Long Sturdiness Poems

Psychologically still thirteen 

Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener 
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship, 
(whereby one or the other of us)...

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Even though you're hours upon 
hours away...

You make me feel like a 
whirlpool being fueled by the 
rain... 

Sucking up every word and 
hmmm that you breathe...

Constantly drowning all of the 
doubts that tread in...

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for Granny Letchumi (b. fin 19th C. - d. 1978)

Once i was a prince in your highbeamed palm-thatched house
  timber and stone
   of hardened mud and cold green shiny cement
in your village...

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I kneel to pray beneath an oak tree’s leaves,
where my journey began.
Broken limbs straggle over a patchy lawn,
a neglected place full of holes, 
shoveled from childhood memories.

I bow at the altar of the tall oak.
Days...

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consider the source
could tell had been a big horse
could run a great course
(who we did endorse)
(in state of remorse)
(ran while in full force)

a place we would reach
where trump will have to impeach
contract he did breach
(terrible...

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April 27 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 29-31

Key Verse – 2 Chronicles 29:2-2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his...

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May 22 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 10-15

Key Verse – Psalm 10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever…

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY KING FOREVER
      ...

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Mother would patschke
early that day in the kitchen,
and recruit any guest, who
blindly ambled thru front door
suddenly trapped unwittingly
squarely (triangulated) into kitchen
forcibly impressed to help

set up buffet tables
and/or given carte blanche to prepare
some mysterious dish,
(a hodgepodge...

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I see that acacia tree 
and I get vacuumed back to the past.

When we both had 
a different type of light in our eyes,
with the reflections of that clear brook
evident in our irises,
where we thought...

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whittlin' away
- an essay

I went to buy a pocketknife
recently for a preteen I know,
a small boy with wide dreams
and spaces to live in that match

The usual hardware haunt was
quite limited in its selection,
so I went...

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By the inspired Word of God* revealing heavenly vision-record
We’re redeemed from sin-penalty’s cord
Assured of salvation so secured from eternal hell’s discord
With His love that granted us everlasting life’s accord.

By God’s Book of heavenly vision-account
We’re shown...

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In the cool of the drink-drenched, wine-soaked night
He searches the streets for a friendly doorway
To hold him through his sleeping hours
As he totters, stumbles, and finally collapses
Onto a wooden bench placed in his path.

Lying on...

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In a drunken state I lay here in bed with my notebook and a piece of pen, 
no one in my house not even family nor a rat in the den, 
creating another craft from...

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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. By Leonardo da Vinci. 


In a chasm of hate, shards descend,
Crystallized thoughts; their paths now bend.
Splintered and cracked in a furious fall,
Merging, dreary roads white...

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chit chat but no chewing
Nothing could be as safe as a two pronged apple cart rotating on a journey. Such sturdiness. If a single voyage is thick with angst and full of weeds. Lie down...

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I awoke a clock and watched it countdown towards known silence,
I arose and given the floor the reason for its presence,
Day spent amidst the greenery moored to tawny sturdiness,
Morning sun entice the blooms their ascent...

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“Within the fog, the distant mountains strain,
bruised in shades of lavender and forest green
each angle, decomposing in the rain.”

The lion roars; clouds morph into its mane
as lightning flashes streak across the scene, 
within the fog,...

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Amidst the bright light and the sumptuous summer sunshine,
Why does the beam gleam of the thin rays of darkness enwrap?
The sturdiness of our bones fails, as though we've lost our spine.
Our inner sanctum is erased...

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On the edge of a tear her world is bungled
so is her love life yet she feels alive

She doesn’t recognize what she’s feeling
Sadness deep in her throbbing heart

She senses her aloneness her loneliness
Surprisingly good in...

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Into a wall you made me crash
My insides were turned to mash
I feel so weird and mushy
I am wobbly and gooshy
Like jello you make me shake
My control you had to break
With the softness of your...

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Into a wall you made me crash
My insides were turned to mash
I feel so weird and mushy
I am wobbly and gooshy
Like jello you make me shake
My control you had to break
With the softness of your...

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...inspired by 'Goodnight' by Seamus Heaney

From dark to black they staggered,
felt for familiar surfaces,
they groped until the lantern flickered,
faint glow resurrecting shadows.

Cold and flaggy floors uneven,
up and down they skittered
like two drunkards on a binge,
finding...

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Years ago, the straws we used
Were paper ones, some striped.
Then plastic ones took over,
Since their sturdiness was hyped.

My grandkids love the bendy-types
In neon-colored hues,
Especially when from the box
Their favorites they can choose.

But it has been...

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Just as clear as a whistle
Hear Her words of wisdom
Though it is but a whisper.

Just as clear as the Caribbean Sea
See the depth of Her charisma
Though it is but an ethereal plea.

Just as clear as...

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