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Dancing In The Street
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Aug 17, 2009 6:31 pm
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You're known to care for others far and wide
and some respond with validating verve
and God knows well it's good, you're gratified,
if not for this the reason that you serve.
You've come to grips with giving, that's the key,
the push for peace that orchestrates the move,
the choice that's yours to live that liberty
with never once a single thing to prove.
You're quite at ease with going deep within
(whereat the prompt that always spells the start),
let some exclaim that there you go again
the way it works it's always from your heart.
A precious soul perceived in all you meet
explained in this your dancing in the street.
-Richard
Aug. 17, 2009
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Off To See The Wizard
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Aug 16, 2009 9:42 pm
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When it's birthday time we will turn to rhyme
For a message filled with cheer
And we'll keep it light for the bloody bite
That amounts to yet a year
With a tick and tock moves ahead that clock
With the chimes it will engage
While we're apt to yell it's a hound from hell
That would turn so quick the page
But the poet knows how the story goes
Worked his flesh upon that floor
And his mind is sharp as he hears that harp
On his mile of metaphor
So with practised pen he now writes again
Of the Wizard straight from Oz
And he keeps it light for the bloody bite
Of those universal laws
-Richard
for anyone with a birthday
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The Lack Of Love
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Aug 16, 2009 3:56 am
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When it's love that lacks it's to fall through cracks
Of a kind that's hard to bear
For the hurts return every time you yearn
For that thing that's just not there
And it's pointless too when it's said to you
It's a phase and nothing more
And it's made a game that you cannot name
As you'd hardly know the score
You've the wherewithal to address it all
If it's awkward now and then
But the truth be told it's a hard old hold
And it's bruising you again
-Richard
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Hence The Hope
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Aug 15, 2009 4:38 am
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On that glorious morn when a child is born
There's a circle forming round
With a promise heard every single word
For our stand on hallowed ground
But the years amass and the visions pass
As to think they never were
While that child is lost on a river tossed
And it's waters that we stir
But the scene repeats as the morning greets
Yet a child that brings a tear
And while brief the bliss it is hard to miss
It's the reason that we're here
In the loving lease there's a spark of peace
With potential for a blaze
For it's hallowed ground where that child is found
Hence the hope for better days
-Richard
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The Waves Of Change
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Aug 14, 2009 7:32 am
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Tradition traps a person from the start –
as much as said corruption rules the day –:
the way it's done while seeming from the heart
it's nothing more than yesterday at play.
Accepting change demands revisions made
with waves awash upon the shore of thought:
dramatic drafts propose our dues be paid,
absurd the rule insisting that they're not.
Where shadows lurk collisions will occur,
therefore it holds that sunshine must be queued:
replaced the past with all the wants that were
till grasped at last our change of attitude.
The open mind in time's the saving grace,
the lease on love not loathe to show its face.
-Richard
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The Gordian Knot Intact
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Aug 13, 2009 12:54 am
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The stage long set the play is now the thing
the players primed to give it all they’ve got
each part rehearsed emotions now in swing
conveyed to each what language will allot.
Inside the “hall” a stranger’s found his way
an entrance made that sees him good and late
but quick and sure he’d take apart this play
dissecting lines he’d choose to punctuate.
The fact he’s missed some scenes an act as well
deters him not pronouncements that are made
convincing calls that make things show and tell
with verdicts in on every role that’s played.
Dimensions deep the Gordian knot intact
the cast now reels to take in such an act.
-Richard-
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The Living Proof
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Aug 12, 2009 3:00 am
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Let us send regards with our fancy cards
And those roses all a-bloom
There's a point we miss if it comes to this
And we're nowhere in that room.
It's the human touch that is needed much
And the voice that sooths no end
With our love displayed in the visit made
And that numbers us a friend.
Let our teardrops flow if it needs be so
Not to fear the shame of it.
It's to sense the feel of a rush that's real
And to know the name of it.
When the reaper's come and the frames are numb
That's the time to come on side:
In our actions shown that they're not alone
And that love has far from died
-Richard
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The Sun Setting The Scene
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Aug 11, 2009 3:46 am
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When the day is done there's the setting sun
With its colours and its hues
And it calls our names with those fiery flames
While we're kicking off our shoes.
There's a message read in that scene o'erhead
And the writing's good and clear
That to rise and shine we're to draw the line
When the nighttime makes it here.
Whence the scape so grand we're to understand
There's a reason for our rest
And to drive that home we've the dark a dome
Closed that window to the west.
-Richard
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One Loving Word
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Aug 10, 2009 4:56 am
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One loving word erases years of pain
replaced the grief with feelings good and warm
a gift that’s there forever we’ll retain
the same to share and take the world by storm.
Examples are the teachers that we need
beyond which point the call to duplicate
the soul the thing not egos that we’d feed
addressed the lot of things we’d celebrate.
We will be blessed beyond our wildest dream
and not because of fortunes we’ll amass
but more because of love that reigns supreme
and that’s one gift that nothing will surpass.
Of all the words we’ll ever come to hear
that one resound with love the rest grows clear.
-Richard
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Arrives The Dawn - a rubaiyat
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Aug 8, 2009 2:40 pm
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Upon the wings of time we fly no end
To things both known, unknown we must attend
Each puzzle solved the way that we alight
Each flap of wing a draft we can defend
Arrives the dawn to chase away the night
The shadows gone the lot of them to light
A lesson learned the universe decrees
No need to pause and question that it's right
No need to fret nor else be ill at ease
The Grand Design forever guarantees
The job gets done somewhere along the line
No arguments whence laws the likes of these
-Richard
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