Best Percolates Poems

Sometimes thirty years
feels like a long time
When you’re an old soul
and the hours and minutes
have taken their toll

But there are songs to write
and words to weigh
messages to impart
and things to say

So another song percolates
Flows out onto the table
You sigh deeply 
and for a moment feel...

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A tent of brightly coloured wool 
Along an effervescent pool
Filled with deliciously cool streams
This would last a week and I would surely weep
For in my sorrows, I made haste 

Beneath a bleak sky adorned with clouds of thought 
Menacing a downpour of grief
I left the...

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A few hot-orange embers burn low in the fire pit.
Morning has sprung, evident only
In the vague concrete illumination
	of an overcast sky.
Scattered twigs and last night's remaining logs
Are tossed upon the coals,
With a few shivering breathes of dank 
October air to give life to flames.
Frost has...

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A bush lark in the Greenwood forest sings.
She sings all day long near the mountain springs.
Is she trilling in notes so plaintive of her missing mate?
Unleashing her heart of its doleful weight?
	
Or easing the pangs of a heart that starves
For a soul mate yet to...

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Got my brand-new calendar;
It’s filled with empty squares.
With entries made, there’s not a chance
I’ll be caught unawares.

I mark down all important dates
So I can send a card.
When penciled in, in black and white,
It’s really not that hard.

Appointments, too, are written
So there’s no way I’ll forget;
And...

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“birds care not for whom they sing” - Silent One
 
The Gemini Garden stays close to mountain springs.
In this magic garden, countless flowers bloom and wither,
With pruned trees, shrubs and sprawling lawns,
And beds of geraniums in flaming red, pink and white.

On either side of the...

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Linux 
    - by Bob Atkinson

Linus had a vision
of that which percolates
upon the scene of tradition
giving wheat grain at the gate

to better the community
by effort of the hand of man
wherein we all accumulate
repayment for our plans

he sought that which one sees
in visions...

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Under the cover of light or darkness
music plays of the purest
of sounds.
Each note is different as it
forms within the air.
The music is created by something
that is mostly detested for its
ability to strike at the most
inconvenient moments; it is
the sound of rain.
It hits the dry ground,...

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What The Farmer Truly Lives For

I
Across the low hills misty meadows glow,
devilishly hiding gleaming rainbows.
Today earth shines true as yawning dawn wakes,
as from nights cold, Nature gives it quick shakes
releasing powers, from its nighttime breaks.

II
From his feather bed and cozy farm home
he rises, work to...

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Hot humid heatwave
Discomfort percolates long;
Sudden drenching rain

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Sexy curvy strides
Vibrant elegance catwalks;
Hungry eyes focus

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Two stray cats fighting
Furious body language here;
Small tigers draw blood

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Ancient atmosphere
Old tea house in the city;
Strange calligraphy

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Bus-stop commotion
Two drunken men in a brawl;
Tipsy foreign tongues

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Temple bells sounding
Distant chanting rituals heard;
Prayer for our times

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Late...

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Through my window pierce first spry rays of sun 
tingling energy hovers over me
like a coat waiting for a day of fun
effervescence tickles my skin with glee

Eyes shut tight I let myself be nudged by
a giggly infantry of mini faeries
aided by a mischievous butterfly
together keen...

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(Re tiny box-like homes lining the west side of
South Bundy Drive, north of Nebraska Street, in West LA)

The soiled feeling comes not
From the indignant paradise
Scurrying past their frontal lobes 
It arrived in silence
Borne of being first to the party
And the ensuing, deafening wars
With the partycrashers
With...

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HAIKU GLIMPSES #1


Busy corner
Clash of zigzag feet;
Small talk echoes

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Post Office crowd
Orderly queue;
Minds elsewhere

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Newspaper vendor
Overstock complaint;
Financial problem

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Outdoor gymnasium
Overgrown kids cluster;
Mental muscle

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Beach barbecue
Motley bunch mingle;
Strange faces 

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Holiday mood
Not much to do;
Mental vacation

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Seaside stroll
Small crabs scurry;
Monster feet stomp

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Listen now
Can you hear;
Mermaids singing

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Dawn light unfolds
Dust through sunlight;
Energy percolates

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Lonely songbird
Serenades...

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... to exist is to settle like dust
a thin film percolates, a pining gust
strips skin and static so long a crust
... atoms touch atoms, rust to rust
...

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Waiting time
Loiters long;
Tentative tact

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Unfinished
Block booking;
Time seeps away

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Hazy complaints
Ashy sky blurring;
Smoky air blots

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Drowsy notes
Morning haze floods;
Cranky moods

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Burning smog
Hazy indiscretions;
Madness percolates

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Sad and sorry
Same old story;
Sooty somehow

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Cash and carry
Wind-blown haze;
Free Gift galore

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Smog chokes
Haze-filled lungs;
People suffering

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Sumatra burns
Hazy concessions;
Groggy tensions

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Finger-pointing:
Tai-Chi blunders;
Culprits make money!

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Plunder
Blunder;
Thunder

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Leon Enriquez
24 October 2015
Singapore...

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