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"sojourner" poems
like a good poet, I whine and whinny: the muses are unreliable, get too much paid vacation, unlimited unpaid, and pretend their cells are out of range, even when they are in bed with you and you’re near desperate to cop a feel of inspiration my problem is a variation on the theme. Everyday I jot down too many possibilities, a handful of words added to the list of pound bound childless titles, sad faced orphans, dogs and cats, squeaking “pick me, pick me,” our reply a casual “you on the list” rather than admit they are titled, but bodiless until cupid smashes a cupcake in my face and the bell rings there they stand - at a friendless crossroads - direction home, path unknown, awaiting a poet tour guide to complete them if this sounds a bit like a bad achy breaky country song, then you and I, on the same side of where I could be headed cause at the friendless crossroads, always unsure, left foot first?  that first line, first step, could be a false messiah, or a free-at-last, a free-at-last emancipation but there are no sidelines in a forest there no sidelines in a poet’s mind; there are the minefields of mindfulness that can explore explode and explain why it is tempting to believe that every gifted one deserves a break today but you cannot be broken or break off from the community “Hillel said: Do not separate yourself from the community; and do not trust in yourself until the day of your death. Do not judge your fellow until you are in his place. Do not say something that cannot be understood but will be understood in the end. Say not: When I have time I will study because you may never have the time” my friend, substitute writing poetry for study, for study is for us the analysis of everything, that is, everything we say, see and know the need to communicate so those who abide in the life of good words will not suffer an abdication (yours) do not think there are friendless crossroads, there are only crossroads that the eye cannot yet see a fellow sojourner coming toward him, bearing an oversized load of the inside insight of responsibility that demands sharing that is why we call our meetings at a crossroads, a cross
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Feb 4, 2018
Feb 4, 2018 at 10:21 AM UTC
“standing at a friendless crossroads”
like a good poet, I whine and whinny: the muses are unreliable, get too much paid vacation, unlimited unpaid, and pretend their cells are out of range, even when they are in bed with you and you’re near desperate to cop a feel of inspiration my problem is a variation on the theme. Everyday I jot down too many possibilities, a handful of words added to the list of pound bound childless titles, sad faced orphans, dogs and cats, squeaking “pick me, pick me,” our reply a casual “you on the list” rather than admit they are titled, but bodiless until cupid smashes a cupcake in my face and the bell rings there they stand - at a friendless crossroads - direction home, path unknown, awaiting a poet tour guide to complete them if this sounds a bit like a bad achy breaky country song, then you and I, on the same side of where I could be headed cause at the friendless crossroads, always unsure, left foot first?  that first line, first step, could be a false messiah, or a free-at-last, a free-at-last emancipation but there are no sidelines in a forest there no sidelines in a poet’s mind; there are the minefields of mindfulness that can explore explode and explain why it is tempting to believe that every gifted one deserves a break today but you cannot be broken or break off from the community “Hillel said: Do not separate yourself from the community; and do not trust in yourself until the day of your death. Do not judge your fellow until you are in his place. Do not say something that cannot be understood but will be understood in the end. Say not: When I have time I will study because you may never have the time” my friend, substitute writing poetry for study, for study is for us the analysis of everything, that is, everything we say, see and know the need to communicate so those who abide in the life of good words will not suffer an abdication (yours) do not think there are friendless crossroads, there are only crossroads that the eye cannot yet see a fellow sojourner coming toward him, bearing an oversized load of the inside insight of responsibility that demands sharing that is why we call our meetings at a crossroads, a cross
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Like many other Christians, I’m living here on Earth temporarily; ask to see my “spiritual green card” - For my citizenship is with Christ’s eternity. Being a stranger in a foreign land makes me a heavenly ambassador, serving a lifelong assignment on a Godly pilgrimage as His sojourner. Earth is not my final home - For I strive to overcome temptations of Earth; found in my identity with Christ is the true measure of my worth. For those who are unsure, The Bible is my eternal passport that provides my credentials until I’m present in Heaven’s court. Author Notes: Learn more about me and my poetry at: http://www.squidoo.com/book-isbn-1419650513/ By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2010, All rights reserved.
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Jan 17, 2013
Jan 17, 2013 at 6:03 AM UTC
Poem: Green Card
Some men seek flesh which does not belong to them. Others, gold, or colored paper worn extraordinarily thin. Still others covet gadgets and toys that tinker. Some merely are after the liberty to be a free-thinker. While I see the value of gold and liberty, One will grow old, while the other is found in tranquility. So then, as I sojourn, my eyes are set on the Trinity. And because of the pity of Divinity, I am already a citizen of that unseen city.
