Long Schrader Poems

They had gathered from all around
With special invitation in hand
No professional was allowed
To take part in this grand
...event

Just your every day, run of the mill
Person without culture or fame
Putting their baking skills to work
In hopes...

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A child, crippled by a tragic accident
Learned how to excel in sorrow
Never listening to words
That would encumber his bright tomorrow

Who cares if he's a paralytic 
It has nothing to do with his mind
A ray of...

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OH

It is her…she…who parades around in a crown of glory
Compassionately hearing the abused one’s wounded story
Her smile, yes, it is that 
	Luring, forever enduring smile that
			Ensnares, then it cares, is always there, even as it...

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Lament was so excited
He had finally reached the age
Where he discovered the meaning
Of his name, so that he could gage
....his future

As the clan gathered
Into a circle around the fire
Tears of sorrow and grief
Lined their faces,...

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She passed many things, daily
As records played in the background
Don't go near, stay away, don't touch
Til she drove herself to the only place SHE could be 

.................................FOUND

Monotony has a rhythm of its own
Familiar carries a...

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The flood waters had drawn back
Land made its debut
The past gone and over
With nothing but hope in view

Hard work and labor ahead
Building and creating...what
Grown minds can't forget experience
No matter how one sought

...to begin again

After a...

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Once, there was a father
Who loved his children completely
Nothing fractured or missing
Withholding nothing for the greedy

Everything flowed to and from
Without interruption or wrinkle
Til a child pulled back
Creating a hold that crinkled

....into time

For the first time,...

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While traveling along an unfamiliar path
I was caught off guard by your beauty
I stopped the Jeep to get a closer look
But noticed The Master was still on duty

I pondered at your color and fullness
Wondering why...

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He walked upon her in the woods
Lying there, with placenta and blood on her skin
He didn't question where she was going
But knew where she had been

~unwanted, unloved, unnoticed~

He cleaned her carefully
Removed the dead weight and...

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When we first met
Your light blinded my senses
I got too close
When your presence obliterated my fences

No boundaries with you
Your fragrance made me tired
As your promise of passion
Got my furnace all fired
....up

Up, Up, Up to your...

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In the beginning
When humanity began to walk
The Creator would come down
Just to talk
...with man

Time passed
And possibilities began to arise
Everything permissible
Except that one, where man dies
...alone

Well, it happened
And really, not that bad, it seemed
Man lived and...

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It came to me in the brightest day
No...no...tis night, I can not stay
I'm a busy unemployed woman
Losing all for...
      ....what was it again

~LOVE~

There were days when my nights were black
And...

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"I come to the gar~den...alone...
While the dew is still...on the...roses.."
    ...did that rose just move???
"And the voice I hear...
.....WHAT was that???

~gulp~

"Whose there?
Now I know you're there
I don't easily scare
Jesus is here...well...at least...

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In the beginning, the couple was united
Flowing with no regard to decision
The fluid motion of word and deed
Created living without division

~then came the split~

When he laid eyes upon her beauty
A deep fire stirred within his...

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I heard the clanging of the gate
As wonder and fear began to reverberate 
The more you opened up, I ran in
Neither of us concerned for where we had been

I had never played without terror
You had...

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I waited for you
In the depths of the earth
For the season of joy
To bring me into the womb of rebirth

So much time trickled
As blood blotted the ground
War and sorrow reigned
Where mercy had been bound

The thick...

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Once, a young woman traveled a path
So tired of darkness and lies
A light flashed in the west
And hope took her by surprise

A voice said, "Never veer to the right or left
Always walk straight and true
The...

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Sitting on the front steps of a long porch
In the middle of the deep south
Little Billy looked up at his drunk dad
Hanging on to every word spoken out of his mouth

Leaning into Mama on a...

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The little ones stand on the river bed
Bored, with the beauty of silence
Looking for excitement and adventure
They discovered stones, and the fun of violence

As the water rushed to the ocean
In a smooth, steady, rhythmical sound
The...

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When you saw that I had words
That were worthy of weight
You decided I was special
With access to the City's gate

When you saw that I survived
Great suffering and pain
You decided to get from me
Whatever you could...

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A while back I left meaning
At the river bank of seeming
And gathered myself to trust
Dark and light
I learned how to fight
By giving my faith to LOVE

He took me deep and wide
Cleaning all I longed to...

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She watched, in horror
As the man hit the nail
The hammer was an enemy
The best she could tell

She observed a child
Emulate his father
With a tiny thwack
He hit another man's daughter

She heard the familiar sound
Of bang, bang,...

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That moment
That perfect moment
Where time became eternal
I saw
I opened my blinded eyes and saw
The expanse of your soul

To reword
To match time stricken words to an eternal glimpse
Absurd

So, I write
I write without reason
Flowing with the ink...

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Once, an old man sat at a bar
Seemingly, alone in the woods
The Falls were just over there
Above all of his shunned shoulds of good

Too great to enter into regret
He suckered anger instead
Justifying all his words...

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Coming out of my prison door
Accompanied by my companion
Not connected in any way
....but I knew him

Barren wasteland, behind
Freedom beckons my will
I do NOT stop for direction
But run headlong into the chill

Wrapped tightly in failed attempts
To...

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