The Journey Within
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“The Path towards REMEMBERING is not for the weak. It is priceless. Move inwards, without faltering & know that you are held.” Poet
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journey within is strewn ...
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Categories:
crags, allusion, change, character, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Iron Veils in Shadowy Vales
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From the crag I see the path
descend into the valley
shrouded in the shadows of
doubt, uncertainty, and fear of failure.
I see a white pillar cast in regret's cold salt-stone,
from which there...
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Categories:
crags, angst, dedication, fear,
Form: Free verse
A Wilderness of Mirrors
...Apparitions behind every mottled rock.
Shaded countenance surreptitious like shadows.
Fractured slivers and fragments boast -
On wall, ceiling and floor.
Splattered drop cloth - reflective dread....
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Categories:
crags, angst, introspection, metaphor,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Pablo Neruda: English translation of 'Machu Picchu'
...The Heights of Machu Picchu, Canto VIII
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch
Ascend with me, my American love!
Let’s kiss these mysterious stones together!
The Urubamba’s torren...
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Categories:
crags, america, earth, kiss, life,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of Chains A Poem on Colonization in Malaysia
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Once, the rivers ran free and bold,
Through emerald lands, rich with gold.
Mountains whispered to the sky,
Under the watchful, sovereign eye.
Then came ships with foreign flags,
Tongues of s...
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Categories:
crags, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Our Natural State
..."free from conditioned belief
no agenda on our shelf
vibrant as the light of Self
life flows on all by itself”
- Unseeking Seeker
All I wish is to be my genuine self
Fre...
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Categories:
crags, happy, identity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Space of Dreams
...(“Dark Pool of Light Nebula”, 2011, original oil)
The Space of Dreams
The space of dreams is a mysterious place.
Where exactly is it? Some would quickly say
Only within the neural nets...
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Categories:
crags, dream, mystery,
Form: Narrative
I'll follow you
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The train fled through forlorn forests
Emerging on the stormy steppes
It crossed the raging ravine waters
Up the rugged crags it crept.
I was on that midnight journey
Seeking you to join y...
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Categories:
crags, conflict, courage, evil, faith,
Form: Lyric
Mountain Glory
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Listen to the joy, the melody… silence,
peaceful as the forest’s streams,
Reassuring the soul of every good thing.
Listen to the melancholy, worthy of a tear
Falling in the shadows of a dre...
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Categories:
crags, appreciation, mountains,
Form: Ode
My Restless Spirit
...My sorrowful spirit rose high above the rainbow,
higher yet, until it reached the snowy peaks
of the ragged mountain. It was cold there,
though above the severe sun blazed hard.
Here and there...
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Categories:
crags, nature,
Form: Free verse
Lake District High
...In my New York suburb, I’m mildly fond
Of Helvellyn Road, and Gracemere pond
But the original Helvellyn called...
Ravenglass too, even the name enthralled.
Of Lake poets, I eagerly read
And I ...
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Categories:
crags, beauty, mountains, nature,
Form: Lyric
Old West Crush
...brilliance bona fide in redolent skies
keen red submerging, clementine twilight
sunflowers show-offs of the waning sun
wedged within burnt orange escarpments
swifts of volcanic horizon in desert ...
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Categories:
crags, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Three Sister Winds
...Three sister winds,
Ephemeral progeny,
Spawned by the sun's relentless
But passionless heat,
And the earth's inexorable
Grinding rotation:
Sirocco dances across the vast emptiness of the...
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Categories:
crags, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
A Paradox of Time Reborn
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The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life bu...
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Categories:
crags, allegory, creation, death, destiny,
Form: Blank verse
The Winter
...Smiles and blooms have crawled away in haste;
Cool sweetness and incense of the prime
Have receded into the pothole of time
With the irritant summer and the rainy waste ;
Winter is an epitome of ...
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Categories:
crags, nature, seasons,
Form: Lyric
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