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The Barque of Us

Should the barque of us go adrift

Let us berth to the harbor of us, my dear

Though the times and tides may shift

the miles marked together-a bridge to pier.

And if you’re too weary to climb ashore

I myself shall come and meet you at sea-

-be an island for you…Be a buoy for me!

Thus now and always and forevermore.

And if the flax ties that bind us come undone and loose

I ...

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Player

Pupils steady, unflinching like a key lodged in the hole

with no traitorous jingling chain to dangle from.

 

Expect no truth from the player for such is the role

and such is the nature of stardom.

 

Shades and shutters meaningfully open wide showing

off the sparkling glass of feigned transparency.

 

Long scarlet velvet drapes falling heavy, not allowing

sight or view ...

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Lightly

Οn the sleek surface of the pupil of this marble eye which pulls us down

heavy is the water trapped inside the mist

heavy the living and heavy the desist

Heavy like Persephone's black leaden veil and wedding gown.

 

This life isn't for the faint-hearted; for death isn't only for the brave.

heavy is the joy, heavy the bliss and fickle

heavy is the jingling silver bending sickle

...

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The Moon in Me- An Epigram

Ah, Cruel Chance, know that if you were to pick "today" at random,

I would go down smiling bright and treading light and hearty-a-pace!

If, knowing that, "today" you do chose...Alas...Why I'll never fathom!

Just take me quick, before the moon in me decides to show its other face.

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My Faith and Inspiration Found

Let me even at the expense of my evolution remain

a sharpened blade tucked inside a dusty sheath. 

Let me never taste the sweet liquors and fruit of fame

For I would rather share a glass of tepid water with

the hands that clean up after the ruthless beasts of war

Gladly I'll put the pen aside and grab a hod and shovel

and never write another word; keep silent forevermore. 

be ...

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The Wait

The passing of time ends in martyrdom 

I have been a martyr since seven am.

Five hundred steps trod by a medium-sized foot from Hell to Home

One hard labor-filled day's worth of patience to determine who I am.

 

She said "They will come in the afternoon".

Not precise enough to keep my hand and mind steady. 

I push the minutes as the hours dawdle; He whispers: "Soon..."

"It'...

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I Refuse

I refuse to go down with the damned

Should Circumstance entrain me I shall swim against the tide

Let my conscience not rest at the thought that at least I tried

I refuse to go down with the damned. 

 

I refuse to succumb to dull despair 

If the thin thread from which I hang comes to break, 

Without a wail, without a tear; quietly the fall I'll take.

I refuse to succumb to d...

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Wedding Wish

And even though you are a child of Fear be not a mother to Strife.

Let the weakling with the wheezing breath behind, stand tall as staggering Life!

Remember not solely the half of you that fills you with doubt and dread

Hold on to hope, a royal bequest, even though your Queen lies with the dead.

The foul impostor that posed as King took a shard of your innocence with him,

but your b...

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Blessed With A Curse -A Wretched Rhyme

There was a young lady whose nose

had the fragrance and shape of a rose!

But she was rather morose 

because everyone knows

that a person can't smell their own nose!

She crossed her eyes trying to look at it

which made her feel dizzy in a heartbeat!

Alas, she couldn't see it

and nor could she smell it

She couldn't even spell it!

All maudlin "Oh the irony!" she'd cry.

...

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Argument For The Sake Of The Argument

Words lost all meaning 

Ears sealed and mind shut. Hear not...

Listen not... Just sing!

 

A truth avoided

a resolution denied 

"Disaster Ahead"

 

Lingering ringing

vociferous aftershock 

white noise is noise too.

 

Silence... Naturally.

Postwar, sift through cinders for

new meanings in words.

 

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My Better 3/4

The scar and trauma of a severed soul is mathematically inconvenient

Cauterize The Heart to save Its better half; cuts "being" down to 50% off.

Should you come to love me, know from the start, that wily is the minion

that binds our fortunes; who is meant to roar and who is meant to cough 

 

For the stronger link is doomed to waste away

if placed next to the weak one.

But if st...

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The Burden of Man- A Ghazal

Atlas has fallen to his knees for heavy is the burden of Man

And the shoulders of Earth quiver and sway under the burden of Man.

 

Shoes wound the soil like shame wounds the soul

And His own mother's cheek scathed and mangled under the heel of Man

 

Little Miss Wilderness, The Unbridled; tamed and trimmed, confined in a concrete corner

Now the air smells of pine and essence of...

