Betoken Poems

The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie

...The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie

Like a humane huntress, she
(the anthropomorphized storm)
brought a spate of cool Autumn like
temperatures and gentle soothing rain
here within my ...

Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall

...Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall

After descent of eventide
luminescence of freshly fallen snow
still illuminates the terrestrial firma bright
even upon the onset of dusk,
...

Precipice

...
Rumi Quote "Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds."
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Betoken My Soul

...When it's me for you to get blind 
Ehat else you'd have to see in this era

Inhuman

I saw one as to be dead 
In front one blink of my eyes
What else even could be expected!

Sophistication
...

Manet Model

...large black
                eyes
dreamy&
            seductive
in potent simplicity

betoken

        distraction

eyez
a poetry
    ephemeral  detail
obscure
yet
revealed
           ...

Lay Down

.... for public domain

Set fire to our mothers' graves,
frenetic genetics is all the rave,
give "Yesterday" a parting wave,
reeling feelings now enslaved.

Exchange a useless past for "Now",
th...

Vows Broken Too Soon

...What a horrible ruin
Vows falsely spoken
Love's most terrible tune
Heart and vows broken
Vows broken too soon
Joy has escaped, stolen
A night's dark-dull moon
Love's most bitter token
Sad day...

Media

...Floating o'er smooth seas of unhampered trust,
The datelines became all important, a must,
The professional ethic is passed as nuisance,
In the 90’s no one cared to check, or ever since.

Broadc...

Study In Form I

...Heavily broken our love is but a token,
from words left unspoken, you ruin me.
Your vow betoken my soul is now oaken,
as I'm left heartbroken, you don't seem to see.

My world has gone gray with...

Atlanta

.... for public domain

Atlanta! Atlanta!

People laid out in the street,
dying, diseased, and broken,
poets in old Atlanta
found few words betoken
what none would read out loud.

Scattered in...

Rhoda and Phil-A Sad Goodbye

...
Florid hues of soft petaled flowers
cast satin rose splashes of pastel colors
that move within the cool morning shade,
as the brilliance of the smiling sun reflects
its warm beams ...

Poems De Novo

...Again, afresh, with each new sunlight ray
Yet again/once more, over 'n over I pray
I think and write all long day
Ahhh!.. another encore into a universe
Of poetic chance to identify with verse

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My Basket

...As i begin the journey once again
I picked someone after the bloody rain
Ambiguous treated me with disdain
releasing wounds from diagram of pain

The frailty i saw is compared to feign
Please b...

Crimson Heart Pendant

...Crimson heart pendant
Betoken of a promise
Shattered in the floor
As swain boat sunked in the sea
Breaking ties of true love bond













4-5-2016...

Rose Corsage and Boutonniere

...Red roses wristlet
Orange roses boutonniere
As betoken of 
The countryside espousal 
Of two souls becoming one












3-11-2016...

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