That Is To Say Poems - Poems about That Is To Say

... Grandma’s ghost has taken up knitting rattlesnakes in the drapes. They hiss when someone lies. Now, my mother only speaks in noodle metaphors. I ask her how she is, and she replies, al......

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... Throughout the outer cosmos you will find ghosts leaving interstellar gas behind. That is to say a galaxy remains, where pompous, excess energy enflames a slight shiver<......

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...(Mise en Scène* ‘meez on sen’ - French theatrical term meaning “placing on stage.”) A word has weight I weigh each word lest the wrath of god unbinds the bird that holds the night inside i......

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...I do not dream when I sleep, it is the warm embrace of lightheadedness- darkness - and then my eyes crack open. All joints of my body aching, like rusted hinges. I should amend my beginning, it ......

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... *After my last post I thought it would be nice to lighten up a bit with some warm, happy (well, not so happy for Elmer) pest poetry. Who doesn't love bug humor? This one actually won first place in......

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...Something strange and unexplainable comes this way, this way, it comes to us sly and fast, some say, perhaps, it has already arrived, it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us we go a......

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...On the morning of the dawn of my life, I wake into a world where I am good, and I am loved, and every passing moment of it is called Miracle, without need for such words, known unspoken even ......

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... It seems that the beef In Stans veggie beef soup. Has gone the same way As most pork and beans do. So, that is to say There isn't much of either. Yet, that's just my view But the price ha......

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...Giving thanks unto the eternal inheritance Brought forth by the sacrifice of Christ The consuming fire to burn away weeds and thorns Separating the wheat from the chaff That one might be a dwelli......

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...Courage Courage is what you have when you have only two choices left. One of them to accept fate, and the other to cheat it, beat it, unseat it... meet it halfway, and then knock it ......

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..."Hebrews 10:19-20 ~ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is......

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... "Kaleidoscope" They say another wrote the story, not I. that I, mere I, having little experience, shy and far removed from such an alien world, would not possess the......

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...I know of a very good-sounding song. I heard it first when I was very young. Its theme reminds me of a lovely nursery rhyme. It speaks of and longs for peace, harmony, and togetherness. The song ......

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...2000 miles is a long way, and 50 plus years is a very long time. It spells the time and space that have separated me and my two best childhood friends. Back then, whether it was hay, ammonia, cowbo......

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... In no real sense is he alive: a wind-up toy, personified. A message bundled with a drive, he neither eats or can divide. Two hundred million like himself, each one distinct, yet all ......

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