tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698832204755730132024-03-19T00:36:16.866-07:00A Wordy Womannavypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-49317447767731222422013-03-30T15:03:00.002-07:002013-03-30T15:03:11.970-07:00An Overstanding of an Imperfect Lovehttp://www.innerchildpress.com/gail-weston-shazor.php<br />
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-83308018771225423342012-10-31T05:46:00.000-07:002012-10-31T05:46:07.430-07:00Untitled…Nonet/Reverse Nonet<br />
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Waking to many mosquito bites</div>
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Even this paradise is flawed</div>
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I sweat, at times profusely</div>
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Even the lizards laugh</div>
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At deet in my hand</div>
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But the ocean </div>
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Calls my name</div>
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Stillness</div>
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Wait</div>
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Lush</div>
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For me</div>
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So I throw</div>
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Fate to strangers</div>
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Revel in sunshine</div>
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Eat mangos straight from the tree</div>
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Clap for the mermaids in the sea</div>
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And hide the frayed hem beneath my skirt</div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-56170507650896598302012-10-22T17:19:00.002-07:002012-10-22T17:19:35.547-07:00Heaven touched earth<br />
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“And you really are</div>
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Going to make me wait”</div>
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Every minute, every day </div>
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I have become a new person</div>
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In or out of your heart</div>
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It is a magical thing, this waking up</div>
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God weaves eternity into minutes</div>
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Each new day </div>
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He makes new magic</div>
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I find that gift in your voice</div>
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In your living story</div>
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And in mine</div>
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I try to pack more meaning</div>
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Into my love </div>
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Here at the middle of all things</div>
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When my beginning is so long ago</div>
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My future is unknown</div>
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Here I want to be close to you</div>
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And find that I cannot </div>
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Because you would not have </div>
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My breath against your cheek</div>
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Though I would hold breathless</div>
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To be close to you one more time</div>
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I remember the magic of October</div>
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Recognizing my uselessness at forgetting</div>
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The only man I have ever loved</div>
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I still my hands from words</div>
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Close my eyes against the fireworks</div>
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And give in to God’s stillness</div>
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My soul moves closer to yours</div>
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And it’s messy and needy and honest </div>
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God answers my aches slowly</div>
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Knowing I can’t handle the affirmation</div>
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In my compulsory retreat of smallness</div>
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Nursing the kind of faith</div>
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That can change lives and it’s not wrong</div>
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Even though I would have you now</div>
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My heart cannot take another break</div>
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So I live in a breathless world</div>
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In and among my memories of your love</div>
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Praying that the same God</div>
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Who was faithful in answering the one prayer</div>
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Will consent to answer another one </div>
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I have never stopped loving you</div>
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Soon I will be ready </div>
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But even God knows I’m </div>
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Not yet</div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-62967348355903390002012-10-03T06:54:00.002-07:002012-10-03T06:55:29.786-07:00An Angel's Commission<br />
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Sleep not</div>
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To tough be </div>
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Twisting and playing </div>
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Many thoughts</div>
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Of secrets kept</div>
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In light revealed</div>
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But, maybe not all</div>
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Needed rain cleansing</div>
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Cobwebs and pain</div>
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Paralyzing venom</div>
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All washed away</div>
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Traded sanctification</div>
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For angels</div>
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COMMISSIONED</div>
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Angels for </div>
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Sanctification traded </div>
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Away washed all</div>
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Venom paralyzing</div>
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Pain and cobwebs</div>
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Cleansing rain needed</div>
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All not maybe, but</div>
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Revealed light in</div>
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Kept secrets of</div>
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Thoughts many</div>
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Playing and twisting</div>
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Be tough to</div>
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Not sleep</div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-9523329429839055702012-09-30T21:50:00.000-07:002012-09-30T21:50:07.158-07:00To the Women<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me cover you in water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A clean and pristine flow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From the well of your forefathers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Long dry from winds of droughts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me cover you in grain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Insect-less and plentiful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Enough to make bread <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me cover you in natural balms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Healing hands willing to anoint<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The ache and soreness you feel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From scant walls and cold floors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me show you how to sew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because that is what the women taught me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A quilt to protect in colors to delight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Market your beauty to show the world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me come to you soon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For in this I need to lay my hands <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the disorder of your world <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So that I can bring order to my own<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-52858723660325512642012-09-29T18:19:00.000-07:002012-09-29T18:19:01.088-07:00Cheap<br />
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Thrift stores</div>
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Bargains in bins</div>
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3 for 1 money</div>
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Not folded</div>
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Just tossed in</div>
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Like leaves in fall</div>
