Short Great Divide Poems

I carve chocolate letters
Into flowery words
Of candy heart sayings
And loft them across
This great divide
To be held... dearly...

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Are your words personal or objective,
that great divide

The second has all the letters present
…except ‘I’

(Dreamsleep: September, 2021)...

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It's dark It's cold 
I feel so old 
Living more lives before my time 
My heart strung out on oceans 
Waves crush my reality 
Nothing is pretty 
A great divide has me high 
This life is a lie 
I can no longer cry...

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Houses on parade
Guards to civilisation
A great divide between man and space
Escapism opposed to reality

Sentinels stand at either end of street
Neighbourhood watch
Dangerous tongues gossip
Prepare for another onslaught...

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From this stark perch,
a great divide
from those who ride
with pinky raised.

Inured by wealth;
their lives unfazed, 
quick glances glazed.
They see me not.

RIDE ON A PATHYA VA - Poetry Contest “Carriage”
04 Aug 2014
David Mohn...

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Earthen causeway laps                                                                                               
Sterling river under bridge                                                                                         
Worlds ever apart...

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She is far too Left.

Once I thought I saw her lurch
to the Right -
it might have been
too much tequila.

She eats fancy ice creams
and does not care to share.
Generally speaking
she is against everything.

Politics came between us:
His name was Nigel....

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Racism
Schism
A void
To Altruism

A means
Promote
A path
To more division

The color
The people
Is purple
Ever equal?

Is there
Some way
To span
Across the Steeple

In truth
We lie
And know
Consistent evil

Deny
Deny
The populous
Primeval...

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I had heard and read about it.
This time, I actually saw the sign.
The sign read, The Great Divide,
and I was crossing it on I-80W;
leaving rivers flowing toward the Atlantic,
and joining rivers flowing toward the Pacific.

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playfully swallowing
space and time
the universe disappears 
so presence yields
slowing down vibrations
surfing the great divide
between form and void
thus in but not of the world
doing nothing
simply looking
at the play underway
conjured for heart’s delight
we dwell in our natural state...

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The alter has all but fallen...

Once powerful in awe...

The struggle, canal, of waves dissolve...

Great divide stand wilt...

The cries touched with chords
of Braille...

enticed outstretched mallet   
drive in another nail...

bystanders reel in wrath...

All consumed by an energy...
they too, themselves...

yet tapped......

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No cut can be made from a rusty blade.

No blade can sever a noble endeavor.

No great divide from a loss of pride,

Your character shines forever and ever.

No peace of mind with an axe to grind.

No one to blame for personal shame.

No place to turn for a failure to learn,

History echoes and calls out your name....

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SLACK TIDE

moon draws
back slack
high lows
collide

new address
to compress
I digress…

seas glide
as shores
abide
waves hide
then
subside

unpack
draw back
stress-smack
hide-crack

I assess
undress
and
digest

cast aside
this
great divide
worldwide
deep
inside





© Kim van Breda—17 August 2015...

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I look for you, search for you, far and wide
Across the horizon, that great divide 
Between land, sea, and sky, the space is so vast
But maybe you'll fill it one day at long last
I wake up each morning and watching the sun
Come over the mountains, I seek for the one
Particular bluebird who if I did see
Would build her a nest and keep her with me...

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Gone, but not forgotten,
steals a little of my heart,
and no matter where I breathe
we are never far apart.
I see you at your icons;
your little bed beside the fire,
your favourite trees; the river;
facing cats that raise your ire.
Now even in our great divide,
that both of us were dealt,
without a word, or even thought,
your presence can be felt....

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Wind whispered and chilled my soul
Said it was time to go
Over the great divide
Back to where my fathers abide

Where souls wait for those who come
To where time begun
Wind whispered and we fly
Back to where my fathers abide

To the land of wind and shadow
Wind whispered it was time to go
With the souls of times gone by
Back to where my fathers abide...

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We can all think 
  differently

While instantaneously feeling 
  the same

We can politically straddle the
  great divide

While below loving the canyons
  and plains

We can put all prejudice and 
  opinion aside

When the outcome is cast
  zero-sum

And in those moments our greatness
  calls loudest and true

With the blood of a freedom
  —hard won

(Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)...

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This time it just might stick
The proof...
It all aligns.
You've pushed me to far
my love;
This is our great divide

And I cannot wait to sell you
to the village of fools
to go from trusted lover
to so malicious 
and so cruel

Just think..
All those dark corners
youv'e been hiding from-
I now know all their names

The signature at the motel
it is your own....
I'm no longer lonely
My darling-
I'm just alone

© on Dec 23 01...

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The infinite stares back at me
from there across a great divide,
so unimaginably wide,
so far beyond where eyes can see.
Perceive a singularity?
I cannot grasp, although I’ve tried,
the infinite.

I entertain bewildered glee
somehow to gain the other side.
To take an interstellar ride,
imagining how I can be
the infinite…

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A Rondine: (R a) b b a a b R a b b a R
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/rondine-poetic-form...

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They're not dead, they've just passed on
Yes you grieve because they're gone.
They're watching your from the other side
But you can't cross that great divide.

Their souls are living free of pain
One day you'll see them all again.
Until then your grief is real--
I pray to God that you can heal.

I pray right now you feel relief
I don't deny your private grief.
They're far away and yet they're near
Along with God they're with you here.

D H Loewen...

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Rest your head in a pillow of clouds
The weary and broken down listen
Count the miles on your feet
Count them like the sheep
Aimlessly eating from the fields 
Measure the myths and comb the cobwebs
Scatter the differences and pray
Tomorrow breathes in another sky
Release the everyday burden
Judgements creep around fallen friends
They probably never had a chance
A highway song of remembrance
Beneath a summer moon
Smoke signals for the lost
Across the great divide.......

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My wish for 2021
Is for the world to regain their sense of fun
For the USA to heal the great divide
To not have to wear masks, friendship abide…

My wish for 2021
is for the terrorist to give up his gun. 
for the pandemic to dissipate, evaporate, annihilate.
For the children to be back in school, wouldn’t that be great?

My wish for 2021
is for many more days of lovely sun. 
for world peace as best as we can garner it.
For intelligence to prevail, with a side of wit....

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Dusty little towns
West of the Great Divide
Where great-grandchildren of cowboys
On ranches still reside.

Small western museums
With local antiquities inside; 
Native American artifacts, 
Some horse tack for a cowboy's ride.

There among the fancy
Are two dresses hemmed above the knee,
20's Jazz Age fashion
Worn far from the speak-easys.

Caused a bit of an uproar,
As they danced on the sawdust floor.
Who were these rebel cowgirls,
These flappers from western lore....

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Sleeping inside my fury,
the predators keep away
Passing downwind of my ire,
seeking lesser prey

My strength is wrapped around me,
no more armor do I need
The fangs of lions, bears, and wolves,
break upon my sleeve

My campfire roars in anger,
the birds have stilled their wings
The tracks of blood I left today,
tomorrow’s path to bring

As ruler of this forest,
my range the great divide
To those who hear me coming
—upon whose fear I thrive

(Dreamsleep: January, 2022)...

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