Best Unprotected Poems

Allow me to be disgusted at the jest
and your halfway happy surprise at the end result
of the missile timed precisely:

Did he just splatter?

And allow me...

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©1996 RICO LEFFANTA

THE 4TH GA-AN RISES FROM THE FLAMES IN AN APACHE RITUAL OLDER THAN RELIGIONS BROUGHT TO THE “New World” FROM THE “old world”—Apache...

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You have to know he is near, you have to know he is around
Perhaps sensing it in your fear or a feeling of being bound
You...

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'...the wind plays andantes
    of lost hopes and regrets.'
             ...

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These were my first five "Monday Monokus":

"Three Monokus walk into a bar"  posted 28 Sept 2020

don't challenge Death to a pillow fight  ...

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In the heart of the blackest abyss, down, 
Down, in fathoms deep crypt, where light
Does not penetrate, and the structured protective hauls,
Of men, are crushed...

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Synopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to...

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Strident howling I heard and feared it was my cat
Ran to the porch to find a ball of fluff at bat

A large hawk dive-bombing on...

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I hardly noticed the first tiny crack, 
through the deluge of tears I cried.
Perhaps too numb to feel the sting of pain
or the fissure exposing...

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When I gave you my safety, I had only you in mind.
I could protect you and defend with a love so refined.
 
You claim not...

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From the seed divided,
to exist in a sea,
sustaining,
nurturing, warming,
protecting,
what is delicate life.

Until thrust into the light
screaming in shock,
cold,
unprotected,
forced to inhale first
breath of life,
a new comforting...

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I am a diamond, a faceted gem
One thousand faces each flawed are them
Some hold the truth but most hold the lies
Hidden barely behind all my...

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Last night I slipped into an introspective dream
witness of a strange extracorporeal experience
the whole me deconstructed to its raw materials
Dead myself was found a bright...

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There was a time
      I was invisible, and
         empty, in naked truth
exposed,...

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Exposed and bare,
stripped and stark-

a body without a soul is nude...
an unclad essence in the dark.

Unvarnished and unsettled,
raw and unprotected-

me without you- defenseless...
an overt still...

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