Long Wausau Poems

The Hay Meadow Creek divides my Parent's land
Its waters run clear and true
It then flows into the Prairie
Along untended Lincoln County lands.

The Prairie is a little wider
A little deeper too
Its banks are a little more...

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I just walked past the restaurant
A terrific place I used to go
Early in the evening hours
Of a chilly and recent past night
The fullness of the moon cast a memory
Reminders of my having traveled to these...

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She was a Sumptuous Blossom...
That was born out of a Winter's Spring
Her face was framed by Glorious Red
Her eyes were the Bluest Diamonds
That the World had ever seen.

She was born with an innate Attitude
That life...

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I am just an Empty Chair
Seated in a Sea of Flooded Sand
Holding a Personal and Lonely Vigil
On this Riskiest Edge
Of both Soft and Solid Land.

My legs beneath me are Strong
I cannot allow myself to become...

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Vincent…

This is the time of the year
When I see the ravens and the crows
Especially in an open field...
It's when I think of you…

I catch myself remembering…
I have to stop myself and breathe…
I daydream of our...

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I awaken to the sound of your voice, your words, calling to me...
Calling to me...Petitioning me... like an ethereal Siren's Song
Moving towards me just as waves journey toward an empty beach...
Always and forever...moving towards that...

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I awaken to the woodland scent 
of a favored fragrant herb.

Its aroma transcends nocturnal bliss
and then softly seeks so gently to kiss
the distant lingerings in my mind.

Of a cherished place where I had laid
embraced warm...

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Today is the Dreaded Day
That many will be put out on the street
And others won’t have any power
And others won’t have any food to eat.

And other’s children won’t have a Christmas
They won’t have any presents...

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I leave little Breadcrumbs...
Scattered here and there...
Sometimes left as obvious
Sometimes left without a care.

Clues to what I think about
Clues to where I've been
Clues to where I used to live
Clues to former sins.

Clues to all the...

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About last night...

I just wanted to write and tell you
That last night was a big mistake
I'd had way too much to drink
I was tired and it was getting late.

I wasn't thinking clearly
I wasn't thinking the...

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Lying in my Grandmother's old brass bed
I watch the blades of her ceiling fan slowing turning
Around and around and around again...
From the heat of this steamy July 
There is no end to my yearning.

The old...

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Cancer took from me
Many, many years ago
My best and most cherished friend...

And over the years
It didn't stop just there
It has taken members of my family
It has taken lovers
It has taken many other friends.

It has been...

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What is Real? I ask myself
Is it only that which you can taste, touch or feel?

Or is it not the obvious but only the quiet poundings of one's heart
Those of sensibility, those which all of...

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Is Nature adding to me
or taking away from me
Am I, or am I just 
a small part, a tiny part
of all the beauty that I see.

All is so magnificent
The fresh air that I breathe
And I...

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I hear the Bells, I hear the Bells
At morning, noon and night each day
They are a reminder of the time
A reminder of past days.

And I think to myself over the years
How many others have used...

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How shall I unfold myself?
How shall I unfold myself to thee?
How shall I show you more
than the obvious that you see?

Should it be in chapters
like the pages of a book?
Or should it be in allegory
like...

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I have a friend that I met from across the World
We are about as different as two friends could be
And yet we are both of this World
We are both the same as two people could...

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If I live to be 101
I still don't think that I will have seen
All the things that I've read about
Both nearby and across the seas.

If I live to be 101
I still don't feel that I...

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There are things in this life
That will bring you to your knees
Whether or not you like it
Whether or not you please
Whether you think you deserve it
Whether or not you do
These things will still happen
I know...

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Christmas...

It's just another day
Another day for me

I won't get any presents
I won't sit beside a lighted tree

It's just another day
Another day to try and survive


Another day to try and find food to eat
Another day to...

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Fearlessness is an awesome trait
You're lucky to have it, if you do
It comes with a certain bravado
A belief in what you do.

But here is the thing that I have found
About most fearless women and men
It's...

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Words can be like a Trainwreck
Headed nowhere and everywhere all at once
They can appear to be traveling somewhere
But it is a destination that they lack.

Words that earlier and previously
Seemed to have been on track
Can be...

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My thoughts which I bear
They are my own
Born of my flesh and blood
From my Holiest place
Far above me, deep within my womb
Created in my own image.

My thoughts, they are my own
They are of me
My own...

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Forget what you have never known
You have not witnessed the hidden lights within my eyes
Nor have you cared whether I have lived or died
You haven't walked upon my fields
Nor ran your hands through my grasses.

You...

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Words come to me, from high above
I know not from where and when
They flow through me like a summer breeze
An invisible sort of Zen.

They are a cherished gift from high above
A flickering candle in the...

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