Long Postlude Poems

Sunday morning
time for sabbath sacraments.

He steps into gusty wind,
some fat splatter sweeps of raindrops
fall across his porch roof
on down through roaring river valley,
forceful push, then ebb

February wind storm
raining down warm wet,
a wondrous primal pair
he adores.

Neighbor...

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For a day, for a week, for a month you will be remembered
Those who knew you well
Family will always recall that you have left a void in them
The thoughtful friend for a year
May think and...

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Love is a kiss
	A prelude to the dreams we hum
	A postlude of what has become
	
Love is a wine
	Intoxicating heart and soul
	Over the mind it gains control
		
Love is a song
	A melody to remember
	Forever a burning ember

Love...

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Cotton Bootie Enlistment
             by Odin Roark

How innocent the booties of birth
If only their cast remembrance
Might remain but nostalgia
 
Instead

Their bronze symbolism
Merely encases a...

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Fell so hard...and fell so fast

Vs 1
When we first met, 
I never thought I could ever love you
My foolish pride,
convinced me that I was so above you


Bridge
(but...)
I love the way you stare, with your sparkling...

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Too good - to ever last    suggested bpm 80

Vs1
When we first met, I never thought
that you could ever love me...
You were the brightest star shining
so high up above me...


Bridge 
I loved the...

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Too good - to ever last    

Vs1
When we first met, I never thought
that you could ever love me...
You were the brightest star shining
so high up above me...


Bridge 
I loved the way you...

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PRELUDE
King David did break all Ten Commandments in one act (2 Samuel 11:2-5)
All it takes is one to break the pact (James 2:10)

THE X COMMANDMENTS
He made Bathsheba a goddess (2 Samuel 11)
Her body was his...

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A Nightingale sings

            Nightingale: The night songstress 
            Sweetest songbird always to impress
...

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and the who, what, where, when
& why seem ever so important
when an act so terrible afflicts the
many & sends the public panicking
with eyes peeled & stuck to the
screens of a media feasting like
vultures in the...

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Ode to Silence

O primordial prelude, thou ancient sound, present before the earth was found. Interrupted by the voice of One who predated you, saying, “let there be,” and then allowing you to witness His creative...

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THANKSGIVING

      Song of Thanksgiving start with prelude
                       ...

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What could I say
to change this kindness
you may have warmly heard
but only coldly felt?

How might my peaked
and valleyed,
top and bottom,
out and in 
prelude and postlude 
father spawned and mother sacred
before and after
stories
speak to your ambivalent...

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Prayer's positive potential is not as substitute for planning.

Prayer might be a prelude to planning,
and might be an appropriate postlude
to fully implemented plans,
whether psalm of gratitude
or requiem of remorse
depending on healthy and pathological outcomes.

Even better,
some...

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First date
Is most lingering
And the most memorable
Happenings in ones’ life
Especially to anyone
Who has fallen in love!
When the first date 
Happened in ones’ first love!

It is an unforgettable
Moment in ones’ life, there’s the killjoy and the...

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GRACE AND SOLITUDE
      
       Sparkling Sun on verdant valley of super silence.
       Symphony of dazzling rays of sizzling...

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MEET ME IN MY SOLITUDE


       I sank deep in her sweet song.
          She started on soft soothing prelude.
  ...

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A God-honored teacher, Miss Ruth Vance
His gift to our town, His circumstance.
No replacing her bulging tote bag -
It was priceless, minus the Gucci tag."

and now the rest of the story....

Teacher extraordinaire, Miss Ruth Vance
taught eighth...

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THE ONE WHO FOLLOWED THE STORM 
A postlude to The Tenth Wave 


And I felt helpless, as I could do nothing
But watch them sway in the wind out to sea 

Hush, hush!
There, yes, right there,...

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LONELY PEOPLE

         Lonely people are loners,
         even not only by living alone
       ...

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Sick Solitude   Andaree
 
               I felt so sick in the sublime solitude       ...

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