Farewell Wisdom Poems

Somethings are better
done to day – tomorrow
never comes

like mending fences
and pitching hay

meal on the table
and time to pray

grace in the morning
at the end of day

remind...

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Can we call it a day,
Inclined to tell me so,
Thinking I had a right to know.

Incoming train wreck on the night ahead,
Palmed one off to...

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 Faith’s coronet trumpets my quest every day
   searching the skies and the soul for a way
 through ubiquitous mire, muck and mud
...

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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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We've heard of ALS
as "Lou Gehrig's disease"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
a cause to pray on our knees

But Lou Gehrig felt he was
"the luckiest man on earth"*
the Yankees,...

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Written: January 16, 2024
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Ephemeral grave is tangled with gloom,
Putting faith in ethereal womb...

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When you pour out your soul,
words so fully drowning the page,
Then your thumb hugs delete,
your mind filling with rage. 
Eloquently written, to be deemed
"one of...

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#IT'S TIME TO TAKE INVENTORY...

ITS TIME TO EVALUATE CERTAIN CATEGORIES...

JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING TAKES UP SPACE, DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN IT SHOULD...

OBTAIN
MAINTAIN 
REMAIN 

IN YOUR SPACE, NOR...

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I don't need You anymore






When You were most in need 
I gave what I could
When you needed support
I gave my time
When you were broken
I gave...

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I found a notebook in blowing trash
left by an elder moving away.
Did she not want to keep it, I asked
Won't fit, one room, is all...

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Are we tedious, given the camera's dexterity?
Requiring what our reasons tell us to escape. 
The topic's dualism generates disparity. 
Using these subjects to symbolize "reshape" 
I'll...

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There are not enough tears to form from my eyes/
I cannot feel my face from time to time/
Sorry, if I left you all alone from...

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Epigrams VII

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: 
am I or are the others crazy?
—Albert Einstein, poetic interpretation by Michael R. Burch


The Whole of Wit
by...

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Freedom
Ego death
Peaceful 




(Japanese Haiku; 3 lines, 2-3-2 syllable count)...

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the stars weep ...
but not for heaven
they weep for vacant eyes
and hearts of parched desire
with tears untold ...
and uncounted

for where is the hunger -
the yearning...

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