Best Apertures Poems

Was professor of astronomy, ah those heady days
    Studied fields in cosmology, including solar rays
 Observed galaxies all my life, seeking exotic...

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Being Your Eyes for Swell 2007
Swell: Currumbin Sculpture Festival
 
For Fred
Picture us arm in arm, strolling,
the crunch of sand underfoot,
the scent of sea air, the...

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Who can know the mysterious 
ways of the clouds? 
They travel in white whipped masses
and gather like solemn pinnacles 
looking upwards in reverent penitence. 

Silent...

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As wisdom falls through apertures of the sky
forever evanescent in nature passing us by

We are told too frequently to know our place
or there'll be consequences...

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 You can travel the four thousand miles of the Nile
to its source and never find it.
You can climb the five highest peaks of the...

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Putrid pus proliferates/purposely preventing 
progression's passionate plea -
stifled cries...

Always ascending...and, assiduously avoiding 
any acrimonious amounts accrued along apathetic
apertures..."Still I Rise!"

Incessantly fighting the urge to just...

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Unquotable quotes: Fat People – XXIX

(I know this piece sounds mean and cruel but as every single parent must have experienced, this is also the...

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As winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my...

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Alpha

To live beyond death
we must know life beyond honor and disgrace.

Not "must" in the injunctive sense of "thou shalt"
but a more dusty must of logical...

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The Magical Epiphany of an Old Rusted Can

whilst out hiking one day in a countryside area
that was quite desolate and remote from any nearby
city, I...

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There is something essentially as beautiful 
As the majestic beauty of lustrous rays 
Of sunshine peeking through the split
Of a curtain drawn shut

Oh, how it...

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Where is this peaceful utopia of infinite wonder
 I've heard much about? I've followed the call of echoes,
and I've searched far and long into the...

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The  breathless seas expire across the shore 
as if still more to dramatize decay, 
as if the spirit realm were threatening; 
unseen the children...

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Effervescent dreams
Flow down upon mother’s plate
Chilled by destined fall 
A time always remembered
Appearing third time of year

Season of life fades
Human apertures grow weak
Though, knowledge is...

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Solitary Moments

Close your eyes and lose yourself, in sweet serenity,
Let your mind’s eye, see things, as you wish they would be.
Find a place of calm,...

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