Long Wayside Poems
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Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 6Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments,
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And he waited relentlessly to see the spark in my eyes...
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Categories:
wayside, adventure, character, gothic, heart, love, philosophy, power,
Form:
Free verse
A JourneymanA Journeyman
Prologue and Epitaph:
I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone
1) Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...
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Categories:
wayside, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
This Day Is Bright Thoughts Take FlightThis day is Bright !
Thoughts take Flight .
Music – the companion of my soul !
Books – the confidants to my mind !
Daughters – the reasons for life to know
more than experience has allowed me...
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Categories:
wayside, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trauma Prevention DepartmentDon't want to be stuck
in the Trauma Prevention Department.
Don't want to work that hard
on dogmatic compartments
for politically correct CAPITAL INVESTMENT
governments
over-investing in cautionary
conditional
chronic win/lose mistrustful
competitive dissonant miscommunications
and excommunication
which is counterproductive
for best Systemic Therapy practice
Of mindful-civil cooperative...
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Categories:
wayside, culture, health, humor, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Unknown CrowDeep in the dark depths of disaster, disassociated disaster
distracting distraction distracted
Bleh, bahumbug!
Why should I care how I start this
this will just be tossed to the wayside all over again
Forgive me, my swift carelessness of...
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Categories:
wayside, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
Empathy Ink Not Blood Trolls on the Run Empathy Ink Not Blood / Trolls on the Run
An Army of pens descended, the battle lines were Drawn
...
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Categories:
wayside, anger, bullying, society, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Tribute To the WolfTribute to the Wolf
I am of your nation (Cherokee)
I have travelled far to find my family
(They are scattered across America)
Boundaries are now gone
I know you as you know me
My Mother taught me so
I know...
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Categories:
wayside, native american, lost, people, children, lost, people,
Form:
Free verse
Old Styles Old SmilesOne fine blustering autumn day an old man puts on his boots pulls up his trousers off he goes,
If anyone wondered where he was going it was to a forest a good long walk it...
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Categories:
wayside, nature, day, old, autumn, day, fish, horse,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Lo and BeholdPredictions work in twists of what makes life workable
High and often misconstrued by the dogma of science
Lies and damned lies and statistics for the insecure
Foes foretold surprise when the blindfolds shed masks
In the light of...
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Categories:
wayside, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Lines Written In Albany
On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
with its humourless streets,
its casino steel and glass Sky...
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Categories:
wayside, how i feel, places,
Form:
Free verse
Moving OnwardStepping out, tired and weary, feeling just so
What the hell..... I have no place to go
The desire to turn back would be bad
I’d be returning to the same life style I had.
For me, my...
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Categories:
wayside, endurance, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Stranger Than the Days We NeedWhat is it that makes us human ? It's not something you can program, you can't put it into a micro chip. It's the strength of the human heart; the difference between us and machines....
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Categories:
wayside, conflict, confusion, corruption, society,
Form:
Free verse
Drifting Sycophant
THESE ARE OPEN(organic) VERSES using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols, the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' (intuitive cadence)& so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making this enigmatic form...
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Categories:
wayside, analogy, bereavement, introspection,
Form:
Verse
To Know This~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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"First time I ever recognized Bipolar for what it is; I found-yes, it
was me. Writing... precious-gift-honorable... the-antidote-fate;
my-advocate"
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Bipolar--rushing-a trip, trip tripping-along-trip-trip tripping
along-grappling whispering yea grumbling--gambling-
groaning-the sounds; echoing--unholy banter.
"Snickering-liar hell bent on-you-yea-ha; with-
eager-intention-you yes,...
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Categories:
wayside, inspirationaltime, prayer, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
AmayaYour walk away into the echoing stillness
Of a crimson autumn sunset
Gently stepping over the leaf-strewn forest floor
As withered leaves under your feet
Bid you soft and gentle adieu.
The wild blossoms by your wayside smile
And lend you...
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Categories:
wayside, loneliness, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Invisible Man 27I wrote the Invisible man poems many years ago. These poems, and I have not submitted them all, was for a little girl who died in a road accident. They are a tribute to her...
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Categories:
wayside, depression, life, sweet, summer, life, love, me,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Hungry Stones IIIIn scarce a week the place began to weave
A weird fascination upon me,
Nigh hard to bear, harder still to believe,
I felt as if a dragon from a sea
Was slowly digesting me...
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Categories:
wayside, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
An Autumn Walk In Autumn YearsOne fine, blustering, autumn day an old gentleman walks from his home,
If anyone wondered where he was going he was on his way to a forest,
The old gentleman walked at a leisurely pace stopping now...
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Categories:
wayside, nostalgia, day, old, autumn, autumn, day, old,
Form:
Prose Poetry
An Autumn WalkOne fine, blustering, autumn day an old gentleman walks from his home,
If anyone wondered where he was going he was on his way to a forest,
The old gentleman walked at a leisurely pace stopping now...
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Categories:
wayside, nature, day, old, autumn, autumn, day, old,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Strength of PainAs far as the eyes can stretch
Sand shines and glitters white to torment the eyes
In the ocean of land barren without life
A determined line of black souls
Forges ahead their efforts
A sole upon sole they...
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Categories:
wayside, black african american, day, future, may,
Form:
Free verse
Vanity By the WaysideI’ve often mentioned Hilly in the poems that I have written,
and I’ve often said that Hilly with a brewer’s surely smitten,
so you’re libel now to see him in the state that I call ‘blotto’
but today...
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Categories:
wayside, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Easter 2018My childhood memory of Easter confronts me with three very pleasant reflections. Perhaps my first experience with the idea of Easter came with the way our parents would sacrifice so much for us to look...
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Categories:
wayside, christian, easter, family,
Form:
Narrative
Love Lost and FoundWe were once a pair of flying, floating, diving doves
Warming on wintry days under weathered wooden eaves
We swayed and swirled with ecstatic, electric pleasure.
In synchronized steps to the rising and lilting measure,
We meandered down...
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Categories:
wayside, anxiety, beautiful, betrayal, love, miss you,
Form:
Alliteration
Youth WorkerTo seek a twist that turns a soul, toward two open hands,
A street wise urchin scours the lanes, where likewise understands,
And so the circle quickly spins, back to the gutter place,
Where there’s no need of...
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Categories:
wayside, caregiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Rearview MirrorRear view mirror
Objects, objectively put, are closer
than they appear. But it doesn’t say it all.
With the fair signs that spewed forth once turning to
a slew of pre-twitter ...
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Categories:
wayside, life,
Form:
Free verse