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Dec 27, 2015
Dec 27, 2015 at 11:45 PM UTC
Sojourner
I’ve stood coast to coast, listening to whistling, winding songs of the ocean waves. I’ve lost myself in the sound and stories across the American highway. Growth is not linear. A new place doesn’t make a new person. You take your baggage. You take all of the miserable excuses. You take time. I’m not a sojourner. I’m not a traveler. I’m not some whimsical man. Though, I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it all. Enjoying it through the gritted teeth of resentment. Reality is what you make of it. The when and where can matter, but it’s not all there is. Sometimes we just need the roots to settle. Sometimes we just need to let life bloom. So I’ll take a drink, praise the sun, and live.
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Jul 10, 2021
Jul 10, 2021 at 3:00 PM UTC
Geographic Cure
I want a lover like the evening sun half shadow half light wanderer of dappled paths between leaves, sojourner seeking the reflection of life in darkened eyes. He will taste like Pheobus bright, amber honey tongued, the golden glow spilling into the deep corners light has yet to reach within me. But his arms will fold like Erebus, the comforting dark of purple shadows behind lids falling for sleep the peaceful night, quiet, cloaked in the solemn strength of dying stars and the last whisper of northern lights. Remind me what it is to know the depth of dark without leaving the warmth of light.
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 3:02 PM UTC
Evening Sun
it's past mid September, the modest gradations (and graduations) of temp and the indirectness of the ever shifting sun are not lost on the the skin of the locals, nor even the summer sojourner, who recalls the past rainy June, and the "who knew that winter lasted so long" on this peculiar planet island land the calendar dictates that the obligations of the living are fully recommenced, and the avoidance of realities, cannot be excused, refused, but they go ignored for just one more day, and the ever more spectacular pastel sunsets tease, "see what you will be missing..." the  skeletons of beach fires doused by silver beach sand, are the last to say, we will still be here, even though you've hasten to where we have no counterpart, and though we will blend back to just being sand and driftwood, in time for what we the inanimate, loosely call next year, but not remarked upon any calendar in any ink we can read... forty years some tribe tented in a desert, before finding shelter, we've counted 46, summers, passed, neighbors, too, the landscape  dotted with newer arrivals, and we just cluck, like so many others, at the longing ferry line, those who walk on the road's wrong side, the one or two remaining tradespeople, who still call our abode by our predecessors last name, wondering when, if we will make that grade so much more to say, what we've witnessed, what has changed, what, thank god, hasn't but the city wants its fair share, of us, and our taxes true, so come upon just another last day, and look back in the review mirror, remembering the first last day of many years ago...
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Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM UTC
just another last day
it's past mid September, the modest gradations (and graduations) of temp and the indirectness of the ever shifting sun are not lost on the the skin of the locals, nor even the summer sojourner, who recalls the past rainy June, and the "who knew that winter lasted so long" on this peculiar planet island land the calendar dictates that the obligations of the living are fully recommenced, and the avoidance of realities, cannot be excused, refused, but they go ignored for just one more day, and the ever more spectacular pastel sunsets tease, "see what you will be missing..." the  skeletons of beach fires doused by silver beach sand, are the last to say, we will still be here, even though you've hasten to where we have no counterpart, and though we will blend back to just being sand and driftwood, in time for what we the inanimate, loosely call next year, but not remarked upon any calendar in any ink we can read... forty years some tribe tented in a desert, before finding shelter, we've counted 46, summers, passed, neighbors, too, the landscape  dotted with newer arrivals, and we just cluck, like so many others, at the longing ferry line, those who walk on the road's wrong side, the one or two remaining tradespeople, who still call our abode by our predecessors last name, wondering when, if we will make that grade so much more to say, what we've witnessed, what has changed, what, thank god, hasn't but the city wants its fair share, of us, and our taxes true, so come upon just another last day, and look back in the review mirror, remembering the first last day of many years ago...
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The intimations of our golden youth Are whispering the dreams of manhood- Subtle ways of ageless yearning Which in kind with ambient stars Quarterly describes, in subtle play The chiming of a universal soul Whose consort is a universal heart In man or woman, ever yielding scales From pole to pole, the hermeneutic art. Sweet songs of knowing, harmonies in time Resolved, upwelling, urging on the climb Of sacred being, born to unify… Conceived of ash, from ash to mount the skies On wings supernal, loft on fiery reins To ring the victors’ anthem and the aims Of truth and love for life’s enduring worth! O fair noblesse and sweet repose Of sacred care, always we hold you dear In trials of election and sojourning. Your constant grace, deep from within, unfolds To free the tortured thought and lonely fears Of desperate nights and homesick yearning. At last in you we find the kindliness Of heart, whose honored worth is bright as gold To phantom souls and this, too darkened, world. Your equipage and host of tenderness Wrought pure intent, more sure than has been told Of truth by men, the best of mind unfurled! Let none forget, in U we find our rest From whom we’re born, to whom we must return Our hope of innocence, in us the best Of love, whose lamp has ever inward burned. Mystery of love that sends In timeless whispers, on the mend Of heart and mind, eternal tides Of being; faith unto sacred faith Raising up the ancient gates Where mercy ever abides. Patiently, your mourning dove Has preened the pinions of our love Recouping every bit of life’s content. At last, what awful beauty drapes the sea And broods the dark on holy wings of peace A train of captives, born to pure intent! Still working yet upon the day Though battered in the idols’ fray To overcome the world and show forth The proven heart, all worthlessness disposed; Not trusting in those shadowy ways But piercing what, upon the naked eye Has taunted love, too dimly beheld. While alone the thought matured One social pact allied the tortured doubts And rose upon the gate Beautiful Acceptance and cooperation Our universal worth, more brightly lit!
