Long Alternates Poems

Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
                 II

The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...

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My grandparents lived on farms – both sides of my family.
My mother’s parents and my father’s parents.
Overalls and button down shirts with pockets
Work boots for grandpas

Except my single grandpa did get dressed up fancy
For Saturday...

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While rummaging, mining,
and distilling me gray matter,
stoking mentality activates
oft time surprising me,
where unexpected novel

cognizance never abates,
I experienced becoming
linkedin with cosmic fates,
sans collective unconscious
soul of the universe,
and chanced to espy,

(albeit only a trimmed speck),
the spirit of...

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All Eagles!!
There is a time in everyone’s life when Mother Eagle throws you out of the nest and either you fly or die,
All Eagles!!
There are times in your life where those closest to you make...

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The seventh day of week and month
in seventh month of the year,
number seven dominated
when I decided to appear.
I was seventh in my family,
five brothers, Mother and Dad,
also the seventh granddaughter 
each of my grandmas had.
When...

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(A river ‘wave’ for the Laureate of Literature Ivan Bunin 1870-1953)
By Fatmir Terziu

The stars leave slowly,
Leave and are faced with the ‘polluted’ air,
Leave, just as all leaves decompose,
On the wet days with autumn rain, 
white...

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All together in a body screeching to be let out; 
The buzzing sound of their screams like a thousand crickets unsynchronized. 
I cannot hear my own voice trapped in a paradox of demise. 
How to...

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Basic geometry’s based on four axioms,
Something that many kids study in school,
But a fifth axiom’s needed to prove it all,
This is where things start in getting real cool.

Really this axiom sounds very theorem like
Many have...

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You held me in your arms 
But never had me in your heart 
I could never play the better card 
My heart in my palms 
But still enclosed and manacled
By a shell .I exposed and...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 60

Interplay of positive-negative current
How Nature alternates through light and darkness
Three hundred and eighty-four times made recurrent

All symbols of family diverse in content
Father Mother Three Brothers Three Sisters in...

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You’ve drastically missed your
Philosopher's Stone
Long time ago, 
At an ancient past

Since that time
Your face was 
Filled with some
Unbearable
Dark rays

Since that time
Your eyes were 
Craving for some
Vein alternates
To equate this
Ultimate loss 

Since that time
Your heart was
Transformed...

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Every man holds two faces, yes two faces
That his persona always carries and displays
The outer one, a facade that is very artificial
The inner represents the original and normal.

The physical is superimposed on the natural
That alternates...

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Raised on a rock farm,
Eating blackberries daily,
I grew.
And so did the world.
The bugs were relentless
Except in winter when they slept.

The days were as drifting clouds,
Time for dreaming, unfulfilled.
See the blue up there.
See the green down...

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In my heart I've always loved you
Always thought you good and kind
Though I know you do not know me
Know you're always on my mind

Nights of darkness pass unbroken
By your smile and gentle ways
How I wish...

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Standing aloof in thought
by the roadside, 
where traffic alternates
by the roadside.
Wondering why things are
and what life had to give
as time motions without emotions
by the roadside.

Do I cross or wait here?
says a voice in my head,
people...

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Love is a noun
				in the need of finding it,
				once found, a verb.

				Love is a beast
				so wild
				haunting on its prey.

				Love is a drug
				leading to addiction.
	
				Love is a novel
				starting at prologue,
				chapters follows and
				epilogue as closure.

				Love is the...

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As I sit and try to imagine,
I look and find another distraction,
find there's a fly in my poetry soup,
quite like a Michael Phelps swimming laps
around like an Olympian champion,
he must think he's pretty cool
using my...

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With frill-edged petals, in red, white, orange and yellow,
Beauteous daffodils gorgeously gleam and glow;
With long, wide, collaterally aligned leaves stand erect,
Tulips of all colors, as though in beauty so perfect;
Blue urn shaped flowers thrill-filled dancing,
Muscari...

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This life can sell you dreams that are too 
expensive for you to buy
Covered eyes can't see the truth as they're
being blinded by the lies
This wicked world is full of sin affecting
all from great to...

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The left blame the right, the right blame the left,
both concealed in ideology logically lost on me.

It's not that I don't understand, there's no one with which I stand,
both succeed in ways necessary then turn...

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Most confining and to the decencies, 
Feebled feelings and enslaved alternates,
Oddly detached, from them degradations,
Of whimpered whines and conceived illusions.

The reliance on the diminished decisiveness,
The age past then that's best in stewardship,
Oddly detached from the...

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The heaven stretch'd her a shade.
Fortune and luck on her did lay.
Her generosity had never fade,
But a but remain'd a say.
Lucifer's face she wore,
Wrath and fury lent her no fight.
Even honour and seats she bore.
Yet,...

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