we echo broken words, sharp jagged phrases, defining
the borders of empathy, binding the reach of the heart.

Compassion...

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To write! to truly write, to wield the pen
    as but a mere extension of the mind.
Yet contemplating, I am wont to find
    perhaps the glitch is buried there...

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Ruffling gold blooms and leaves, hue dimmed by time
A gilded frame holding a slice of life’s history
I’m drawn into the younger man, the vision sublime
Sailing stolidly upstream towards his destiny

A castle in the sky, all...

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My Favorite Things comes to mind...


a random assortment, a jumble of words
a quotient of portions, quotidian served
quixotic strivings of the great deca-dense
obscured in meaning, eschewing all sense

visions and nightmares and hallucinations
erudite arguments, odd fascinations
old geezers...

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Your heart my Love
worth more than a thousand mines of gold
they could never purchase
the purest standards from times of old
there is such beauty
in songs where justice does prevail
where the stories told
those causes the judges never...

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There’s an addict residing deep within me-
Seeking and probing for the seventh si,
In the abode of the Conscious Spirit~
Solmizate a song which on my life writ.
 
Probing for one single way of rhythm,
My strivings to...

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I should have said this on that fateful 9th of December
The year 2009 when your breath forsook the corporeal
And went to roam among the gay dancing stars;
And failure to say it has dealt my heart...

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“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
 ...

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February 9 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 24-25

Key Verse – Leviticus 24:4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO LIGHTS US 
WITH...

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Dilapidated by harsh weather.
Ivy growing over it held it together. 
Not much more than a shack.
My life ended there in that cul de sac. 
          ...

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Now is the time to be asking the night,
under a cloudless sky lit by the moon,
when in the future will all things be right?

Now is the time to be asking how soon
war will be ended,...

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TIME KEEPER

Early morning
Late p.m.
These could be thankful periods of silence
The world drowsy
Or still asleep
And my teeming head      hopefully      
      emptied...

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O child of stone, outcast, alone,
succumbing to desire.
Inside your chest, you’re sorely pressed,
assailed by a liar.

Do not believe the tales it weaves:
the lost, untethered heart.
Though it deceives, it silent grieves
the time it spends apart.

When realized,...

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Sunflower Strove with Hollyhock
    (After Donald Justice "First Death")

Sunflower maize and pink-on-stalk
two plants rising toward the sun--
a sunflower strives with hollyhock.

Past noonday hour at one o'clock,
no birds sing--no, not one.
Sunflower maize and...

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Read my pages,
Rewrite me, please,
Let it go easy on me.

Read my pages,
Feel the world around,
Lighten its weight on me.

Read my pages,
Still the tempest,
Bring perpetual tranquility.

Read my pages,
Go through my door,
Aid my strivings.

Read my pages,
Push away...

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(yeah, know it sounds like drivel, but ifya've the patience, read on to the end)

It was love at first sight
a complete bonding of souls
from the first shared breath.

I was so young
a baby, really
You were older,...

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November light and colors stream in 
through the window
and I notice it, like in the eye of a storm,
a whirlwind that has included pain and creativity
but always distraction –
of strivings and graspings at 
accumulation and...

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COULD IT BE?

A ruined garden    neglected by man
Wild growth everywhere sown
As though Earth itself might stand alone
All creeping    crawling    standing running
     ...

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