Dark Jump Poems

A dark shadow jumps
Green eyes blink gently at me...
My heart stops racing




4/5/2022

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In the window,
                   stopped, i feel...
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at the other side of river 
are the stolen roots of healing-moon-giving trees 
left by wayward wind. 
my skin whispers—
wind is traversing to reach the...

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When I travel near and far, 
I find a cookbook that is a real star.
With thousands of great recipes to cook, 
How in the world...

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Busted, played out, known to fail.
I’m climbing on the bridge’s rail. 

Used-up, tired, left behind. 
All friends, lovers leave, and I don’t mind.

Because I didn’t...

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Dim empty tunnel
thundering sounds fill my head
Fast midnight tube approaching -
am I ready to jump ...
suicidal thoughts abounding

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“Have you ever seen a cow jump over a moon, grandma?”
Sweetest voice ever asks me.
No, I admit. 
“I have!” he says with high glee in...

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HARD JUMP

The bird dropped in the darkness
the ground somewhere below,
slowing its motion to hover,
a sudden cross fire erupts.

It was dark zero one thirty hours
in a...

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J-ump off the page, 
A-s you're out of the blue; 
N-ever languish in the dark, 
E-xtraordinary talent is in
Y-ou.

F-rom rags to riches, 
R-isen up from...

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7/9/17

Getting stuck sucks
Call it tough luck
You must be nuts
I don't know you enough
So why would I just
Put very much trust
In someone that already bluffed
Over petty...

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Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman,  anarchist airborne, 
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase...

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Chairs lined with stripes, 
green and white,
became ski jump ramps
for feelings, innocent and pure,
taking off from the edge
hoping to defy the gravity of fears. 

Only...

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on this city street
they walk the beat
under whit sheets
on  in the dark
where cars or park
they get bump
make this jump too
there no street light
some scream...

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What happens when your only way out is so final, yet so beautiful?
When the only one you've got is your captor, your abuser?
When your chance...

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Used to be an individual
now I'm just a complex number
stripped away from my own individuality
made me uncomfortably wake from my
slumber.

Used to be a boy wonder.
I...

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