All You Thirsty, Come to the Waters
...I strive to place God as the be- all and end- all of life
I know He watches over me as a caring father.
When storm clouds rise high in my sky,
I look up to Him for guidance.
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Categories:
wellsprings, god, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Chi
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Water gives -
Troubled waters to wade,
Holy Rivers to bathe,
Break of waters, for birth and re-birth,
Font for sprinkles and signs made,
Medium and milieu for Chi,
Steep of leaves for tea,
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Categories:
wellsprings, spiritual, water,
Form: Free verse
The Spell of the Blessed Water Diviner
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They called him the dosser.
A blessed man with a crooked,
bent and wobbly wishbone of wire,
held tight in clenched fist.
He fossicks spellbound
for water hiding deep below
in the groundwat...
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Categories:
wellsprings, farm, water,
Form: Free verse
KINETICISM
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phenomena
light
vibrant
frozen
frills
of
layered
energy
exhilerating
diintegrating
dramas
pervasive
impulsive
spheres
scrawled
quasars
consc...
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Categories:
wellsprings, appreciation,
Form: Ekphrasis
Skull
...The first thing to unhinge is its lower jaw,
the skull now (sometime in your future),
gnaws the recollection of its bygone face.
It must use the roaming poems of restless winds
as its surrogate...
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Categories:
wellsprings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sheer Magic of Happiness
...“Happiness is contagious. It can be sparked by one single happy man, making it spread into many, as a small amount of yeast ferments large quantities of dough" – By Poet
Happiness is...
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Categories:
wellsprings, appreciation, beauty, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Verge of April
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Green twigs drip late into the day,
birdsongs bloom from the windblown.
Soft are the veins that leach from new leaf.
Sweet the prodigal sap that seeps.
Earthworms salt and curl in the o...
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Categories:
wellsprings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Inspiration
...Ten Lines from Ten Poems 12/26/24
Poems used 1)Most Beautiful Christmas Poem 2)Who Am I?; 3)Keeper of the Flame; 4)Dreams within Dreams; 5)Love's Sonnet; 6)Moonlight on Meadows; 7)Yellow; 8)Graciou...
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Categories:
wellsprings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In the labyrinth of memory, shadows dance on the walls of recollection, whispering untold stories
...In the labyrinth of memory, shadows dance on the walls of recollection, whispering untold stories,
And I, an eternal child, wander through the corridors of time, seeking answers in the eyes of those...
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Categories:
wellsprings, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Because they hate
...Paulo was Brazil’s most popular journalist, but the left did pursue
He told an American interviewer that the left there "hates you"
I found this a puzzle, I asked why, what did we do?
But hate has...
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Categories:
wellsprings, anger, hate,
Form: Lyric
In the stillness of midnight, where time seems suspended and shadows dance with whispered secrets
...In the stillness of midnight, where time seems suspended and shadows dance with whispered secrets,
My mind wanders through labyrinths of pain, finding solace in the depth of suffering.
It is said t...
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Categories:
wellsprings, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Summer Quatrains
...Summer Quatrains – Swap Quatrains 6-19-24
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Summer Quatrains
Silk ribbons of ice melt into wellsprings
With jubilant serenades, heartfelt,
Frozen...
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Categories:
wellsprings, change, life, nature, summer,
Form: Quatrain
Dance of Dances
...The Dance of... Dance of Dances 6-13-24
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Dance of Dances
Silk ribbons of ice melt into wellsprings
The dance conundrum breaths in fresh sunlight
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Categories:
wellsprings, dance, life,
Form: Sonnet
Civilization
...Ancient
~*~*~*~*~*Beliefs
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Cultivate
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Distinguishable
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Entities
~*~*~*~*~*Fortify
Genuine
~*~*~*~*~*Harmonic
~*~*~*~*~*~...
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Categories:
wellsprings, adventure, community, culture, destiny,
Form: ABC
Spring Sonnet
...Lipogram Sonnet 4-12-24
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Spring Sonnet
Spring bursts out from winter’s silent cocoon,
Fluttering luminescence on new wings,
Freed up from the ...
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Categories:
wellsprings, spring,
Form: Sonnet
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