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Divine Sacrifice

How gracious, giving, odd-a-Medea Mother Earth is, that casually allows

the sticky fingers of my offspring pluck hers whilst in their very prime

The sugary, inciting scent and sanguine, blush flesh ominously arouse

their uninhibited watering glands and ushers them to a gluttonous crime.

What a ruthless, audacious Demeter is I who reaps and sickles the seed

-the splendid fruit that t...

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Appeasement

Stroke the tiger according

to the direction of his pelt

Kiss the hand and the ruby ring

like all the cowards who knelt

Polish the blade and varnish the sheath

unbutton your shirt and let him whip you

Bid your time till he's upon his last breath 

wait until he's too weak to strike you

then say:"Just because I worship you 

It doesn't mean I like you."

Always slither, ne...

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Well Enough

Let the dead stay buried down under

leave the towering weed that you planted be

The memory is blurry now, the edge has become blunter.

And that has had to be well enough for me...

 

Leave the untold remain unspoken,

the unspeakable you never claimed your own.

Take the unasked pardon; the world pretends to have forgotten

So play along and leave well enough alone.

 

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M15tak3s- A Whateverette

"Use your words" everyone said 

They didn't say "use them well!"

Weave a lavish text in silken thread

A lustrous web for pomposity to dwell

"Use your words! The fancier the better!"

A silken scarf, a silken shirt, a shiny silken sweater!

And a pretty pair of sparkly silken handstiched socks 

Specially made for the daintiest of dainty feet to use!

Wear your festive, silken s...

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Everything- An Etheree

The hermit worships at the mountain top

He prays at the doom below his feet

bellows loud to hear his echo

and sings dirges to the gorge.

A muffled commotion

slowly wakes him up

tambourines, lute

His suave bride

“My sweet

love

come!"

Unclench

that creased brow

shed that black cloth

the mourner's garment

break the solemn silence

clad yourself in white ...

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etheree

I Loved And Loved- A Triolet

I loved and loved with all my heart

Yet I was not loved back.

My full house of scarlet fell apart

I loved and loved with all my heart

Blind faith's a solitary art

'n I failed to see my Jack was black

I loved and loved with all my heart

Yet I was not loved back.       

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Starchild's Keeper- A Sonnet

Father Thunder cracked, Mother Thunder struck! 

through a cosmic tango, your divine birth!

And into a mad stellar chase I broke

begging to glow as your mirror on Earth...

I plunge into the ocean after dark,

and swim in this indigo-silver trance.

I relish in your splendor, hear the lark

his, a song of sorrow and jubilance.

though bittersweet it couldn't ever spoil

this ne...

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Mother (Love In The Time Of Disapproval)

The Hero's blade is showing signs of rust

"Oh sweet mother-in-amrs why are you abandoning me?"

Your deformed wrinkled ancient child still needs you

Eons have passed since the labor that separated us

Have you passed the placenta yet?

Abhoring

like your child

enduring

like your child

as if wrought with iron.

Your heavy lids betray you

Treacherous sneaky old Morpheas

...

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Satan's Ark-A Sestina

 

This is the song of a man who had a hundred souls in his pocket

He can get no sleep, he can get no rest and he can get no peace

The rope is tight like a well-tuned cord. Alas but who's to walk it?

As Sun dawns on the docks, He dawns on the Harbor of injustice!

The bugle has blown! The man and his one hundred souls embark.

But a thousand despondent souls’ death-boat, ain't no No...

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Hades' Ferry- A Sea Shanty

Yo-ho-hear the song of a man, yo-ho, with a hundred souls in his pocket

He can get no sleep, he can get no rest, yo-ho, and he can get no peace

The rope is tight like a well-tuned cord yo-ho! Alas, but who's to walk it?

Yo-ho, to the docks, when Sun dawns, yo-ho, on the Harbor of injustice!

The bugle blows! All aboard! Yo-ho! A man and a hundred souls embark.

Ah, but a thousand desp...

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The 21st Century Paradigm

Isolation 

for my salvation

equals alienation

for the nation.

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The Benefits and The Perils

The benefits of The Surface, of staying relevant 

are admitedly somewhat relative.

The perils of blending in- obscure yet eminent-

under the spotlight are in superlative! 

You exist, You exist not, You exist, You exist not

Even numbers can be cruel. 

