Cowards are screaming
Yelling to the point of
Loosing their identity
A big massive fright
An outside subjection
To terror polarization hate
Bring the wake-up calls
Don't wait
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Between two
Ends in divorce
Or common grounds found
Explored and understood

Where a segment of a country
At odds with truth justice and decency
Undermines a struggling democracy
There is no greatness to be found
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Grown up between the waters
Bridge to Scandinavia

Looked west over the dikes
The lost lands to the sea

Went East to the cliffs
The Russian winds do blow

Back to the middle
Where the gales
Sweep the dirts soul

Influence me
So I may be good
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Resignation for self preservation
Forever to hide
Or to break out en masse
Communities struggling
For identity safety and Touch
When leaders ignore
Rise
Never give up
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From A to B
Cold, crisp and sunny
A perfect day
For a hike for us three
A winding path
Obstructions the dog doesn't mind
But us older folks
We had to circumvent
Some tricky climbs
We feel good
Our senses survived

Doors and windows shut
We shiver
Waiting for sounds
Tensions are rising
Blood rushes to our foreheads
My legs are hurting
Scratches on our bedroom door
Intensifying
Getting up time
Our dogs time clock has spoken
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I come for you
Will give you sensation
Across your back
Across your front
Most intense places
I give you awareness
Your skin a mighty place
You scratch
Enhance eerie feeling
I disappear like a ghost
You are calm
Your body livened
You heal
I am in your soul
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Lines of discontent
Drawn out for decades
It doesn't make sense
Keep on going scratch and muddy
Self-righteous behaviour
Why bury yourself
Diminish family
Isolate friends
Can't see a light
Dullness sets in
Where are you now
This battle you won't win
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Stand up straight
Regain posture
Commands ring my ear
Always feared
Never experienced
They are still around
You ducked life as it ought to have been
Take pen and paper
They endure
Your self doubt exhillirations
All combined and accepted
How to be sure?
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Sore knees resting
On the round table's top
Imagine suggestions
No worries about a crop
An empty glass without a rim
Staring at me
Pushed aside with a grin
Energy levels rise
After playing quite a many
Old rock videos
They are in my guts
Make me want to go
On that bike trip
Wind in my eye
Bug just missed
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Side by side
Walks into eternity
Hand in hand
Compassionate strides
Cheek to cheek
Warmth in dance
Body to body
Sensational trip
Ageless connection
Seen through a lens
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Years as a loner
Under the big changing Sky
work and commitment
Family shared, misbelief  a far cry
Yet down in his heart
A burning light
Hidden, secretly shielded
Condescending bullies outside
Illumination never extinguished
Shined at an occurence
Where clashes opened windows
Into a new bright world
He had to find a deed personal
To give it all he had
Persona physic in real time
No apprehensions met
Taking the reign of his gatekeepers' soul
Chose desires to be freed
To find freedoms mole
His mind at ease
A song danced his whistle
This lad with a brithel
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Nourishing moment
Drop stuns a face
Rolling down a windshield
An amazing race
Earth's yearnings
For the nectar of Life
Witnessed on grey mornings
When hope wins over doubt
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A thousand miles you travelled
To cross the desert sand
to empty mind and spirit
You enter now the fertile land
Will you stay
Or move on walking
Refreshed and nourished satisfied
You could find solace
Settle down
Forgetting Angst and fences
But you do still think about
Your ever present hitches
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Questions his intentions
When he starts his battered truck
Ready to take him places
In awe when he realizes
He left
Is it nowhere or somewhere
Forced to judge he is alone
He keeps driving
Enters a roundabout
Full circle on the inside lane
Deciding on an exit
Not now he is playing his game
Indecision marred his intention
Second right for going south
Stop for gas
Back in your seat
His intention is
To be about
Does his thing no frowns now clear
Ready to go
Enters a new lifegoals' pier
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Will we leave
You still have that car
The sale shall happen
Or have I just gone astray
Again self judgment has come to me
You say let go
no more
A future shall come for us
Let's dance and push in that hernia
Explore the world we haven't seen
The corners the nooks
Icecream in the shade
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A speck of time
Our presence
Earths' endurance
Before  After