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Apr 14, 2012
Apr 14, 2012 at 12:07 PM UTC
Sojourner's Songs
The intimations of our golden youth Are whispering the dreams of manhood- Subtle ways of ageless yearning Which in kind with ambient stars Quarterly describes, in subtle play The chiming of a universal soul Whose consort is a universal heart In man or woman, ever yielding scales From pole to pole, the hermeneutic art. Sweet songs of knowing, harmonies in time Resolved, upwelling, urging on the climb Of sacred being, born to unify… Conceived of ash, from ash to mount the skies On wings supernal, loft on fiery reins To ring the victors’ anthem and the aims Of truth and love for life’s enduring worth! O fair noblesse and sweet repose Of sacred care, always we hold you dear In trials of election and sojourning. Your constant grace, deep from within, unfolds To free the tortured thought and lonely fears Of desperate nights and homesick yearning. At last in you we find the kindliness Of heart, whose honored worth is bright as gold To phantom souls and this, too darkened, world. Your equipage and host of tenderness Wrought pure intent, more sure than has been told Of truth by men, the best of mind unfurled! Let none forget, in U we find our rest From whom we’re born, to whom we must return Our hope of innocence, in us the best Of love, whose lamp has ever inward burned. Mystery of love that sends In timeless whispers, on the mend Of heart and mind, eternal tides Of being; faith unto sacred faith Raising up the ancient gates Where mercy ever abides. Patiently, your mourning dove Has preened the pinions of our love Recouping every bit of life’s content. At last, what awful beauty drapes the sea And broods the dark on holy wings of peace A train of captives, born to pure intent! Still working yet upon the day Though battered in the idols’ fray To overcome the world and show forth The proven heart, all worthlessness disposed; Not trusting in those shadowy ways But piercing what, upon the naked eye Has taunted love, too dimly beheld. While alone the thought matured One social pact allied the tortured doubts And rose upon the gate Beautiful Acceptance and cooperation Our universal worth, more brightly lit!
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~ the word flows off the tongue with ease; say it softly... slowly please, ...dis-co-ver-y... disclosure of illusory, pursuit of the elusory; the uncovering of buried secrets, dark and deep, quiet whispers, soft and sweet; an unveiling of the here-to-fore unknown, illuminating darkened hallways, where footsteps lead us to a place where all is shown. in life it is the quest, explorer’s zeal that will not rest; in love it is the unknown song... to give it notes and lyrics, time and tune which leads to melody and harmony. in my time, adventures... i have known a few; have sought to parse the lines ’tween false and real. but no adventure will replace the one that beckons, outstretched finger, stares me solemn, in the face each morning ’fore the mirror; though the outer i may tend, it's the inner to consider; for to know oneself, a journey long, a venture of mountaineering magnitude, where the weak may hopeful start, but summiting rewards reserve remittance to those valiant souls, whose inner spirit strength imparts. ’tis not the heart, in love to conquer; but ’tis one’s trust instead, faith the mountain holds rope and feet steadfast, finish line within one's grasp. faith the flame will never die illuminate the corridors that lie behind the locks, the gates, the doors, that live inside one's head. to let another in this place of buried pain, of innocence gone by, where dreams once flourished, so oft lay dying, dead, this secret place where we reside the seat of all we were and are, again will one day be; this where needed trust, gently to encourage, carefully to nourish; these the fields of possibilities, of hope, beliefs, of budding dreams; to be uncovered, be unearthed, love’s encounter, tongues to loose, await the brave and wise, the strong discoverer, unafraid to learn the truth. ~ *post script. discovery... surprise not its intent, yet may be its greatest blessing, and accomplishment!   a favorite blessing of mine to bestow on marrying couples, "may your discovery of each other, never end, or fail to delight; and return to you the wonder, of first love and of first sight and light!" to you, the reader, fellow sojourner, may you never cease to discover each other!*
