Long Tarrying Poems

 It begins at home
even closer: it begins "I"nside
I have forgiven failures, failing in faith, inside me
Have you? Until you do, it is almost too hard
To forgive your imperfect parent, and therefore Father-in-Heaven
Lest it seems,...

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Son,
these words of my heart 
will neither come out of pity
nor will go down the wind
nor, again, will build any city.
But lend me your ears, baby,
and listen to what an old man
can say despite the...

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March 21 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 29-31

Key Verse –1Samuel 30:8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him,...

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May 15 Scripture Meditations Based on Psalms 69-72

Key Verse – Psalm 70:5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no...

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I think I can remember, maybe dreamed, 
a bright green field one handsome summer day, 
the Duke's blue tent resplendent with its flags, 
his drummers practising for Festival, 
a sense of things to come -...

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March 28 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 7-10

Key Verse – 1Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your...

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Saturated with fish fry smells, Bar-B-Cue smoke,
rodeo dust and sounds of deep water blues,
with teasing frothing lace spread on the shore,
Gulf Coast birth breeze blew winds 
in sails to Caribbean Sea, Blue Mountain
berries, banana walk...

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High noon coming    ...   sixty minutes to go    
Three angry riders,
twelve hooves on a swift approach
Six six-shooters strapped to the waist
of six angry eyes
Revenge on a five-year...

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He is the African War General,
After his massive Digestion of Seven "JUMBO" Spliff Joints and more,
The sage wont forget to mention his Gulp-in of four pints of dark 'Wicked' Rum before 
His Very taste of...

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Hatched from an egg, larva begins gathering around massive trees;
consuming enough leaves sufficient for morphing within chrysalis. 
Once this process is a success, reconfigured caterpillars nibble and wiggle their way out. 
Something extraordinary happens—
Atomic metamorphosis...

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FLOWERED TEACUP IN SPRING


My heart lies vacant
             to vulnerability, voiding into
            ...

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Sarcophagus beetles gnaw on these bones
buried in the catacombs
They still have zombie feast needs of me 
long after I’m gone

The scratching on the whited stones
of the sunken mausoleum,
brings the chorus of the viol worms to...

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Oh-to love-as willingly-
boldly, if-but shyly; solely... .


Taken-time-tender- tarrying

truly-waisted I feel-never-it is... 
in the venture... now.


Yes willful-ambicious 

open... yes time-presses on,
the riddle-love, seemingly;
embracing- discerning-
never discouraging-
always, encouraging;

yes... !


Joy its song-lofty 
delighting-reciting,
quietly offering this; 

yes-this-hope......

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Centered around ephemeral shapes, 
Now—shapeless now—flailing—
Yellows, blues, oranges and reds,
Heat eating what surrounds it till it Can no more—eyes—in the fire. . .

The way life moves toward danger, 
And eyes watch closely,
Growing and slackening,
Distant singing...

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Oh how are we such fools?
Fools who utter words we seldom mean and reckon.
Casting a blind eye,
to those that heed to words spoken.
Oh what fools are we?
That fathom from earth’s best
But become its worst.
Oh how...

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Peter and I are together and we’re in a grove.
Time is our treasure, precious and dwindling.

I watch for signs of the future unfolding, 
like a twitch that might be the first sign of a stroke.

Answers...

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MY EYES AND I CAN'T TAKE IT TO LOOK UPON THE LORD OUR GOD PART 2---

My eyes has seen His glory
My eyes has seen His glory
My eyes has seen His glory
    ...

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I remember so vividly, ...
a breathtaking lush verdure only you
and I knew; our no man's land. Our fairytale 
may have ended but the memories
we created there linger on!

We walked arm-in-arm
amid tufts of grass and tarrying...

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Teardrops born from
inflamed elated eyes.
Fetuses of euphoria
slips and slide down
thy cheeks for they
are genuine touch
that emblazon the
trail upon the abyss
of thy bosoms bare.
Come o thee, thy
desirous flames
and quench the
ardor of my thirst
that wanes in an
ancient...

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Twas in the darkest pitch black of night
That those demons came pounding the gates
Taking siege round the walls of my soul.
So, I hoisted my flag up high
Inverted, and hid there to wait
In the dungeons for...

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Oh, Death where is your ring?
How many more moons will crown the vault of Heaven
Ere’ your folded, flesh-starved fingers
Surround bells that toll

Will you approach, hearing my cries
Rising from the depths of despair
Begging for you specter
Longing...

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In big sky country,
Joe Schmo wanders off 
into the prairie at daybreak
with his rifle to hunt for
game birds. His dog fetching for 
ones he shoots out of the sky.

In big sky country,
a homestead family is...

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There is a power the mightiest king can neither calm nor tether.
What power? you ask. The task I mean goes by the name of weather.
It was on Saint Mary Magdalene's Day in  1342,
on the...

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Where does laughter go
when it's done?
What becomes of joyful sounds
that are spun?

Do those waves fly off
and tarry somewhere,
to another dimension,
or just hang in midair?

Does that energy know
when there's someone in need?
Does it rush down to...

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For you and only you, my love, I’ll wait.
I’ll wait through evening’s dusk to early dawn.
On corners or at stations; by my gate
I’ve waited - and at night with curtains drawn.

The hands of time keep...

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