Long journeys he longs for
Connect and disband
Histories follies
Yet approaching an end
A decision or movement
Into reality
When emotions give way
To a homeless gullibility
When leaning
Over this blackened soil
Once home to a testament
Of generational coils
Bounced through the ages
By successions of systems
Generated and foiled
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Trembling
Time wasting
Mind searching
For self
Who am I this morning
Cold drizzle meets a late dawn
Opens pores on bare skin
Feel free but awaiting
The Lights glance
Penetrating clouds
An hour of my truth
Absorbed into the rigors of a new day
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Nights are long
You fail to breathe
Stretching your arm
It hurts what's wrong
Must exercise in time
Muscles did dwindle
Lifting and bending
Do you have to.....
Of course
It's never too late
Be again strong
In the morning dew
A whistle a song
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Deep conversations we do enjoy
Prospects in generous age the theme
Between worries and joy
Good coffee and cream
Daily marching plan includes
A Corgi who sends to to rest
when the clock strikes hurry
It's making its nest
We do talk about leaving for the end of our time
Probability for all
Sweetheart tells me
message sent
I want to go first
Couldn't bear to be without you
No comment
True love for so many years
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Been deceived
Shiver down my spine
Been a sure crime
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A chance in a moment given
Time of utter importance
The guts to come forward
To grab the extended branch
A quick evaluation
Does mean it's right?

Step back and adjust posture
Deep breath before facts
Flood your thoughts
A river
Water flows faster than chance

To see it float away
Staying behind
A moment in decision making
A new chance will come this way
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Three pine trees moving gently
In the new years morning breeze
I feel renewal sitting quiet
An old friend placed a call
We chatted laughed remembered
Old friends the younger years
Many passed others clinging
Stories never seized
I see the magic pinecones
Attached to the 100 foot pines
My neck stiffens when I look up
Dizzy focus towards the ground
A lone pinecone landed
On the fallen fluffy snow
My thoughts now interrupted
Joys and glory times
Stepping back with dimming memories
Placed with the pinecone in the snow
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Wants to be popular
Not to be seen
Likes fancy cars
Can't stand the sheen
Mumble and grumble
Nobody hears
Time to reflect
Bury
Outstanding fears
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Immense beyond comprehension
Once you hit time changes within
A country a human being
Only the latter might commit sin
The sinner the lover
Who plays by the rules
Ever-changing measures
To be hot to be cool
Changes in temperatures
A degree up maybe down
Dynamics of a country
Causing floods same time drought
Our hemisphere be large within
Like the country or sphere
How far do we look
To value we are here
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It brings me together
No one shares
But receives
That's how I feel this moment
Absorption the seal
Only give yet to be selfish
The pleasure is mine
We relax in our glory
The taste of a sip of wine
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At your life
Analyze mistakes
Shake off your guilt
Reality is the truth
Wishing to start new
with your baggage
Or lift yourself up
With the experienced You
It's never too late
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A glass of wine
I long for this morning
End of the day mealtimes
Us lucky citizens
Our pantries loaded
Stores full to the rim
Fourty percent waisted
This claim just came in
More food than we need
Yet hunger persists
In huge areas of this planet
Due to inequalities sin
What's wrong
Citizens priorities make that list
Socialists find your place
Liberalism a middle ground
Questions remain
Strongholds of religions
If not used for righteous claim
Boundaries on this earth
Delete wars and pain
Now
Bring back Compassion's Dame
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A recall to the past
Presently I am good
Comfortable with a toothache
Abolished lives' lows
Shuddered when realized
Have you been opportunistic
Or just had dumb luck
When you avoided
Other's miseries
Did you take more
Than you received
A loner in his thinking
Always was
What is left
No return
Accept it
There will be an end
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Show pride in your persona
All you got
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Torn and tattered
Hearts now shattered
Listened
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Influence me
So I may be good
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Was it the tremor
But I wasn't alone
You came forward
Into the crowd we were thrown
Where did you come from
Never did ask
Your movements synced deeply
The few moments of chance
For a good conversation
All is left is a glimpse of your face
It sits in my head
'Bye ***' to be your last word
You stepped back
I let go
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Intrigued by it's purpose
Raging with fury
Order and discipline
Dismissed
Humans become tools
Robots inhuman
Castaway soul's
Killing and be killed
For glory and perception
Lies override Truth
Once escaped maddening cycles
Humanity again rises
Compassion
Then individual's shy grins
Communities thriving again
Nourishing their kin

