Farewell Strength Poems

We find ourselves with you in time, 
Thoughts of you are roaming our minds
Angels playing music at the Gate
Heaven will be Home; let's call it...

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You my dear will never make it in my family,
For our blood runs thick with tradition and legacy.
We hold ourselves to a higher standard,
And you,...

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   Stars go out with a bang
     A candle's flame's intense
       the moment...

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Nineteen, your up next in my story 
The anticipation, the fear, the wonder of what will be written on your pages 
Is almost too much...

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Trying to pass an elephant
Through a needle is crazy and irrational
That's a narrow path to nonsense
Trying to fake it or to faint
That you score when...

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Cicely Tyson, raised in Harlem, a model ‘til beckoned by Broadway
African American women’s strength and virtue, she went on the big screen to portray
A myriad...

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A new year, only days away.
We bid farewell to the past.
Welcoming a new year, a new day.
But what shadows will it cast?

Unresolved matters will follow,
those...

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You joined me at the park that day
As I tearfully, read from my heart
The hardest letter I could ever write
It's rawness about tore me apart

After...

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Like a phoenix, I have risen
Reborn, strengthened, renewed
Months spent in solitude
Reflecting on experiences in magnitude
Discovering my life’s purpose
Not wanting to become worthless
Unsure who to turn...

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Glowing fields cracked, used up, 
relentless sun 
without mercy
mirror infinity at earth’s curve.

Melding evasive wind 
spins mini cyclones
in harsh triumph.

Stumps of once glorious trees
spread abstract...

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THE GOOD…

They say I am a dreamer and a true romantic fool 
Happiest living in my own little world though you are welcome too ...

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The moment is finally here 
When we have something to share
And I can feel a sudden tension flowing in the air
The evening is dry and...

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I am at one with myself
I am the tree trunk that grows from the ground
As the branches and twigs move when the wind blows
I myself...

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beyond such horizon is beauty
learning alternatives for different
outcome besides being followed
watched or critized
atonement has made to see such
pain dreams prayers and visionaries
in thy or thus...

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Walk Forward

If I travel on ahead too soon, pause for a while and consider my going
But stop not, nor fall into the time and distance...

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