Millstones Poems - Poems about Millstones

...We live — but not on level ground, We are sunlight clinging to the edge of a crumbling wall. I remembered Grandmother’s voice, She warned me once: “Boy, beware the fall.” We leap — and soon en......

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...Song of the Highest Tower by Arthur Rimbaud translation by Michael R. Burch Let it come, let it come, The day when all hearts love as one. I’ve endured so long That I’d even forgotten The ......

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...Love’s Sonnet Tattered womb, shred by sharp blades of regret, Weighed down by rough millstones, dark as shame, Pale dawn stumbles from midnight to forget - Stinging acids scar through showers o......

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...Coagulation Starter – 3-28-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Coagulation Finally, my blood began to coagulate, Flowing like insomnia Between the wounds of dawn and dusk When......

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...Spontaneity 2-28-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spontaneity Arthritic inertia, Absent of the Prime Mover, Bursts into astral fireflies of serendipity Coloring outside del......

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...We have been forbearing your oppression for a long time, Your threats; placing your pistol on our foreheads for a crime; Shoving your dagger straight toward our chests, as though piercing, Watchin......

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...A Wisdom Download One Sunday morning When walls in pale hues of sage Coaxed me into a womb of praise Hard pews reminded me to listen Rather than slip back into sleepy malaise As wisdom tappe......

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...Imagine Imagine… A mansion among many promised mansions On the banks of a river from blessing, Sparkling in the eternal sun, A shoreline lined with trees In the harmonic hush of glory Thei......

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...Mein kampf analogous to one long run on unparsed sentence fragment Heavily punctuated - hyphen to embellish poetically with bracing circumspection, I markedly exclaim (parenthetically) cumulat......

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...“Daisy Hill” a garden to please distant, yet ever near in splendid hue. Yet here now the chill of winter’s wrath, which initiates spirited breath. Tenderness upon the ......

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...Forever Young David J Walker No I should have said I knew you when we Were both brand new And we knew nothing of life And not a single thing of each other Except the unquestioned......

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...Why can I not just be Be at ease with being me Ease myself into an easy flow Jeez, is that part of me a flaw My bloom is way past its glow All motion now rendered slow Mixed emotions bout to ......

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...Dreamer In my boyhood I waded shoal creeks; Veins of living waters swirling past my Ankles; returning home, grinding stones. I asked: How are rain drops like millstones? I watched a stream of......

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...*Image of Excitement Unlocked giphy by Escape Hunt. Time Life millstones pressures creation to sort through essential time, balms the albatross over seasonable means......

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...I have a passion to hold a lamp aloft, to capture one acre of starshine before the sun writes a new dawn. Rusting Chevys bloom in the half-light. Nightjars depart on shadow wings. Shimmering’s......

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