Light
The stars afar
Glitter and gleam,
A light in the night
Upon the earth good and green.
The sun not outdone
Every morn grows and glows,
With a light so bright
As to give beauty and bloom to the wild red rose.
The cosmos light both day and night
Ever does show and shine,
Giving cause to pause
And praise God, all the time.
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Enervated
The child within, lit his own little candle
And set it at the center of the valley so large,
Brilliantly it beamed, and gloriously illuminated all about him;
That is until, all the others came rushing in
Lighting candles of their own,
Then his flickered in fear, slowly fading away...
blown asunder, by the crowds cold wind.
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Unstoppable Travels
In the room read
All alone;
Books and poems
Becoming Home -
Beyond the door
Resides things tearing away pieces of me,
Only unattainable dreams
Of where I might be.
If a way out there
I myself am unable to find,
I shall freely travel with great joy
Along beautiful backroads and timeless trails
Of my own unchangeable mind.
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The Inscrutable
Can anyone
Ever know another?
Truly see at depth
The magnificent mystery of the other?
We look
We stare; but,
Do we comprehend
The wonder in there?
The image,
The soul;
How little we understand
Of what, physically, we are unable to show.
It's the spirit
We fail to see,
That great human link
The real connection, of you to me.
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A Bird of Ploy
In a meadow serene
Appears a sight seldom seen
A bird and a cat
Stand back to back
Take ten paces
Then stop and turn their faces
The bird suddenly draws a gun
The cat in panic leaves on the run
The bird laughing drops the 'toy'
For it was merely a clever ploy
Giving the bird space to fly
Rather than stand, fight... and surely die!
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Strange the Price
Strange the price
Some so close
Expect us to give -
Strange the loss
Of memory: that it's completely free
To truly live -
What amount to fully satisfy
Could any of us ever pay?
The supposed debt is only able
To grow greater, day-by-day.
Strange the price
Insecurity demands;
Conversely,
Require no payments,
Is what love commands.
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Strange Storm
Clouds powdered gray
Violated with lightning blue,
Enmesh the amorphous miasmic
As a strange sough comes rolling through.
Solemn the mood
Stretched across the umber sky,
Metaphysics fail to explain
Why the earth feels about to die.
The winds of eternal change
Blow beyond the norm,
Across all the living
Pours a new and strange storm.
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Sun and Rain
Eventide,
The slowly setting sun
Says one more goodbye,
The day is done.
Soon morning comes
But, where is the sun?
Dark clouds cover the sky.
Today no birds sing
Nor shall they fly,
The weather wet
With a chill,
The rains have arrived
With a mission to fulfill;
Together with sun
Life to give,
Without both,
Nothing could ever live.
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This Day
This day,
like all the days
that have ever preceded it,
starts with a rigid annotation,
forceably saying,
the sublime night
has wiped the slate clean,
here and now in this moment of beginning
all things are new,
no more yesterdays,
and not yet any tomorrows,
this is all there is,
it is a new day,
make something of it,
and of yourself.
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Sandy
Sandy's the beach
And Sandy was her name,
The place we laid, and played,
Little lovers games.
Together we sat, Sandy and I
Upon the flowing edge of the great sea,
Finding our souls, while
Discovering how to fly free.
The summer's over now
Those days are done,
We've grown, and flown,
And left our youthful fun...
Upon a lonely shore of the setting sun.
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