Friendship Wisdom Poems

I love hearing stories,
stories from my grandparents.
They love to tell stories,
stories from many years ago.
Grandma tells about bread,
when black showed up they would cut if off.
Then...

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Sometimes Truth
is a bit too enlightening, 

eyes preferring haze
over prickly points
of stunning beams – 

when the
heart in shadow, a slow
peep can be preferred over a
sharp...

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Never mind the friendship(s) that was born not to last

Fresh air is an inhalant of freedom 

Don't push it or she'll push you off a...

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God moves in straight circles
in rounded lineal
pointless points
at the sharp of blunts

we are slow to catch on

racing about 

on oil and ice 

a fat ass...

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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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Beauty appears as different things to different people
It may be the reaching up of a towering steeple 
Or something pleasing to the eye
Like blending blues...

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May I serve
whatever the capacity --

and not be dissuade;

God knows His faithful,
not by glitter
nor by volume of voice,
but by salves of compassion

knowing no color
knowing no...

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I want to be closer
As close as your breath
The heartbeat that separates
The living from death

A touch as electric
As life flows, it seems
This story is written
In...

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As I take a book off the shelf,
many questions I ask myself.
What is life all about,
as I read I have many a doubt.
"Our differences are...

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O to be a poet!
What must I do?
Need special rhymes
I pursue…

perhaps elegant forms 
transcending more common, 
like Midas touch
words golden~ a poet’s Mammon!

O when will...

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Too many words
too many words 
(let us wisely edit
the past) --
the heart just knows
the spirit just knows

Too many knows
too many knows --
(when love is there
love...

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Who is happy this year?
Aries, getting to understand yourself causes better results.
Taurus, many reliable behaviours bring you much exults.
Gemini, cooperation with others leads you to...

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You hold my hand
aware of capacity
for bonding

hands can do that
fingers fond conduits
palms firm suctions
of secure presence

hands yielding
while they also solidify
the mystery of divine
grasp – adhesive...

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Brush against my shoulder.
Gently, gently,
friend
or curtain in the wind.
Light a candle,  
I’m not looking.
And when all the lights have dimmed:
come comb through the thicket...

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Life flies away like a leaf in the wind. 
Everything was so innocent back in childhood, like the clear blue sky. 

As we grow older,...

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