Long Ungiven Poems

Only those who have not yet met truly love each other,
Those who, in the early morning horizon, imagine themselves as kings and queens without sin,
They dream in the secretive color of amethyst, hidden somewhere deep,
Where...

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In the late interlude of existence, a woman,
Readies herself to step into the celebration of her seventieth year.
She asks, has she found the soul's peace,
Fulfillment, the joy of life, or does she still wander
In search...

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I went for a walk...
took a moment,
saw the neighbors' grass -
not a dandalion to be found,
bushes clipped just "so",
trees bordered with wood chips,
flower beds,
sidewalks edged,
but no ones ever home...

Saw some birds -
the endless hunting
for scraps
pecking...

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 What is,is not often what was. For what once was,a mere childhood saying. Step upon a crack,and break your mothers back. Is not the a same crack,of todays childhood. What once were,playful words of...

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Her words are silenced
Her face has been earsed
Distance is something that empowered her
She dears to be heard, seen, held close
But she has been zipped in unseen blackness
That they dont care to help 
Just sit and...

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 If you're wondering why I haven't made a step
Here I am giving you my answers
Hopeful I would reach you far
Anxious - if my words would be enough

I'm sorry for the late night arguments
I wish...

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We are new colonists and we embrace 
A hostile and unforgiving land. Lay 
Claim to clay covered gold by grace 
And the callous palms of tired hands, 
But the weary lesson lidded, did not 
Stay...

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Lock out straight mad Doctrine based on 
reality disappear long long ago, so
be it to seeth Actions in beast not altered
magazines strewn about fault of incompetence
driven gloom in overcast, drawn out
multitudes terrorized by norm elsewhere...

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What is hidden behind the end? is the end a beginning?
The beginning without the selfishness that kills?
The end of the words I didn't say, and the forgiveness I didn't ask? 
will it be the same...

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i saw them on the streets in downtown
 portland the other day they each wore
 pieces of someone elses expressions.

 some of them were tall  like the clouds
 seem in the morning when you...

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A window remained open 
At night in the deep dungeons
The wind bought me some love to keep right from the door of heaven
It came by night
Invisible in the dark light
It bought me a present to...

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An ungiven gift 
Success…a gift given to few
A pride known for some
A word that makes the world
How can I get there?
How can it be? A wall for what is right or wrong
A land to be...

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O Lord, giver of LIFE and GIFTS to me,
When I finish my course and come to die,

Let there be no buried or concealed TALENTS*
May any GIFTEDNESS be yielded to your service

Let there be no TREASURES...

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The Eyes Have It

Eyes sharpened at the whetstone
Honed to a glistening edge,
They used them to slice and dice for

Homeworks forgotten;
Rooms left in cyclonic disarray;
Reports unfiled;
Presents left ungiven;
Promises unkept---

Scythe-like orbs slipped into you
And poured you into...

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INEXPLICABLE

Wondering through the scenes of earth 
Only sexagenarians will tell there is nothing to fetch

Rummage on, then and now
Astonished we are so we take a bow

So many questions with answers ungiven
Yet deliver testimonies to look...

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