Long Tread softly Poems

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats 

“I love you...

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Running fast thru Autumn’s dream, Vincent-bright in village winter’s light
Topaz-treed streets, eaves-filled , singing with saffron and  gold,
A Rocky Mountain cold cornflower sky over English hills
Vivid with Vincent-fuzzy ice-finger edges 
Photo-album best parts of...

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Bonanza of shamrocks will soon blanket Green Acres...
where Lassie free to run across petco junction 

All across the webbed
wide esse Scott's landed wold
emerald green Trifolium
carpets harbor untold
burrows of tiny Leprechauns clover
(leaf) ways grant trifold
wishes if...

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Canto I: The Wicked
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Wither and tremble awash at sea oh woe
Woe is he, terror from sights even blessed would flee
Serenades of night washed over him into the wrong
Dark tides so high and undertow pulls so...

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"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams", William Butler Yeats

Self-preservation is perhaps the first instinct known to all species.   
Sometimes, the rescue will break forth from various sources, but it  ...

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All across the webbed wide esse Scott's wold
emerald green Trifolium
carpets harbor untold
burrows of tiny Leprechauns clover
(leaf) ways grant trifold

wishes if captured might
divulge pot of gold
at rainbow's end, and e'en mend
yar shoes, whence re: souled,
thence tread...

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SERENDIPITY 

Serendipity, a promise of destiny, 
In the middle of the night, you dream,
You cry every time, for the revelation to find,
God’s promise, Word spoken, dreams dreaned.

Is this finally my day, tears will be wiped...

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FOOTPRINTS AND SANDPIPERS

On a recent walk along the beach…where the ocean meets the land
what captured my attention were all the footprints in the sand.

We watched sandpipers darting to and fro 
tiptoeing between the water and...

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A ledge of window can here be a common throne
For my Felix, from here this tom perused the world
Half waking, half sleeping he slumbers curling each supple bone
Detailing each sound across the universe hurled
He will...

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Wonder how many poetry-gods or language-gods
They distort or disfigure the poem to their whims.
What are the uses of the Standard Forms of Poetry
If each one of us wants to be the creator of rules.

One demands...

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In the quiet chambers of empathy,
Where understanding blooms like a fragile flower,
I tread softly, my footsteps hushed,
Seeking to grasp the unspoken whispers.

No grand proclamations, no eloquent speeches,
Just a heart open wide, arms outstretched,
To catch the...

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Grinning at revelry on amber arc of twilight sky
Silently in my embrace you whisper, asking why,
I hang my dreams on the wings of twinkling stars
And let them wander in space searching for mars;

So I point...

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In Autumn Fair 
The Old Oak stands strong in  dappled  shade, 
with sunlit greens and browns upon the  misted fields, 
who yield their timeless gaze. 
The bird of prey ; she soars...

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Please read to the melody of Kevin Kern's "I'm Always Right Here" (youtube)

I look at the fields now covered with snow,
your footsteps are hidden below'
and just like the memories that linger inside
they tread softly on...

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People come and go in our lives
     Leaving an indelible mark on our very souls
Some tread softly, carefully
     Easing their way into our hearts
While others seem to...

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A springtime showers upon us like a quilt of stars,
The empty house warms in its vacant heart:
Through it pours the summer a river of melted lights,
And days tread softly upon soles of leaves;
Pain and pleasure,...

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Tread softly, spoke the elder man, and I puzzled through the day,
at why he would send such advice—so chilling—here this way. 

For isn’t the counsel of the sun, much more to the tune,
of flashy words...

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Currently there isn't a price on all the things That I love.
Depending on the situation I still check my pockets.
The places I go I am not use to exiting without pulling out my wallet.
Though it's...

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*Inspired by the famous line of William Butler Yeats
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" 


Tread softly because you tread on my dreams*
Tread slowly because on your shoulders I lean,
Tread lightly on those weightless...

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Here, as I start, cause feels empty;
Seek peace of heart to tread softly...

With simple rhymes, hear my story;
Lines said in time, a tale of me:

I asked for joy to see the light;
Yet pain employs my...

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“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams” By William Butler Yeats

Cause My Son!
Life is like a fickle lover, with it's capricious behavior.
And this everyone of us have to learn.
 When things go wrong,
As they...

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Hate is born of fear 
From the bowels of the barrel of the beast
of a closed person

Closed heart
closed fist
closed mind

Hate poisons the environment
Worse, hate finds hate
The perpetrators look carefully
For those like-minded 

Others who carry rage...

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Heaven will find parity for girls 
The so called” rapture” was meant for little girls
Sex slaves and raped
Subjugated
Because of male lust
A thief in the night will tread softly
Without a noise
All the little girls will tiptoe...

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Some people live in the trees
some live in the sand
some live in the mountains
some live near the sea
it makes no difference to me
just don't drop heavy on me
don't drop your heavy on me

Some strive for...

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These eyes still long to see the delight in your tenderness;
Tread softly as you smile, awake in bright color of tulips.
Raw force, unruffled beauty, playing in sweet happiness;
Let the sun and moon shine upon your...

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