Shape Shifting Soul
...The universal, eternal Atman, the endless soul
Resides in me as my breath, and makes me a single whole.
As the breath of the almighty, it is born without sin.
It drives, as a life changer, the phy...
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Categories:
broaching, body, death, life, world,
Form: Rhyme
What Else Can Be Said
...with eyes averted in graceful melancholy
what joy could be left not in belief
in new territory aweless with stale miracle
pond tossed stone rings ripple and die
obstinate and prolonged no going b...
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Categories:
broaching, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
First Born - Redux
...What of those dreams that in our mind
Seek distant hopes and in them find
That love and life may be combined
Awakening, our thoughts commence
Become aware in sweet suspense
Of all that new lif...
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Categories:
broaching, baby, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Operation Money Jump
...Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman, anarchist airborne,
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase...
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Categories:
broaching, america, history, mystery,
Form: Epic
Kaleidoscope of Butterflies
...butterflies form a kaleidoscope of myths
boon or bad luck, depends on your own pick
their metamorphosis from crawlers to flyers
may be magical; each stage giving us a trick.
caterpillars seem...
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Categories:
broaching, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
The Newburghers
...The Newburghers
(A Jazz Talk in Six Parts -
Dawn - Introduction
Waking - Enter Von Newburgh
Genesis - The Development
Career - The New World
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Categories:
broaching, change, cool, dream, future,
Form: Free verse
Around the Maypole
...Spring bows to thrill of cayenne summer,
dreams spiced in youthful glow come May.
Bright ribbons wake my bare feet’s slumber.
Spring bows to thrill of cayenne summer!
Rainbows pleat danc...
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Categories:
broaching, color, may, seasons, youth,
Form: Triolet
Stardust In Her Eyes
...She sees me as a lustrous light of celestial origin
a blazing-blast, blistering-fast, free-flight beam
to thrill the sky's wide-eyed gaze
this little bright eyed boisterous boy
that spins and...
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Categories:
broaching, love,
Form: Free verse
Free Cee Adelaide Required Aid
...ADELAIDE REQUIRED AID
Adelaide adored me
Ingrid ignored me
Adelaide and I made quite an odd pair
Yet Ingrid had silver silken threads instead of hair
Looking up to a cloud laden sky I praye...
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Categories:
broaching, angst, me, me, silver,
Form: Double Dactyl
Victim
...My love, annihilation of consign
that thee, in aptitude, would frown on mine.
While adaptation vaguely draws the line,
that narrow thrust so vandalizing time.
Lean softly, thee contingent natu...
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Categories:
broaching, passion,
Form: Verse