Category: Poetry
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Without a Boat (Amended and rewritten 10/15/2018}
WITHOUT A BOAT (amended/rewritten 10/15/2018) Jesus was a sailor who sailed without a boat He had no need upon that to stand, for he could easily float Above the briny chilling cold and darkest dark of deep Where many sailors struggled and in death there they fell to sleep He had no need to save…
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WITHOUT A BOAT
WITHOUT A BOAT Jesus was a sailor who sailed without a boat He had no need upon that to stand He had no need to save anyone His force was in league with nature But man and God had suffered a fracture And the book says Jesus came to repair Today he would find sadly…
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THE TICKET
THE TICKET It is the middle of the night And the railroad freight has just come in A sharp whistle slicing though the silence The engineer has taken his hand from the throttle The sound of escaping steam ends the prayers for the night The passengers all wandered off, boxes, empty boxes Wandering off to…
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DISAPPEARED
DISAPPEARED Morning comes and I find you are not here Yet we are to believe that you are The bible sellers stand on their stages And claim the same claim from ages And I see about the world and even near Violence that you could easily stop You are a religious star But I…
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TRANSLUCENT
Translucent It was five o’clock in the morning And there’s rain upon the roof It fell hard without any warning When it swept down the road Rushed up through the woods Caught the grassy fields by surprise The wind bent the bushes and the trees Then all was strangely gone And, for some reason, in…
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AWAKENING
I woke this morning to a different world Everything had sudden changed overnight When the rains came, fell, and the grass uncurled Where I had walked during the heat of the day before And there was nothing for me to do There was nothing I could or would say The world changed when I turned…
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A Secret Life: Memories from another life.
A friend from a past life told me of a love But sadly he said he doesn’t recall her name That is really such a shame For way back when he was just age 23 I knew him as we worked for the same company He met her in a restaurant where she waitressed Back…
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A Long Time Ago in the Great Faraway
It was a long time ago in the great faraway When I came to the understanding that I could no longer stay We looked the other way as I stepped out from her front door Harsh words spoken, then silence, nothing left to say, so I guess we settled the score The tale had been…
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NIGHTFALL, THE LOVERS’ DANCE TAKE TWO
NIGHTFALL, THE LOVERS’ DANCE 2 I recall the night when a hot summer rain came And settled in with a breeze bringing coolness to the room Where two lovers met and when they left never were the same In an old cheap apartment in downtown Sarasota Where they danced to a scratchy record It was…
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THE VISITOR
The Visitor She came in the still dark of night Silent, gentle, and turned off the tabled light Leaving the apartment in a soft and low-level glow From the moon creeping in thru a blanketed cloud Peering thru grime swathed window panes allowed Casting shadows dancing on paint thirsty aged walls That overtime had seen…
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 