Historical battles
In words and swords
Recognize and resemble
When you hear today's battles
Locally and on the world stage
Opposing groups deny the truth
Hired lawyers and dictators
Their combinations fool many
Question tactics and motives
When said forces
Display
Actions of visible guilt
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Remain in your cubbyhole
Let days go by
Without interference
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Remind me of you
Cause I devour Love

Give me silence
Let me retreat
My time has been stretched
Memories faded
I have to admit
Were they faults or rejections
These no achieving deeds
The search for love
Quests for answers
Fled that vulnerable scene
Stifled thoughts
Blocked laneways
Unknowns remained
Rescued and mastered
By the very next of kin
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Colors of persistence
Vibrant moments
Feeling alive
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Mornings early
There is no rush
Time in between
Where to find ones touch
Physic and mind
In darkness
Horizons becoming bright
Feeling imaginations
**** creatures align
Hearts beating
Blood rushing
Veins returning there cargo
Alive there is living
To be done
Sheets are clinging
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His heart races
He can't find no more spaces
A wound in his revolting heart
His ancestors remembered
Ancestry self denied
To visit a grave site
Abandoned
Yet they are still there
Caretaker assures
The parents grandparents
Many more
Now all one
One common name
Enshrined into the earth
Never forgotten
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Not knowing who I am
Calling out
Do you feel me
You never heard my voices' sound
To whom do I put this forward
I really don't need to know
Fact is I feel and write
At this hour
I am literally alone

Dark tree branches
Leafless peaceful
Contrast a morning light
Having woken
A dream's promised vision
It is time
A new day
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In the picture
This old black and white
Had missed the lecture
Of being pointy no fright
Outraged in a moment
Wrong words the offensive
People move sideways
Their eyes evasive
Remaining ..
Their sillhouette
I retract
My heart seems to blush
All i am looking for now
The comfort of my shed

Selfish thoughts of failure
The moons face did grip my stare
Many times I look at it
It's calm illumination
Relieved anguish ignited hopes' flare
Really tough to be selfish
Myself just a speck of desire
There is no lack
Until a loved ones' worry
Releases me brings me close
Inform and explore
Appointments made
No explanations
Nuclear medicine
What are they looking for
She is anxious
Lets me feel it
Fear of enclosure four to five sixty
They say the procedure
Or test as you will

She asks me to drive her to stay until finished
'That's what I did for you
when you busted your leg'
She beggingly whispered
I did sense her fear
Moments of closeness release me
From my own selfs' sphere

Commitments for life
Their beauty their strength
A test came to find him
Didnt think too much in length

Hit it off in a wild way
What did he do
A night to remeber
Did they become friends?

He thought so
Her lifestory
Obsession it became
Emails he wrote with advice and goodwill

Replies sparse
Always to the point
A ****** theme no never a joint

As freespirited as they were
They stayed in touch
Frank bright and honest
Again he fell for her clutch
Her email not the longest
An invitation to lay near
Her body of begging
He did not have any fear
They met
as friends do and chat
Finally he begged  the question
Can i lay in your bed?

No was the answer
She curtailed his advance
To feel like a fool
And thanked her for the dance

During conversation
Between young and old
Certain leader mentioned
His practices beyond scope
Human civilization
Dignity and charm
Not nurtured but contested

A young person gives a point
Thinks coarse language and lies
Are better than smooth talk
Or suffering cries

But how will that person ever know
If blinded by rhetoric
Out of the land of dystopia
My worn knee
Just made that hurting click
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Drain me of pleasure
To be numb frightful and bound
Sink your teeth into my flesh
Rob me of willpower
So I can crawl into myself
A heap of my being
Let me rest steam for the hour
I will escape my jail
And head for the shower
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