Short Gentler Poems

spring wind
in Eve’s garden
even more gentler...

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A  
            gentle
     smile combined
   with gentler words
            Grace...

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spoken in jest

--- revenge's gentler part ---

yin becomes yang and back, two sides,

one coin....

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Isn’t it amazing 
that 
no matter how you spin it…

life is a little kinder
a little gentler
a little softer 
and a little brighter

with a grandma in it...

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The older I get
the lesser the pain
the gentler the words
—a healing refrain

The older I get
the sweeter the song
as memory protects 
—myself to belong

(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)...

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Amazing how we can remember our past
This instant recollection is a total blast
Scenes of gentler times
When things all rhymed
Life was forever, for an eternity it would last...

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Amazing how we can remember our past
This instant recollection is a total blast
Scenes of gentler times
When things all rhymed
Life was forever, for an eternity it would last...

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So disappointing to have a reputation--
Known for argumentative disputation
When we could be known for a gentler tone,
Raising quality of discourse in our generation.

written November 2, 2021...

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My body ages…
 as words stay young

Gentler written,
  more often sung

Fond memory’s child…
  youth starts to rage

All gray outside,
  blue-blonde the page

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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Your eyes are like a bonfire
Smoldering in my heart
I will engulf you with sexual lazer torches
Our union will breed the new age Olympian Choir
We will strut together as lions among our peaceful domain
Blinking gently and loving gentler...

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Attended a performance last night that blew me away
A concert in tribute of Gord Lightfoot, idol of my younger days
What glorious memories
Evoked teary-eyed reveries
A journey back in music, a gentler time it portrayed...

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To pick the rose
that shimmers brightest
at first sight,
be prepared;
for that is the fastest fleeting
of them all.

Let it go when needed,
even after it grows attached
so that its deadness
does not spread to you
and become your own....

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Farting when someone hugs you, makes them feel strong
It also gives forth a nasty odor that to you it only belongs
If other people are around
Claim innocence with the frown
For gentler farts, I'm renowned and don't gather thronges...

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   Snapshots of a gentler time
     rainbows filled my mind
   Freshwater streams, nature unsullied
     Faces helpful, eager, kind  

   Page after page, endearing smiles
     teeth all perfectly aligned 
   No hint of what's to come
     ~ navigating blind
     

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When he is all popular and confident, 
Aproaching you 
But halts halfway when you turn to look,
His eyes soften and smile's gentler 
And it reminds you of the way your dad looks at your mom
And for the very first time you know exactly, for a moment, what your mom feels when your dad looks at her...

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Sand gets grayer, melting sun
Merges into setting phase
Waves slow down their run
To the quieter pace 
Gentler blows the ocean breeze
Cirrus clouds decay
Shines a metaphor of peace
In the air today
Looks like postcard type of view 
But it’s not that trite
On the premise of the few
Who can breathe the light.
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A Rainy April Day

Like rolling pebbles on rooftops,
Gentle thunder welcomed a gentler rain;
The Lord gave a coatless Easter, but knew
Emerald grass and foliage thirst, so
Waited ‘til Friday morning,
To send a book-reading soft rain.
How silent it sounded as it fell,
How peaceful was the day
Of the mellow April rain....

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Spiralling into the depths of a rose.
Scent of petals caresses my nose.
Plummeting through a soft green bed.
Passing through the stem with dread.

Within, I witness its patterns from growth.
Wonderously I see beyond the darkness I loath.
Suddenly fertile soil surrounds me.
Somehow a gentler fall than I thought it would be....

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Never “goodbye” for me
Only” see you later”
Such sorrow in a final goodbye
There is no sadness greater

See you later just feels less final
Makes it easier in my mind
Goodbye can be so hard to say
See you later gentler and kind

So if its temporary or permanent
Or you have gone to meet your maker
It will never be a goodbye from me
Just ….see you later!...

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I don’t love you
just because of your eyes,
gentler than the summer rays.
I don’t love you
just because of your hair
that fondles my dreams.
I don’t love you
just because of your body
a masterpiece of the divine hand!
I love you best
because of your heart
at the moment after sunrise
on that sunny beach.
When you kissed me 
and whispered,
‘I’m your spiritual twin!’"...

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Shielded by dark clouds
  from suspicious sun's glare
She slipped out the door
  Took him up on his dare

To find a gentler path
  a rose amidst thorns
To turn her life around
  To wake up every morn

To the voice of birds singing
  to a world at peace
No more screams ringing
  from Pain a surcease

He awoke, she was gone 
  lightning bolts rent his dawn...

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Where the bluebell carpet lies
Under green and silver trees,
Yellow primrose clusters guard
The place that no one sees.

Echoes of a gentler age
Now remote from days and hours,
This is where I visit you
Resting fragranced by the flowers.

Where the woodland hides your grave
Sunlit, stirring in the breeze,
Silver ash watch over you
As you rest among the trees....

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Dockworkers on strike, the ocean gray
and choppy. Wind whips the rigging 
of a sailing ship with its weathered hag – 
figurehead once lovely in a gentler
age. What Time weaves of us. A line 

from memory flits to places farther 
inland, when you were younger, every-
thing graced with light: the rain, 
the chickweed, and the burdock leaf. 
Tomorrow, another ship comes in....

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I long to feel her hand in mine again
To touch her skin and feel my heart beat thrill
As senses ignore the watery chill
While slowly walking through the summer’s rain
For love has grown from depths of darkest pain
Far gentler than any sedating pill
Is the hand that leads me to climb this hill
To take a chance on loving once again.
Mystery beyond the horizon lies 
As history destiny now defies...

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Pigment and yolk
are together softened, held in hues passing
between salmon and tangerine
the springtime of youth
in a brilliant force of pastels
Those shades
that stretch summer to autumn
flush garnet, russet, sanguine, rust,
blending the years in
with gentler greys
beneath the muted cloak of winter's shadow
Life in one smooth harmony
as the brush toils, and the paint gets the glory...

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