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From the single tree</div>
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Growing in the 10X10</div>
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Concrete
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On the hot sidewalk</div>
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Rayon, polyester</div>
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Unwashed
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No lining, sheer tops</div>
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Pink bra</div>
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Flowered
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Scratchy hose</div>
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Strip mall shoe stores</div>
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BOGO</div>
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Patent leather look alikes</div>
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Handbags to match</div>
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Red </div>
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Fingernails</div>
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Toenails</div>
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Lipstick</div>
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Blue</div>
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Eyeshadow</div>
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Rouge</div>
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Well drinks and poor lights</div>
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No air
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Wolf calls into the night</div>
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Friday
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Loves</div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-53641059651872797682012-09-29T17:49:00.000-07:002012-09-29T17:49:02.608-07:00Bones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The songsmith says </div>
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Bone</div>
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Straight and long </div>
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Center and core of strength</div>
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Bone</div>
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Dense yet porous</div>
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Carrying the weight of life</div>
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Bones</div>
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Easily broken by sticks and stones</div>
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Words can bend them</div>
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Bones</div>
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Little ones, big ones</div>
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Curved and hollow</div>
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Bones</div>
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Lots of them</div>
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Piled high in the shallow earth</div>
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Bones</div>
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Uncovered and unclothed</div>
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Unskinned and unmuscled</div>
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Bones</div>
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Unraced and unethniced</div>
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Untall and unshort</div>
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Bones</div>
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Ashes to ashes</div>
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Dust to dust</div>
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Bones</div>
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When I am no longer connected</div>
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Who will tend my</div>
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Bones</div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-10542002126667457492012-09-28T22:21:00.001-07:002012-09-28T22:41:16.830-07:00My Warrior King<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My warrior king<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The moon of my stars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Collected under a night’s sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cooling the air with a broad smile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From any jumbie strolling by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My warrior king<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The pleasure of my world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I know you in dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But know not if it is mine or yours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The keeper of our faith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-5562972156593204082012-09-28T18:11:00.000-07:002012-09-28T18:11:21.077-07:00Green...clarity pyramid<br />
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<span style="background: #FFFFCC;">Paradise<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background: #FFFFCC;">Oft we get blessed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: #FFFFCC;">When we least expect it<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: #FFFFCC;">Though it's what we asked Him for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background: #FFFFCC;">"I may look good in emerald."<span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-47908349964339304352012-09-24T09:13:00.001-07:002012-09-28T18:08:06.413-07:00DIRT<br />
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Good enough to eat</div>
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They are all not
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Though God makes them
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-91047650277832391492012-09-24T09:11:00.003-07:002012-09-24T09:11:54.991-07:00Hip Pocket<br />
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How can I even begin to explain</div>
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From whence and where this feeling came</div>
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To a girl child living in the twain</div>
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Of day’s sunrise and moon’s wane</div>
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Who’s never had in her veins</div>
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A love leave a permanent stain</div>
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From knee to hip occluding brain</div>
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How to distinguish between the swains</div>
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That would take to task her soul in vain</div>
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Many times and over and over again</div>
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Until in darkness she must abstain</div>
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To break a the links of choking chain</div>
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How can I even begin to explain</div>
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My experience that makes this plain</div>
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As weather telling needs a vane</div>
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To show the wind outside of pane</div>
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My heart has been newly arraigned</div>
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Because I let the spirit guide and change</div>
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Prepare me for this man ordained</div>
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After much praying of a campaign</div>
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And time taken to retrain </div>
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A life that had been detained </div>
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By holding onto too much pain</div>
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How can I ever begin to explain</div>
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My high is not of chilled champagne</div>
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Nor even that of fermented grain</div>
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I had to give up on my tired refrain</div>
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And stepped into a brand new lane</div>
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The living of life I now do retain</div>
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The joy in life I have regained</div>
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And as far as I can ascertain</div>
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His love for me is pretty plain</div>
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So in his life I will remain</div>
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From mountaintops to mundane</div>
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For at his hip I have been claimed</div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-12418843043534014752012-09-20T17:19:00.002-07:002012-09-20T17:19:33.406-07:00it's not about me<br />
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When I awake</div>
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I can lie still in the mornings</div>
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Waiting on you to join me</div>
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In that early morning grace</div>
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Of knowing that we have </div>
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Made it to today, whole,</div>
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Intact and in our right minds</div>
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I can immediately give thanks </div>
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That my prayers from </div>
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And while I may not realize it</div>
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In terms that I can touch</div>
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It never-the-less has happened</div>
