Long Time is on my side Poems

In the darkness of the night, 
a ruby gleams 
to contrast a slumbered eye awakened 
to feeling, 
reflection, light, 
Lady "Genie", eyes aglow
like a beast, in mid-stride,
lost in her midnight dreams is clothed in a...

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Stop in your tracks

Take a deep breath
Stop and relax

Close your eyes
Exhale a slow deep breath

In your mind’s eye 
It’s early dawn
It’s quiet and serene around you

Look far out at the horizon
There over the peaceful rolling...

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The Bloodstone, The Raven And Master Poe,
Part Two of Three

For seven years it had been wickedly clever
Doing just enough to sate its wicked desires
When begged to stop. Alas it cried, never
Not until your soul rests...

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Smile, you are sitting there telling me to smile when the entire universe is going wild; smile, you are telling me to smile when the bills are not paid, the salaries are delayed and for...

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The Birds, They  Were So Silent, Revised
        (REVISED VERSION)


I raced away early one bright morn,
running in clouds so very fleet.
The birds, they  were so silent
deathly stiff...

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The Birds, They  Were So Silent


I raced away early one bright morn,
running in clouds so very fleet
The birds, they  were so silent
deathly stiff on a frozen icy sheet

Crossing bridge to glimmering lake
no worries,...

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I awake to the beautiful plaintive strains
Of a violin - then realize it’s just in my head
Just a dream - a shame to find
I’m in the hospital - same room - same bed

The monotonous ticking...

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John 9:4 (KJV) I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

He has the responsibility,
Covered in dollar signs, abiding,
Beneath the shadows of...

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One day I had a magical seed. I carried it around in my pocket like a special key. It had the power to change humanity and yet it remained unplanted. The Creator placed it upon...

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When Light Penetrates The Fog Of Fear And Darkness

When Light through the keyhole penetrates the malaise
And within that moment your soul gives sincere praise
For that divine gift that Life's sweet promise resets
Earth's clock to those...

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please Lord, wait for me
i know i am not ready
for Your face i would like to see
i am in no way steady
as i need only You to be free
remember Saviour when she
anointed You as she...

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I am a Wordsmith
I love the words I play with
I respect the fith

I am a poet
Sometimes I hardly know it
I try to show it

Five, seven and five
How I make a Haiku jive
It keeps me alive

Then...

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Do you rememer the night we met
that's a time I will never forget
we took a chance to let it be
but yet I just couldn't see
why you were in love with me
now I re-live the times...

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“I can see the pain in your eyes joker my old boy
It’s in the way that you look the way that you cry”

“Haahaaaa cry? I don’t think so that’s an emotion i do not feel”

“No...

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Happy Birthday Grandma, we are celebrating another year
You may not know it’s your birthday, but we do and we cheer
We get to spend some more valuable time before the dreaded day draws near
A truly inspirational...

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Minuette had the complexion of a porcelain doll with a touch of cherubim thrown in for good measure. Her desire, her passion in life was to discover and taste new salty rocks and stones. Nothing...

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I know a man who’s not adverse
To helping others slim of purse
He’s more than willing to help out,
If self-improvement floats your boat,
For teaching men to fish for trout,
Is poverty’s best antidote.

But wealthy men have certain...

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He goes slowly, a turtle in motion
Goes all day long, never says a word
The desert sand is dry and hot, it tells the tale
They are his problem, finding them is his solution
The bird and the...

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Even then though—you ask how!
How can she not return the hatred!
But we humans cannot think so beyond
To even dare comprehend the mystery sentiments she possesses
Surrounding her are twelve unattainable senses
That we only know from a...

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Face the day

Woke up to the thunder clapping,
on the window rain was tapping...
the rain sometimes... reminds...me of you

The crack and flash of lightning,
they put on ...quite a show...
the sky just like your face was grey-blue


Bridge...

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Today I came across your picture, I almost shed a tear.
I faced the mirror, dug for resemblances of your features in my mixture.
There is no doubt you are my father
and I don't want to alter...

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Windowpane

Sitting on the rocker above the street
Chair takes its station with the man, old and weary
Placed there in time to look out side
A broken window holds them both fixated on the day
Cracked in several places...

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Sunny sky's 
            dark nights,
                   ...

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They ask me, “did she hurt you?” and all I can force myself to say is that she didn’t mean to. 
That hearts are mending in different ways and if I am not the way...

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Oh the wind , wants to sing me a song
Lord , hope it don't take to long
Running down the road
Carrying my own load
Time is in my side
Long as I can abide
The lonely way
That I face...

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