Short Leveling Poems

Caterpillar has customized 
the skyline, 
leveling a peak to make 
more room for emptiness. 

At the end of life 
in a wounded land, 
there is only the endless 
recycling of memories....

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Beans
Beans
Pinto
Pinto Beans
A diabetic's dream
Helps to stablize blood glucose 
How many ways can one prepare these beans ..let us see
Just boiled seasoned, added to turkey chili, delicous in soups, stews, just to name few...

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I’m code-switching
On a stim 
Teeth, lips
Rubbing at the brim 
Austistic
Artistic
Linguistic
I’m standing on a whim
Rope in the wind
Punished 
By misunderstandings
Or landings
Failed 
While leveling the trim

7/9/2021...

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Stages of panic
Shades of fear, grades of worry
Trample my heart like a grader
Leveling my hopes, flattening my dreams
My heart is heavy like a lorry
Transporting more trouble
As things get awry, feelings are eerie
Strange in a way that eludes explanation
Fear grips so tightly, fear no end
As we wait for the worst to descend...

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Do things get worse before they get better? I know, I know, I know....Things get worse, then worser still. You glimpse sunshine, but no, it’s just your medication.  Then things get worse, worse, worser, worst, before finally leveling off. And that’s the new norm. And things are better, because they could be worse.  And the answer is B. Detroit...

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Where only dating ocean waves
I've come to see them fine
When every ocean wave going by
has come to see me pine

That everything they'd hope for me
is leveling out my mind
When all the hopes they've lived for me
are settling me to find

That everything I go to do
can tell me where they've been
When all the world's an ocean wade
and I'm a dip within...

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Falling, swirling, drifting down,
softly padding to the ground,
gently settling all around,
hushing, hushing every sound.

Piling, rising, mounding deep,
leveling burrows, sloping steep,
wrapping nature in her sheath,
quieting, stilling life beneath.

Gentle whisper, everywhere,
breath of heaven, angel's prayer,
quietly resting on the trees,
bringing nature to her knees....

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Ice and Fire
When ice meets fire
Its elements intertwine
Leaving much condensation
Filling its lover wholly
Leveling the flames 
And cooling down the chills
As your fire meet my ice
It calmed our souls
And normalized our places in life
The heat you fill me with
Entices my body, and warm 
My heart, that the blood inside
Me may run for you, My love for you will live for eternity....

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It's all in my eyes
What you see is no disguise

My intent is so sincere
I'm aiming and shooting without fear

My energy is indefatigable
I can meet night with day and still be excitable

In the midst of storms, I'm unflappable
My level of stoicism is masterful

I'm peering
and I'm steering
I'm honing
and I'm toning
I'm leveling
and I'm not settling

This is MY FOCUS
And this is no hocus pocus...

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Slow hands can't rest   
stripped down anticipation   
still holding intoxication   
dripped from sweet lips   
    
Words whipped with lemon tips   
free float  in wayward winds     
fingers grasped  gentlly touched   
a zestful reprise   entwined   
               
Moved with the morning dew   
falling deeper into you   
awaiting a pleasing glimpse     
a kiss  carressed sips  leveling     
every part of a misted me...

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Most beautiful thing in the world
Uniqueness in audio form
Synthesized or guitar driven
Intelligent or dance worthy
Cd's, eight tracks, tapes, and now DVDs
Acoustic or piano
Leveling enemies to a common likeness
Love songs or hate anthems
You know you love it 

Enthusiastic but not
Crazy admirer
Love for all types
Even guilty pop pleasures
Connecting with different people
Typically 
Informing others of a message
Crazy about everything music...

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True friends don’t use never
or always
for your hopes and dreams
putting a cap on your future 
by saying
“it’s never coming
or it will always be like this.”
leveling you out to stay even with
or lower than
how can they say what you life will be?
disguised in negative
filling the head with fear, doubt, 
lack of vision in a war of the mind,
smearing dirt on possibility
false prophets of uncertainty
who gave them the right to say, never

1/6/19...

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Break and wind
the ribbons through your velvet hair
leveling the light
from moonless shadowed smiles

For all tonight will
know you for your voice
and call you for your
wisdom broken bare

while dignifying moons to velvet miles


Stare the stars
until they mirror metal eyes
dance about in tears
from oblique circumstances

For all tonight will
find you in their heart
and know you for the way
you simply care

it's this which even stars above entrances....

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