Best Specked Poems

Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
gravel birth cords sinuous 
sensing the ground   seeking the sun
crossroads of life and death and rebirth;
where mortals breathe and grieve...

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Enroling  you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally -  blindfold humility
Rejected by those mocking moths
and jealously believing left the key

Both found our grace on bended knees
..left there dangling from...

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In the middle ages
these roughed and scuffed decades
between newborn crocus snow-melt-nursed and
dried hydrangea blooms sepia-skinned and papery thin
I earned the right to wear sapphires
and burn my mademoiselle mistakes with wisdom-fires

it took me a while to grow into my autumn season
—the autumn side of September
hair once...

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Winter Wildflower

A billion snowflakes do collect upon a wasteland of neglect
The sky frigid no sun to reflect appears a dot lonely specked
A tear does fall melting snow as the speck staggers to grow
A wildflower starts to sough as the winter winds seek to blow
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Amidst frozen...

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Imagine a black velvet curtain
Pinholed to allow specked light
Now imagine that same curtain
Endlessly stretching out of sight
And there you have the immense
Velvet blackness of outer space
In which I hang and float seeing
That speckled velvet any way I face
I suppose I am that lucky man
To know...

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There's a swing that is hung from a long oaken tree,
By a string where the young have a longing to be.

Where they fly to the sky, ever higher they go,
Till they cry, "Not so high! I shall die, don't you know?"

And they tread through the...

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Fearless flames licking the night
as the glow flickers fire in their eyes
ah the tales round campfires light
of Sasquatch shadows and cougars demise

When sleepily those embers to ash burn down
like marshmallows slipping to the ground
lanterns cast their final shadows
In exchange for adventures awaiting tomorrow

A final gaze...

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 couplets 

Surveying green, leaves me somewhat unfazed;
‘til spring leaves appear and my eyebrows raise.

Riddle, ma riddle, ma riddle me green,
how many shades of green can be seen?

There’s teal and pine, and most common - chartreuse.
Some leaves are olive, the evergreen’s spruce.

What of mint and...

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Feet throb – and blisters swelling –
And specked blood – on leather soles confirm 
A sandaled trek beside the Thames –
Surely my highest and measureless Most –
With God and the Devil – drinking the Fullness – laugh –
And all directions people swarm –
And myriad step...

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The wind it seems is staying on the ocean whipping up the sea
The waves tumbling to a smart chop on a shelly  sea urchin shore 
As there is no wind from the mainland but coming from the oceans side.
Trails of fresh green seagrass are...

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I wake up to a deserted town
"Where are the people?"
I ask myself aloud.
"Gone." answers a voice.
But no one's here...
but me.

Broken glass litters the street, 
a Kristallnacht in the making.
Houses, half gone and half standing,
specked the dirt road.

I lay, pinned to the ground by a monstrous...

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Memories linger melancholy
as I approach the bridge 
to the Gardens de Sol.

                                 ...

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The lights at night
have much to say
a different story
than the day

They shine and glisten
here and there
in coolness of
the evening air

The street lamps glow
to light the way
as flashing neon
colors play

White ones come
and red ones go
as tiny cars
drive to and fro

Greens and yellows
reds and blues
from different houses
many...

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I plunged headfirst, my silly stilted pride


          The instant I beheld your Cheshire smile


                    And dancing in...

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Twilight sparkled defying its usual gravity,
Sun followed in full riot,
Blue yonder oozed ozone,
making for full soulful breaths,
The slumbering baby in cradle,
forgot about the feed,
as he enjoyed the cool breeze,
flowing everywhere and all along,
it was so good that he wanted to sleep on,
all those walking were...

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