Passages Poems - Poems about Passages

Used books were sold each semester. Los Angeles City College bookstore, and California State University, Long Beach ... They, too, sold used books. I've been in possession of some - Students felt fortunate stumbling on the right one, For some classes commenced without certain books - "Liberation Theology" was one such book- I'd already own a copy signed by Dr. Cornell West He spoke...

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Sometimes we look for simpler days and those are times that go astray when we've aged they'll be a pastime an account of days we passed in time....

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Gone now is all reason, as if she needed any more A princess awakens lonely, just like in days of yore Her prince left much earlier, through a gargoyled secret door, Its passage led to lower levels, walls curved round toward Gone now is all reason, as if she needed any more The stable lad followed him, and came back...

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Some were songbirds silenced in the morning of their youth. Frightened by night shadows heavy droning drawing nigh, filling eyes with longing tears and hours of sleepless cry. Some lived in a daydream graced with symphonies of sound, technicolor images, voices did surround a head in fascination with all the world it saw. Call it mental streaming without a single flaw. People of a...

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Youngsters flit from thing to thing Older now, they rest their wings ~ in boughs of Spring ...

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Grief Passages Rewritten Shards of shame lay splintered in unresolved pieces ~ Bits of crystal if only intentions not repairable Minutes of I wish regret unreachable, not revived ~ Lifeless echoes sighing with no resuscitation In a whirlwind tornados uproot shallow graves ~ Screams at the unknowable why unanswered Yeah but excuses expletives and bargains with denial ~ Blank...

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there are passages in life gaps between jobs between marriages even between... deaths hear the stillness there are pauses in life spaces between words some spoken others mute a few...written... feel the emotions...

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OH! I have really under taken my journey from eternal death, Into everlasting life. And I owe it all to my beloved Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Just exactly like all the rest of humanity, Who have gone on centuries before me. I was born under A death sentence and it's all because of Adam and Eve! OH! The very...

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green to yellow gold to red to brown leaves or fairest hair worn as silken crown Thick with luxury proud honey poured aloud endless spigots with memories to attend. Now lost to brush or hand or wind all leaves, all hair, and all souls in the end....

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"Time is the thief you cannot banish." Phyllis McGinley, Writer, 1905 - 1978 Time Passages I drift midst some pleasant sensation~~from a...

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stillness of a September breeze a heartfelt morning chill one highway out of town another back a hidden waterfall five miles off either road green neon lights in darkness a beacon on the highway coincidental talk with the cashier an ounce of chocolate ice cream bought falling pines call for another to sprout years measured by rings of a trunk falling leaves and sprouts and other incarnations new friends on the...

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17 passages of cars for the day 8:37 PM the farm fades dusk a quiet verse a poem song without words 12, 1, 20, 12 pick the numbers a game of fortunes clouds to the west chance of rain family living off the land a farmer’s pride a wary look to the sky after the spring planting a toss of the dice...

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The Toast by Michael R. Burch For longings warmed by tepid suns (brief lusts that animated clay), for passions wilted at the bud and skies grown desolate and grey, for stars that fell from tinseled heights and mountains bleak and scarred and lone, for seas reflecting distant suns and weeds that thrive where seeds were sown, for waltzes ending in a hush, for rhymes that fade...

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PASSAGES Sometimes through life we must "walk through glass" It is very important...

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Often in life we have to let everything go. All attachments will dissipate one day, only the heart and soul survive the blow of other fingers, other eyes making judgments that are hard to realise as they toss away tid bits we held dear sentimentality... tokens of emotions we carried safely inside through the years. The token is just the physical reminder of an...

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