Yourself, Your Avatar, Reality, Virtual or Absolute 

Locked in an ongoing duel.

 

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The Bluebird and the Wallflower

The dainty Butterfly passed by

He fluttered about, little low little high

Then He let out an ennuied sigh.

With a hasty lie and a haughty eye-

He ascended upwards to the lovely sky

For the wallflower hadn't blossomed...

 

The perky Bumblebee buzzed around

He swooped down with a jolly sound 

Circled each booming bud round and round

But at first sight, sweet harbor foun...

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Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum

The merchild's one with mercury. Father glances at the time nervously.

Stirred are the innards of the sea and nauseous...But the surface still.

Unnerved clouds are gathering round, whispering, awaiting anxiously.

Deceitfully sweet the air; intoxicating and spellbinding like the Devil's Trill!

 

Stirred are the innards of the sea and nauseous... But the surface still.

A heaving ch...

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The Madman and The Lunatic

When the madman and the lunatic met in a formal feast

They spoke of logic and the frequencies of the moon

"I will conquer the world" said the lunatic "fairly soon!"

"Without a doubt, but be warned" my suave blue-blooded beast

 

 

"You will scorch the Earth and crush its people in vain,

The order is singular; even though the moon succeeds

The Great King Sun shall always hold...

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Wake Up And Smell Reality

When the hibernation of denial ends and thoughts breaks loose

and all of your senses and your instincts slowly awaken

tell the man who's tending bar in your subconsiouss

to serve your grey matter stirred, not shaken.

 

 

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The Summer of my Dismay (Volume 27)

Granite are the waters of the earth, the sands of time

                        blazed to charcoal

blurred with the grime of the millions; only a dime

                           per redeemed soul!

Lukewarm the tears filling the sewers of a subconciouss 

                              that just awoke

Steadily the manicured hand wields a plastic holy cross 

                       ...

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Mirror Says

Lately my mirror

has been asking questions

I pretend not to hear her

But she's not like most reflections

She threatened to stop speaking to me

she said that she will leave

She spoke of "doom" in

an eerie voice that made my chest heave

she said:

 

"It's time for you to hear me!

Hear me! Hear me!

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me at all?

Are you even listenin...

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Ring Around The Poison Ivy

Ring around the daffodil 

All the gods have fallen ill

One by one

The forts burned down!

 

Ring around the asphodel 

Cheaters do not kiss and tell

Wrinkle, Wrinkle

Stars no longer shine and twinkle!

 

Ring around the daisy

Standards growing hazy

Foul Words, Foul Words

Hearts break too!

 

Ring around the poison ivy

Sip "The Lie" from Monday to Friday

...

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nursery rhyme

Rage, rage, rage!

Ruthless rivals ramble raw rubbish; raving, ranting, rotting. Rage rage rage!

Anonymous, apathetic anguished alone; awaiting answers, Rage rage rage!

Gleeful, glorified greedy geniuses generating glad-gospels, Rage rage rage!

Evil egomaniacs' endless embellished epics echo eternally, Rage rage rage!

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Acrosticexperimental poetry

Funny, Funny

Funny, funny! How funny, so very funny that it makes me sick!

that the sheep's death-rattle should go down in history as "vicious roar"

that the Mame that's to blame keeps mum while her blood is being sucked by The Tick

that the wrongdoer has a carte blanche to laugh and jump and skip and soar!

Isn't it funny? How funny, so funny, very funny, funny; don't you find? The deceit!

That ...

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Beast in Pain

There is a feral beast trapped inside of me that suffers

She weeps and roars and pounds hard on her dungeon's door 

A smothering embrace; noone cares to accept the love She offers

Her pathos and tumult within have force enough to start a war

And though I have her well contained, claws trimmed and all;

while I have Her locked away, I even had Her put in chains...

I can still hear ...

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Starchild's Spell

Oh sweet Starchild, how did you get the whole wide world under your stunning spell?

However did you manage to get the universe enthralled inside your infantile little grip?

Oh, you scralet bud of rose and first fig of the poetess and of the summer's early belle!

Oh how you better all the ugly atrociousness of life, that lovely is even your thorns' prick!

For you the the pens of scribbl...

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Thank You Mother

But of all the lies you ever told me 

the happy ending 

of the fairytale of us was the sweetest!

 

And of all the lessons you ever gave me 

The one not put in spoken words

I made into written law and abide by every day.

