Category: Poems

First and foremost a
Loving presence is vital
Found through a prayer
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Strange wet day out here
I hope I am not too strange
Strange people abound
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Off to the east shone
A glistening pyramid
Sunset reflection
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We set out for once
To be spontaneous
We’ll plan that again
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I arrived safely
Am ensconced in a blue chair
Thus Monday begins
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Try to have some fun
Responses could be in haiku
Make thinking funner.
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Friday clothing choice
Polka dots or some argyle
Funny but it’s true
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The only thing we
Can see moving fast is the
Clouds in the blue sky
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Springtime renewal
Cherry blossoms returning
Amongst the new rubble
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Life brings us to this
Eating peanuts with a fork
Signs of the absurd.
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Job cursed the Lord God
On the morning he was saved
The Creator shrugged.
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Young men watch car shows
Waiting
Old men play scrabble
For
Young women text someone
The
Old women shuffle up the hall
Time
All those who wait
To
Pass the days and nights
Be
Ready for the next thing.
Ready
To happen in their life

At the hospital.
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Looking to the blue sky.
See if the heavenly
Father is gazing down.

It’s been a hell of a year.
Some have come closer to hell than others.

Why does a good person
Who spends her days serving others suffer
While others who seem less deserving
Have apparent security.

What lessons there are will emerge
When we are ready to see them.
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In billowing clouds
Over Mount Saint Helena
Other days drift by
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Her memory was full
Only three percent remains
No messages saved
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The wind through the trees
The branches bouncing
The hawk holds back an appearance
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The trees swaying at
their roots strong and intertwined
move, not break, in winds
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The hawk just showed up
Watching, drifting right on by
Using the wind stream
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Get off the freeway
Listen to the frogs living
In the divider
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In my dark backyard
Stars shine many miles away
From all my problems
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She announced she had
Cookies in her pajamas
Happy little crumbs
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I love the late light
Long shadows of waning day
Well spent hours of life.
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Haiku to you… panavatar

Poetry all night
My eyes they glaze over now
inspiration found?
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Long term couples learn
That we’re just two of a kind
in different ways
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I’d say things cannot
get any worse but I know
otherwise today
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The sun still shines in Japan
And the sky is blue
A dark cloud mysteriously blocks out the light
Deep under water the planet cracks
And a vortex spins
The earth shakes and vibrates through millions of lives
The sun still shines in Japan
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I screw up laxatives
And stool softeners
Then catch shit for doing it
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What is needed is
A serious inversion
Of all our thinking.

(Block 172)
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Back to bags and beeps
Headlands and clouds draw the gaze
Another phase starts
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In purgatory
The time passes painfully
With uncertainty
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Orion places me on the planet
But the planet moves continuously
I can’t change
Change is so hard for each person
We are what we were
We became what we were meant to be
We were meant to be what we tried to be
And what our stumbled path led us into
Change, space, place, and self
Being now, living now, listening now
How?
I can’t express myself except sideways
Through poetry which no one reads or cares about
Listening being wondering
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Can a person be
Hypervigilante and yawn
at the same time?
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