Hummingbird, hummingbird
what's your hurry?
Darting quickly through the air
I can scarcely
see you coming
In an instant you are there
Of God's creatures
on the wing
in the day or dark of night
None so perfectly
maneuve...
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Sitting and watching the clouds roll by
scattered across a bright blue sky
picturing how much fun it would be
to walk on a cloud, flying free
Standing atop that white fluffy mist
drifting through heaven, by the sun kisse...
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Two tiny dots
on a vast landscape
wandering aimlessly
Ginger and John
Man and his cat
a long time together
on buses and freight trains
hither and yon
Jobs here and there
a few extra dollars
some milk and a hamburger
the...
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O, black and potent beverage
each morning that I rise
you give me greater leverage
you make me strong and wise
O, elixir of higher thought
rejuvenate my mind
I percolate you in my pot
through dark beans that I grind
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It lies in wait
to quickly strike,
this predatory beast
It binds you up
in iron chains
and on your life does feast
Unmerciful,
and so it gives
no quarter to its prey
Like being dead
while y...
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Lost in the valley of indecision
Forever caught between here and there
My mind is divided, my soul is torn
And monstrous phantoms are everywhere
There's neither light, nor is there darkness
Here in this barren oasis of grey
Tr...
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When the trees are pink and white
and the flowers are in bloom
there can be no thoughts of darkness
in my mind there is no gloom
How can I think of death
when surrounded by new life?
There is harmony in nature
not a ...
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For you, my love, I'd gladly die
for you I've shed some tears
for you have often crossed my mind
throughout these many years
In my thoughts I've found myself
inside your warm embrace
but in my heart I know a tru...
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Have I taken the best of what you had
and made it all my own?
Did your sweet life touch mine in vain?
Or have I truly grown?
Your heart still beats within my mind
although you've gone to sleep
I gaze upon your photograph...
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Take me away,
o rainy day
as your gentle waters
pass my way
Sweetly kissed
by foggy mist
my troubled thoughts
have fallen whist
What soothing sound
the droplets found
as on my roof
they dan...
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The face of a child
is so full of joy
an effortless smile
on each girl and boy
They live life so fully
they dance and they sing
so grateful am I
for the laughter they bring
I look in amazement
their lack of conce...
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It came to me
upon reflection
Life is one
great big collection
Starting with a
teddy bear
and ending with
a gasp of air
The time between
those points is rough
accumulating
all this stuff
Books and knick knacks
line ...
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I’ve picked it up a hundred times
Yet dropped it just once more
So I give up, the blasted thing
Can lay there on the floor
And stepping out onto the porch
I hit the ice and slipped
As I walked back into the house
I stu...
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This man is an island
uncharted in the sea
and many are the shipwrecks
that set their sails for me
Down along the shoreline
are remnants in decay
and others sank beneath the waves
while searching for a quay
Peaceful waters...
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The power is out
but rather than pout
I'll sit down and write a few rhymes
It makes me so happy
to write something snappy
when life throws me lemons or limes
My eccentricity
denied electricity
comes out in the open to play...
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Take care, for what you plant
will later be your harvest
sweet or bitter, it's your choice my friend
Cast not forth seeds of anger
nor bitterness nor fear
the fruit of such is poison in the end
Tread lightly as y...
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Just how small can the smallest things be?
Is there anything even smaller to see?
Down where tiny particles are giants
discovered, observed and studied by science
Does the subatomic go in as far
as the universe's most distant...
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Was I once your cherished friend?
Was it so until the end?
While we shared so many miles
did I ever make you smile?
Did my friendship comfort you
when your heart was broke in two?
Was I equally elated
any time you celebrated?...
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With red and purple sunset
melting into blackened sky
The hummingbirds have bedded down
and shortly so shall I
As crickets sing their lullaby
into a dream I fall
The things of night begin to stir
at moonlight's beck and c...
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Looking around
good people I see
How did they end up
with someone like me?
My heart is divided
both far and near
Should I move on
or stay right here?
And if I should leave
what about after?
Will life be about
tears or l...
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All those memories you haunt
seem to make you hurt the most
yet you linger in the past
like a sad and lonely ghost
There is an eerie silence
in your melancholy mood
You've retreated to the darkness
from the dreams you once pu...
