CONTEMPORARY POETRY

Passion and Perseverence

                    Passion and Perseverence I am not beaten and no one can whip me into shape.A heart laid bare, i’m free to discover all that I am. Yes, I run deep.It’s peculiar, how I can’t help but notice similarities in reactions and motivations.On the surface we look diverse. At heart, we are...Read More »

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Our words

                                                        Our words our words define us separate or connect us they can trip us upor help us fly words can deceiveor make us believe thatanything is possible or nothing is they can fill us with loveor empty us make us laugh or cry we can wear our wordswith pride or disappear inside themthe perfect place to hide who decided...Read More »

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Wren in the bush

                    Wren in the bush Wren in the bush your singing shook it leaf and twig,    but then you flitted away    before we knew we knew whose music had disturbed the hush        of breaking day.     Stan Absher ...Read More »

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You waken the poet

You waken the poetYou waken the poet in me,and trepidation seizes mefor, if I were to follow himI'd surely scorch my wingsfrom flying to close to the sun. Poetry is only a prosedeserving of a unique formfor, if this were but an essaywho is there that could hearthese accents of...Read More »

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the monarch

                  the monarch You rest upon my hand a monarch butterfly gently flexing your wings such fragile beauty perfectly designed   you wait for that precise moment a gentle zephyr a sun warmed kiss a call from  the universe   I scarcely breathe my eyes fixed upon you longing to keep you forever   love catches in my...Read More »

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If I

                        If I   give you a few coins live my life in luxury and leave you in penury did I give ought of me or salve to conscience?   or if I play a victim and then label you as bad dispense my forgiveness walk away feeling glad did I truly forgive ?   If I give tender care where love enfolds me...Read More »

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despair

                                  despair what do you do when your muse refuses to cooperate slinks into a corner and sulks or sneers at you … “you suck” hollows out your insides and leaves you in despair?   what do you do to escape the loneliness of an empty page staring at the same lines over...Read More »

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Pearls of Wisdom

                    Pearls of Wisdom   By the pearls of wisdom that passed down to us, we wear a shared strand of sensibility that transcends our cultures and placement in time, uniting our womanhood bond.   Experience teaches us to be the wiser regarding our choices and priorities. Whether near or far, home is where the heart is, and family always comes...Read More »

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Compassion - Meet me There

                  Compassion – Meet me There In the field, are flowers,each shares an innate languageunspoken, it has many powers. though invisible its mystery is heartfelt, touches feelings a way of being creatively. as each one of us participateour consciousness in expectationall hearts in what we co-create breathing life into our world where all our...Read More »

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best seller

              best seller   Perhaps I may only sell a handful of my books Perhaps it is true that my kind of story does not sell but if I sell my soul to be a ‘best seller’ will it matter how many books I sold? perhaps to you it will but to me I wrote...Read More »

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