Short Bresee Poems

Inside I cry
Neath sinking eyes
Against the wind
I feel that I
Am all alone
Am all alone
Am all alone…
Goodbye

…Jeff Bresee...

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Midst fear and doubt 
When prayers have ceased
Unannounced 
Without a sound
Returns the clouds
And falls the rain
Again on barren ground


…Jeff Bresee...

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There's a purpose in the way that it goes

There's a reason why things will be fine

But we tend to only figure it out...

When we come to the end of the line


...Jeff Bresee...

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It’s different now
All the world around
Grey, yet cool in the shadow
Void of sound, yet quiet
Reliable
Predictable
Sure
Yes, things are different
On the day after
You give up on your dreams
 
…Jeff Bresee...

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I had to trade another jot
I had to sell a tittle

I had to cuz they told me that
I had to give a little

I had to sit and wonder at
The setting of the sun

What giving just a little costs
When all is said and done

...Jeff Bresee...

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Slow death transcends the rush of tide
Still breath beneath a smoke filled sky
Pale ghosts arising from the past
Stand row by row from first to last
Like silhouettes of lifeless trees
In setting sun, no foot shall flee
But sink they into desert sand
While hate consumes the life of man  

…Jeff Bresee...

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I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it
There’s something that I’m supposed to be

But despite this the years have slipped slowly away
While I’ve purposely not become he

Because somewhere along this old path that I’m on
I've come face to face with the truth

That there’s no way that I can be both him and me…
While I'm lying here beside you


…Jeff Bresee...

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Granite grandeur draped in snow

Soft whisper falls

Clear water flows

 

No hand extends to measure time

No cares ascend

No worries find

 

For purpose fades into the still

A tranquil peace

Here in the chill

 

What part of time and space am I

So small beneath the endless sky

A spec of dust, a grain of sand...

Yet cradled in the Master’s hand

...Jeff Bresee...

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Run…
As fast as you can
Red shades of dismal
Flowing fear
Melt to the glass of sand

Hide…
In the hollow hidden dry
Drink down the spell 
Of earth and hell
Indifferent to the sky

Lie…
Forever un-seamed
Face down amidst 
The death of sound
Black holes of melody

Sleep…
To the blood of setting sun
From spiral dreams
Look down at what
One cell has now become

…Jeff Bresee...

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Soft moonlit eyes that paralyze
Unbridled passion on the rise
The room afire to faded light
Fragrant desire fills up the night
As worlds dissolve, so unaware
Entangled in your casual stare
Nowhere hide.  No way to see
No self control inside of me
Slow motions move through tangled time
In shallow breath I feel that I’m
Adrift upon your velvet sea
Your captive for eternity

…Jeff Bresee...

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A thin line extends to divide faith and fear

And so often the side you are on isn’t clear

 

For despite every effort to keep holding on

And despite every prayer and despite every song

 

That you’ve used to inspire and keep faith burning bright

Still the silence creeps in with the still of the night

 

And you can’t help but wonder, “Will it really be fine”

While the hours roll by… and you walk the thin line
 

…Jeff Bresee...

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Each moment creeps
Slowly
And quietly upon you

Drifting in continuum
One by one
In unbroken chain

From within the infinite
Depths
Of circular time

And across
The velvet black of space
And existence

Until at long last
It presents itself before you

The soul whom
For which it was destine made

And then
As if a drop in
The ocean’s great expanse

Makes impact and
Forever thenceforth becomes…
A part of you

…Jeff Bresee...

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