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POEM: Bastard Won and Awe

This poem is a tribute to that parent of us awe, oddly making us sort of bastards, yet siblings to all. Feel free to join this family of virtues. Bastard Won and Awe I am A bastard Fodder to none … Continue reading

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LOVE POEM: The Her and Now

The Her and Now Her gentle generosity Levels a see of petty lacks Her abundant kindness Overwhelms any insecurity Her abiding faith Shrinks fear two size Her steadfast patience Outlasts wistful worries Her joy Outshines any mourn Her bounding gratitude … Continue reading

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IMMIGRATION POEM: In A Parent Idiocy

In a parent idiocy Wee are tolled The right Thing to do Is children For sake In wanting To be a legitimate American Leave your children behind A crashing symbol To not here As freedom wrings A bout effacing the … Continue reading

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POEM: Owed To Chet Chambers

His exacting integrity Was seeded only by generosity of heart He loved Awe of God’s children As well As he kin He planted seeds That others would harvest He worked side by side Under God’s reign And the radiance of … Continue reading

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POEM: Flowing Inevitably Threw Us

Our hearts were broke A cache sow, well, spent In solvent In life Long Yearnings Teaming tsunamis of solidarity Of the largesse kind Poor Over us Torn as under A heavy wait Pre-seeding A compelling yield As if Some bank … Continue reading

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POEM: Life As A Breeze

Life peers to me As a gentle breeze With fragrant harmonies In the tenderest victories Know longer bought a bout by yielding hope Prospecting in rock Dead set, vane certainties Or coarse inclinations While a sole breath moves through me … Continue reading

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POEM: A Whole In The Wall

The man Reproached With muscles taut Just as I stood up With a plank beyond question A clear-cut match To the breach in the wall As an unwanted chink in won’s wooden amor As if adore rendering useless In efface … Continue reading

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POEM: Kindness 1.618 — Owed To The Goaled In Proportion

A parent In the relationship Between to be gotten The larger to the smaller The goaled in proportion Amidst just us Sum times christened The divine proportion And it doesn’t take A mathematical genus To divine its kind Never the … Continue reading

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POEM: Nothing New Under The Sun

There is nothing new under the sun Though in the shadows The same old same old Is more mournfully familiar Settling for reality-lite Too at home with night Groping with eyes open Instead of lightly touched Even with eyes closed … Continue reading

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POEM: Needling a Haystack

The stockpiles of human knowledge grow exponentially And wisdom, like needling a haystack Says, “What the hay?!” Finding better questions is where it’s at Not how fast you can shovel it Nor how big your pitchfork is Rather what thread … Continue reading

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POEM: Duckiness

Long the weigh I miss Took some clash Charging another Once an abject of my affection Now a worthy suspect In a lineup Of numbered whoa’s Among many Seedy subjects On the lam Yet beyond a shadow Of doubt To … Continue reading

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POEM: Impartiality

Judge Stamper was renown For his impartiality Still thinking Nothing of Preferring Stepping on others Rather than being stepped upon A justice so becoming A courting to a void Deputizing peons Siding with minute ordnances Backed up by deferential canons … Continue reading

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POEM: Compassion Hoard

I may not have bread And I can afford justice My feet may be bare And still I have wings unseen A fly on the wall Reflecting on wear thou art I cons A mass Pining for eternity I see … Continue reading

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POEM: Guarding God

He stoutly guarded God From an unruly world An unreveling creation And in such earnest He, and millions others, were Relieved of their doody Perhaps only a small relief For God above Yet for such bellow Refuse-ing To be passed … Continue reading

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POEM: Amateurs and Prose

There are moments When I feel Like such an amateur Then the payments come So much more Than I could ever hope for The only falling short Is ever thinking That life Is fated to be Any won thing Except … Continue reading

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POEM: Of Cucumbers and Fences

The punk was going to take My cucumber From my fence So I clutched My trusty shotgun And I fired a shot Way over his head He scattered like so much buckshot Having triggered his nerves Like a fresh kill … Continue reading

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POEM: A Farcical Foundation

A Farcical Foundation An abundance Of people Build Bank accounts And resumes In lieu of a better world In the face of scarcity Hoarding ourselves Leaving our shares as chump change Our resumes bankrupt In grate sell deception Talked into … Continue reading

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POEM: Whimsically Beat

You may beat me physically But I’ll beat you whimsically The unbearable lightness of being calls for whimsy, not brute force.  Violence is appealing to persons of low character.  Whimsy is an invitation to the finer things in life.  For … Continue reading

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POEM: Unemployable

I am unemployable Partly because no one can afford what I’m worth Partly because I prefer to give it away This short poem harkens to a more organic way of relating to one another than contractual relationships.  What if people … Continue reading

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