Submissions by DukeDeltree (Duke Deltree)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
It wasn't my yesterdays I feared it was my tomorrows... Fear that they would consume me and... they did.
~Was once a day~
Was once a day seems far away, but it's memory is still clear
Gone again things I knew, fear setting soul afire renewed.
Living in a Hellish glade, in the prison love loss made.
Loneliness of being in a prison cell, was just beginning to tell.
Tears filling my eyes as I cried: they just would not let me go.
Watching through a bared window at sunsets fading light.
A lighters heat to charge my last battery might.
Hoping the radio will last to play some Noel inside a living hell.
Taking the pine boughs from work from inside...
Gone again things I knew, fear setting soul afire renewed.
Living in a Hellish glade, in the prison love loss made.
Loneliness of being in a prison cell, was just beginning to tell.
Tears filling my eyes as I cried: they just would not let me go.
Watching through a bared window at sunsets fading light.
A lighters heat to charge my last battery might.
Hoping the radio will last to play some Noel inside a living hell.
Taking the pine boughs from work from inside...
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~A night before Christmas~
Was a night before Christmas and all through the house
not a creature was stirring cause we already ate the mouse.
We all huddled before the fireplace gone cold.
As the temperature dropped to thirty below.
Hoping all were bad enough, Santa would bring us some coal.
There on the rooftop came such a clatter we ran to the rooftop
to see whats the matter.
There he was all covered with snow the next thing I know he fell
down the chimney hole, with a last HO! cut short by a thump.
We all...
not a creature was stirring cause we already ate the mouse.
We all huddled before the fireplace gone cold.
As the temperature dropped to thirty below.
Hoping all were bad enough, Santa would bring us some coal.
There on the rooftop came such a clatter we ran to the rooftop
to see whats the matter.
There he was all covered with snow the next thing I know he fell
down the chimney hole, with a last HO! cut short by a thump.
We all...
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Christmas Spirit
LOVE THOSE LIKE FIRE ON A STICK AND SING WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART WITH HUMILITY AND PRAISE FOR THE LIVING GOD FOR YOUR LIGHT YOU SHINE ON OTHERS ~Duke Deltree~
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Broken Heart
When someone says they know what I'm feeling, if they really knew... They would be on their knees crying their heart out. ~Duke Deltree~
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~Everlasting sweetness~
If today was my last day, I'd dream away the day.
Dreaming of ones loved, dream of the perfect love.
Life filled this cup to the rim with tears of light and dark.
That were given in the moment of life's sweet song.
In my trembling finger tips pressing life's cup to my lips.
Taking upon my lips life's last sweet sip. ~Duke Deltree~
Dreaming of ones loved, dream of the perfect love.
Life filled this cup to the rim with tears of light and dark.
That were given in the moment of life's sweet song.
In my trembling finger tips pressing life's cup to my lips.
Taking upon my lips life's last sweet sip. ~Duke Deltree~
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~Secret Thoughts~
Now seeing the living God's face in every place.
In every eye that be, the mirroring of eternity.
Seeking wisdom given to everything that be.
Learning secrets given to a mighty oak tree.
Tiny seeds at it's heart holds secrets of it's parts.
Seeds find forgiving soil and so begins it's long toil.
Each secret knew it's place leaf and limb filling space.
Mind wandering lost the oak gives up a secret thought.
How are you like me in finding the way of eternity?
Tightly entwined roots deeply holding it's only truth....
In every eye that be, the mirroring of eternity.
Seeking wisdom given to everything that be.
Learning secrets given to a mighty oak tree.
Tiny seeds at it's heart holds secrets of it's parts.
Seeds find forgiving soil and so begins it's long toil.
Each secret knew it's place leaf and limb filling space.
Mind wandering lost the oak gives up a secret thought.
How are you like me in finding the way of eternity?
Tightly entwined roots deeply holding it's only truth....
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Soul
A teardrop of the living God became life from light.
Created by compassion, eons of loneliness felt.
Giving part of self to become the whole.
A great wind created the song life sings.
The eternal chorus of light verses night.
Living spirits bring the light nearer to completeness.
From tears of compassion, to love of self, to love of all.
Something still missing, a need for completeness.
A vessel made that would hold the living God's divinity.
A great gift given compassion that mirrors the living light.
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Created by compassion, eons of loneliness felt.
Giving part of self to become the whole.
A great wind created the song life sings.
The eternal chorus of light verses night.
Living spirits bring the light nearer to completeness.
From tears of compassion, to love of self, to love of all.
Something still missing, a need for completeness.
A vessel made that would hold the living God's divinity.
A great gift given compassion that mirrors the living light.
...
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Tears
Glistening droplets tears of starlight shed by the living God upon the eternal night. Upon darkness deep was shed the perfect light. ~Duke Deltree~
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Having hard time being human today...
Having hard time being human today... Just don't seem to have that rape, pillage and plunder urge that humanity seems to do so effortlessly.
As I wrote this in a dark humor I stared at the line realizing the terrible tragedy of my thought. Suddenly sadness, compassion, aching.
I began struggling to understand what I could not, nor perceive the depths of their collective agony of loss.
Mind racing, spirit filling with sorrow for many, a need to help somehow, a fear that it will continue, a guilt for not doing more.
A remorse for...
As I wrote this in a dark humor I stared at the line realizing the terrible tragedy of my thought. Suddenly sadness, compassion, aching.
I began struggling to understand what I could not, nor perceive the depths of their collective agony of loss.
Mind racing, spirit filling with sorrow for many, a need to help somehow, a fear that it will continue, a guilt for not doing more.
A remorse for...
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~Imagine~
Imagine there is a pond engorged with life.
Understanding itself being all that the pond contains.
A complete state of being contained within thoughts.
A wind comes down gathering droplets.
Memory of all now gone replaced by self understanding.
Tossed about by the wind as they played above the water.
Each receiving the varying memory the wind carries.
Understanding selves being all that each droplet now contains.
Falling back were received completely, joining the old with the new.
Reflecting light at the surface...
Understanding itself being all that the pond contains.
A complete state of being contained within thoughts.
A wind comes down gathering droplets.
Memory of all now gone replaced by self understanding.
Tossed about by the wind as they played above the water.
Each receiving the varying memory the wind carries.
Understanding selves being all that each droplet now contains.
Falling back were received completely, joining the old with the new.
Reflecting light at the surface...
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Behind the Chrysalis
Behind the Chrysalis it's living eye see.
Shut away from prying eyes that be.
Finding dual universes there must be.
One awakening, one starting to sleep.
Infinities meet universes beginning anew.
How like your soul that Eternity knew.
Shut away from prying eyes that be.
Finding dual universes there must be.
One awakening, one starting to sleep.
Infinities meet universes beginning anew.
How like your soul that Eternity knew.
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~Dew drops~
Dew drops gathered upon the face of the living God.
On the flowers and things the field's image made.
Washing the memories of the day away.
For what ever Eternity's night will bring.
Divinity revealed again in the life of man.
Upon the Light of the living God all things rise. ~Duke Deltree~
On the flowers and things the field's image made.
Washing the memories of the day away.
For what ever Eternity's night will bring.
Divinity revealed again in the life of man.
Upon the Light of the living God all things rise. ~Duke Deltree~
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