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Father Thank You

But of all the things you gave me

our good name 

has been the heaviest to carry...

 

And of all the things you took away 

fear 

was the one burden I never had to!

 

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Meaning Lost

Among the myriads of nice words in existence 

The tasty, the lavish, the flattering, wooing and coy

I search for one that will make some difference

A truth that won't serve as anyone's plaything or toy

 

I always try to fall asleep right before midnight 

Lest I get caught awake when Time changes hands

With but old tricks like "Light makes night bright!"

My mind encircles th...

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Us and Them

- "Sin" is a fearsome word, shameful, effective and frightening.

  "Crime" is only good for bad poets, good lawyers and judges.

  And a child's protest is such a typical and unimportant thing

  It's as common as a sorrowful letter's tear and ink smudges.

  An infant's cry is natural and anticipated. No reason for alarm.

  And "course of life" we casually name the old man's demise.

...

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Before Life Begins

Come find me in the dark, before life begins

Where I stand tall and unafraid

Where I dwell frustrated yet elated

The darkness where I was born into

The darkness that I was meant for

The darkness where I come from

And where I am to emerge from...

The darkness you're keeping inside...

 

Come find me in the birthplace of raw ideas

Where we will spend ages shapeless, hove...

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Biblical Joke

Old Noah was a good and pious fella,

Too bad he did not own an umbrella!

instead he had to build an arc; oh the terror!

and all that due to a slight grammatical error.

 

He wished to proclaim his faith- this humble bloke-

in every way known; but aramaic was all he spoke!

So he decided to hire a tutor of the English tongue,

who could correct and teach him right from wrong.

...

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It's True

I shall shake off the stench of death, oh, so stale and dull

I shall, I shall.

 

I will so engage in all that's good, in all that's just and real

I will, I will.

 

I do so cherish all;  and I do love you, see you, hear you.

I do, I do.

 

I shall shake off the stench of death,oh so stale and dull

I shall fight Him till my last breath before I join His thrall

I will ...

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Last Letter (Epigram #2)

If now's the last hour I tread above the soil

Read this as I lay and bleed

"From womb to tomb, in peace and in turmoil,

I'm yours and yours indeed."

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Before I Go (Epigram #1)

Should this be my last night on earth

I shall say this with glee

From womb to tomb, from birth to death

I'm yours and yours I'll be.

 

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The Penultimate Chapter

And so, they stole her from her bed at night

and brought her to her knees before the hunter. 

She felt the cold blade on her; blindfolded tight

and laughed at the edge to make it blunter!

 

He dropped his crooked dagger and he sighed.

"I suppose the ending can wait for another day..."

He slit the silk in two; she opened her eyes wide!

"It's brighter than I fancy, but I love...

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Maturity

It is the many years passed that cause a man to age

it's not the minutes' quantity

but it's the moments' quality

that make the man a sage.

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Girl's Letter to Shakespeare

Let me to the marriage of untrue, uncompromising minds admit some perks; just for the sake of the argument!

Love may still be love even if it alters when it alteration finds

even if it,  for a moment,  bends. Remover may remove me from your heart but remove my love from mine cannot!

Oh yes, it is a sudden flash that comes and goes!

It is an ominously flickering orb; it is the drifting ...

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Will

An irol will

Is as hard as steel

While the eye may cowar

The heart shall dare 

to seize the hour,

to fight, to bear.

 

A sharpened wit

Is as precious as wheat

And a conscience at peace

and free of regrets

like a mother's kiss

on the quivering cheek

of a child that's weak

and frets.

 

 

 

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Dread of the Dream

I dread the sight of noble aspirations galloping away

I shiver at the mere thought of a life empty of hope

I fear the coming of the winter, the dying of the day. 

But the thing that scares me more than tied rope:

would be to reach the finish line too drained to keep the fire lit.

would be to win the war in vain only to die weary, spent and beat.

 

So...

 

If one day you ...

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Note with Note

Thus

sacred history transpired 

Once upon a time, ages ago

The jolly whistling humming tune-bird

flew over to the hastily scribbled timid note-bud.

He fluttered around her in circles and chirped and wooed her! He sung

a crimson ribbon to life and tied it around her neck and cooed and purred!

And Her, the little blue note kissed the sound with her indigo-blue, ink-drenched

l...

