Long Trued Poems

Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, 
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.

Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise like a chorus harmonizing 
...In this vast of an eternal fold.

For...

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laying in the buth tub
\the rubber ducky
reminds me of the yellow clock
right by where mom is cooking
and ticks to her internal heart

substitute to perfection
world what are you to someone perfect
are you looking for me
while im...

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Here I am
A confused man
With a softening, sensitive heart

I fell into your story
Trying to be a hero
A helper, an aid, a gentleman, old school That part

I was not
Seeking you heart
I fell in love, with your...

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Amazing what difference
riel (real) money (not Fake)
in the Citizens Bank checking account
(thank you social security disability -
monthly dollop transient

peaceful easy feeling doth make),
I savor bliss courtesy
cache buffer affords,
cuz psyche temporarily
ceases to quake
analogous with cerebral

colliding tectonic...

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COME FORTH FROM OUT OF THE GROUND
I shall form you
Be set the boundaries of natures grips;
A man just named all creations beings;
Amongst the working of his hands toiling the lands;
Everything he proclaimed gathered, glean, nurturing;
Amidst...

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Somewhere in our misused-contrused essential self lives a malignant cogent cabaret of simul castrated away ills stranded contrivances depleted of furtive 
psychosocial datatrums that copiously under dictate a nil nemesis never-ending sickening's over black compliance...

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Grace is my treasured companion, canine with four legs and a giant heart.

She sashays in all the ways, sense’s reading currents, attuned to the whisper
Of something new, waiting for air, or light, or touch,
 to...

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Although it may not be enjoyable.
An it seemed unimportant to many.
Beginning a chore which it's objective
seems far-fetched and greedy.
Inspired by the events 
on some distant shore.
Something most would categorize 
as useless and would rather ignore
these...

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When you are in troubling times;
And things are tumbling down;
There are many caring people around;

Blessings,
Blessings, My friend

If you still think here people yet food;
Then you really, really don't know;

Blessings,
Blessings, My friend

People say bless you
Blessings to...

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a kiss in the morning, a kiss to say goodbye 
a kiss just cos I love you , when im alone i sit and cry 
you smile lights up my darkest days with eyes so...

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"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid."
In love all is...

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Quietly true... You’re good in God reasoning 
You have a gift of innocent youthful passion 
On a unabridged Again minus your dislikes (apathy)
 I don't want to do it, boredoms. Boredom... 
You're a great mother...

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dried flowers
bits of fragile memories
pink petals
turning 
slightly brown
with age
sat upon the kitchen table
surrounded 
by babies breath
babies tears
fear.

yellow daffodiles
golden, broken
hopes
that trued to say
just how he felt
yet they couldn't
they didn't.

petals
plucked
carefully
from where they lay
upon the kitchen floor.

broken glass
carefully...

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when you see a lot of people unmarried
when you hear them unable to explain why they can't marry
when they look like people who know
and are said to be defined as what
they meet people and all...

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Moment I had waited whole my life,
Through my joys and bounds of strife,
Will it happen not or will it be,
That he proposes to marry me ?

The first day as our eyes carved,
For togetherness as if...

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All my sins,
All my faults and thoughts
I am tried, tested and trued

All my intermissions
All my ill-gotten decisions
I’ve been tried, twisted untrue

All my wrongs, those bad things I’ve done
I’ve repented, for mentioned, God has forgotten them

All...

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