Short Travailing Poems

Unwrapping a Day With Hope

reflections
in a mirror
wear questions
a soul barren
of answers---
unequivocal

travailing
considerations
traverse
the spirit
cycling ideas
undeniable

it is
it’s now
unquestionable
clinging now
to grace
indisputable

wrapping
with faith 
the questions
unwrapping
the gift
of hope
 

All Rights Reserved @ Debra Squyres 2013...

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Endless Chase

Dreams broken
Anthills of fear lurking
Failing forward
Nothing to lean on
The walls crack
Sorrows rack
Musing dryness
Patience
Paling
Oceans of nothingness travailing
Hopelessness hatching
Triggers pulling
Death beckoning
Casket lower
Thresholds folding
Priest dusting dust
Vanity looming
Eternity an endless chase...

Written by Awoh Kingsley...

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The dark, darkest night
Oh crescent moonlight 

A trace or slight glimmer 
Divine stars abating all tremors 

A dark night of the soul
Travailing darkness new and old

Singularly erecting from nothingness 
Now, standing in divine abundance 

Oh, beautiful bennu lifting its wings
From lowly ashes up, and up the bird sings

Super soul path sailing
Oh divine light, no more wailing

Lonely might be the lot
But alone, not alone, not...

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A walk into flight
Love lost

I have been walking towards waves of –
patiently travailing those rocky shores – Love
has laid before the feet of this old fool.
Upon my back, I carry this weight like a mule,
only to find my imprints are taking wing
leaving me with a broken heart, to sing 
my melancholy songs, long after all is gone 
to dust, carried upon wings, the winds above
all, what I – with hope, anticipation – thought was Love.

B. J. “A” 2
November 23rd 2007...

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