To Ask My Mentor, Will I, Sir Will I, Ever a Great Poet Be
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So like a eighteenth-century painting, her almond face
this year's flowing sky and sun flashings paler by the da...
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Categories:
flashings, creation, dream, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Storm
...sToRm
I gather the wind placing the storm
Inside my head thunders and lightenings roll
storm
My eyes see at naught the lights
Inside my head thunders and lightenings roll
storms
My eyes see at...
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Categories:
flashings, adventure, allusion, analogy, endurance,
Form: Pantoum
A Winter Storm
...This winter storm comes
Without emotion, intellect, or care
Blowing its dry freezing air
Puffs up fallen leaves
Floats them up into the gray sky
Will it leave death in its turbulence
Tree...
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Categories:
flashings, introspection,
Form: Imagism
In the Joy of This Morning
...IN THE JOY OF THIs MORNING
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(For Jim, to explain why
my tears can run down in Joy)
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In day’s earliest light
(my inner ey...
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Categories:
flashings, christian, encouraging, flying, god,
Form: Free verse
Whispers In the Air So Troubling Shadows That I Hear-
...In the darkness of the night the light evades me
Don't yet humble and it's flight the lightning bug winks at me
Do the flashings of the night the sun dissipates it covers itself with
W...
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Categories:
flashings, absence, analogy, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
Lightening Rains-
...general, sudden
in the hope so of flashings
proceeded lightning’s
strokes of lightning
like a flash of lightening's
sudden, general
6/24/21
Written words by...
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Categories:
flashings, analogy, appreciation, environment, light,
Form: Haiku
For Ever
...I see glory
also might
never ending beauty
flashings of brilliance
holding tight
shapes drawing in (my in)attention
surrender
where your summer soltice
is always
bathing about ...
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Categories:
flashings, love,
Form: Free verse
The Firefly As Metaphor
...The Firefly as Metaphor
Walk in twilight
Among the flashings of fireflies
Reborn from the earth below,
From the base of tall plants, to dispel
The fears of darkness, as their
Surprising orang...
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Categories:
flashings, allegory, christian, joy, light,
Form: Free verse
Always
...ALWAYS. ********
Understand. I MUST go
On these clearing acts of
Instinct and inspiration, these flashings
As they come. For a blizzard has
Been moving in and the snow is
Piling up by the f...
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Categories:
flashings, death, endurance, inspiration, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Whispers To Me--
...?
Ahhh!
Shhh!
lower case letters small intakes
breath across the heaven
lightening and storms
“whispers”
slowly moving rushing tree leaves
just what does this mean
lightening flashin...
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Categories:
flashings, analogy, symbolism, word play,
Form: Free verse
The Leaden Crown
...Is then the crown too heavy that I wear?
It is not made of gold or silver but of lead and mental garbage;
yet it is bright
it flaunts some embedded gems around it,
they represent some good things...
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Categories:
flashings, destiny, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Crescent Time Breathing
...Crescent Time Breathing
There is no reach by which we as breathing creatures of crescent time,
Can ascertain the crouching intentions behind an elm tree with acorn outbursts,
Designed to scan th...
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Categories:
flashings, time,
Form: Free verse
Inclinations of Fan
...Inclinations Of Fan
Ceiling fan mesmerized the day’s hypnotic flashings
Sunlight fractured through rotating blades
Someone must have traduced it with black magic
Or a switch turned on when we w...
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Categories:
flashings, business, creation, society, technology,
Form: Free verse
Song of True Love
...A song of sweet love
Touches the strings of heart
And descends into the eyes
Fluttering the loving wings
A song of deep love
Touches the core of soul
And mixes into the breaths
Like a fragra...
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Categories:
flashings, deep, imagery, joy, love,
Form: Lyric
The Human Seasons: Elements At War and Peace, Part I
...Summers' thunderings gather in brooding, heavy clouds
Soundless masses with shuddering voices
Calling through an untamed sky
Shaking above the meeker Earth,
Pillars of rain, shot through, flashin...
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Categories:
flashings, conflict, heartbroken, marriage, pain,
Form: Free verse
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