Long Untrod Poems

You split yourselves in countless sects, In classes high and low;
Think you the world its gifts will still on such as you bestow?
Who now forgetfully neglect My Rasool’s Law sublime?
And whose lives write them clearly...

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First, I was a horse,
proud, fierce, untamed.
testing the texture of one continent,
competing with the winds and tornadoes
to achieve the ultimate granular vortex,
testing the manhood of the Cheyenne,
twisting the blistering ropes of the Sioux,
defying the white...

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Stare-well.! gazing..As emotions and souls to your Majestic fields aspire..
Temporal surrounds me, ambiguous background; below crested fallow moons.."
Amplified." Intensity' as stellar images fall silently; while cresendos of beauty abound
Innumerable shifts of light and dark in...

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Parsing time

Along the slope he leant
  with his caved-in shoulders   
  not standing on end
one foot upturned
   the other curled
         ...

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From desert winds to ocean spray,
A harmony that lit the way.
Three voices blended soft and clear,
A sound that soothed the listening ear.

Dewey Bunnell with words that flowed,
Of horses wild and paths untrod.
His melodies, a gentle...

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The end, or beginning
of the strip mall starts
at the Subway Subs
a set aside frontage overlooked
by bushes and idling traffic.

Further along, the ephemeral
Pop-up Party Shop; 
when not ‘up’
that commercial space 
sells T-shirts 
a print for printing...

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For years it had flown through dim canyons,
hollows where the mute sheltered in echoing caves.

Poems shifted loose and gearless.
Words darted for cover as if caught 
in an empty bell tower.
On tongue-chilled days it would croon...

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I ask, dear God, how can this be?
     It rends my soul and stabs my heart!
How could they pass those bills, decree
     these inhumane new rules will...

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Oh, children of a lesser god-
defects can steal your life away,
as you are judged by how you look,
or if you hear or speak, or see;
if arms and legs fail miserably-
or minds perform imperfectly.

We fail to...

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               The Farmhouse

     One evening before the sun was set
     A memory came...

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Without conspiring, vision sees through truth
the affectation multiplies exclude,
as if a band notorious were sleuth
and fought together, undersized by youth!

The victor sees through eye of victim's brood
did hesitate it not to challenge rude
and stir the...

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So proper and prim in my Brooks Broithers suit.
( I loathe that Obama! I much prefer Newt.)
Decorum at all times, when in public view.
( Dwelling on feelings would render one blue.)
An Ivy League background, a...

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A Time to Smile

		Laughter never had a place
		When growing up was hard to do,
		So happiness came quietly
		In places no one ever knew.

		A smile inside where non could see
		Or understand so sad a face
		That people saw...

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All are unworthy. Each if us fail we are weighed
In the balance, the plumb line is streched over
Our ways, we fall like fruit before the harvest
Is here.' wasted in the very paths of redemption
We are...

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We want them all to see our Lord,
We want our land to be healed again,
But can we put down our sword?
Can we pour down love like rain?

We want the world to see our God,
To hear...

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I have seen the fire blossom in snow
on the Himalayan peak
wondrous meteoric dust
rise in hymnal flames

Rode on shoulders of snowy giants
on heights untrod by human feet
bathed in mighty energies
released by countless contemplating seers

Erect they sit...

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In this the third
Week of April
I loofahed from top to my toe

Every inch of
my scaly magnificence
bidding the lost parts go

Always loving a monday,
   A first,ground zero
A change

Whether August or May
Or dawn of new...

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For one who was my first most precious love,
who drifted into my life like fresh snow,
he’s still the guy that my impressions of
remain like snow untrod upon although
it was late summer when he stirred in...

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Forgotten paths
Untrod valleys
Lonely nights
Quivering hearts
The lonely journey of life
Befriending the pain
Confronted with a brutal truth
The cold heartless stony truth
Pleading with the angel of death
To spare him the agony
To let his soul gently sleep
In the arms...

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Forgive me Father, 
for I have lived
these years apart 
with silent heart
that beat so quiet 
in defeat 

Unheard, unseen 
neath face serene;
the face you'd 
come to know
and loved,
your son 

Forgive me Father, 
for I've denied
in...

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