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Jun 7, 2016
Jun 7, 2016 at 2:14 AM UTC
discovery
~ the word flows off the tongue with ease; say it softly... slowly please, ...dis-co-ver-y... disclosure of illusory, pursuit of the elusory; the uncovering of buried secrets, dark and deep, quiet whispers, soft and sweet; an unveiling of the here-to-fore unknown, illuminating darkened hallways, where footsteps lead us to a place where all is shown. in life it is the quest, explorer’s zeal that will not rest; in love it is the unknown song... to give it notes and lyrics, time and tune which leads to melody and harmony. in my time, adventures... i have known a few; have sought to parse the lines ’tween false and real. but no adventure will replace the one that beckons, outstretched finger, stares me solemn, in the face each morning ’fore the mirror; though the outer i may tend, it's the inner to consider; for to know oneself, a journey long, a venture of mountaineering magnitude, where the weak may hopeful start, but summiting rewards reserve remittance to those valiant souls, whose inner spirit strength imparts. ’tis not the heart, in love to conquer; but ’tis one’s trust instead, faith the mountain holds rope and feet steadfast, finish line within one's grasp. faith the flame will never die illuminate the corridors that lie behind the locks, the gates, the doors, that live inside one's head. to let another in this place of buried pain, of innocence gone by, where dreams once flourished, so oft lay dying, dead, this secret place where we reside the seat of all we were and are, again will one day be; this where needed trust, gently to encourage, carefully to nourish; these the fields of possibilities, of hope, beliefs, of budding dreams; to be uncovered, be unearthed, love’s encounter, tongues to loose, await the brave and wise, the strong discoverer, unafraid to learn the truth. ~ *post script. discovery... surprise not its intent, yet may be its greatest blessing, and accomplishment!   a favorite blessing of mine to bestow on marrying couples, "may your discovery of each other, never end, or fail to delight; and return to you the wonder, of first love and of first sight and light!" to you, the reader, fellow sojourner, may you never cease to discover each other!*
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. . . and finally i allow the sun to set on another failed love affair two years too late ? or maybe right on time . . . my shell and my spear - this heart of mine in its place of power again , but changed as an emerald bird of thunder frees the water from its cell in the sky
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Oct 18, 2019
Oct 18, 2019 at 7:13 PM UTC
slow learner sojourner
Stranger than me, or too much alike some wrangle upon toilet papers plastic cups out of place or lost time; peering past, another wanders on. Tinkling wires and rainbow faces hearing, seeing, perchance aurific speaking the namer among ten-thousand petty things or squinting upon the verge of time, espy a sequal. Step by step to round the universe or being fell-swept away in cubboards seem or act unseemly, like or dislike played to the order in the round, circling about. Why so familiar these drabbed tones of ant trumpets or wineskins grown old to leak and sputter? Tis the wish and will, holding like ****** to the ropes great gales n frothing nothingnes storming on. But We, blown upon the Aether of the Soul a great conquest of rousing dignities; here, under nooks, behind secret doors or bounding past, lightning speed, relay some wonder. Shock of waking, or dulcet tones in the Alarm of life our shadows twist, there on the lintel of private hours our care, held through the Night kinder endearments then danced over reeling waves for sweet inspection. Here unalone a look, a voice and laughter ring the ears a crying out, or trebled inward sigh, too close to trembling- Who is this Sojourn Friend? Perhaps our best of self combined no more allied to faithless days nor dark an empty smiles- strange wastes some carelessness invents to wrack the hours. But We, no stranger to the Sojourner's faith, Are One.
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Mar 8, 2012
Mar 8, 2012 at 12:37 PM UTC
Sojourner, Strange as Me...
