Long Wide a Poems

Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler...

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In the tapestry of time, a story is spun,
Of hearts entwined beneath the sun.
It began in the halls of youth's embrace,
Where two souls met, face to face.

In the halls of Primary, their eyes did meet,
A...

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A Pesky Mosquito….. Again

Here I am, palms and fingers slightly raised and finely poised to pen enthralling verses of prose….
Netbook computer nestled snugly on this messy table top that’s a bag lady’s treasure trove…
Creative juices...

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Through a tear in the wall, the sunlight peeks,
No one comes to ask how the old woman speaks.
How does she endure, so forlorn and alone?
Only God could be her aid, her own.
The horizon stretches, the...

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In whispered hushes, the year awakes,
A canvas fresh, where dreams will take.
January’s breath, crisp and clear,
A brushstroke bold in time’s frontier.

Fireworks bloom in velvet skies,
Dreams ignited, hopes aimed high.
Resolutions inked in hearts anew,
Paths imagined, leading...

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a door stands in my way.
it is charmingly carved, vines curling
around the smooth lacquered edges.
still retaining the original hue of the wood
yet brighter now, gold shines from within
surrounded by the walls of the forest
hidden away...

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AS NATURE INTENDED

This is the tale of Edward Brown, a man respected in the town.
A model of sobriety, a pillar of society.
He lived alone and, in hot weather, he’d walk around in the altogether.
With neighbours...

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In a land where shadows cast their might,
A group of educators, brave and bright,
Stood as champions with a common plea,
To set their nation's children free.

Amidst the rolling hills, they gathered near,
Their vision, a beacon, bold...

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In the quiet moments of a world apart,  
Where distance stretches thin the thread of time,  
Two hearts beat in synchrony, a work of art,  
In realms where age and miles seem...

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Image if one will, a field where paper roses grow,
Each color an emotion, it's variations symbolic to 
Feeling felt, and yet expressed.
Compositions of love letters, shaped into delicate
Blossoms, growing or dieing within the fragile human
Heart.
A...

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Author Dana Redricks
April 2, 2024

In the garden of boundless grace, under heaven's embracing gaze, where whispers of mercy gently flow, and streams of compassion forever grows, lies a tale of love, so pure and true,...

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My childhood spread to the world in bottles of sun screen,
poured out into outstretched hands.
My childhood was painted across easels and written on walls,
Drawn far and wide, a Crayola-crayon land.
Childhood was served on plastic plates,...

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The Sacrifical Child

Llandudno Wales 980 BC-1846, Sierra Leone, Congo,
Niger, Peru, India, Pakistan, Russia, China & Philippines 2013

Chapped, scabbed skin, dirt encrusted, blue-pallid in the moonlight;
the stars still glow radiant light when they rise, a wolf...

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Wales 980 BC, Sierra Leone, Congo,Niger, Peru, India, Pakistan, Russia, China & Philippines 

Chapped scabbed skin, dirt encrusted, blue-pallid in the moonlight;
stars glow radiant light, wolf howl midnight.
Insects stir, skin scratch, tangled hair amass
naked ,as...

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In a forest deep where shadows play,  
Stood a wise old oak, strong and gray.  
His branches stretched wide, a sheltering hand,  
While young saplings danced in the sunlit land.  

One...

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Harvard, at night - You still sit on the lawn
with the weight of both structures alive in your arms
Rachmaninoff's tears turning black at your hips
The counting of friends on your five finger tips

Sawdust and poetry,...

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You are the one who leads them astray 
Healthy and fine death the next day
Dark Angel a ghost from the past 
Symbolic to many ignored by the mass

I have seen this creature of blackness
Angel of...

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Acid Pain




       Keeled over ripe with      p a i n      returns my       a...

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In every moment, there's a spark,
A gentle glow that lights the dark,
The sun will rise, the stars will gleam,
And chase away the night’s old dream.

Each step you take is yours to make,
A chance to grow,...

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Light 1-29-24  Syllables checked with www.howmanysyllables
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Light

Nightfall’s hand laid heavy on fleeing twilight
While the darkness, born early, swallowed the light.

Driving rain clouded the eyes of pale daylight,
Sheer curtains of rain blurred tears in the lamplight.

A...

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The serpent's hiss, a venomous dart, 
Is honest hate, a tear right to the heart. 
But you, you whisper honeyed lies so sweet, 
A camouflage, a cunning, cruel deceit.


You smile so wide, a painted mask...

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It creaks,
drifts have rubbed the air raw
it crunches
as if some large beast were walking
over the packed snow.

All night listening        had to
it could have been a robber
an ice-cold housebreaker
I...

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A talent from the basement of pubs onto little larger events
gaining knowledge experience,above all loved friends.
I seen five of us one time no skankers to be seen
but was about to change, ya knowarramean.

Pat`s talent recognised,soon...

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Your eyes maybe small and deep set
But so piercing are their look
They maybe dark as the deep sea
But their shine and sincerity are my hook.

Your face is open like the sky
On which a canvas has...

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In whispers soft, the winter's dream,?A world wrapped in a silver seam,?Where icy breath and starlit skies,?Create a tapestry of sighs. 

The trees stand bare, like sentinels,?Adorned with crystals, frosty spells,?Each branch a brushstroke, pure...

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