Star Free Verse Poems

Dweller of Our Heart  8-7-25
Line of Inquiry:  The essence in us is the same as the essence in the sun.
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Dweller of Our Heart

Light...

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In the mystery of night, when stars sing a forgotten hymn,
I travel through the shadows of silence, seeking an abstract truth within.
Through labyrinths of thoughts,...

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Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945

About fourteen and a half years 
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle  
in the eyes...

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Stun me.
Rewind your music.
Tap your feet to the sound that stirs you.
Listen—
the cuckoo clock is counting seconds back.
Brush the cobwebs from your eyes.
Reignite.

Slip into your...

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After Alice almost forgot her exhilarating experience 
in the dream of her visit to the wonderland,
her imaginative mind drove her often outdoors onto
the open expanse...

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She did not fall—
She flowed.
From the breathless stars to the edge of form,
She shimmered between sound and silence,
Becoming light before becoming skin.
She walked the void...

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(A Poetic Prophecy)

He walked not with crowds, but with silence.
A hush clung to his steps like a prayer.
The wine of the world he did not...

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Lock ruby ridden doors for roach ridden floors bleed without grace 
Roused rounded wounds throughout nightly escapes
And gaping fields of endless escapades
And gaping seas my...

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AS THE FLAG UNFURLS*
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the flag unfurls,
its colors bold against the waking sky—
each star, each stripe a testament
to pride, honor, and patriotism.

pride, not a shield, is...

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Within lies a twinkle
a candle quivering
as we yearn for connection
to the source of the
radiance pulsing within our core
from our dash 
of universal within-ness
glowing deep in...

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Cheerful music. 
Churning out chords. 
A windmill of niceness. 
Music brings me an effect. 
Syllables, and chorography. 
Are just floating. 
Above stage lights. 
During my...

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we know more now than we knew then
.
we were younger
smiles came easy
and memories were made
like spun cotton candy
and one pony carousels
.
there were fewer reasons to...

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"There is a window open from my heart to yours." Rumi

See the splendor of pained poetic souls.

After he died, leapt out in the air above,
turned...

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They called it stone.
We called it signal.

The Great Pyramid—
not a tomb,
but a beacon,
wired into the pulse of the cosmos.
It stands at Portal 1313,
its apex aligned...

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I checked all the boxes, all neat and clean. I smiled wide, I stayed soft, unseen. I raised my hand, I made the grades. But...

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