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When I awake</div>
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I do not find you wanting</div>
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In any measurement of fullness</div>
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And I find your need</div>
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To begin the day in peace</div>
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A match to my own</div>
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So we go about the ministrations</div>
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A cup of tea, a heel of bread</div>
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A song of prayer, hums, whispers</div>
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Made by our own thanksgiving</div>
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Of a fast to be broken</div>
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When I awake</div>
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To the leaving and arriving</div>
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Of winds across a blue ocean</div>
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The scent of mangoes </div>
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And pleasant call of greetings </div>
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That await outside our door</div>
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It is good to be still </div>
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Against even pleasant intrusions</div>
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So we begin our day together</div>
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As we ended it the night before</div>
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In prayer for the things </div>
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We want for others and ourselves</div>
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When I wake</div>
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I am overwhelmed with</div>
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The extravagance of life</div>
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In placing me beside a man</div>
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Who understands that mercy</div>
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Nor love a fault of foolish men</div>
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But something to be treasured</div>
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And returned tenfold</div>
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When I awake</div>
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I realize that this day </div>
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Is not about me, but us.</div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-87540867201656671382012-09-17T20:16:00.004-07:002012-09-17T20:16:50.745-07:00Nick of name<br />
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My mother picked my name</div>
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Out of the base of her experience</div>
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With the foresight to make it simple</div>
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As if she already knew that I needed to travel</div>
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Nothing too heavy and nothing too light</div>
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And nothing extra, just enough</div>
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One letter with a tail for balance</div>
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Another with a hook to hold on</div>
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To my answered prayers</div>
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And two that reached for the heavens</div>
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Just four, complete, completion</div>
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Yang and yin, you and me</div>
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Fusing, marinating and blending </div>
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A synthesis of life producing </div>
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The realization of joined ideas</div>
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Four ways for a day’s labor</div>
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A work always in progress </div>
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I fell in love with words young</div>
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My crafting and showing</div>
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Me in ink, me on paper, me in chalk</div>
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Me in the stability of helium</div>
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One, two, three, four electrons</div>
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The basis of all organic life</div>
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Length, breadth, width and time</div>
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Without changing who I am </div>
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As calm as the water and earth</div>
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My thoughts never shut down</div>
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Turning the wheel </div>
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Clockwise and opposite</div>
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With any one past or present</div>
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My name does not hide me </div>
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In Slavery, in Christianity or darkness</div>
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I choose to be who I am</div>
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You chose me to be yours</div>
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And hold that name in my heart</div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-5870869477033024292012-09-17T20:15:00.001-07:002012-09-17T20:15:07.527-07:00Overstanding<br />
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Today I dreamed of the sun</div>
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With eyes wide open and looking</div>
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Rag in one hand and windex in the other</div>
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Of your heart holding onto mine</div>
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The windowpane seems a doorway</div>
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Only I have been asked to enter</div>
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When I listen, I can hear your voice</div>
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Folding the wings of brown pelicans</div>
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And whispering past the lushness</div>
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Of the bougainvillea vine</div>
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Sweet and sensuous lyrics</div>
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Sounding off tamarind clusters</div>
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And shooting carambola stars</div>
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Calling me to you throughout the day</div>
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Upon my prayers gazing beyond glass</div>
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I know that you are my overstanding</div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-37857864123690393992012-09-10T08:54:00.001-07:002012-09-10T08:54:21.332-07:00oh death<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A refraction of light</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I should not have seen it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Or were too afraid to acknowledge </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A moving darkness in the sanctuary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cloaked in blindness </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">While we all called on the Lord</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Weeping for private dreams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He would find me wanting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Though I knew full well that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And I understood the word mercy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In that moment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For maybe I hadn’t done it right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But I am still favored as wheat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And at the dimming of this morn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Death passed me over</span></div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-37064832189980566912012-09-03T19:56:00.001-07:002012-09-03T19:56:56.225-07:00Noli Me Tangere
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here for just a while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Clay feet warm my path</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And laughter follows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And even as light twinkles </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Over a mountain sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My star is brighter, clearer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only a mirrored surface reflects</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And all that you fathom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In glassy tears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But the best of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Love me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I do you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For I am happy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You have much yet to do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am only climbing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To a place with a better view</span></div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-18751430096779764372012-09-03T19:44:00.001-07:002012-09-03T19:44:42.171-07:00Why do you love me?
