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shaping cookies. . . . 
I form Christmas lyrics
with frosting smeared lips


Written originally For Cyndi MacMillan's
CREATIVITY-- WRITE A MODERN HAIKU Poetry Contest...

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(Unrhymed Tercets followed by 9-line stanzas.
Co-written with someone close to my heart) 


Morning Tulips opening petals shaping sounds
Dancing a slow ballade to your rising melody
With burning passion entering my desire 

Warm drinking golden thoughts
Tasting one beautiful wine
A slender soft kiss dragging away clouds
The amazing beauty...

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COLLEGE STUDENTS SHAPING MY WINGS



"She did this" and "She tore my paper, I’m red mad!" 
"Miss, tell her to quit copying my lines!" 
Every nail of rampage was tolerable, 
as bright awakenings made semesters less tough. 

They joined clubs and played a sneaky gang war...

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It eats me up inside.
Maybe you don't get it 
maybe you're failing to accept 
it,
But it's certain that it's hurting 
and eating up my pride-
While guilt plays it part
While it all trembles before the 
eyes soaked-
Reminiscent of your pain.
I can never win
Nor can I move forward
Paths...

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They are sinking
In the multiplication tables
While growing older
In a lack of emotional resources...
The differences
Are unnoticeable
In mirrors...
These
They are nailed
To loneliness.
The seasons
Are unnoticeable in their hearts...
The years
Rotting
In their eyes
To them...
The revolution
Is not the result
Of the last few minutes
In their alphabet
There is a path
To curses.

by Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI
Traduit...

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As in dense mist I walk entranced in pace slow,
tracing your footprints my heart beats return,
out of sight I shape in me your ornate shadow.

When from the horizon northern winds blow,
chilled clouds spread dark shroud on the sun,
as in dense mist I walk entranced in...

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The Shaping Tools 
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You
Are more
Important than
Weak words express.
If these simple lines convey anything,
Let it be that regardless of reason,
You complete me.
Dark with light,
Fire, air.
Whole....

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I can build a new personality, like a sculptor shaping the clay of life,
But I feel the gaze of who I once was, watching me from the shadow of memories,
I try to bury her, but my hands weaken when digging deep into the past,
And I...

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What can we do,
    A distant few
         Who stand for peace, not war.?

How do I stop fighting, violence, suffering and pain?

Emphasize love, connection, and cross-cultural affection.

    Look down from above,
 ...

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Nothing but darkness fills the air,
hiding shapes upon the sea.
Waves crash harshly
on the unsuspecting shore,
appearing suddenly out of the blackness,
ripping the sand savagely
from its resting place.
The wave carries it off to a foreign beach
and dumps it there,
until it is once again
thrown about by a wave....

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My imagination shaping you
As the work of great god
And my artistic heart
Want to convert you in great art
Believe on me I am surprise
By the tale of your fairy eye
As like the seven wonder of the world
Your beauty work as earth surprise
I am not only a...

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As darkness of night shrouds daylight,
we have benefit of hindsight;
moments of quiet reflection,
for our consciousness correction,
reviewed thus from the lens of love,
of who we embraced or did shove,
be it in thought, word or in deed,
seeds we planted, in time will breed,
for we’re empowered to create,
shaping...

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trapped,
safeguarded,
each appendage
secured in amber,
some Jurassic specimen
created for your gaze

you regard me
with a quizzical eye,
comb your notes carefully 
for collected data
on my anomalies

how to straighten this limb,
shape this abdomen,
bend this thorax
to fashion the perfect
exemplar of your
scientific prowess

no manufactured artifice
will satisfy you
you deftly maneuver
and rearrange,
cut and reassemble,
manipulating...

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