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Like a beacon on a hill
The white church steeple gleaming still
For all the many years gone past
It marks the path for home at last
Up and down each tree-lined street
Where childhood friends and neighbors meet
In history and m...
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I watch a sunset
that I'd love to share
and nobody sees it but me
I'm scratching my head
in utter amazement
that nobody cares much to see
Things to accomplish
things to get done
a million things every...
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The lights at night
have much to say
a different story
than the day
They shine and glisten
here and there
in coolness of
the evening air
The street lamps glow
to light the way
as flashing neon
colors play
...
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The old street lamps have lent a glow
to foggy mists engulfing them
the ground is wet with dots of color
from each fallen leaf and stem
This autumn night as I stroll past
these nineteenth century homes of old
like ghosts that ...
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I almost called you
several times
I know it's been a while
I had the phone
right in my hand
but never got to dial
Something kept
distracting me
every time I tried
Babies crying,
P.T.A.,
my son needing a rid...
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Have you ever thrown a day away?
There are many more, as you would say
There's always been and long shall be
tomorrows lining up for me
What guarantee have you or I
this very night we shall not die?
Tomorrow comes bring...
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That funny smile
that laugh so sweet
those tiny precious
hands and feet
Just two years old
and full of joy
oh how I loved
that little boy
He stole my heart
then went away
I never will
forget that day
We waved goodbye...
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And I for one would like to sleep
but I cannot, because I weep
for lives and dreams and nations lost
We never thought to count the cost
So many are the pirouettes
of running, flailing silhouettes
as flames behind them flicker ...
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The circling silhouettes of birds as they fly
while purples and yellows color the sky
as I drink in all of this beauty I'm seeing
I am one with the Earth in the joy of just being
Everything's magic right now in this place
as a ...
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When all the great songs
have already been sung
and every last bell
has finally rung
I pray it is then
when our hope from above
shall descend to the Earth
like the gentlest dove
When every last page
has been written in p...
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Where does laughter go
when it's done?
What becomes of joyful sounds
that are spun?
Do those waves fly off
and tarry somewhere,
to another dimension,
or just hang in midair?
Does that energy know
when there's someone in n...
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Exceptionally average
on every known scale
My life story’s such
a nonsensical tale
Striving for apathy
with passionate zeal
all of my flaws
I boldly conceal
I loudly proclaim
my feelings to none
and when there is troub...
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Here's a toast to your good health
and to multiply your wealth
May God's blessings overwhelm you with delight
Tell your worries and your debts
and those lingering regrets
to go take a running jump and fly a kite
May yo...
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Ugliness lingers
when beauty is gone
much further divided
than dusk is from dawn
I reference not
the figure or face
but rather the heart
of our lost human race
We fancy ourselves
as noble and gre...
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When you are in trouble
and start seeing double
you might as well have a good laugh
Cause sorrow and crying
and excessive sighing
can shorten your lifespan by half
If buried in debt
why brood in regret
...
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No sweeter a dream
Than chocolate and cream
The mixture of which
Is tasty and rich
And one mustn’t judge
The swirl in the fudge
Or those who make haste
To sample a taste
No greater reward
For one who is bored
Th...
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When a friendship dies
no mourners come
with last respects to pay
There’s nothing
but the silence
where there once was much to say
Old comforts
feeling awkward
on the chances that we meet
We are strangers
...
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The symphony has started
and the darkness does descend
the world succumbs to quietude
the day has reached its end
The nighttime woods are glittering
and offer up a show
a dazzling performance
by the fireflies, aglow
Al...
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It never seems to end
as you lose another friend
when death comes grimly reaping
and he leaves the mourners weeping
How terrible the day
when someone fades away
and they join with those at last
who populate y...
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In my ponderings
of late
I've been chuckling
at fate
Or perhaps more
truthfully
fate's been chuckling
at me
And I asked myself
one day
If I were to
pass away
Would my absence
thus succeed
where my presence
failed ...
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When you and I were only five
it was fun just being alive
to smell the air and feel the sun
with trails to walk and fields to run
When you and I were just sixteen
our new romance was so pristine
That sudden unexpected ki...
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The little mouse is scrolling
as the ocean waves are rolling
and they beckon me come on down to the sea
The screen before me glowing
while outside the flowers growing
have a fragrance that is calling out to me
The keyboa...
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