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Flamenco- Duende

...Joy and sorrow in staccato
Feet strike the floor
Heel and toe
Pounding from the knee
Kicking up the skirt

Hips sway
Spine arches
Arms encircle the body
Wringing and unfurling
Elbows raised...

Categories: duende, art, dance, emotions, music,
Form: Free verse

Would be Seismic if We Could Get Along

...his miscreant philosophy was easily seen that day
he held his wormwood tea in an irritating way
diffident cousins were totally intimidated by Jim
his duende charm sort of knocked them on their chi...

Categories: duende, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Soul Battle

...Written: October 05, 2023
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Where the paradisiacal angels reside.
A myriad of creatures, ebony and betide
A dinkum dissolut...

Categories: duende, analogy, appreciation, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme

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Autumn Flamenco

...Autumn winds duende with flair.
The leaves falling from trees aflame,
twisting and twirling across the aire,
gliding on the cool, frosty first rain.

The leaves falling from trees aflame...

Categories: duende, autumn, dance, nature, rain,
Form: Pantoum

Window Seat

...WINDOW SEAT

Sitting beside him in the window seat as they
taxied for take-off at the end of the day, she was
nubile and pretty, as young as his daughter, nearly
perfect in the way of a late-aut...

Categories: duende, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse

The Dancer and the Duende, Poems That Paint a Picture 3

...The Dancer and the Duende

Red skirt! Lithe body! She dances!
Flagging voluminous curtains of crimson, 
daring the Duende to charge ---
she catches
his face, 
his beard,
his breath;
stealing...

Categories: duende, beautiful, beauty, dance, lust,
Form: Free verse

Prisoner of Words

...Prisoner of words I am
Chained in a cellar of sentences .... no .... lines
I'm a poet, I think images
think metaphors
similes

Prisoner of words
locked up in brainless nights where onl...

Categories: duende, metaphor, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse

Dukkha

...Is it duende, if I say 
the streets are empty, 
the nameless streets,
empty, but watching,
hollow, but watching,
as if with soju eyes...

as if with eyes that see me
only as I seem, always as...

Categories: duende, deep, solitude,
Form: Free verse

Humility

...While drinking the long night
you became taller than the eternal
question, bitten by the moon.

Witchhunting will not stop 
in oligarchy. A human right
stands on the ivory gate to enter the dust.

Th...

Categories: duende, art,
Form: ABC

A Part of My Memory

...I look past my window
And the picture is inviting.
I see the sun,
 reflecting from a piece of mirror
    trying to hide between the pebbles
       of the old lily pond.

I went out to sense mo...

Categories: duende, girlfriend-boyfriendold, old,
Form: Imagism

Apathos

...(of)
whales and windmills
i've chased in haste
seeking Mt. Ida
i've razed and raced
i've sought and longed
to meet Flammonde
and talk and tell duende
but dreams are dry
and often hushed
fro...

Categories: duende, allegory, art, on work
Form: Free verse