Lights Embrace
...Splinters of unheld memory
Swirling in a tsunami of letters
and hidden shames
Chessboards with whites replaced with space
Creatures formed without a face
touch replacing taste
magic with wonder...
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Categories:
chessboards, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lights Embrace
...Splinters of unheld memory
Swirling in a tsunami of letters
and hidden shames
Chessboards with whites replaced with space
Creatures formed without a face
touch replacing taste
magic with wonder...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chessboards, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Trickbaby
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On the corner of Short con and Long play
sits the neighborhood ponies man
in his pickup van,
waiting to take parlay list deliveries
Feeling leisurely ... not wanting to bounce
on a Ca...
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Categories:
chessboards, cool, culture, identity, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
The Champion
...The Champion
Controlled by remote desires I trip the laurel fuse of longing ancestry
My Mom had been chosen to compete diving from the high platform of
Hitler’s mania for ‘Kraft’ ‘Freude’ livin...
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Categories:
chessboards, abuse, peace, political, war,
Form: Free verse
Pawns Brokers
...Pawns Brokers
“Grit is a better word or term”.
They have it – these “Grunts” - grit –
that sandpaper bearded coarseness
structure in the face of fallacy,
backbone to support the flaws
of th...
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Categories:
chessboards, military, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
After Dali
..."How clear can art be?" Salvador asked,
"when surrealism is the order-of-the-day,
the order of my dreams, and for sale
at the gallery down one block and over two."
"Persistence - persistence al...
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Categories:
chessboards, art, culture, visionary,
Form: Ekphrasis