Scott J. Shepard Poems

In a house of cards, defense is paper thin.
An agreement on a falling word would only wonder
what it was like to be tempted into something
so fragile.
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Search diligently.
You cannot fail the consciousness
of loneliness recovered
and steadfast,
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'There were two sins',
Said the prayer conducive
yet elusive to the paradigm
of man carrying the world
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A careful sense ammends
the second approach.

To hide deeply in a pocket
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I'd settle for second best.
Placed with a pattern grown tired
of the usually kept.
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Knowledge blooms where Heaven staggers to and fro.
Like when the maple sways, or swallows whole
its budding brace, or suddenly begins to grow.
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Believe in me. Or trust in me
to mimic casualty, or the correlation
of vantage points between you and I.
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If life were as free as air,
if everything I ever needed were words as wise as wind
and the lifespan of history were a gentle breeze of romance
whispering every one of your desires softly into my ear;
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There are times, the dial sun
in mighty direction above
seems standstill in its journey
to embrace fully, warmth against the earth.
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If my swallowed breath to whistled fall airs
No longer does justice to tricks pigeons play
Noted by passerby's of such humble greys
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