Retaking Poems - Poems about Retaking

I Have Lived A Hundred Different Lives -

...I have lived a hundred different lives -
Each as different as water is to stone.
I have dreamed a few far-away dreams
To discover that they were mine alone.
I have felt at times a trace of love
...

Never Letting Go

...We couldn’t survive
each to the other
We couldn’t let go
to live
We couldn’t give
without retaking
We couldn’t express
what we felt
We couldn’t stay quiet
when being together
We couldn’t co...

Time Is On Both Their Sides

...Another war, another truce
    Israel leaves so many ends loose, and yet
  Dozens die, so Thousands may live
    The horrific result full-scale war might give

  The Jewish State pulled out of G...

Autumn Cleaning Cleanse Part One

...AUTUMN CLEANING CLEANSE Part One.
It’s time for fall cleaning, a cleansing;
And in this the autumn of my life.
I’m retaking my vessel God has loaned me;
I’m cleaning His house renewin...

Writers Delight

...Legends were created here within script 
edges required in content to carefully encrypt
Breaking harmonic rules outside the norm 
Retaking realities in rhythmical uniform 
Baptized them in the at...

Antipoem 19 Apache

...AntiPoem 19
“Apache”

(Poet’s Instruction: Softly play “Apache” by Jorgen Ingmann, 1961, while reading)

Olathe and Yamka
Cochise and 
Mescalero 
Varlebena - forever
Ya’ateh – Hello to
Thes...

The Return

...The Return!
 
Echoes resonate - in vast empty streets
Confining humans with apps and with tweets
Papers flutter down dark hollow caverns
Shops now closed - and so too the taverns
Cats stroll th...

Tyrants Walk

...Tyrants Walk 

What shall I feed my children? 
The garden is empty, 
the plants have been pulled up. 
The dog, we ate already. 
There are no rats in the traps. 
Instead, they live in the palac...

Ginger November

...even her name evoked colorful images
Ginger November, a student of mine
quiet girl with ebony hair
a blessing to teach till family troubles intervened

divorcing parents of a Catholic schoolgirl...

False Alarm

...You Fall ...

the ground of your reality dissolves in this
stream of distraction, this inconvenient passion
the mawkish pop music you mock
is now singing your story, as
your thoughts, your brea...

Jessica

...Am I made of chocolate? I don't feel sweet
But when I am near you I melt at your feet
This puddle you stand in; it used to be me
A bit of a mess now but still a fine treat
With distance to aid us...

Eminent Domain

...Something seems amiss,
 yard creatures abound today
 demanding and fighting over seed and food.
The usual half dozen squirrels
 have doubled up,
 unfamiliar birds have come.
Each more determine...

Article Two

...Oh mankind what loathsome and perverse creatures you are.
You talk of giving yet you steel.
You talk of peace yet you make war. 
You talk of love but still you hate.

Oh mankind you are the grea...

Day 4

...I'm a new creation, going through 
construction; He's replacing and 
erasing my sinful nature that had 
me facing destruction...

Finally I've awakened, after all the 
breaking, I've been shake...

Pollution

...Acid has become our rain
and oceans with mercury do we stain
dioxin lies beneath our ground
in everything toxic materials be found
 
E-coli is used to alter genes in food
where recombinant DNA is und...

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