alliteration delving delusory, a literati shun thy commissions, galore, the line goes around the corner Entrusted. write us a prayer - as if I were thus worthy t'is a delusion which is worse than Illusion my fingers command me - not I, them I scribe inky, they write what they deem the most unfitting fulfilling thy requests more crosses to bear, this Jew has walked the Via Dolorosa then, and again, now oh yes delve delve with archaic ***** turn over earth unsubstantiated long time un~disturbed **"bring us your truths in whatever form they spill from you"** Thus, they command me, Lord **"Go back to living, like it used to be. No more tortured soul to slow you down"** Thus, they command me, Lord sleep restful, feet bathed, Pavorotti  & Pachelbel comforted, let it go, live the fleeting, well, drink the wine, wafer, taste, Jew, but stay away from the confessional don't delve into your own thesaurus when opened, one can vision right through us don't delve in to the recesses thankfully receding, eroding, except for the enlightening flashbacks that stone cold come with no forewarning don't let the sin memories of ancient words, black gold bubble up with the first striking of the blade Delve (excavate your soul deep) Not I did not come this poem to write I did not come to repeat Solomon's poem, nothing new under the sun don't, daunting wish to delve into my delusions, my original sin the deceit the conceit I am unique I am original but let us weave as I best could diagrammed prayers as the sun rises over my eastern river for it the seventh day, the sabbath day, which the commandments commend as the day to remember and *to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the* sojourner *who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.* no delving today I will observe thy reader's, all of them my teacher's, commandments rest easy, spill no truths this day but on the new born morrow I shall fresh delve and sin again and write them joyful hymns to sing on the profane workweek, for my torture, my spilled and soiled truths shall be re-presented to joyous comfort and then, I shall sojourn among them
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Mar 22, 2014
Mar 22, 2014 at 7:26 AM UTC
even this sojourner, delving delusory, on the Sabbath, spills not
alliteration delving delusory, a literati shun thy commissions, galore, the line goes around the corner Entrusted. write us a prayer - as if I were thus worthy t'is a delusion which is worse than Illusion my fingers command me - not I, them I scribe inky, they write what they deem the most unfitting fulfilling thy requests more crosses to bear, this Jew has walked the Via Dolorosa then, and again, now oh yes delve delve with archaic ***** turn over earth unsubstantiated long time un~disturbed **"bring us your truths in whatever form they spill from you"** Thus, they command me, Lord **"Go back to living, like it used to be. No more tortured soul to slow you down"** Thus, they command me, Lord sleep restful, feet bathed, Pavorotti  & Pachelbel comforted, let it go, live the fleeting, well, drink the wine, wafer, taste, Jew, but stay away from the confessional don't delve into your own thesaurus when opened, one can vision right through us don't delve in to the recesses thankfully receding, eroding, except for the enlightening flashbacks that stone cold come with no forewarning don't let the sin memories of ancient words, black gold bubble up with the first striking of the blade Delve (excavate your soul deep) Not I did not come this poem to write I did not come to repeat Solomon's poem, nothing new under the sun don't, daunting wish to delve into my delusions, my original sin the deceit the conceit I am unique I am original but let us weave as I best could diagrammed prayers as the sun rises over my eastern river for it the seventh day, the sabbath day, which the commandments commend as the day to remember and *to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the* sojourner *who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.* no delving today I will observe thy reader's, all of them my teacher's, commandments rest easy, spill no truths this day but on the new born morrow I shall fresh delve and sin again and write them joyful hymns to sing on the profane workweek, for my torture, my spilled and soiled truths shall be re-presented to joyous comfort and then, I shall sojourn among them
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Everyday I crank into battle, pedal my knobby-spaceship to somewhere else. I'm really nobody special, just another universal-soldier, a lover of rock and roll, a fellow sojourner. Achilles Last Stand blasts through my skull candy in raw-melody. I jump curbs, hop ravines, resurrecting the meaning of clairvoyance. I read her calling, a true woman-child crying for faith, she masked her pain with self-doubt, swallowed anger, hexed by *** & drugs & lots of alcohol, temporal killing pain-relief, death-elixirs from liars. And in my boldness, my love for her indomitable spirit, I shout to her, telepathically send her an important sincere message, "Pick yourself up fighter, cleanse your bloodied knees, cloak yourself in flower-maille, love yourself first for protection from you adversaries (and there are many). Carry the shield of courage to blind the dark-world with the next coming, the coming of your own sun, shine sister shine!"
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Jan 21, 2014
Jan 21, 2014 at 10:23 AM UTC
The Coming of Your Sun (A Shout Out From The Astralplane~Shine Sister Shine)
Worthy and stalwart sojourner, Bright as the sun and carried forth by devotion to the journey Disguised as a common school bus that has been modestly adorned. An uncommon gilding that comes from the art of love, which you bear with equanimity The coach to my beloved passengers You are their protector and steadfast friend Continuing your created purpose, delivering precious cargo to a world of discovery Who needs but small adoration, and motor oil Your dignity marching joyfully down a solitary highway drawing crowds of admirers and the curious yet, allowing  a shade tree mechanic to crawl beneath your shield and examine your private parts Because you are dedicated to their wander lust Indeed you stealthily stoke their zeal, which can become muted in suburban safety and network news Quietly, almost in secret, you stand patiently waiting Beckoning with your bright colors that recount memories of past exploration Teal and orange that recall the beautiful sunrise over the pacific, Brick red and black, the unexpected festival with bright lights in the midnight sky El toro and the sparkling castille showering down on squealing brown skinned boys and girls Solitary beaches where paradise was yours, theirs alone You call them to a quest renewed. Calling my beloved parents. Urging them out again.  Reassuring them that the risk is far outweighed by the memories And when they are but a fraction on their way, your gentle words, disguised in the hum of the engine, whisper "away, away, let us see what we shall see" Stirring their youth and vigor, laying to rest their doubts. Believing it is their own voice, they grow confident. With eyes cast ahead in anticipation of another adventure.
