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- A Prayer at sharepoetry
I pray to that which has existed / Since the beginning / Simply because it makes no demands / Of the awe and respect that I feel / for a power that I can't comprehend / I surrender to the process of that universe / Which no doubt serves it - Harsh Life at sharepoetry
Harsh four' o clock buzz / shakes him from sleep / grumbling he slams the button off / he frowns / feeling life dragging him / by the neck and / he curses the job / which traps him / the politicians who rob him / of a decent living / h - Soaring at sharepoetry
How majestic in outline / against the blue sky / as the Wind lifts them up / where they belong / / climbing and gliding / between the clouds / they cross golden wheat fields / waving below / / comparisons pale when / try as I m - Has it Been Anticipation? at sharepoetry
To Juney / / Lost in the radiant anticipation / of your coming / wherein / whatever place my soul resides / to paint such sparkling dreams / about / / Your love shimmers on my countenance / as the moonlight shines / upon each silk - Silk at sharepoetry
I'm jealous of the silk / that wraps around you / and how it does / caress / and hold you in it's grip / how it lays upon you / as long I've wished to do / - Because I Love at sharepoetry
You appeared to me last night / a mermaid covered all / in shiny scales / your thoughts seemed directionless / floating upon a wavering sea / with smiling debris of / pearls coral shells and stones / / ascended and before my ey - Lingering at sharepoetry
naked you are / clothed in beauty's natural design / each stitch of purity sewn by innocence / a sea full of desire / you are love inspired / / naked you are morning's yellow haze / a cool tranquility / for me a snug retreat / undernea - Before at sharepoetry
the darkness / yields to dawn / when stars are put away / and clouds are weaving / cobwebs across the moon / the world looks like a tapestry / hanging from the sky / / from my balcony I survey / the grand designer's work / reading whe - The Prince Of Darkness at sharepoetry
Crossing the bitter dark zone / to the far north / I met loneliness / under a menacing sickle of moon / how sharp he was / this one who never slept / / and why are you white / in this shadowy gray / why I said / wear a radiant bright - The Willow Twig at sharepoetry
like a bright-lit afternoon / abruptly turns to dusk / a curtain drops / the mind goes dark / and the tongue lies mute / within a wordless pool of wetness / / a warm bitter cup / of cold patriotism is given / for a promised rewardi - A Dream at sharepoetry
Grazed by the shadows of twilight / where day lies dying in the heat / beauty takes off her clothes / lies down on the sand to sleep / / pelicans diving gracefully / fish plunging deep and quick / the sky darkens and fades / into a purple - Our intimacy at sharepoetry
Though tragic was noble / Like theatrical Dionysian masks / Passions lost sand-castles felled / Yet, a life that surpassed it's death / A tryst that inspired love stories / Not even the most crippled of hearts / Dare sprinkle sad tears to - Autobiography at sharepoetry
Called by a higher power / I yield myself to finality / The ultimate surrender / / So many dreams turned to smoke / Ascended to the skies without me, stealing / Paintings of granduer from my beloved art dealers / / As I write, in my soul - Listen at sharepoetry
I said to her, / we have smelled spring's odious fragrances / drank the warm wines of summer. / holding hands, we walked / stirring the blood red leaves of autumn. / So, let's not hold our winter without grace. / Let's pull the curtain, darken - Pieces at sharepoetry
A sunlight's shadow frames you / separated jigsaw puzzle / lying on the the bed in pieces / needing to be whole / / yearning silence / desiring to break out / too clouded and unsure / to be able to cut through / the dense tangle of - A New Year at sharepoetry
Has come / slipping in from / a time and place / that has left us behind / to wonder where / we were and where we're going / / some of us pour a glass of burgundy / and fall into a deep sleep / nothing old or new / / some shake - A New Year at sharepoetry
has come / slipping in from / a time and place / that has left us behind / to wonder where / we were and where we're going / / some of us pour a glass of burgundy / and fall into a deep sleep / nothing old or new / / some shake - Gone at sharepoetry