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Rite of Passage

Half-dead, wrapped and sealed in a dusty cocoon 

Half-alive, I can feel my senses slowly awakening 

And I hearken the wide world outside beckoning 

It looks as if I am to hatch and break out soon

I will squint a bit in shock to the incandescent sun,

stretch my sore muscles and my brand new wings,

then I'll come find you my doted love, my only one!

Coyly I'll whisper to you all...

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To Forgive Oneself

I ask this of you: Do not forgive me just yet

You see I'm not quite ready to be pardoned

Spare me time to grieve over my moral debt

For only then can one's guilt be abandoned.

 

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Quintessential

The only thing

I did that mattered at all

in this wretched life

was that time

I held you in my arms!

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Bleak Era

Lifeless, unyielding stone and granite trees

Upon a concrete earth that scrapes the heel

Slim stalks of wheat not rustling in the breeze

Half-withered blossoms lacking basic will for thrill

 

Mundane affairs of indifference, vanity and love

Crawling numb, like serpents, bloody on jagged soil

Nothing but pyre, lead and water gathering above

And Us, just empty shells enthrall...

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A Thorn In Joy

Friends and paramours come and go

foes and nemeses stay with you for life

Misery and Joy sit - identical- in a row

ready to take turns; as do Agape and Strife.

 

And I have lost paramours and friends

And my life's run by nemeses and foes

And Joy and Misery always hold hands

And the thorn grows on the stem of the rose.

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Girl's Letter To The Beatle

I am not that broken fledgling 

you once knew to be weak and little

You helped heal my broken wing

with your lullaby, sweet Beatle!

 

My eyes are no more sunken

I have arisen, I am free at last

I don't wander around drunken

I have let go of my painful past

 

I'm not that wounded blackbird,

you once sang about, sweet bard

I am greatful for you every word.

"Sta...

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In a Dream

In a dream, Clotho destined me to spend my life in a depressing white fluorescent office

Lachesis laughed and said "Til you weave your own death garment you're just a novice!"

Atropos kissed my forehead and tucked me lovingly in my cold, slippery, fateful bedsheets 

and then She hung a pair of golden scissors on my bedroom wall right next to my idle wits. 

 

So I snuck away, dragged...

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Starchild

I make this wish for you, starchild, oh daughter of Tempest and Thunder!

May your cradle faintly rock-a-bye even in the wildest, most vicious winds!

May the waters;  oceans, rivers and seas, before you, split asunder.

May the heavens shine on you, may you grow a set of wings

and may you spread them and surely take to the skies and soar!

May every soft snow flake clad your dainty toe...

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The Wonder of Us

The paramount half of the wonder of "Us"

is that, larger than life, "U"

of you!

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Secret Truth

Lightly the young girl dances

around a bonfire; proud of her prized wisdom

While the old man humbly weeps

over all the things unknown; ever, now and hence.

 

Surely the innocent fawn prances

haughty and ignorant of the looming doom

as the hollow-eyed, huntsman peeps

through the dense foliage of iron-wrought prudence.

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Love Song

Lonesome lovers loom laments; longing lost love; lo lust!

Odes of ordinary ordeals; of orchid opalescent oases,

Velveteen verses voicing veiled voids; veritably vast...

Eternally embroidering elated, entrancing embraces!

 

Sirens serenade sweet songs; sinner succumbs.

Obedient, omicompetent Odysseus overcomes.

Nostalgic noblemen never needed nymphs’ nests.

"Graciously go gr...

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Song

Sirens serenade sweet songs, sinner succumbs

Obedient omicompetent Odysseus overcomes.

Nostalgic noblemen never needed nymphs’ nests

"Graciously go grounding gatecrashing guests!"

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Love

Lonesome lovers loom laments; longing lost love, lust

Odes of ordinary ordeals; orchid opalescent oases

Velveteen verses voicing veiled voids; veritably vast

Eternally embroidering elated, entrancing embraces!

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Wake me up at Dream O'Clock

The day the little fledgling starts mentoring the hawk

The night the Earth is sent orbitting around the Moon

If some time soon the lame and crippled stand up and walk

and I see the fierce and tough smell flowers and swoon

When we start blessing the dead to rest in turmoil and not in peace

and life commences with death under a sun that is blue

If Swan Lake is ever performed in a p...

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Listen well into the Night

The throes of broken lovers

unfold before the light

only when it's dark;  late, late, late at night!

 

Luminous orbs weep

pearlescent tears drip.