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Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013 at 7:33 PM UTC
Buster
Worthy and stalwart sojourner, Bright as the sun and carried forth by devotion to the journey Disguised as a common school bus that has been modestly adorned. An uncommon gilding that comes from the art of love, which you bear with equanimity The coach to my beloved passengers You are their protector and steadfast friend Continuing your created purpose, delivering precious cargo to a world of discovery Who needs but small adoration, and motor oil Your dignity marching joyfully down a solitary highway drawing crowds of admirers and the curious yet, allowing  a shade tree mechanic to crawl beneath your shield and examine your private parts Because you are dedicated to their wander lust Indeed you stealthily stoke their zeal, which can become muted in suburban safety and network news Quietly, almost in secret, you stand patiently waiting Beckoning with your bright colors that recount memories of past exploration Teal and orange that recall the beautiful sunrise over the pacific, Brick red and black, the unexpected festival with bright lights in the midnight sky El toro and the sparkling castille showering down on squealing brown skinned boys and girls Solitary beaches where paradise was yours, theirs alone You call them to a quest renewed. Calling my beloved parents. Urging them out again.  Reassuring them that the risk is far outweighed by the memories And when they are but a fraction on their way, your gentle words, disguised in the hum of the engine, whisper "away, away, let us see what we shall see" Stirring their youth and vigor, laying to rest their doubts. Believing it is their own voice, they grow confident. With eyes cast ahead in anticipation of another adventure.
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The meadow glows with a soft ambivalence The air is humming with the chattering of birds They try to do their best to impress with nests of decadence But eyes aware see through the facade My heart dreamt of days when wounds will be shared In circles of trust and love To heal that which congeals, and blocks the flow of love I spent some time to tread the earth as a sojourner, I set out alone Though I never felt lonesome The world spoke to me, The earth kept me company Her symphony carries through the universe I felt loved and warm I felt found Though some may have described me as lost. I was so profoundly found In the company of the earth. At night I would travel to the silver moon And dance upon her I would see the world below me Blue and green and beautiful My heart felt like a treasure beating in my chest in that moment There was so much to be grateful for, And there always has been.
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Aug 30, 2018
Aug 30, 2018 at 9:49 PM UTC
Grateful
Every so often as we move along the trail We meet those who walk along beside us Some for just a few steps before a direction change Others a step and two - you start looking for a bus So rare when out of nowhere a sojourner steps in At least that's what it seems to be ...then after a time You realize you really don't know who joined who So rare is the honor given and recieved that sublime Is the word that seems fitting due to.. its rarity of use ... ... height and breadth of its inclusionary valuation Finding the courage to walk the highwire of conversation Without a net and that is not the normal inclination A breath of fresh air through a dusty dead air space Conversation so often drags along creating a rut But time harmonizing along the trail a foot or endless mile Has a key to locked doors and  inspired need to open windows That I as I'm sure ,like so many others,  have.....                          at some sad impulse driven moment ...nailed shut !!
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May 19, 2017
May 19, 2017 at 11:36 PM UTC
Air out the difference
Hello sojourner You, walking down the freeway Did you **** a man last night before riddance took him on his own time Did you come out of the womb and become a holy judge I can tell by the look in your eye You dream of building a house on hard shells and salt mud Down the shore on the ramparts to drink from the debris and float in the cyclone You don't cut your flesh But you feel, every time the tide hits the rocks Goodbye sojourner, Are you done with the mountain? Did you watch a bird of prey as it glides, and envy the freefall more than the flight? If I told you I rooted out time Held it by the horns, knocked it out A lifetime landlocked, would you go gentle? On a pinnace, through the gulf. You would go a sailor, moored into the chasms below
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Nov 27, 2024
Nov 27, 2024 at 4:10 PM UTC
Sojourner
Egrets stand proud across blue waterways .. Floridas natural beatitudes flourish as her occidental sojourner travels home , diurnal fauna softly acquiesce , lullaby .. Lailah delivers grace , harmony and benevolence across Gods opus ..
