Memory Didactic Poems

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak...

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intuitive
  memory
a sense
   of
      form
in
my
  own image
expressed
thru
   colour
immobility
of
   presence

detaiiste
   reflective
...

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I am the spirit,
That lives in the hearts of those,
Who still see value in keeping strong communities
Where good deeds are never spoken of,
As they are...

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be we in duality
or in singularity 
essence of aliveness
requires a vibration
renewing itself within itself
or what we call consciousness 

the screen of space-time 
is the stage...

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Domestic interiors
falling pearls
 of  splendour
the everday
in
quiet,calm
  still snapshots
of life
hints of the unsaid
Indelible
   seared deep
in memory
 Unsolved enigmas
conjecture preserved
in paint
Silent sounds
echo
& stir
  with familiarity
the moments of interplay
 vivant
  intimate
intricate details
 begin  the beguine
  joys outflows
 perfection
  preserves the serene
 mirrors the sublime
with emphasis
 &     suggestion

stresses
       of the fanciful
&the significant
with
             implications
  &illusions...

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Still life  nature mortista

an immersive
  conception
enveloped &
surrounded
with
imagery
of the commonplace

a
disguised symbolism
in a cloak
        of
   interpretations
appearances
of
time
  standing
still
arrested
   moments
revealed
by
  stimulations
of
the mind


illuminations
of
past
  yesterdays
becoming
 todays
postponed
  memory
&
  lives
again

a
momento
mori
in hypereality
of
sentient
touchstones
in
memorials
  of perception

   aesthetic
 sublimations
of
spontaneity
in
fascinating
  expectations

a visual
 genesis
of
animation
 once distant
now
  alive
once more
 to past
 existence
from
shadows
of
 genesis

...

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kitsch
              crowded
              streets
fast
flowing
         feathers
              
pointed
feet
         jagged

              distinctive

          yet    unique
something 
so inexpressible
a chord 
so vivid from an uncontrolled 
inner drive
beyond  memory
the unstated 
 distilling the hidden 
an essence 
of  yesterday’s
 buried in today
a symbol
 of
  love 
suggestive
yet
of time
immemorial

lost in
a moment
where time
does not
exist

One
with the other
alone
& yet..
  desire..
and need
together
 exist
contemplating
 a suave
astonishing
pastiche
  before
&
despite
either
in
   an
austere
 feeling
of
fine
beauty
...

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moments
    of
     reflection

silhouettes &
                blurs
detail
disintegrates
  out
of
focus

        shapes
become
fusions
of

colour
      shimmering
impressions melt
into
    memory


 of

 veiled
        movement
              of leaves
whispers
    in

abstract
      illusions

      endless whole
yet
so alive
     facinations
        fixed   light
in
          contemporary
     with imagination
blended
      with
the exquisite
      wrought
     &
transcribed
       views
         naturalistic
 derived
from reality

       ...revealed...

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I recognized the name immediately
but not the face blurred by age: 

the  man I went to school with 
as a boy dead at sixty-five.

The...

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an adventure
     an exploration
                 ...

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Written: August 13, 2023
No 1236 New Poem Only Poetry Contest         Sponsored by: Brian Strand
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wish we could 
...

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Don't live in the past
Let the bad memories go
So you can live your life!
It is not easy but you have to try
So that you don't...

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I
I give thanks to The LORD six days a week. I forget which days I forget!

II
Little Jack Horner refused to sit in the corner: I...

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Still not sure what to get them this Christmas,
Don't panic,
There is still time,
To open your heart,
And think smart.

Despite the pandemic, 
The Housing crisis,
And the breakdown...

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Nothing that you say 
Is ever lost; it's stored away 
Goes down in history 
In someone's memory 
And everything you do 
Is traceable to you...

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