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And you will know me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Beyond pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Beyond passion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Beyond need</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I seek your heart upon wakening</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But only after thanking God </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For grace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For waking me </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For blessing you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As is my daily request</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That always comes in the form</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of greatfilledness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For simple things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like rain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like running water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And toothpaste </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So why do you love me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When you have yet to hear my heart beat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Under the palm of your hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My smile</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Across a table</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The corner of your eye</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In memories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There was a time when I trusted desire</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To move beyond love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Unconditionally</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Uncompromisingly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Unwavering</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Until it could hold no more faith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And I was wrong </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To trust it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blindly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Reservation-less</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So damage you find me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Flawed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Whole-ly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Through no fault of yours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So why do you love me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I know you are not he</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And I not she</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I cannot pay </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And you do not owe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I want my poetry to prepare you for death</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I want my poetry to prepare you for death</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ladders in our mind</span></div>
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navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-75795771726460115862012-07-27T10:24:00.001-07:002012-07-27T10:24:28.507-07:00PenWalker<br />
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<br /></div>navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-67551880463398206782012-01-08T23:27:00.000-08:002012-01-08T23:28:11.275-08:00caught slippin...puente<div align="center">I prayed for a door to open<br />And packed life in my backpack<br />In preparation of the call to move<br />Feet shod and hatted head<br />You placed the wind to my back<br />And told me not to turn<br /><br />~less I am caught slippin~<br /><br />Into wanting what was behind me<br />Instead of being greatfilled<br />For my chance to have three stones<br />In my desert place altar<br />And when you set my path<br />I am ready to follow.</div>navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-88643610442027342172011-12-28T21:55:00.000-08:002011-12-28T21:57:00.756-08:00A call for Arms<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1JdGa5Pdci3koz9tnXHwiqYhVC2n_k0Y_Qhafaf7lU8g_JrLiF5-GyxOYxLS1h3dzdkPVEGiBvCt4gvsjAZVWu9odOYEL5yXffOX38omvCZhyphenhyphenGGIEKAO2AOkqrKMjw0k_nTkdBfULIxA/s1600/World-Worst-Natural-Disaster.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 212px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5691425237117010690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1JdGa5Pdci3koz9tnXHwiqYhVC2n_k0Y_Qhafaf7lU8g_JrLiF5-GyxOYxLS1h3dzdkPVEGiBvCt4gvsjAZVWu9odOYEL5yXffOX38omvCZhyphenhyphenGGIEKAO2AOkqrKMjw0k_nTkdBfULIxA/s320/World-Worst-Natural-Disaster.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div align="center"><br />I<br />Stretched<br />Out my arms<br />To hold you close<br />Anticipating<br />That I would bask in you<br />In the warmth of your birthing<br />A new season to enjoy<br />Revel in the subtle changes<br />And feel your movements under my palm<br />Each one too small for the eye to witness<br />I did not know there would been a cleansing<br />A washing to strong for your stillness<br />You could no longer hold your seed<br />And I cried for your losses<br />For they were mine also<br />Pearls left on the road<br />Where even men<br />Missed the glean<br />Of tears<br />Wept<br />Left<br />By cheeks<br />On high ground<br />Looking for words<br />Spelled like red crosses<br />Of an Army who saves<br />So you wonder who will march<br />In with tracts and hopefully lunch<br />For bodies can’t hear over the gnaw<br />Because bellies are attached to the hearts<br />And my soul is ever attached to yours<br />Please bring seeds so I can remember love<br />Let me show you the old cornerstones<br />Talk with me of where I can be<br />When the dark takes the daylight<br />To places I can’t go<br />Before you leave here<br />Tell me the truth<br />Will you come<br />Back for<br />Me?<br /><br />© Navypoet 12/28/11<br /><br /></div>navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-92128999840670936512011-12-01T22:31:00.000-08:002011-12-01T22:32:48.350-08:00MetroplexI watch her move<br />The sway of her hips<br />And how she holds her hands just so<br />In between your palm and thumb<br />I try but have no hand to hold<br />I subconsciously shift my weight<br />From heel to the ball<br />Of my feet<br />So my legs might look longer<br />And perhaps I can mimic<br />Her cadence of confidence<br />She, having no trouble<br />Keeping up with your long strides<br />As I did on<br />The few times you allowed me<br />To be in public with you<br />Ashamed that I am not prettier<br />And far less desirable<br />Than she<br />Only good for undercovers and<br />Behind doors<br />Round the way<br />As is often said of<br />“Less than” women<br />And those who your momma<br />Can’t meet<br />So I watch and learn<br />How to be someone else<br />Tilt my head to the light<br />Just so<br />Practice sighing in contentment<br />Imagine it is me you are kissing<br />In a private place<br />In a crowded mall<br />Learning to<br />Hide the real me from sight<br />So that I may too find a man<br />That desires me so<br />That loves me<br />As you do her<br />Because what good is it<br />To be a me<br />When I am alone<br />Untouched<br />And<br />Unloved<br />In the Metroplex<br /><br /><br />© navypoet 11/29/11navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769883220475573013.post-28371647157479790642011-12-01T22:30:00.000-08:002011-12-01T22:31:49.906-08:00Amutum iriLying on my side<br />In a memory position<br />Hands supine<br />“Amutum iri”<br />No longer, but readied<br />Ablatively hardened<br />To any disinclination<br />Of love’s expectations<br />Unresistingly listless<br />I remain still in the light<br />Amazed that it feels just the same<br />As when I lived without a word<br />Longing to be seen<br />By you<br />Noticed and called to your heart<br /><br />(c) navypoet 11/29/11navypoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16157222054057567100noreply@blogger.com0