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Jan 1, 2016
Jan 1, 2016 at 6:58 PM UTC
Florida Sunset
The pilgrim's pull ashore.... Strange glass waves smash their feeble ships... In the meanwhile upon land In the distant abyss..... The wildmen dance in song singing.... Ya ha ha-way! Ya ha ha-way! Ya ha ha-way! Ha ha ** ha ha ha-way Ha ha ** ha ha ha-way........... Connecting to the creator Hellion's to sojourner men Outlandish semblance Blush maroon colored skin... Pinna's stitched into costume As bead's wrap their neck Efflorescence garbs their smiles As sage smokes their chest's Trace bouquet Smell's as oak As the Willow's they do gather Pinecones and nut's the both Are used, eaten, and slathered Tis Their friends with the forest Watchmen of Cimmerian adumbration Not thy average native Not found on t.v stations They follow not the world Nor the things of material crud They gallop exposed All unclothed painted in by the mud Their mundunugu's and isangoma's Their healer's of sickened loma's Their future reader's And old time Greeter's They hash up balm pharmaceuticals And mix in remedy anesthetics Antibiotic doctors Believer's in angelic medic The pioneers come in Scratching their heads Bearing babies of far distance Bringing disease with no end They park their Vessels on edge Of those wild men they call beasts They plant their flag of hatred And the redskin's are forgiving treat's The ivory men draws gun Whilst the natives draw their god The pale man doth run This is native land didst the whitened did trod The natal men's Architect was stronger Against the real true brutes As the shaman sent home those foreigners Back to England and Europe's coupé As when the bleached beau's had left them They went into different song It goes like this Please don't miss These are the original's of the law!!!! They Carol in fire hot dance... Wee hee nah wee hee nah hee nah Wee hee nah hee nah Wee hee nah Wee hee nah hee nah Wee hee nah hee nah Hey **
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Jun 6, 2015
Jun 6, 2015 at 8:51 AM UTC
Gado usdi detsadov ( what is your name) native indian dialect!!!
The pilgrim's pull ashore.... Strange glass waves smash their feeble ships... In the meanwhile upon land In the distant abyss..... The wildmen dance in song singing.... Ya ha ha-way! Ya ha ha-way! Ya ha ha-way! Ha ha ** ha ha ha-way Ha ha ** ha ha ha-way........... Connecting to the creator Hellion's to sojourner men Outlandish semblance Blush maroon colored skin... Pinna's stitched into costume As bead's wrap their neck Efflorescence garbs their smiles As sage smokes their chest's Trace bouquet Smell's as oak As the Willow's they do gather Pinecones and nut's the both Are used, eaten, and slathered Tis Their friends with the forest Watchmen of Cimmerian adumbration Not thy average native Not found on t.v stations They follow not the world Nor the things of material crud They gallop exposed All unclothed painted in by the mud Their mundunugu's and isangoma's Their healer's of sickened loma's Their future reader's And old time Greeter's They hash up balm pharmaceuticals And mix in remedy anesthetics Antibiotic doctors Believer's in angelic medic The pioneers come in Scratching their heads Bearing babies of far distance Bringing disease with no end They park their Vessels on edge Of those wild men they call beasts They plant their flag of hatred And the redskin's are forgiving treat's The ivory men draws gun Whilst the natives draw their god The pale man doth run This is native land didst the whitened did trod The natal men's Architect was stronger Against the real true brutes As the shaman sent home those foreigners Back to England and Europe's coupé As when the bleached beau's had left them They went into different song It goes like this Please don't miss These are the original's of the law!!!! They Carol in fire hot dance... Wee hee nah wee hee nah hee nah Wee hee nah hee nah Wee hee nah Wee hee nah hee nah Wee hee nah hee nah Hey **
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As firm as a rock I would be set Against the world and its lewd contentions More steady proving clearest virtue, stressed With brilliant facets of the light, resolving factions. A hope amidst the strife, this worth bestows To character, ruling every passions’ season For perfect care, great purposes to show In blooms of time or timeless, sacred reasons! Converging and uniting, such care met Life's waking might, more near in sight to shine With pure intent, whose knowing best reflects All states, here cast in figures of design. O dawning vision, pierce the awful night And horns of plenty pour, true love requite! When I was young I thought humanity To be my nurse, my comfort and sure strength; An eager hope, in every hour to length Fleet days of wonder, all of life to see. I cherished kindness, lain upon the breast Of upright admonitions and good will; A care of grace, in love, a founding rest And honor for my vision’s windowsill. How yet, too soon, cruel condemnations frowned On ways I blessed in youth, now grown insane With outward forms, the worldly pride bestows And falsehood, waking my dread infamy. Alas, my wasting sorrow and the shame That groans with silent tears of faith betrayed! Long hours, cruel hours that vex my wearied soul With thoughts of contradiction; fawning days Of youth are closed, in stock of lies arraigned For inquisition and condemning powers. What tyrannous and brutal, ruthless ways That slam this sanctioned slavery overhead; While bravery endures an awful crime In contemplate of shame, too stark with dread. So mock, O State, the way of noble ends More false, discharge your rotten judgments’ fate; A greater cause, at last, where first you rend The back and front of self... my selves berate! Dare now upon life’s brow your six-thrice brand And testify!  All stripes shall truth withstand.
