Stillness in November
...Over harvested fields —
I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into m...
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Categories:
gadflies, autumn, farm, november,
Form: Pastoral
A Stroll with Paul Klee
...To pick up a line and take it for a stroll.
The essential is within, the mystics say,
but equally important is the outside:
a stunning summer sky, two wind-whipped clouds,
in the intense green ba...
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Categories:
gadflies, art, beauty, creation, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Our Trades
...Life on the windward side of our island,
at times, the tradewinds persuade downpour,
still, the sun light's gods and goddesses tanned.
Sailboats adrift, surfers thrill life ashore,
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Categories:
gadflies, adventure, analogy, beach, beautiful,
Form: Terzanelle
Greenery
...after the rain, wildflowers bend like
wilted men wrapped in age and bliss
fragments of longing and belonging
in wet that sustains a warming world
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Categories:
gadflies, beauty, earth, environment, flower,
Form: Free verse
Ahem, Grandpa Tequila
...The Holy Bible is a Journal.
On the desk, and it's definitely
not made of Mahogany,
it's lightly-stained Oak.
The blanket is Navaho. It's All Sacred.
Those Impeccable Tribes of the D...
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Categories:
gadflies, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: ABC
How I Feel
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How I Feel
By: miracle Man
August 22, 2020
Protesters and anarchists are gadflies who coalesce,
Burning and graffiti is leaving cities in a mess.
A hodgepodge of rogues, seeking so...
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Categories:
gadflies, abuse, how i feel,
Form: Couplet
More Gadflies and Honeybees
...Gadflies
are not about group hugs.
Communion is more of a catholic honey bee paradigm
of win/win resonant satiation;
A winter seasonal anti-climax of body
but ecstatic dreamy democratic mind f...
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Categories:
gadflies, earth, health, humor, light,
Form: Political Verse
Gadflies and Honeybees
...Where to begin
in the middle of cold and dark
winter's solstice,
healthy green life's time
of impeachment,
excommunication,
dormancy?
Where does this all rightfully
and sacredly left end?
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Categories:
gadflies, culture, earth, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Painted Mountain
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Mountain of a thousand colors
clothed in Autumns dress
kiss the earth 'O' Wondrous mother
painted world - flora's caress
Trembling giants bathe in light
quaking Aspens touch the sky
as g...
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Categories:
gadflies, beauty, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Grimfree
...Note:
Dear Chris,
I could go into souls as mindbody identities with interdependently co-arising individuation/reconnection processes, also known as living, and in/ex-carnation, but my gut says ...
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Categories:
gadflies, birth, creation, culture, deep,
Form: Prose Poetry
Four Short Poems For the Apocalypse
...Four Short Poems for the Apocalypse
Poem #1 – “Reality Bites”
Feeling so hopeless.
Feeling the loss somewhere inside.
I can feel it, but I don’t know quite where.
Reality bites.
Feeling so awkward ...
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Categories:
gadflies, angst, death,
Form: Free verse