Long Absences Poems

Fundamentalists compete with and through struggling evolution
as Transitionalists would further peaceful revolutions.

Fundamentalism:
A patriarchal-historical view
rooted in interpretation of sacred scripture
written by nondual co-arising NatureSpirits
dipolar appositionally rooted
of and for regenerative naturehealth = spiritwealth,
that would err on the...

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On a long extended trip, to a far off foreign place,
In a shop of fine antiquities, this old and friendly face

Approached my wife and I and asked, “And where are you folks from?”
And I replied,...

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Memories of My Parents

Memories of my father
Bring forth the autumn walks.
Shades of nature on the crunchy leaves
At the man-made lake down the hill
From the little white house
With the green picket fence,
Which our large family lived...

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To find enchanting integrity,
She transparently confronts her disenchantments
with present and past toxic flow,
disempowering absences of synergetic experience,
like rape and enslavement and aggressive commodification,
disharmonic songs
without time and space
for proper therapeutic dance,
desecrating liturgies of everyday.

Disenchantment
unveils what and...

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Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest              Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the absence of ink—in a nexus of poetic dreams,
Anathematized by disconsolate...

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In the Winter of Night of Darkness -
                           ...

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She sits on a street corner with a teardrop in her eye
Wishing she were in the cars of the people driving by
Her mother left with some john about two months ago
The man with the eviction...

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She thought I loved her for the texture of her hair 
Yes, but I also loved her for her flair 
We thought that our love will always float in the air 
We were sure, and...

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The Gate
Story by  and character by Tyrone Estevez

You never know what’s out there lurking and escaping on the other side of the gate I remember when I was 11 I had a friend name...

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The Open door (My life’s Maze day)

Yesterday I painted my dream with the colors of the earth
like many I was afraid of the unknown’ land of dreamers’
The walls of doubt surrounded my thoughts
But to kill...

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Rage… that’s all have now,
The loss of what could have been, 
And the youth that will be affected.

Memories fragmented, pieced together…
By an imperfect mind
Information from others,
Filling gaps…

Misery is all I have now.
The loss of what...

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My Papa's a "Rockstar" but I never saw his show,
     yet people sure would stare at us wherever we would go.
He was the world to me for him my eyes shone...

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Where are you going, my Little Ones?
        Oh, my precious, dear Little Ones ...
            do not dishearten...

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He promised me the moon and stars
All the love I could ever hope to know
He knew the way to reach into my heart
With a oath that he would always be there

I was filled with joy...

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I wonder sometimes if longing 
is no more or less than misplaced belonging,
on my list of absences
that are more honestly presences
we have deferred owning right now,
you and I,
Left with Right,
without even knowing this absence from...

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Choices
 
In the beginning,
  His representative greeted me
  His intentions intrigued me
    His senses consumed me
  My associate did not mind  
  My goals were far behind
...

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Tentacles of feelings dig in my heart
I feel them still now we're apart
I hoped this would help cease all the pain
But I feel them still all over again
Trying to let go and cut these ties
Its...

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We must run up all our credit cards
Spending real money has become much too hard
And we must play the stock market
Trading happiness for lies
Believe not in all those politicians who are promising us peace
This peace...

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Turn Back The Clock

Six months have now passed since I learned of your death
Still grapple with the reality that you no longer draw breath

Taking your own life left me feeling bewildered and shocked
If I could...

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Songs of passe' drifting 
From a distant somewhere out
They breathe into me 
As a longing that wants to be, aught

And I begin by grasping at traces 
Of a sadness in loss of innocence
Naivety was its...

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Songs of passe' drifting 
From a distant somewhere out
They breathe into me 
As a longing that wants to be, aught

And I begin by grasping at traces 
Of a sadness in loss of innocence
Naivety was its...

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This novel pestilence
From which we have no defence
Or found sure evidence
Of its maleficence
To do such violence
We can't tell the difference
From hoax or sciences
And though I'm not against 
Giving recompence 
To a pitiful audience
That has no...

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I keep ringing your phone
Only to get back the last memory again
A voice frilled with youth
Laughing at the old man's obstinacy
One day you shall wish to find
In the centripetal torment of the world
I still pray...

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He has not been feeling well his mother said, excusing four-year-old Chad.
He has asthma, she said at five, 
he did not mean to shove the child off the slide.
He has headaches she said when he...

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My dreams speak to me in 
This strange tongue asking 
Questions I wish I’d dream the
Answers to I wish I knew how 
Time could spin this way tell me
Why it’s like this and I miss...

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