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Apr 14, 2012
Apr 14, 2012 at 10:59 AM UTC
Sojourner's Sonnets
As firm as a rock I would be set Against the world and its lewd contentions More steady proving clearest virtue, stressed With brilliant facets of the light, resolving factions. A hope amidst the strife, this worth bestows To character, ruling every passions’ season For perfect care, great purposes to show In blooms of time or timeless, sacred reasons! Converging and uniting, such care met Life's waking might, more near in sight to shine With pure intent, whose knowing best reflects All states, here cast in figures of design. O dawning vision, pierce the awful night And horns of plenty pour, true love requite! When I was young I thought humanity To be my nurse, my comfort and sure strength; An eager hope, in every hour to length Fleet days of wonder, all of life to see. I cherished kindness, lain upon the breast Of upright admonitions and good will; A care of grace, in love, a founding rest And honor for my vision’s windowsill. How yet, too soon, cruel condemnations frowned On ways I blessed in youth, now grown insane With outward forms, the worldly pride bestows And falsehood, waking my dread infamy. Alas, my wasting sorrow and the shame That groans with silent tears of faith betrayed! Long hours, cruel hours that vex my wearied soul With thoughts of contradiction; fawning days Of youth are closed, in stock of lies arraigned For inquisition and condemning powers. What tyrannous and brutal, ruthless ways That slam this sanctioned slavery overhead; While bravery endures an awful crime In contemplate of shame, too stark with dread. So mock, O State, the way of noble ends More false, discharge your rotten judgments’ fate; A greater cause, at last, where first you rend The back and front of self... my selves berate! Dare now upon life’s brow your six-thrice brand And testify!  All stripes shall truth withstand.
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Precious chance for a lonely thought, Loose, slip-fades sinuously free A melodious stream of nostalgic mist From a mug of Arabica sea. Curiously exhaled from dissonance In an amber lit café. He imagines himself a sojourner, A wayfarer without a way. Long shore drift en echelon Long minutes march by metronome Long is the spellbound beachcomber For an island all his own. Long is the dream of an inland man Lost to his seaside girl. Diver down where the standard waves Swimming dizzy for a polished pearl. Light from her eyes plays on sea glass chips Tumbled in the curling waves That crest and break on a beach that waits for a wish he once had made. The surf is heard like a lingering kiss breathing ripples on the smoothening sand And just as the whisper and simmering fades, Another promise swells, tumbles, and lands. The ocean is love running breathless, In a race between the moon and the sun, Causing tides to surge across the poignant curve Of an incandescent blue horizon. A tranquil star contracts and bursts In pulsing neon spires. There’s forever a star expiring While life glows from embers in a dying fire. If this writer could paint, it would be a portrait of the empty space beside him. Awaiting the image of a seagoing girl, He turns his canvas into a thirsting ocean.
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Dec 9, 2014
Dec 9, 2014 at 5:12 AM UTC
In the Littoral Zone
sometimes i just--shut--my eyes think of what could be a brief instant of mixing--reality-- fantasy-- wings melting i crash--into the sand the waves washing wet--over me the sun is too--hot--hot hot i can carry the fire--up but i cannot put it out in all my ice i cannot **** the sun so i am building a castle--a sandcastle with parapets and a gated moat-- i knock it down with a crash destruction was my primer-book cynicism my blue-backed speller so i lock myself up--in my room pretending to be named emily in my flawless white dress the old nickname e.d. is transformed until i remember--myself-- i am not a doll and i--am not--afraid the world can be--irrelevant i will not abandon life ****** half-hatched into reality-- lost in a foreign land unknown a sojourner who has lost--the song peregrine with a misplaced home the repressed truth will arise-- i will find the beginning--in the end i fly back up--fire in my pocket-- bid cheerful farewell to the sun good day to the beach-grains rebuilding the--castle-- it is only--sand-- and i let it stand life is reality--what took so long and life that is really happening is better than supremacy unlived and i get lost--in omniscience looking--skyward--realizing i am a--grain--of sand
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May 26, 2010
May 26, 2010 at 4:41 PM UTC
me
The storms of life may never cease to blow in their unanticipated direction. However, you are able to withstand in the same manner as a Jacobean fortress which is not dissuaded by the extremity of Highland elements. The color of your hair is a sure sign of wisdom, despite those self-doubts which are not uncommon to the sincerity of our humanity. So, my fellow sojourner, in this perplexing yet beautiful pilgrimage: rest assured that the dark side of awareness can be applauded by our empathic insights, where those who are haunted by ghostly shadows can bask in the radiance of legitimate validations. Therefore, I urge you to carry that blazing torch into seemingly unfathomable depths of human experience, and to illuminate those treacherous paths of uncertainty with the confidence of ontology. There is no price upon that which you can impart. Therefore, humbly acknowledge the taste of apple pie, and display your bountiful banquet before those who are emaciated. The universe requires your personal enrichment.
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 11:25 PM UTC
The Fulfilment of Synthetic History