Long Wherefores Poems

Good new,good news He said to me
'I have the power to set you free'
'Come ,along this path we'll walk',
I listened closely as He talked;
Eternal life and 'new life' within
upon Him I place my sin,
peace,wholeness and...

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Yuletide pageants vis a vis merry go round revisited

healthy progeny regaled being alive
analogous to children ecstatic twenty-five
on December exhaling joie de vivre at dive 
in into neat stack of wrapped gifts, when...
what! out of thin...

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In Love- Our story ( a sort of Sonnet)

 

That first day in the factory, your eye
had followed me as down the aisle I passed
still lingered moments after I'd gone by,
you vowed then that glance...

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I would not speak these evil dilemmas,
devilish details,
dissonant fissures
disrupting smooth told sails
toward western red sunset horizons.
 
Who remains to listen
to remaining problems of evil?
to why and wherefore
of constitutions measured and cut through slavery
metered and sliced...

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There is a hidden story here,
 wordings in the lines of a book that openly appear
   well-worn images cleared 
along paths and byways out of stagnation,
 birth life experiences out of the shadows...

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With painted face and silent smiles they light the night so dim,
Oblivious to their stalker and his diabolic whim.
They'd come to sunny Florida to flee Maine's winter snow
And play their silent pantomimes on sidewalks as...

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Tech-No-Logic

Of keyboard and swipe
a screens deliberation circuit electronic
in metal skin and paper thin
push button hums the chord of plastic
tech-no-logical inventum
such marvels to grind the wheel
impartial utensils the battery static
a signal from pre-molded concrete
sends the flip...

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When the ability to write manifested itself among the many learned minds, accounting, and recordkeeping too, had manifested as what has become known to be called, history.

The routine breakdown, and the frequency in some reflective...

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"The boy's got a broken brain!
- Fix him for me now,
I can't do a thing with him."

     - So I hear you say,
     Though he seems intelligent...

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These bright eyes of mine that you see are not designed
for closing or for looking the other way when facing difficulties.
My folks taught me to look in peoples' eyes When talking to them.

I am proud...

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just sitting here in the quiet of the night,
Looking back on my life to see what I did right.
Hard to define how some things happen,
As a kid I was hassled, for what, I don't know,
The...

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A vignette of domestic violence and the weird rationale of love amidst such 
circumstances - adapted from how it was depicted to me by a female friend and 
taken from her own personal experience.

I was...

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I looked at my owl cup and this dribbled off my pen:

 

                      ...

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Do not give me words of wisdom
Give me of yourself
in gentle flow . . .
When I am mute
be not my voice
Let me wander the shores of your silence . . .

Take not my anger on...

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“In an outburst of anger, I hid My face from you for a moment,
But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,”
Says the Lord your Redeemer."  Isaiah 54:8

Jehovah God is present everywhere, 
but...

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Anacreontic Verse, for Edward Ebbs's Contest 
Written January 16, 2016

   I red of your blue
             in strange yellow ink
  ...

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These Limericks were written after playing a card game called Poo Pocalypse... don't ask or I'll blame it on Jan...lol


History recorded leaders in wars
Great men and women: their whys and wherefores
Napolean Bona-fart
A short French dude,...

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Windows And Doors 

Windows and doors 
And other means 
Of escape, or views 
Of me inside. 

Doing laborious chores, 
But full of beans, 
Yet the latest news 
Is that I cried. 

So I dreamt up...

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All along
were you just a pretend friend
a beginning leading to a dead end
the polite one 
not wanting to offend
I've gone over and over
the things in my mind
searching 
hoping I might find
Some clues in conversations
When we...

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How my raw heart raved
At the news of your departure
For them that can read 
The sands of a forlorn heart
Will the rains ever come again
And hover my lover back to me?

I groped for the blind...

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If you are reading this you are most likely alive.

                     a poem reader…….
  
...

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Have 
a 
word 
with 
yourself 
you 
could 
do 
with 
a 
mate,
Have 
a 
word 
with 
yourself 
girl 
before 
it's 
too 
late,
Ya 
having 
a 
baby 
'n' 
cutting 
no 
slack,
Ya 
having 
a 
baby 
addicted 
to 
Crack,
The 
why's ...

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In New Orleans for some highjinks.
Here to rally ‘round the flag.
She’ll be open to suggestion
When I’ve got her bound and gagged.
I won’t need to solve the riddle 
Of the chicken or the egg
To distinguish first...

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Knowing the whys and wherefores
For the traumas that come into our lives
Helping us to open long-concealed doors,
It refreshes our spirit and clearly revives.

For the traumas that come into our lives
We undertake enlightenment recovery
It refreshes our...

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alliterative blank verse

Wanting to show myself worthy -
work was not one of my weapons.
Weakly, I worded my secret --
“I wish of your wealth my fair share.”

Worried and warned by the world’s ways,
father willingly stood my...

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