Long Unbridgeable Poems

Written: 21 July 2023 
Submitted to No. 1231 New Poem Only Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Brian Strand 

Bridging the Unbridgeable Chasm*

As rises the wealth of nations,
As grows the limb of a township
So declines the flowers...

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Contrary to what a dream might wish for,
There are those, sometimes, who fail to see across
That unbridgeable chasm, the one that leaves the heart
Yearning for the light, the glistening of stars shining,
The whisper of a...

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Pinioned to   my   world of ambivalence.
I cry,
I   sob,
It will   not let go.
In me it rises like the sun.
I   stare still.
Like a burden I  ...

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I walked the garden path holding all the intimate hands,
nurtured in the impermanent world the hope of durability
of me loved and belonged, and me owning and retaining. 
Times changed, didn’t know why storm of dismay...

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Even though days of life lived with 
(all my children now grown) ail
ling soul of stifled for want of indulging 
in ordinary experiences bewail 
ling deprivation of accomplishing 
healthy milestones regret a cold detail

reminding me as aging...

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I cannot count the physical bridges that I have crossed,
but there are two that I have crossed repeatedly over a
period of 40 years. My two most crossed bridges are The
Golden Gate Bridge and The Sf/Oak...

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Like secret water
hidden inside the stone
love of my mother flows
unconditionally with life at stake
for her depth and unbridgeable width
I need not go to any sea
in search of my existence.

A knock at the soft corner of...

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A small hair-thin gap; this got widened like the Oman Gulf; 
Life, as though within the mouth of a ghost, did get engulf;
No look; no smile; no speech; deadly movements performed like plays,
Physique and psyche...

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Last night my thoughts dwelled in melancholy
recalling what we once shared had been good
before we made the mistakes of mutual folly
and on opposite sides of a bridge we now stood

You called, I answered. Both having...

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The Mariner ashore

the night in the hallway paled into a yellowish screen
showing a black&white movie ca 1963
A time machine of memories sent him back to the years 
to meet people long since gone.
A family at...

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Ashore at last

The night in the hallway paled into a yellowish screen
showing a black movie, ca 1963
A time machine of memories sent him back to the years 
to meet people long since gone.
A family at the...

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According to the Scriptures, such unbridgeable chasm exists.
Luke 16:26 of the King James Bible declares, “And beside all this, 
between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: 
so that they which would pass...

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There are few things cannot be fused today.
Even the impossible, there always is a way.
Whenever two things, we need them to meet.
We find a way, even if it’s a miraculous feat.

Something that humans are yet...

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With the submerging spent sun in my scarlet sky,
the twilight colors of my listless life slowly sink.
At the edge of hazy horizon the night waits for my moon,
across the insurmountable dark abyss.

The wisps of disappearing...

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Pockets of small militant groups are threatening
While unrest swirls around us in the streets
Election season … or, facing a second Civil War?
Americans find the possibilities ever frightening.

Social and political polarization has created
Unbridgeable gaps between friends...

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when distance cuts at love
           confounding closeness
we grumble at Skype connecting
              ...

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A brilliant sky - a hopeful day and night
But broods and churns, the haunt of beast and plight.
No kneading dough nor kneeling praise nor shout -
Before the cross was laid, there’s no way out.

The stretch...

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There was something in the art 
Of a heart “My Far Away Friend Dina”,
The multi-faceted town talked about it, 
Made me peep, awhile and I saw 

That strong bond which seemed
As though I, the Soup...

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Death is an unbridgeable chasm,
that's my opinion, not sarcasm.

Many mystics tried to explore
whatever lies beyond Death's door.

Religions preach it's not the end,
and that eternal souls ascend.
	
Illuminating Death's starkness,
will I find light bridges darkness?

Yet, till I...

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It's the latest intellectual thing; it's in vogue
   To dare to say it doesn't make you a rogue
You can let people know that experts can show
   That we are just two-legged...

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