Short Reason Out Poems

What you want is divine
No one can take it away
No one can subtract
No one can add to
What you want is perfect
One can’t begin to imagine
Or rationalize
What you want is defectless
One can’t intellectualize
Think through or reason out
What you want is exemplary, beyond all praise...

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i’m a widow
part of me is gone and dead
i’m a widow and always will be
i don’t know how to carry on

i’m a widow
and know that i am not alone
yet their stories are not my own
i must not add them to my burden

i need to walk my solitary journey
and focus on my beacon
there’s a reason out there for me
to be courageous and carry on



AP: 1st place 2022

Posted on October 14, 2021...

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Are you out there, somewhere, waiting for me while I wait for you?
Have you come as far as I have, know what you want too?
Do you understand my heartache, my disappointments, my pain?
Do you dance without reason, out in the rain?

I smile through the tears that fall down in my soul.
For there's a deep well inside, an unending black hole.
I've lost all that I've loved, can I trust someone again?
Are you out there somewhere, a stranger or friend?...

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Are you out there, somewhere, waiting for me while I wait for you?
Have you come as far as I have, know what you want too?
Do you understand my heartache, my disappointments, my pain?
Do you dance without reason, out in the rain?

I smile through the tears that fall down in my soul.
For there's a deep well inside, an unending black hole.
I've lost all that I've loved, can I trust someone again?
Are you out there somewhere, a stranger or friend?...

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Just can't reason out
Why 
But with a little bit 
Gratefulness and satisfaction
Will do
We're renting a room here 
We're sharing the earth here 
We're searching treasures here
We're sharing the riches here
Though I'm not the richest
I'm not the poorest
Though I'm  not the wisest
I'm not the most stubborn
Though I'm not the luckiest man
I still can see kindness on the face of God
Though I may not reach the heaven 
I'm not walking towards hell...

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I am widely read,~ Train doors open,
o my readers sit~some riders get off.  
or stand on long~ " Pardon me, sir! "
train cars! Sleep~  Guys' faces daze,
they won't since~someone is too glad
words get tense,~ while her legs trot;             
and action stirs; ~  no preacher cries                        
o another reason~  out at such sight! 
they read a lot,~ Cops on the watch,
is not to make ~  suspicion of threat;
real eye contact!~dogs sniff package....

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Double on the double side,
2 sides of the platter,
not caught she thought with maybe pride,
how the glass of loving shatters.

And passion flares quite a bit,
 his hand has almost slipped on it,
 and reason out the window slips,
 some verse is so exciting:)
But not always.

Interest in the story told,
the angels here sometimes unfold,
the wings are hidden in the mist,
the greatest joy is to be kist,
perhaps i'm getting told .

Don Johnson

Contest Whatever next....

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