Short High Ground Poems

Hear the story told
Watch the lights from the high ground
Know the magic truths...

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A man searching for
phone signal on high ground died -
a lightning hit him

Date: July 14, 2019
Syllable count: 2018 syllablecounter.net...

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I built an upside down snow man in pose
I drank too much tequila I s'pose
I built him on high ground
But next morning he drowned
As his melt had run into his nose

12/24/2017...

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red cardinal visit
our daughter is delighted
less thrilled about coon

country lifestyle
invites and welcomes creatures
raccoon quite at home

cat observes from chair
prissily sits on high ground
communing both...

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When a bully spots a coward
  He's pumped up, empowered

A fearful leader behind 'moral high ground' cowers
  His defense, roadkill for the bully ~ more land to devour




   ~ C'mon, Pres. JB! Fear strikes out 
          in the Fight for Freedom ~...

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Crumpled by thunder
Cowering inside the dark
Covered in your fears. 
~
Hallowed by your charm
Your crimson sight hungry- bold. 
I am merely prey.
~
Leaves scatter- muddy.
Crawl toward the horizon
Find high ground. Don't sleep. 

-James Kelley 2019...

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He stood on the Edge.
And looked all around.
No more to get up
or to come down.
Gone in the Nethers
he found a way out.
When put to the test
he left the high ground.
Without a regret.
what was lost is found.
He went to the Edge.
A New Vista Abounds....

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Lightning crashes as Jupiter makes his mark.
Turning light to dark.
Junos everlasting love for her son, Mars.
As he battles his way through a vast universe.
A world wind of wisdom.
Windsurfing on high ground.
At last they battle moving with honor, & agility....

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The shy, feral cat creeps in close to the ground,

Stealthily, silently, is not a sound.

We don't even notice her gold and brown.

Sneakily, makes a nest above high ground.

When husband sees, he makes a sound.

Was eight years ago, and she's still around....

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soup overdone comments blow hot air ~ AI bubbles up everywhere 

bits and bytes chain reactions going spare ~ does admin really care 

esoteric brainwashing on blogs here and there ~ bullsh!t doctrinaire 

witnesses hold high ground au contraire mon frere ~ sisters in a lair

HMS...

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why does the wind whisper
foreboding?
and the sky bid gloom upon me
though the sea has no love either
she holds back the ill tide of noon
warns me to seek high ground soon
though the earth tells me neither
of the flower embraced bee
still I wonder as I am plodding
why does the wind whisper foreboding?...

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My dog had a flea infestation and we gave her a flea bath and all the fleas ran up her 
tail to high ground. Me and my son were laughing about the fleas saying --there was 
no rain in the forecast...where did the hurricaine come from?? run to high 
ground...hang on martha!! We lost junior, hang on everyone!! bluup bluup bluup 
swirling down the drain--iiiiieeeeee!...

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Blistering thunder
Cracking asunder
Craters form
High ground being torn
Its ledges are sharp
Concealed in the dark
The rain blows in gales
 —ancient prophecy hails

Blistering thunder
Fate pulls you under
Vows you made
Point straight to your grave
Death’s legions await
You fall through its gate
Your last moment burned
 —no more chances to learn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)...

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"A goodly, gainful thing"
Caribou told me
"To leave, once in a while
Home's high-ground safeness;
To roam, for what as sun-grassed
Lies in wait sweetly
Fills which need, Surprise's;
Feeds on vast Newness."

"And the most jubilant!"
Dragonfly added.
"To up and go, but now
Out which comfort zone
With that relief's burst, once deemed
Unthinkable sped!
Isle-eying, isle-engaged!
Floaty; no more lone!"...

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You singed
the last feather off my back
took away    my sky   my flight 
congratulations lady fire   you win    
I surrender.   

I'm leaving... 
you can eat those feathers for all I care.
When true warmth, true peace blows my way
I'll regrow a new pristine flight.
Regain the sky-high ground
and
watch you sink into the zinc cold earth.
weighted down with singed flight feathers
petrified into silence....

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If you would ask, I would say
I need you more every day
Cause you shine the light, on the darkest parts of my soul
Without you, I'm out of control
You keep the demons at bay
With you I can slay, any dragons or windmills that get in our path
You're my high-ground to stand
A safe place to land
The perfect shelter, through any storm
You don't save me from the world
You save the world from me
Cause baby, you're the better side of me...

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They come from either side,
And there's no place to hide,
Fields of deadly fire,
Not what one would desire...

Bullets wiz past my ears,
My eyes bulging with fears,
Why'd I have to lead the charge,
In stead of refitting in the rear.

Soldiers do as they are told,
Sometimes things that
makes the heart grow cold...
Almost to the summit,
Must keep rolling on,
Till we capture the high ground,
Or until we all are gone....

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Cold water cascades in rainbow shades
Down from the Wicklow Hills nearby
Heather and Gorse it will evade
To magical pool where waters sigh.

Enchanted pool hears silent desire
With spell-binding sympathy
Deep love that burns like white-hot fire
Tender heart imbued with misery.

Mystic spring cascades from high ground
Rainbow prisms of light excite
Spellbound moment spreads all around
Broken heart mended it has taken flight.


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Inundating, binging,
the muddy, bulimic river
gorged the flood plain, consuming
everything that wasn’t nailed down:
tree limbs, leaves, bleating sheep, chicken coups,
plastic grocery bags, inner tubes,
cesspit contents, only to vomit
it back up to its torrential torrent surface.
Helpless victims stand the high ground
with a wing and prayer their homes
be spared the wrath of God
knowing only too well that the laws
of nature…
have no favorites....

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