Long Tune out Poems

It’s Harvard VS Yale this weekend, the vibes are just starting now. Everyone - and I mean everyone - has been asking about my game tickets, because guest tickets are $25 a pop. I’m more...

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A church is a hospital for sinners and not a museum for saints
And it's not a place for someone to act like something they ain't
We've all been through some heartache, disappointment, 
bitterness and pain
Suffered physical...

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Tick tick tick. This bomb inside is hidden, though breaks all when released. I sit here knowingly, as this bomb ticks slowly towards its burst. Some thoughts are easy to keep in mind, as to...

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Regardless of our faith, in Love we can believe,
For Love's within us all, if we choose to retrieve.
Should we choose to leave Love in a dormant state,
Then we invite into our heart the bitterness of...

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Like cyclops (with one eye), like octopus (arms that encompass),
the wound of lost elm limb (a bull’s eye to witness home playground),
stares down what would harm me, the sun’s rays that burn! Trunk’s strong branches
and...

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THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

I heard it on the radio as I awoke that morn:
The message in a simple song that Christ the Lord was born.
I heard it once again that day as I drove in my...

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Men leave.
 
You too will leave, 
that’s not an if. 
I’m gonna make sure of it.
 It will hurt; it always does. 

Well, at least it used to.
 
I learned a lesson early in life.
...

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At three a.m. the annoying telephone rings
“Hurricane Kate will soon be making landfall;
Drive to Panama City, start collecting your things” 
Microphones and tape recorders, I pack them all

Just one week till the end of hurricane...

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It's strange how God talks to us.
Sometimes in the wee hours of a sleepless night,
Sometimes a sweet voice appears in the background music of the vaccum cleaner.
Maybe while driving home from a tedious workday with...

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WHAT DO YOU DO
By Roy Merritt

What do you when your neighbor
Seems to have lost his mind
What do you do when your best friend 
Walks around when blind

What do you when your lover
Seems a stranger from...

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Netflix, I will not watch you tonight
I wanna spend the evening hungry
I wanna be a pioneer without WiFi
I wanna be a cowboy without a harmonica
I wanna be a pine tree without the sun 
Attuned to...

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I saw tomorrow beckoning us just ahead, and it looks so unlike today.
I saw neither evil nor deception blocking our view and standing in the way.

I saw no race, no creed, no bad seed or...

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You see I am from perfection, in perfect world.....

 I am here to tell you what you don't know...

 what I think you need to know....

 should know...

 Yes, you are my invention..

 Yes you...

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As I lay in bed 
while I go to sleep,
My thoughts start to swirl ‘round my head.
To quiet my mind, I try to unwind,
Take comfort in my little bed.

Good night to my eyes, 
I flutter...

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Frozen....

Deep in thought,
cringing at the idea of fighting....
laying motionless....
on the ground,
placing the blanket of impropriety over you.
With no words to say,
and no feelings to be felt....
you lay there, with a lost look in your eyes....

Your...

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God did not call me to write my own script out
And hand it up to Him to bring it all about
That I produce or direct my life isn’t Gods plan
Or live out the dreams of...

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In these words I seek God's 
Guidance to write
I pray for many within it will cause a fight
That maybe you are tired 
Of stumbling on your own path in the night
Perhaps you do not like...

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He speaks with measured dignity,
one silent word at a time
His palmetto pen tells us: 
Tune out the cosmic background noise,
and focus your mind
on the sound of the silent voice
You most certainly will hear this ...
......

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Many are the sounds that are so pleasing to these old ears.
I now treasure musing about them in the autumn of my years!
How I cherished hearing my bride say, "I'll always love you, dear!"
The laughter...

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Voices voices telling me
Where to go
Who to see
What to say
And who to be
How to think 
What to believe 
What to buy
And what to spend 
Where to start
And where to end
Who to hate
And to friend 
When...

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Every once in a while, 
I slow down.
I don't think I even mean to,
but you do something to make me pause.

For a moment,
I tune out the hustle and bustle,
the beautiful chaos that lives in our...

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Jesus died as soon as he was laid into his manger

Joseph bereft and torn embraced Mary who wept 

the cradle of Christianity formed a wicked cross

Buddha sent condolences and Shiva delivered

a promise to question the...

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Under her guidance, we stood at attention
Like a row of young soldiers, reciting the anthem
"Oh Say, Can You See?".. was a warbled contusion,
that could shatter your glasses, disturb other classes
out of tune, out of rhythm,...

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Sometimes I pretend I’m Death's groom
I find my father’s sperm still inside
I find it nestled in my mother’s egg
I find the original template
I find dead things like DNA replicating

Sometimes I feel dead inside
I become fallen...

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Dim the lights low and let me dance,
To the memory of you engraved in my brain.
As they lowered you to your palace with a timing,
My whole being, drained.

Mentally, emotionally, physically,
You tore.
Yet you gave everything up...

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