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Best Poems Written by Randolph Byrd

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Anticipation

Hope the days pass quickly, and uneventfully.
Until inner rhythms in harmony, 
create unique peace, satisfaction,
and a sense of belonging.
A mystery,
whose location and origin is felt,
but not understood.
When kindred spirits become close, 
and play once again.

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Whispers

If your words can produce,
both laughter and tears,
Only then,
will you know,
the Spirit whispers,
 in your ears.

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You'Re Not On My Pedestal

You're just higher then most.
Your creativity and intelligence set you apart,
from others met coast to coast.
We are much alike in heart and soul,
Does it really matter if we don't like to bowl?
Intimacy was all I wanted when we first met.
But that all changed after playing the first set.
What I started to feel within,
 made me want to keep the game going,
lose or win.
I know you can be a witch,
throw me in the ditch.
But that's usually fear and fatigue talking,
not wanting to get hurt again.
I build you up the way I do,
not to put pressure on you,
to live up to an impossible standard,
no one could meet.
It's because you're down,
I try to act the clown.
I think we have something inside,
that gives us a shot,
 understanding because you're smart,
as well as smoking hot.
If we find we can handle each other's downsides,
can't escape that,
the upside is so worth it,
Whether we remain skinny or fat.

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How Many Spirits

How many spirits could be saved,
if we could just let go,
 of the unimportant things.
we keep buried, but don't know,
how to release their hold.
Energy and time surely wasted,
on past injuries, because we're not bold.
Negativity is a force to be reckoned with.
It gets off when we try to even old scores,
becoming our means to the end,
rather then learning how to bend.
It relishes and thrives, 
affecting our lives,
when we spend the day,
thinking only down, wearing a perpetual frown.
Attitudes mirror glasses half empty,
rather then half full.
We only offer excuses,
and half baked bull.
No apologies given, to counter it's pull.

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A Bridge of Love To Friendship

We become protection for each other as long as we care.
Even though not together, we help each other feel safer,
and shouldn't worry about anything beyond that.
Because we are able to say the other one deserves more,
is only a sign we want happiness for each other, in our absence.
It's OK, gentle people are cared more by others,
than they care for themselves,
it's hard to acknowledge and accept, they generate respect,
and acceptance by being who they are, flaws and all.
You're right, we won't know how to act, if we've only had suitors/suitees
in our history.
Can a man and a woman be affectionate just for fun, share any thoughts,
and know they can count on each other to just listen with due care,
and honest feedback, knowing the other will welcome it, without rejection?
Or do they need to think they are one and only's, to invest that precious time.
I guess we will see.
There shouldn't be any pressure to cross the bridge,
or be, or do, anything that doesn't feel right, at any given moment.
The wonder and magic of such a bridge, is if we can keep it in place,
whether or not it is used or needed.
No tolls required on this bridge,
It's free to send your thoughts to me.

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Fairness

Because we are so human,
It is important to realize,
that it is more important to try to be fair,
than always reaching that lofty goal.
After all,
"Ye without sin, cast the first stone."

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Fashion Plate In the Workplace

It's a celebration of life,
It's a celebration of self,
An inner spirit and style,
expressed thru blazes of color.
Daring to be an original,
in a gallery of the commonplace.

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Going To a New Place

I want you to be free,
as you need to be,
no labels, or restrictions,
describe you and me.
But when I look deeply in your eyes
Of incandecent blue,
or any part of my lips,
brush against any part of you,
hunger and desire as old as time,
flows thru my nerve endings and mind.
Compelling me to possess you completely,
clinging as tightly and 
for as long as we possibly can,
going to a new place,
unknown to us.

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Loyalty

Thinking about the people that remain in our lives.
What's the common denominator?
Loyalty over time, isn't that it?
It doesn't generate a daily happiness,
but a deeper satisfaction, more reserved.
Someone wants to share in our lives,
simply because of who we are.
Knowing where we have been,
That we may never get things right,
or figure ourselves out.
Human.
While we try to find our own versions of elusive happiness,
in those we may encounter,
I'm so glad there are people like you,
that have remained in my life.
Not judging me, who has tried and failed,
but judging only if I stop trying to have a friend,
by being your friend.

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An Ally

Without living physically close,
But never being in spirit too far,
An ally is what we are.
Hearts once decided to touch,
and become as one,
a link to the past that cannot be undone.
Souls still free and receptive to visits,
not only to defend hopes and dreams,
but gather precious tears,
shed in joy or response to fears.
On your side, here to ask,
yet respecting the silence,
by donning now that chosen mask.