Eastland Poems - Poems about Eastland

...WHEN The WIND COMES DOWN LONG LAKE in OCTOBER (1 AM in the morning - Naples, Maine) When unseasonable lake water balm meets you tripping out of Ricks’ Café after midnight you know thos......

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...PARKING LOT MEDITATION Leaning back on my car hood the old blue skies have my eyes squinting ion clues of a melody wanting to be born of scars in me innerspheres humming to a song an ......

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...Wonder Woman When I saw her five large powerful males bodyguards at a photo shoot protecting the actress of the movie Wonder Woman the sight crashed me into reality with a pin that burst......

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...LEANING Old man and woman locked arm in arm neat dressed beige sweetly leaning in towards each other backs now to the world hard to tell who is leaning on who but their faces are to......

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...SPHINX you silent riddle of the lion stars ancient in mystery staring at omega in a terrible patience stone eyes are fixed at civilization fractures ground down by hubris all human hist......

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...MOON LAUGHING EAST LIKE A WINE SOADKED POET (9/12/05 - Somes Sound, on Mt. Desert Island) A spilled red wine jug on the deck my black dog “Imus” warms my bare ankles stars sketch symbols in ......

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...ALLEY CAT The city alley kitten is fire boned body electrified in barbed wire fur snarling ferocious wild fear bigger than its raging dot of an existence hissed from behind garbage cans ......

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...PLOWMAN (for Bill Troy, and Messer’s generous free Plowman Day.) Not soon enough comes the thrill of snow! for plowmen who beckon the blizzard’s fall anxious to use his craft of geometric......

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...SURSUM CORDA (for Ruth and Clement Mc Cormack, Bridgton, Maine) “Come see us, we’ll talk about the job." you were convalescent, generous, and anxious to get your hands moving into the ......

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...SUDDENLY The LAKE This joyous lunge of spirit when green forests suddenly part and reveals a precious liquid animal bathing its wind scaled body healing its summer craft scars chameleon ele......

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...OUR SIGNATURE OF RAIN (for you Arlene, my True Love— Valentine’s Day 2017) Our signature is of the rain it rained on our wedding day relentless it rolled off new love and on through ......

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...THE WOMEN (1982) How precious now, the women who must take to the roads we have scaled, and failed to help support the roof save the dream how detailed now her vague life’s focused sudde......

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...BREAKING HABITS What I once believed was love forever Time has peeled and dimmed that glow What we have here is addiction, Dear A habit enjoyable and difficult to break But cigarettes are go......

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...THE CAR HAS EARS by Charles Eastland (also Kindle eBook: Selected Poems by Charles Eastland) Shhh shhh…whisper that news about extra money— shhh…don’t say it… the car has ears I t......

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