Ink on pargmen drops; indigo steeped, deep.

 

Listen well into the night

the myriads of wrenched souls moan

sax and fiddles serenading: "You are not alone!"

 

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The Inglorious End

And the angel kept his wings

And the paramour returned 

to his trite, ignoble things

Though the flesh still yearned

that, then, was the inglorious end.

 

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Things That Look Alike

Things that look alike

 

Volume 1: "Bright and Innocent!"

 

The cordial smile of a supposed benefactor 

The caresses of a new unexplored lover

Freshly cooked up ideas, right out of a young passionate mind; not very well though out

And the hope in the words of the confident orator

and the promises of the formidable father

and his proud posture and big gestures

and the ...

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Resist

Hold on with the claws of your heart

The fight has yet to be fought 

The war has yet to start

Nobody asked us if we'd like to enlist!

But the knaves still seek to be bought

Resist! Resist!

 

Paint with the colors of your eyes

A battle-field of charcoal and aquamarine 

Search for mine within the crowds of your allies

Remember! It's on the prices of the stakes that you ...

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Keep it Close

This is for all the days

that you wake up feeling lesser.

This is for all the ways

that the order of the world has forced you to say "Yes, sir."

and feign a smile and take a bow.

For every time you have to clench your teeth

swallow your pride, crease your brow

this is the only thing I can leave you with.

For all the dull afternoons

and for all the lonesome nights.

For...

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Wrongdoer

If there is ever held a trial in a court of justice 

To punish the one who stabbed humanity in the eye,

don't go looking for any monster of extraordinary malice. 

Look my way, for the hideous wrongdoer is I.

 

Rip the clothes off my back and kick me down

Spit in my eye and then hand me the flog,

Because I alone deserve to wear the crown

of the cowardly, hypocritical, whimpe...

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GR (In the South)

GR (In the South)

(revised version)

 

In the realm of vineyards and olive trees 

In the citadel of hot humid nights

We wasted away dancing in the breeze 

Counting pointlessly the stellar lights.

 

The foliage urged us in clandestine meetings 

we leaned back and let go of our innocence.

Between childish scribblings and philosophic readings,

entranced by the fragrant...

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It's Always Raining on Lonely Sreet

Pins and needles piercing air through,

Luminous, lonely light

dark, damp, dancing in the dead of night.

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Shadows and Shades

The shadows of fathers are nasty things

a girl is born in thrall; 

Train for the live-chess arena and lure diamond rings

how glamor and grandeurs are dull;

When she closes her eyes she dreams of the sun

She shall claim a second chance through her son.

 

The shades of mothers are tricky things

a boy grows chasing after it;

That some day she will spread her angelic wings

...

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Fall for me Angel...

Tenderly like the paramour 

from heaven; in love

the angel falls.

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The Right Thing To Do

I've studied the science of being wrong,

I'll say it's rather simple a paradigm:

You just have to remember to nod along

And let people be right all the time.

 

Most opportune a getaway in a commotion!

You simply forfeit the right to your own view!

Sign up to be the littlest fish in the ocean.

Get eaten first, it's easy. Ends quickly too!

 

Being perpetually wrong is "...

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Peace

A whirlpool of chaos, monsoon...

slip inside the pupil of the eye and find 

peace in solitude.

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Prophecy

Before she closed the door to my back

my mother said: "Be wary my child,

Those who are worthy to make their own luck

know to steer clear from what inside runs wild."

 

I took her words and kissed her forhead

and went on to my well-charted way

I found that a clear safe path lay ahead

I took it and vowed never to stray.

 

I advanced purposefully towards what

upon my ...

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The Queen of Mundane!

I don't like the ways of my arid tongue

I don't like the stiff ways of my pen

I've been trying to sing what's already been sung

And I'm starting to lose my zen.

 

It feels like my head is made of bricks

Mould is working its way inside,

I'm in permanent stupor and all fresh out of tricks,

mouth agape and eyes open wide!

 

I hold my reading books upside-down

I write ...

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Mother Goose Puts Her Foot Down

Leave little songbird, go-

-off of my ledge!

or I'll shut the window,

or I'll burn down your perch.

 

Your cloying chirping keeps

my doted children from slumber

she fusses and weeps

he is always encumbered.

 

You have lost the flair to lull 

only cause ennui and grief

your songs have grown dull

they no longer bring relief.

 

The tales that you tweet

...

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