Purposeless Poems

If dead, we cease to be ; if total gloom
Swallow up life's brief flash for aye, we fare
As summer-gusts, of sudden birth and doom,
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From Cocoon forth a Butterfly
As Lady from her Door
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Coldly, sadly descends
The autumn-evening. The field
Strewn with its dank yellow drifts
Of wither'd leaves, and the elms,
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Here, in this little Bay,
Full of tumultuous life and great repose,
Where, twice a day,
The purposeless, gay ocean comes and goes,
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Earth no longer
hymns the Creator,
the seven days of wonder,
the Garden is over —
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He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago,
And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.',
But his real name was Careless, as the fellows understood --
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He who could beard the lion in his lair,
To bind him for a girl, and tame the boar,
And drive these beasts before his chariot,
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The children of the Czar
Played with a bouncing ball
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I.

WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown
Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head:
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Ah! weary Priest! - with pale hands pressed
On thy throbbing brow of pain,
Baffled in thy life-long quest,
Overworn with toiling vain,
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PEACE to their ashes! Far away they lie,
Among their poor, beneath the equal sky.
Among their poor, who blessed them ere they went
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In green old gardens, hidden away
From sight of revel and sound of strife,
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I
Saint Valentine’s Day

Well dost thou, Love, thy solemn Feast to hold
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I
The little one-room schoolhousc among the redwoods
Opened its door, a dozen children ran out
And saw on the narrow road between the dense trees
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Each day is as disastrous as the next.
I spend my time looking up at ceilings,
looking up at the moving clouds.
I fiddle around my brain trying
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- My Stella - 84
- No self -

She came and called me,
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When Caesar, following those who bore the head,
First trod the shore accursed, with Egypt's fates
His fortunes battled, whether Rome should pass
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The house in Broad Street, red brick, with nine rooms
the weedgrown graveyard with its rows of tombs
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' I LOVE BEING LOVED BY YOU! '

My life overflows with happiness
As my favorite dreams come true.
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THE POWER of PRAYER


Prayer is one of life’s most amazing privileges
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Women of God's Bible became a king's queen
Risking all for the sake of love.
They save mankind form total extinction
By responding to their call from above.
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Monday morning, July 8,2024 at 8: 44 a.m. and 9 a.m.

Du Fu, fellow traveler, bereft
spiritual drifter … drifting along
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All Time Poetry

''Adventurs And Curvature''
is poetry's soul trip.
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Despondent. One who feels
In the world about him
Blow, a cold will, crude.
Purposeless. One who stands
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Wednesday morning, February 15,2023 at 7: 09 a.m.; Monday afternoon, February 20, 2023 at 2: 48 p.m.

'A part of you becomes a part of me from time to time...'
—Joni Mitchell, 'The Last Time I Saw Richard'
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No GOD form or formless,
Uniform & Unpleasant;
No thoughtful Religion,
A Sterotype & Monologue;
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The sky is shaking
The sun is horrified
My name is
on each and every particle of creation
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''Pure like honey,
odorless like olive oil,
Fresh like ice
and innocent as a dove.'''MY MASTER M.A.N SAYS
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My Lord, I ask that you give me life,
that You do determine my days over again.
I am a sinner and punished severely
where now purposeless I wander through life
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That Yogi
Teaches us
How to be
In peace....
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