Short Reassuringly Poems

Darling daughter 
Always admiring 
Undoubtedly understanding 
Graciously gathering 
Hopefully honest 
Truthful tones 
Eternally expecting 
Reassuringly realistic...

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Youth believes love
its own invention
and not Nature’s
intension for all--

of course youth
relies solely on youth
its application
before cultivation
our Baby-steps
then the fall…

but I, now,
a senior citizen
a denizen
just prior the sleep,

have grown to see love
high and wide
and reassuringly
infinitely deep....

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at first,

     she seemed unsure 
     as she faced the bonfire tonight
     with her back to him;

     the written vow
     in her hand she tossed, 
     piece by torn piece, to the flames,

     unburdened, 
     she sighed at the smoke,
     smiled at him reassuringly;

     they watched 
     the pieces bend, burn and blossom 
     like black roses dying out,

at last....

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He can be menacingly persuasive
As he shakes the stone walls of the room
With maniacal screams about your impending doom


He can be reassuringly convincing
As he croons about the very few chosen
Like him destined long before birth to be in heaven


His faith seems infrangible as iron
But it is also iron cold, ironically iron dead
Rusting away with blind bigotry swelling his head !


....

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This astronomical event
Molted out of summer sunbeams
Causes an herbaceous retreat
Personified as sleepiness

More darkness less lightness describes
This astronomical event
More coldness less heatness results
From shorter indirect sunbeams

Tilting revolving rotating
Earth goes around again until
This astronomical event
Reassuringly reoccurs

Earthly inhabitants rejoice
Variously and celebrate
The season attributed to 
This astronomical event...

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As  I walk slowly on the soft-hard interlock
pathway lost in thought, as the rays of  sun drum  
on my hairless head; the sight of beautiful floral
pattern gives a gentle pat on my disturbed mind;
which sends lovely vibes through my entire body.
The soothing hands of the wind adds to
this relief that “tomorrow will be better”,
And the mellifluous voices of the birds tap reassuringly.



Olusegun Arowolo  Date:9-1-2015
CONTEST:"Sense of Touch" sponsored by Nette Onclaud...

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