Short In The Final Analysis Poems

“Beyond Reason”

Myth and reality,
The language of dreams,
A vision of god
Wrapped in creation scenes.
Myth and reality,
A visceral truth,
Unified dogma
A centrifugal spoof.
Scattered and atomized
Mankind searches
For an integrating structure
Bestowing meaning and purpose.
Methodological limitations
Chasten and humble.
In the final analysis
Ideologies crumble....

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(Hidden pitfall; judging a Poetry Contest)
 
I like to approach
the final pass
at morning sunrise,
after a long restful renewal.
 
This was not that morning;
awake at 2:00 AM
baking cookies by 7:30.
 
On the fourth cup of java
crispy peanut butter crunch
wades across my tongue,
floating downward
in a warm, brown stream
 
to settle in fat cells
on waist and hips
as the spoken words
cross my lips....

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(Hidden pitfall; judging a Poetry Contest.)
 
I like to approach
the final pass
at morning sunrise,
after a long restful renewal.
 
This was not that morning;
awake at 2:00 AM
baking cookies by 7:30.
 
On the fourth cup of java
crispy peanut butter crunch
wades across my tongue,
floating downward
in a warm, brown stream
 
to settle in fat cells
on waist and hips
as the spoken words
cross my lips....

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Human Street

God will have his grace as we walk down
Human Street in a direction only heaven
knows.

Final analysis of life is something
only God knows. The last freedom,
freedom from life a part of it.

With up lifting spirits we shall go as
others walk down human street in
a direction only heaven knows.

Human street is where we all dwell
and don’t you forget it for there are
those who must ask where is it....

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It took a long time, but they finally grew up
Each...with individual diversions...Ha!
Five roads...five conclusions, (yet, but not)

“Children are a gift from God”, unwrapped at birth
Coercing us to change...not an option
I’ve become a doctor, judge, nutritionist, 
speech therapist, teacher, and chauffeur...
All without license

In the final analysis of ‘raising’ children
Could it possibly be said...
I’ve finally grown up?...

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A lesson in grammar

In the final analysis
is it a lesson in grammar..?
Most all of us have 
lived and believed
in the objects out there..
And we have been
much less interested 
in the subject in here..

However..once in a while
signs of a shift seem brewing..
The question arises:
Subject and object..they
seem entangled..one seems
one of a coin's sides..
Experience shouts..but
subject/object strikes back..
until it doesn't...!...

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