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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she  rose from depths of his despair
followed an artistic youthful 
                       D
...

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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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July 28 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 1-5

Key Verse – Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as...

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October 21 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 1

Key Verse – Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible. 

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO DOES WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE

Luke 1:37 Praise be to...

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August 29 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 1-4

Key Verse – Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month,...

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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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The “Bench” sits proudly among the trees,
perched high and overlooking the beauty of the water down below.
Exquisitely black, it seems to hypnotize,
beckoning you to stop for a spell.
Once captured, an involuntary trance arises;
you’re transposed to...

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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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November 5 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on John 5-6

Key Verse – John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US TO WALK

Praise be...

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November 15 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Acts 9-10

Key Verse – Acts 9:6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him,...

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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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September 11 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 40-42

Key Verse – Ezekiel 40:1…In the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. 

PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR...

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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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