Places Poetry Poems

Banks did not burst,
just a dribbling bladder of river
leaked into our back yards.

It drooled over damp roots,
seeped into groundhog holes,
into ditches, where winter debris
had already...

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The sharp knife of simplicity 
cut a transverse incision through my scalp.
The hands of hope gutted out my psyche,
deconstructed my mind,
and organized it into a...

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Nick Tipton lived a quiet life,
west Kentucky, in rolling hills;
been farming there for ten years,
all according to his own will.

This simple life would’ve have kept...

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We drive breakneck over hot roads.
Churches, big as cathedrals, rocket
from pocket villages.
Castillo's cast their campanile on the baking earth.

The Great Mosque of Cordoba,
the green Alhambra...

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Charming and filled with humorous doggy characters, so unique 
I’m floored when I think of an aussidoodle, or a scotchi‘s fido physique
Pages of dogs all...

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when all the words
inside your head
become those words 
already said
and places that
you dreamt you saw
are places now 
you’ve been before
is it that time 
to call...

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What is beauty?
Is it hard to find beauty in this black and white world?
Where we are blind to the concept of right and wrong;
Where we...

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At times life can be like a dangerous sea of emotions

With unseen currents that can drag us to places we don’t want to go to

Then...

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Dear God, make me a poet in the next life..

Make me a poet who loves the air,

Who loves the sea,

Who loves the trees the branches...

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In the heart of the evergreen state where mountains touch the sky
You’ll find the PNW Poetry Guy under Mt. Rainier’s watchful eye 
With the South...

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When wars are fought in faraway places,
and we don’t recognize the soldiers faces,
then the bombs and bullets mean little to us.

We’ll watch it with concern...

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Rebirth 

These days I feel like I’m going through a rebirthing, redefining and growth change. Most days I feel lost and in disarray unable to...

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No light

Sharp words tearing at my soul
No way out, your constant taunt
Everyday my life you did haunt
Great beast me you tried to control

Snapping, tearing, destroying...

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Surrender

Surrender to all am and all I’m not
All the memories and those I forgot
Surrender to where I am and the void
Places of beauty and the...

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Lapses in mindscape lane don't 
denote being fantastical,
subconscious realm portrayed
by vivid thoughts as Déjà vu.
The body lingers and ages but
the Psyche, new as dew. 

Countless...

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