Long Surer Poems

Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the friendly praise
coloring the seals with such sweet appeal 

lavender lilacs...

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Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the friendly praise
coloring the seals with such sweet appeal 

lavender lilacs...

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Learning disabled, hopelessly unemployed
Troy can't write the address for his next interview.
Warehouse stock, 331 Tiffany Street, in the Bronx.
His girlfriend, Trinity, also unemployed,
with one child by Troy. She's more resourceful
but doesn't realize it. For one...

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In the silence of the heart,
There lives a beauty, a gentle thought,
Pulsing and burning through the doubt,
Shadowing the wonder, the joy
Pouring out from the soul who believes,
The music, so blessed, like one who sees
Through the...

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Leaving the guesswork out of my story,
Listening – cold, like the bittersweet
History of a woman who remembers only
The difficult moments who made her
Bolder, wiser, surer – more like a portrait
Of who she was intended to...

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"Has solitude ever led your steps down a forest path . . . "

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She's a Messenger, a standard bearer of a Message of Love.  She's Love's unforgettable fruition and flower.  With Her trusty hounds bounding along beside Her, She suddenly races ahead, crossing the beach, down...

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I have walked in the valley of the shadow of death, and I have feared great ill
And stumbled over stony ground, where surer feet have fell.
I’ve known the loss of guiding hand and mourned its...

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Travel the pathway of my life,
Read the letters written in thoughts untold,
Bold memories and precious joys,
Inspirations who reveal my heart’s silence,
Mixed with rhythms of grace, hope and peace
Feelings who tempt souls to believe…

Yes, this is...

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Age is just a number
True, this axiom proves
Age, despite our thoughts
When we were so young
Is just that, a number…
It doesn’t make us ancient
It doesn’t make us pointless
It doesn’t make us redundant
Or reflect the silence of...

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I felt ashamed when I realized that, in fact,
Life is a masquerade party, where I stood without a mask,
I wandered with my uncovered face beneath the chandeliers,
Among specters and shadows hiding their secrets under false...

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The rhythm, quiet and swelling
Memories, breathing
Naivete through wonders
In sapphire, azure, passions
Alive on laughing mysteries, skies
Brilliant and alive – wise
Like the sunlight’s reflections

Pulsing with notes of musky
Forest scented rainbows,
In crisp, cool echoes – glimpses
Obsessed with the...

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Sometimes, breaking – there is a sense of God’s love
Stirring – bleeding through the shadows,
In silhouettes of gladness – a dance with the wonderful,
Silencing all the dark’s promises, remembering only
  	Soft trembling of an...

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Signs 

In all that my eyes behold, I see such splendor.
In the waxing of the moon and the rising of the sun I see the signs.
In the sparkle of a star and the opulence of...

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(Christ's nature pictured in a little child.)



Should Christ desire his nature known,

 His manner so meek and mild.

 Could he not take one of his own,

 Reveal himself in a child?



 Wide eyed in faith...

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Summer meant playing with cousins
Until the fireflies started to dance and glide
Soaring just beyond our small hands
And, then, sometimes reaching the end
Of a journey inside a Mason jar

Summer meant riding with the window down
In a...

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Two scores and more years back, as I recall, 
I find my left elbow pounding with pain 
Mere bending it when turned a task no small, 
And left me clueless for the cause for strain....

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It seems, in truth, that I'm such a glutton,
          For a pulsing, lighted or sliding button.

Christmas, for me? An arriving shipment,
     ...

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John 20:29 (KJV) “Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”

Even though I can’t see Him, 
I know He...

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Love changes me from doubtful to hopeful
From down and out – to up in the clouds
From worried and anxious to happy and content
From lost in the sorrow
To inspired by the moments of grace

Love changes me...

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The Middle Time is now upon me,
And the tune to which I dance is somewhat thin;
A ghost remembrance of that cacaphonous din
To which my steps were measured in my youth.
I know there lies now less...

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Just a few months ago
I didn’t know this woman
Who became my friend
And someone who I love
A friend who I defend
As the smile, the giggle…
The gentle tug of the heart,
The kindness that reminds
Secrets, silence, soothing
Comes from...

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We are born DNA syntax,
cryptic receipts with multigenerational redemption value,
to redeem through this incarnation
fully functional potential for ecological
co-intelligent
co-operative economic practice,
through polycultural intent,
mutual subsidiarity of peace co-passioned just rightness
declared only through solidarity in comprehensive consciousness.

Who are...

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Who is this would-be Redeemer
stalking my own mirror?
Whether for good or evil
I remain stuck in 
ambivalent.

Riding Time's unfolding edge,
glancing forward for faith in better
stronger
surer lasting light
glancing backward darkens optimistic hope
to change what I cannot
yet
to fulfill...

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Kissing away the yesterdays
With joy that sincerely believes
Tomorrow will grow a better dream,
Something surer and greater,
Something my heart’s creativity…
Sings, silent and sweet, gentling away
The past with all its doubts, its dark
Feelings caught up in the...

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