Dark Eve Poems

As the saccharine shadows of daylight dims
You can hear the melodies of eager eve
Tangerine sunsets composing chrysanthemum hymns
Songs that the sun with the zephyr does...

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At Peace

A dark cloud of cancer looms on the horizon.
Will it simply pass or rest above me, and shower demise?
Or will the clouds break with...

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What do you know about the darkness that lies inside me?
You know what I show you, what I choose to let you see
On the outside...

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…..BREAKING..... HEADLINE..... NEWS.....
this Xmas eve day 2023

After a top secret clandestine conclave,
one or more sans eight Reindeer forsake
played cow word, and spelt, spilt, spoilt,
et cetera...

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Kimo, haiku, couplet

Expectations Under Wraps on Christmas Eve

wild hammering and disciplined screwing
of elves in Santa’s workshop -
will toys be fiddled with…

an exotic sleigh
and a ho...

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i.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse.
My wife and son lay silent, all tucked...

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Dust…
demon and angel breath divide,
brief memory revelation flash,
tracing lust lit fury,
arcing beads of light on parted lips -

Purity…
spirit devoid, stillness entangled, 
chained and blind, thoughts...

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Unbridled, Untied, reaching to the infinities, Thou
- Rabindranath Tagore---Geetanjali
17th December

Unbridled, Untied, reaching to the infinities, Thou
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I step out into the evening,
into a cloud of whispered conversations,
insect talk, birds uttering 
their “goodnights” high in the trees,
the days last gossip settling
back into...

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Go gentle into life’s eve, death’s your friend,
Old age clamours to wear a new garment,
Rage not against death, death is not an end.

Should night be...

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Before the first leaf fell
Before the fruit ripened, and the apple bit,

When the night knew nothing of rot,
nothing of screams
nothing of decay
When the night knew...

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In my sanctuary’s hush, Poe’s tales I clasp,
Into his world, I plunge, a breath, a rasp.
Beneath the creaking floorboards, a heart's pulse
In my mind, it...

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Ashen day turns into blackened night. One
limb of a lonely tree stripped of its
pre-fall leaves juts out against the
backdrop of an inked sky scraped
with gray....

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I watch
as sun slides down in the sky.
The shadows increase in length,
a dark waterfall descending 
upon the sandy beach.
Slowly I inhale and exhale,
savoring the fresh...

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