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In The Sanctuary Of My Head

The Broken-Winged Birds and People (re-edited 4/5/2323 3:03PM PST) (re-edited 11:14am PST 2/23/2023)

The Hell Of Winter (re-edited 4:27pm PST 3/9/2023)

My Grey Haired Love...La La Lullaby , La La Lullaby My Love

THE HEART IS AN ORGAN ON FIRE



When Mr. Bemish Lost His Last Good Pair of Glasses

Kathy Brown Kathy Brown

Something Not Quite Right About Here (Vortex) re-edited 1/26/2023

THE COOL TILES BENEATH MY FEET REMIND ME

The Way Of The Crow

DO YOU TURN THE LIGHTS SO YOU CAN SLEEP?

The Springtime Shadows Play Games Upon The Wall

CHRONICLER OF DREAMS

YET ANOTHER ANTI-POETRY POEM ( re-edited 11/2/2022)

You Do As You Please 8/17/2005 found poem, readjusted 6/20/22

HERE WE SIT AT OUR TABLE 2/19/2022

Much Better Than This ( A Conversation With The Universe)

The Straight Story (What Happens When The Writer Inserts You Into Her Story)

THE TIDE CALLED LONELINESS

A Girl Always Leaning Forward Looking for A Breeze

Entanglements

Have You Ever... (DECEMBER 4/2021)

Appetites

How I Still Love You

The Smile Which Eludes @

He Says To Me, I Think Too Much (and hence dream too much as well)

When You Learn Who You Really Are And What Is...

Anti-Poem Number Three 8/2/2022 Or, A Poem Your Proper Mother Wouldn't Write

Breathing On My Own

A Girl Is More Than a Beautiful Box re-edited 10:15pm PST 1/31/22

I LOVE YOU ALWAYS ANYWAY AND INSTEAD

Talk To Me In The Dark 7/8/2022

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Don't Want Your Prayers


I don't believe in miracles
or your  prayers

too much has passed
I have changed

prayers are a convenience
easy false conveyances
words mumbled when people willingly choose
not to proffer a hand

it was Gods will
or
it was Gods plan

it reeks to me of the lack
of the care of man
or the act of a true friend

prayers
are only mere words
they smack of
true in-action

miracles
will not happen
in my life
simply
because
you wave the magic wand
and wish


save your cheap words
they make a poor meal
a meager dish

if you wish to be of service
in all kindness do not
disservice me with your words

act
do
or be with me true
only in your body
but never with your
puny words

they mean
little
almost less than nothing
in the end

truth be told
they did offend

your words alone
accomplished
nothing.


copyright September 4 2016
ALL LEGAL RIGHTS TO THIS WORK
TO THIS SITE TITLE ARE EXPRESSIVELY RESERVED
BY THIS AUTHOR/WRITER
Meloo/Melissa A Howells/ straight from her
Tilt-a-World...site title is  legal copyright by this author.

as William Blake's poem title says...
straight from "Songs of Experience."
this poem came straight from a song of my
(miserable) experience.

sometimes it is better and best to be silent
and stand by your friend(s) then to deliver
hollow words

re-edited on September 11th...and now I am
wholly satisfied with the end product here;
in that it expresses what I want to say.





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