Best Torched Poems

I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
And I dreamed my lost love...

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The night like clouded charcoal scorched,
A sea of trees with starlight torched.
A night where laws are sound asleep,
Anarchic prayers running deep.

Alone I hear the wretched...

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l.
Opening the closet of narra doors, I sweep through
organza skirts and  gemmed ringlets; my hair
ruffling aimlessly upon scalloped kerchiefs
smelling decade - old hyacinth, Mom’s...

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The Sun Rises- -The Moon Sets 


Think of life, the cycle of 
How radiation can support life, enough heat to
Ensure a stable self sustaining system.

Something...

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In a land torn by evils cruel hands
where innocence once thrived in golden sand
echoes now haunt barren torched lands
of children lost, tears fall in graves...

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Love is blind, deaf, dumb and stupid.
I blame it all on the imp called Cupid.
No warning shot fired over my head
His arrow struck and brought...

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You look at me... with disgust in your eyes
At all of the flaws.. I can no longer hide
And I know in your heart... you want...

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Too long spent in deep shadows 
prevented my eyes from seeing
why the lights were so dimmed 
why I had the need for freeing

Verses written by...

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The see-saw backsides of obesity traverse across the promenade
  Led by bustling torpedo breasts thrusting through the hustling throng;
Past tarnished chromium espresso bars, burger...

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It is for sure, not springtime here
Shorter days now how bare His trees.
And looking back draws eyes to tear
For waste and loss of all my...

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head heavy
in hands
squeezing pounding temples

trapped in a trance
seated in this place
of emptiness and despair

the place that has welcomed
all of my fears and fractures

my heart pounds...

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III

But, of course, I had no dizzying towers                 ...

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I weave through blazing flames
Fanning my scorching heart

Spinning sparks attempt to tame 
Not even a gram of pain subsides 

All that is magical gone -...

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lightning, powerful
blue, quick-silvered, the lands
amber-torched, so quick


      August 20, 2020
         7pm PST


Remembering Northern California that still burns...


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