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Voices In My Mind when I'm trying to decide what to write about I hear voices in my mind I hear bits and pieces of words and I try to put some together sometimes they form quickly other times it is a slow process I try to keep my poetry simple there is great beauty...

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Moonshiner you all know me as the Tennessee Poet but because I'm from Tennessee you also think I'm a moonshiner is it because of my jeans and suspenders? wearing my baseball cap backwards? My silly country boy smile? or because I'm standing by a still? I am the Tennessee Poet whatever else I do is...

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No Words Were Needed Our eyes locked from across the room and the music seduced us I took her hand pulling her close and our dance began she laid her head on my shoulder as our bodies swayed to the music moving as one our years together helped us dance as one and I heard...

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Poetry Is... Poetry is a way of seeing through other people's eyes we see a perspective that is not our own and when we do we grow our brains read it anywhere under a tree on a beach in your favorite chair on the bank of a river on a bus or on a plane...

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Sunset On The River Once again my inspiration for this poem is from another one of my friend Augustine Hart's beautiful photos from the Adirondacks. The air is cold I can see my breath and hear the snow crunchingbeneath my feet as I walk along the banks of the Ausable River in New York State's...

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Here For You My inspiration for this poem is from another one of my friend Augustine Hart's beautiful photos from the Adirondacks. Heavenly shades of night are falling and here I stand in all my cold, naked splendor the setting sun warms my bare branches warming me to prepare for the long cold night the...

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My Wonderful Life I have lived a wonderful life and look forward to more wonderful years of life even though I have known great sadness in my 77 years the happiness has by far exceeded the sadness my years of wonder have outweighed my short times of sadness I have loved and been loved by...

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My Prayers I believe in the power of prayer I pray frequently I pray for my family I pray for my friends I pray for myself for relief from my pain for relief from my anxieties but lately I pray more for our country I worry about the direction our country is heading I ask...

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I Will Do Whatever It Takes If loving you is a sin then I guess I'll bypass heaven it's just not possible for me not to love you if loving you is a drug I'm already addicted if loving you is a choice then I will choose you again and again and again and if...