Endurance Prose Poems

A NATION IN CRISIS…FALLING APART

It has been said that America
is an experiment in democracy.
If that is so—and it seems to be—
this country is in deep...

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Love is a hallway built between two hearts, where the doors to each are always unlocked and with no secret rooms in the blueprint.
...

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OVERCOME

I’m a tiny human flicker
In whirling winds, losing light quicker
My flame glows glum, think I’m really done.
Overcome…

I’m a frail glade blossom, that in free air...

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You think me strong.
But I am not; nor ever have I been.
I have known success, but only that;
Which comes with standing by your dreams. 

You...

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In my head, I hear silence. The thoughts I once had welcomed were gone and not coming back. All I feel is numbness and sorrow,...

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The women I know are very strong
The woman I know carry burdens beyond grasp
I see only reflections of their sorrow, or their strength and of...

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Diversity shines its light upon wisdom; it’s a sage sharing both world and eternity’s knowledge.  While cultures are facet of this diamond sage; each...

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Need to rake, rake the underbrush
 where fallen leaves begin to blow and rush
 across the forest floors in flutters
 or lay thick piled in...

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Old Women

Old women are forgotten wombs
whose graceless bodies have fed
the word, then been sent
to sit in its shadow
not quite seen, not acknowledged,
not nurtured

They are more...

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FRIENDSHIP IS MORE

Friendship is like a marriage.
It is more than just a yes or no proposition.
When a friend goes back a ways
and I know a...

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CHILD ABUSE: PSYCHOLOGICAL INCEST.

Didn't I clap when you wanted me to
and smile
when I felt like crying,
and eat more through it all
for love's sake?

Didn't I cry...

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HUNGER

Energy draining from me
like water washing thoughts
down the sidewalk.
The never, never world
of Alice in Wonderland
seemed real.
I stepped into the restaurant
like an ant about to lose...

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Knowing too much can be draining
Those not proving what they're claiming

Personally, It's faith I'm aiming
Issues can be caused by simply complaining

Until my fate frames me...

I'll...

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Where the beast of the battle, there awaits
      And death there to confront.
Their devotion so profound.
    ...

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How you can outrun the past

Sometimes the past chases you.
You hear its footsteps
in the alleys of your mind.
Listen even closer
and you'll hear
the heartbeat of One...

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Math 

Is a problem

That is here to stay

It will never go away

Like a vermin's ugly kin, it grows

Multiplies and divides into more nasty vermin

Never seeming...

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Darkness comes to hold me in it's warm yet cool embrace
Envelopes me so that my fear can hide
Shadows mask my emotion and my face
No need...

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The vivid colors are painted on the Easter flowers 
beneath a spectrum of infinite blue hues in the spring 
sky: they wave in triumph.

Against the...

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The real irony of life
is that we think
everybody else is
happier than we are
and has a better life
than we do.
That isn't so.
We all have dark moments
of...

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True friendship is forever.
Life may hurt us, but love lasts
though the decisions we make 
are often grim.
I wanted to love forever,
but life's burdens over-took me
in...

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