History Lines Poems

If you brush away all the fallen leaves,
from the branches of my family tree.
You're likely to find a few old bones that,
we've tried to keep...

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Just like a wish, whimsical as it stirs dreams and trembles with the rhythms of hope, my heart anticipates the beautiful in a setting sun,...

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In the dark days before rock'n'roll
    music was dreamy but had no soul

  Now that acoustic and electric guitars have come
...

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Behind Enemy Lines

Behind

I followed through doors and passage ways
Roofs and small runways ..
The boy with a glint in his eye,
He took me up , high...

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I know each one, every line

My eyes trace them every day

From dawn’s light to dusk’s dark

One fascinates me, long, curved

It’s history hidden, for me to...

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We were aware of Red China's Communist's President plans to achieve world dominion by 2035 or even earlier. But are we aware he plans "to...

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Architecture of 4/4 music
left and right hand scored
harmonic balance

Four sacred spaces
of energy
surrounded by five
double-boundary lines

Staff mused structures
within bicameral
emotive harmonies
for sacred octave
enlightenment 
restorative safety help

And bilateral
cognitive...

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‘Tis not a sword, but mightier, the ink but darkened blood.
It takes me to the lofty peaks or rolls me in the mud.
It hands me...

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REMEMBERING  ??

9/8/20. (Witten for Michele Embry Madison
                 In...

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Methinks all antediluvian Love was
Whiter than snows atop higher tors;
And with more troth dudes did kiss
Purer maidens for pleasanter bliss.

I deem Art shortly after Noah’s...

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Life Lines

When I look at Grandma’s face
there’s a great deal I can see.
Every furrow shows a trace
of her family’s history.

There’s a line for every struggle
every...

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Soft scents of frangipani invade my nostrils in the twilight air,
pellucid thoughts from deep within made me aware of my senses.
I look over yonder and...

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Embrace The Lines

Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing...

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My contract with wrinkles is a history carved.
I acknowledge how swiftly I’ve outwardly aged.
Best and the worst, suddenly a future now halved
Strokes in a map...

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Mirror, Mirror upon this wall
Can’t you ignore or just forestall
These lines that mark my history
And make me feel so small

Among the people of this day
Who...

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