Gone / / / The man in the lighthouse is gone / It hardly seems fair / That he's no longer there / Though computers so sterile / Still warn of peril / Ghosts there are housed / He has been doused / The man in the lighthous - I Saw A Little Dirt Road at sharepoetry
It zigzagged off in adventure / It took me through whispering fields / And through hills of crumpled velvet / Where I slept overnight in a copse / / I meandered through cities and towns / Charming small villages which inspired paintings - Some Things Never Change at sharepoetry
She beckons--I come / With racing footsteps in the sands / Bidding me faster--I succumb / Yielding as a puppet in her hands / / Playing the fool / Blindly rushing in with a surly pout / As lacking wits well taught in school / For a - Two Strangers at sharepoetry
Two Stangers / / / Two silhouettes converge on a wall / caught up in bright crystal balls / turn into two dancing shadows / Whirling the evening away / Like music box figurines / Two strangers meet on a dance floor / / Two - In Your Absence at sharepoetry
In Your Absence / / / Music from the joys of loving past moments / Soon grows still in the quiet of night / I lie stretched out in the darkness / Inviting your shadow into my bed / I toss and turn feeling restless / Distracted as a sn - The lady at sharepoetry
Shows up fashionably late / In a red silk silver threaded brocade / She walks through the woods her finery on parade / Long was the wait its worth is beyond debate / / Greenery covers the back yard again / Bushes adorned with red and gol - I Never Thought Myself An Orphan at sharepoetry
The moon moves high in a starless void. / Chimes ring hollow, / echo in a barren desert / Where there are no vacancies. / Strange, how an absence / can make a life so insubstantial / and vacuous. / / It's filled with necessary item - Appalachian Christmas at sharepoetry
When the wind hurls howls / which sound like enraged wolves / soft clumps of snow / fall silently / over the edge of winter's world / where they disintegrate / to sparkling bits of sunshine / raining yellow snow flakes / down from h - The Candle at sharepoetry
If the candle I carry / Burned not alone for you / Each flicker was a promise / That someday we would meet / Notes within the perfect song / With lyrics just as sweet / / A score of my life / Going nowhere / Just playing games - - Goodbye To All at sharepoetry
My voices / I'll never truly know / If you were real or / I was schizophrenic / Did I only make you up / / Words upon a screen / Creating fleeting images / That flash before my eyes / Another part of my life dies / / As a freezin - Dreams And Reality at sharepoetry
A shadow hurries / after a pen night / falls / and another ego is emptied / / / Candlelight / melting wax / flickering light / on the shadow / where dreams / and reality live / - A Long Christmas Night at sharepoetry
'Twas the night before christmas, no snow no rain / I wondered how I came this far from home / Sand dunes sprawled like the wreck of a train / I lifted a cigarette to my mouth and dragged / / A taste of dust, blown everywhere / By the wi - The Winter Of Our Spring at sharepoetry
Now that the trees / have shed their once green leaves / and shiver in the cold / we can see what is gone / / abruptly we are frozen / in the late autumn days / left with our sad epiphany / the winter of our spring / / the li - The Patient Rose at sharepoetry
The rose Is patient / / with the earth he finds / through his pains, he grows. / / / He cannot help / / but to discover / what is true, / / / Bewildering / Battles he survives, / / Enduring / / breaking b - In My Sleep at sharepoetry
My heart beats well-guarded secrets / The blood in my legs like cooling-off steel / my head like a screened-in pen / feathers of sea gulls fly / I am one with all who take to the sea / from the mouth of the mississippi river tonight / / alo - The Game at sharepoetry
when we seek it hides / when we no longer seek / it reveals itself to us / though none can see / it surrounds us with obstacles / and defines them as the rules / a cunundrum exists / which permits all rules / to be broken / then we are - Suicide In Two Syllables at sharepoetry
What give / To live / A day / In May / To spoon / In June / July / To cry / Oh hey / Hooray, / Each day's / To praise / A lot / We've got / To live / To give, / Too late / This state / Of mind / Did - Footsteps at sharepoetry
I hear the silence whisper in my ear. / I feel my fate in what I cannot know. / I follow footsteps neither far nor near. / / As nature surely is not there nor here, / But everywhere and nowhere that we know. / I hear its silence whisper in my
