Long Affinities Poems

How to Feel When Your House Burns Down
The home you are raised in is a mother tongue. 
I was four when it was built, an age when innocence
turns river water and all that lives within...

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WordScape Triptych  #1

Coming from the Underworld as a ghost, just sauntering out of the depths like you did;
With all the rest of us just watching and wondering what you were going to say;
Tell us...

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A cacophony of cheers
Sand sprays like fireworks
From feet, hands, ball, hair.
Four women, two-a-side,
In a battle for the ages.

A motion of fluidity and a
Knowledge brought forth
From years in the fray.
Sun, rain, the elements,
Just more adversaries

In a...

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being adventurous mammalians
we seek to avoid the repetition of pain
and encounter the repetition of pleasure
which might be why the ones who have everything
take from those who have nothing
just to get a little bit more
in a...

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Almighty God, the supreme Father above
assures me, through Scriptures’ precepts, His divine affection
affirming His marvelous vibrant love’s abundance
always at work to grant pardon absolutely
and assuage my guilt-caused anguish*
as I confess my iniquities, spiritually atrocious…
along my...

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Up for grabs are looming sapidities of a summer summit.
Prompt as forecasting device, keen as cropland mice, 
trying to surpass oscine elves turns out no dice. 
Wondering how these yummy yodelers telepathize herself earliest, 
the...

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Almighty God* I adore
Author of faith, approved by Your atonement
Accept my acknowledgment and admiration of Your anointing.

Awed by and adorned with Your advice
Abiding am I in Your avouching assurance 
Apprehended against abominations, arrayed with holiness’...

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Money name fame 
take it all 
and buy me peace 
save me from my fall 
I ran on easy street 
like a deranged man 
but when i looked back 
chilling winter wind palpitated my heart...

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What are we? you may ask,
While looking into the mirror of life
Reflecting all people having the same blood
Running into their similarly shaped bodies

What are we, if only for a difference in
Personality, name, mindset, affinities, and...

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My residence has never seen any demolition.
Nor had I to shelter under a place of obstruction.
It's my extirpated inner self that I'm fleeing from.
And seeking a refuge where faith is unshakably firm

Natural calamities have little...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 17

Real power lies not in the ranks of the parties
Nor in heads of governments parties elect
Puppet-strings in hands of secret societies

Those whose claws pierce guts through nationalities
The bankers...

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SPECIFIC MOMENTS

visual language
  inspiration
in
retrospective

 contemporary
dreams
of an alternative
future
 a moment 
of
reckoning
 flooded
 into
the eye
once  moribund
now
 captivated
 encountering
 the beauty
of refinement

 to establish
affinities 
between
the sensitive
& the
 non-comprehensive

a turning point
a  narrative
of the a romantic
constantly
renewed
 in
the mind

a battleground
& clashing 
of styles
 a sign 
of prescience
& genius

 an indicator
of dialogue
in rethought
figuration
of
the
absurd


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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How people across the globe travel in droves
like in springtime, a wonderful time for everyone;
as this year holds so many promises to fulfill
with countless chances and opportunities as well.

Families and personal affinities both young and...

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Dreaming of glamour. 
Dread of truth.
Staying locked inside.
My own dream world.
Don't make me face reality.
Donate my time to fallacies.
Treating the void of endless rifts.
Noting my verbal irony.
Drowning in my own happiness.
Doubting my own glee.
Usually, I'd...

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She had a lump
In her throat
Voice choked
As if
Someone had
Drained her life
Out
He could feel
Her recent ordeal
Listening intently
Face turning crimson
Heart beating fast
As if
Someone had 
Drained his life
Out
So many similarities
So much love
Unlike yesterday night
With its
So many dissimilarities
So much...

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As the scent of Gardenia wafts through the house, memories of years ago spring forth

.
Being a young girl visiting my aunt
Who was kind understanding gracious lady
My bedroom was adjacent to Gardenia plants
Oh! Pleasant eves scented...

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IDEAS
so
profound
  distinct
&
imposing
an idea 
  made visual
rendered
 specific
modern
&contemporary
extroverted
   spontaneous
yet
intense
&
 irregular

 encountered
immediately
 in
the unknown
yet
prolific
utopia
of
yesterday's
 visual
affinities

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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Take joy in all childhood affinities 
  for they are the makings of you my son.
Mine is a witness to boyish sallies
  and, you child, its face to always gladden.
That in some small...

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Stark naked reality was a,
thorn in flesh,
for my collective innocence. 
A brutal reminder 
of war with truth. 
Light that does not spread 
in my dark eyes. 
Time for me to act for the sake of...

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