Long Afterimage Poems

Memories felt after so long repressed
Now burn like a fire inside of my chest 
They flow now as ink from the tip of my tongue 
For the father I lost when I was too young...

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Im half awake, and glaring at the sunrise
distant brilliance slowly eating at my dry eyes
squinted to best witness the aureate Apollo
refract off blades soaked through with dew
heaven's first blush, midsummer quiet, and coffee scent
cast clarity,...

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As others Rush out from Subdivisions 
applying War Paint hiding Scars
All have Grand Designs, their own Missions
you feel as Nobody's Hero watching their fancy cars

What You're Doing more than one can ask
The Way the Wind...

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On the canvas of life, your signature lies,
Etched onto my granite heart, and the ever-changing skies.
Your essence, turned my primary colours, to vibrant schemes,
And now, in every hue I see that it’s you tinting my...

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Unclear and unfocused thoughts,
Trapped in negative emotions.
I can't seem to chase away the bad thoughts.
All I can do is sit around.

I'm waiting for someone,
But I can't remember who.
I'm waiting so long...
I'm waiting for someone.

My fingers...

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You know I wonder, what's our position look like to you?
The emotions we felt for eachother, to you were they ever true?
Nah, you were looking right through, searching for a place to nest
You found my...

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Memories of you left an afterimage in my eyes
I found blindness to be a comfort
where darkness dressed in dreary black
and my soul laid its head on my heart's grave
to weep about wishes withdrawn from love's...

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I am at a wedding
in Iowa.
She called to tell me 
that the orange afterimage
from that afternoon five years ago
has filled her brain for the first time
in years.

I don’t have the heart
to tell her I am...

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"i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go..." ee Cummings




In the silent wondrous wonders of my yearning,
you appeared
as a lasting vision burned deep...

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fragments of memory cling to my skin
like wet cigarette smoke -
rumors of midnight rainstorms
in the flashes of a gaudy neon sign.

mangled wing unfurls like a twisted umbrella
on a desolate highway,
misty landscape of shattered dreams -
foggy-eyed...

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Sensuality is the wellspring
that feeds passion to the soul
through the deepest depth of desire
that pauses in quiet solitude
before leaving an afterimage in the eyes
where it burns the boundaries of higher senses
when music soft, caresses the...

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Consciousness filled me. 
The dream evaporated from my eyes, 
Leaving behind an afterimage of nonsense. 
Soon after,
I found control of my limbs;
Wiggling my toes
This way   and that. 
I stretched my legs as wide...

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The red sky became a dark fading light
   across a darkened meadow
where our hands were still visible
   as we tried to touch the sky
a star fell cutting through the black canvas
...

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Last night, the "wolf moon's" crepuscular aura glowed.

A luminous peach orb, it hung in its abode 
so spectacularly, that I silently slowed
my weekend walk through the willowwacks, while words flowed,
as molten lava from volcanoes would...

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I know you have to leave, so go now, love
I'll be waiting here for you, it's okay-
And missing you doesn't start instantly
Since your presence lingers, for a short time
Like the afterimage on your retina
When you've...

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It’s the point of no return. 
Eyes dive in, swim, drown, refuse rescue. 

Denser than black, 
fiercer than blood,
a telepathy of purple, 
a saturation of half-remembered yearnings.   

It’s an incest of shades, 
blue...

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