Long Forgo Poems

(Remembering Innocence)


Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new tales, improvements to previous verses, and improved...

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We pass up from 'Mortal' to 'Immortality' to reach 'Heaven' or we pass down from 'Mortal"to 'Immortality to 'Hell' down below from 'Terrestrial' to 'Celestial in 'The Spirit'either way we are 'Judged' to go'!Will this...

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 Will you please remind "God"Of "God's Love by "Loving"! The love that God put "In You"should "Remind You"? God "PUT LOVE IN YOU"! He put it there so that "he can remind himself of...

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All That ‘I AM’ - Revisited

Let all that ‘I AM,’ yes, my pulp, seed, and cover,
from dreams long misplaced to the fears, I’m resisting
(though friends think them offal). My eye’s tears from mote
(that makes sparks...

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Written 22 December 2023
Forgiveness Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Robert James Langouri

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"Papyrus, Lapis Lazuli and the Valley of the Kings - Part 1"
 
“Tell me about the Valley of the Kings”, her lips moved speaking 
to someone, 
sitting somewhere 
on the other side of the Glass...

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How few people know in this world, 
That the ones who are beaten
Find ways to take rage out on others,
All frequently fruit of one tree!

But just for this reason I chose
To forgo my own children
Preferring...

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Kids and Children "Love " to see "Adults""Hug and Kiss"! Love served here "Daily"! Kids "love to hear the words: I love you!  Love served here daily without pay! Love served daily helps us...

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The Boatman’s Song 6/Many

Indra again tried to convince Urveshi

But, here in heaven, Urveshi
Even the flowers are born, never to fade and die 
Unlike the humans on earth, who hardly gets a
Chance to bloom fully and...

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J.D.  AND SONS……… 4.3.16   

 

JD WAS A MAN FROM  PEELTOWN TEXAS OF HUMBLE  MEANS AND RAZOR SHARP IQ, DEFT IN MANY FIELDS AND FRIEND TO MANY, TALKING DREAMS PLAYING...

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Oh dearest Alice you’ve fallen through my looking glass of reality,
Where rabbits forgo pocket watches, and vestment coats, hopping
Instead wild, free amongst clover evergreen valley’s lust!
Here dreaming child of enchantment’s lore, storybook charm exists
Within the...

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THE STRANGER MAN (2)

They who posses tire
out and loose more
in keeping.
As homeowner never
have I felt at home
But closer home as
squatter and
settler.
The crop man crops
his way through
life,
The dry cleaner
cannot subdue the
muck;
The well heeled
can’t afford inner
balm with...

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Why do mechanics need manuals when they’ve fixed it before?
Answer my question or I’ll walk out the door!
Didn’t they attend trade schools or get OJT?
Why need repair manuals?  That what gets me.
I just want...

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Was professor of astronomy, ah those heady days
    Studied fields in cosmology, including solar rays
 Observed galaxies all my life, seeking exotic events
   Ironically happens now, as my death’s dispensed...

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I’d heard of Persephone, that beautiful earthly maid, 
Who’d vowed her love to Hades, although her mother forbade –
An enraged Demeter scorched the earth; a desolate paradise was made,
But Persephone visits still, embrocating this soil-...

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While the doctor who is responsible for his care in the hospital had dexterity and grace in his fingertips, he also has humility in his heart.  He was interview in for the 9:00 pm...

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Before I tramp the course of my cause,
A family indeed we were, I and Kole
But I short of years from the other.
Only by words we keep memory of
A deceased mother like morning dew
Sought for by...

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I Was Heartily Welcomed… As I Sat At Your Table
By:  Carol, Sara, Carolyn, Dane Anne,  Moses, and Abel
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Once upon a time on a table lay an innocent little book;
Do not open it, a label warned, not even to take a look.
You want to know, don’t you, why so many have come back,
To...

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in the beginning was the word and the sound was Ohm
reverberating Gods will within each lifetron His home
Hirayangarbha split into two magnetic polarities
separation and union manifesting as duality
male-female day-night orbits and tides
both in form and...

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He's staring off into oblivion;
dead-lights, who of their own free will choose to illuminate
the gray matter microwave that is TV:
too vain, too vulgar. Thought Vanquisher,
brought to you by your friendly-facade-keepers:
the politicians pussyfooting on a pedestal
built...

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Catch the latch under the thatch
Roof within the hut
In your village where you snatch
Every chance to balance the gut
 
That propels your vision
To embrace the trace of the future
You believe lies in the diffusion
Lying at...

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Written: May 23, 2024, For Silent One Lilith Contest

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Written: September 2nd, 2023
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In the depths of one's mind, foes reside.
Within oneself—a war cannot be denied.
Refers to individuals—their internal strife,
Struggles and spurs that shape their life.

In the realm of views and desires so deep,
Fear and...

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