Long Unflinching Poems

~ Jesus  Is  Great ~
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JESUS  IS  GREAT
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Great is His name
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Name so  Holy
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Holy  is  He
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He, Son of  God
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God, our  Father
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Father  Almighty
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Almighty  and  true
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True and...

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Pittsburgh, hammertown, Chuck Knoll and his boys
established the best Superbowl Era dynasty
with the "Steel Curtain" defense and the "Blonde Bomber" Bradshaw,
a defense disciplined on shrapnel and elite ego,
"Mean Joe Greene" and Jack Lambert, a compulsive...

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STAND

(17 pieces in honor of the "March For Your Life" youth)

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I'm returning home
from a bag it yourself grocery,
and listening to an African-American novelist
respond to questions,
actual open-ended real NPR questions,
like old school inquisitive journalists once asked
before the polarizing days and nights
of fake right/wrong answer questions
and their...

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In the heart of the country, a veil of mystery and melancholy floats,
And threading along the leaf of life, these methods seem a sinister symphony.
Open borders, and immigration comes like an underground current,
On the paths...

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THIRUKKURAL: Translation of Canto XXXVIII with notes and commentary

Canto XXXVIII of the Thirukkural on the topic of FATE which I give here in translation (by stages) forms, in itself, a separate "book" in its own...

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"The righteous shall live by faith"
Romans 1:17

Posted on Poetry Soup 12 January 2023
Contest no 1265 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand

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With every gust of wind, secret taboo,
secreting a web a cocooned prison 
of liquid knowing, flowing,
emulsifying impossibly old and new.
In the beyond of the known, stair-stepped, 
desert bone flashed into 
your consciousness a confident cajoling.
To...

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Remember me well ....and remember my God.
The stay of my soul was the strength of His Word.
The Heathen, the Godless keep shouting 'Good God!! '
That's not blaspheming; that's praising the Lord.
How often I've heard them...

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After the storm, my brother
(all gangly knees and elbows)
bore the brunt of its ferocious aftermath.

Every day after school
I watched his wiry biceps bulge a little
as his handsaw scritched against the tree
which had fallen diagonally across...

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He was only a sheepdog
But his death has bitten 
Into my soul ever since.
As a pup we brought 
Him from his home
In Ireland
Where supernumeraries 
Are drowned
No small   farm needing 
More than one mutt.

His...

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DON'T GET IT TWISTED

Countless times I've dashed my foot on stones
When I looked around and saw people around
I cried to draw their attention and sympathy
When I looked around and there were nobody
I held tight my...

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Evergreen Community

Here is a tale to astound and to stretch any viewer’s fantasy and imagination…
Proudly presented  by the creative people behind The Twilight Zone productions..

A loving family of a couple and their 2 daughters...

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TROJAN HORSE

A decade long battle left them exhausted,
Squeezing mettle, dusky vigour fading,
Tired warriors, planning failing,
Dejected lay the war songs ashore!

Wisest of the mighty Greeks,
Amidst the crisis, Odysseus smiled,
The perplexed troops his voice then heard,
‘Retreat shall...

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For you my dear, of glistening gold and hues of blue, 
A mirage created by the constructs of feeble minds.   

Our ability to connect is truly frayed, a romance delayed, 
Short as the...

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My head pounds a massive ache
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I embrace the nocturnal shade 
coiled beneath tangerine lamplight 
on the corner of the street 
in case a certain little lady walks by. 
I am ever watchful 
in the telephone kiosk bathed in smells of...

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Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid? 
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes 
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garnet sand raw vehicle 
garden common opal 
transit sidestep
to a multiverse 
of sappy...

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The more I read about pioneer women in particular,
The more  I see from afar,
About how high they set the bar, 
For those who find them bazaar,
While driving their car.

For most of these daring women...

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I know you.  You walk in the mists of human memory.
You are the archer.... a traveler in time.
I saw your work one day.  In flint, a bit of symmetry.
Lost, or maybe discarded, a...

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You broke down barriers and set me free
Like butter that melted for the cause
You spiced up my life and flavoured me
With delicacies from foreign shores
Covered my head with jelly fish moulds
Told me to dream then...

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Mama held me close to her bosom
wouldn't let me go astray
she shook the cradle of civilization
and to her wayward offspring 
she paid attention.
 
She added a tinge of color to the cheeks of some
and tinted...

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A dragon spreads it's wings, and fears.
    Breathing fire, his breath bodes death.
    While venom sprays from arrowed tail,
    He'll terrorise with serpents eyes,
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The night was black , thunder boomed and lightening cracked
The earth shook with mighty groans as I watched
 And I did moan as the animals headed for home
I walked somberly  thru the night ,...

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Hear unsilenced hope here,
Nothing is not lost.

Hopelessness the enemy
of justice
round some other's bend.

Music resounds appositions
against fear.

Anthems rise solidarity
within Earth's righteous anger.

Praise conserves liberal motion.

Emotion co-arises dipolar passions.

Climate pathology may not become
the responsibility of white privilege.
Yet,...

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