Life Places Poems

I've been to places
Meeting all kind of faces
Of my life and times....

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Feels the sun like silk
Wafting the Ocean Park life
Freshest melon milk....

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Black is the color of the ground
Which encircles the placid lake.
Volcanic cinders now surround
Desolate earth formed by raging quake.

Large rocks, silhouettes on the shore,
Provide shelter...

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In shot snap seconds, everything changed.
The horror was sudden -
a shatter-shower of bullets
bouncing off rock.
The picnic I'd laid so carefully
blew apart - black olives
tossed into...

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I went to unpleasant places
where there was no mention, 
or even a clear defination
of the Holy of the Holies!

Those unholy places were dens
of fornicators who...

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Donning splendiferous landscapes stretching for miles,
A culture that aptly prides, in bold, welcoming smiles;
A thriving land of islands~ an archipelago evincing awe,
A resplendence of nature,...

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With his leonine face,
Young for his age,
A little unsteadily he
Climbs onto the stage,
Adjusts the microphone 
From his special chair
Benevolently regarding us
All eagerly waiting there. 

A...

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Summon your demons, devils, and wraiths,
visit moments of hurt and loss.
Replay what might have been, wrestle with regrets,
Do “if only” scenes haunt your past?

I follow...

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There are forgotten fords, in the shadow of our silence, places within us that cry out in waiting,
A path that flows through the waters of...

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“And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly  - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that...

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Pure
so crystal clear-
a
spring of healing 
the fountain of
life

Living Water
on tap
in a barren world
many search,but never know
this
living water 
gives life

An everlasting spring
living in your heart
an oasis
...

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Life is trailblazing the sail across the horizon.
N'er knowing the day nor what it will be comprisin'.

The pendulum of motion, soul's compass providing the way.
A...

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Beneath the cobalt sky, where legends are spun,
Island life unfolds, as traced by the sun.
Amidst the palms, a verdant ballet,
A choreography of chores, in the...

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Cameroon, oh Cameroon,
Land of beauty and grace.
Your splendor I embrace.
Your people, proud and strong,
With hearts that beat as one.
Their voices rise in song,
Beneath the African...

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Now a hollow cloud I remember
Drops me from so high—
Melts off this forever.

My red in the thermometer's glass—
For I to ghost's gloom run
By mercury's clairsentience.

The...

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