Long Amplifying Poems

This page shows my writing process and is part of Poetrysoup's first workshop.  The workshop's intent is to reveal how revision strengthens a poem. Constructive feedback can be a gift.  Should any journal...

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In the realm of moons and breathless tides,
where promises dance with a serendipitous sonnet of sunrises,
along with morning kisses, unfolds a love story—
a poetic novel etched in the chronicles
within the hourglass of time,
a journey that...

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Poem shortened due to size limit
Full Poem: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/softdevlife/contributed_articles/master/Poems/thinkbeforeyoudo.md

"Hold on my child! Watch your step!" 
My father could say enthusiastically to me
"Think before you do!" 
"The more you think first, the more abundant your life will...

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where narcissistic assumptions are presumed
to be a priori and default perfect
in so far as we estimate ourselves
in the slightest vaguest
single point mirror ghost called I
this is the grand knock me down delusion
when we are a...

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Music is an undying 
art of soul ~ 
an abstract eden, where, 
euphonious unicorns 
glide in strawberry sonatas, 
amplifying rhapsody in
ballads of flight, 
when fuchsia feathers
tease those 
jingling breezes, 
infusing breaths
in every lifeless aroma;
where I...

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When I learned my mother had cancer with zero time to live I went into shock. Like being thrown into another dimension. All seemed surreal --like when the desktop changes setting and display switches to...

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New new new
Clean clear powerful activity, unleashed wings upstairs
Protective instinct bonded to stability
Monitor on, guarding, titrating all sensory and physical input
Past seeking, obsessing on relief in dark lost forced absenting this plane
Past pushing and stretching...

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He sits together with a friend
Or is this the enemy?
Will he pretend?
He talks about the pills they’ve tried
Bringing the high…
That fills them with pride,
Now they know all the answers
It feels like they have a solution

Someone...

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hear others out there, just beyond my wall-wrapped sharing space
  they break on through, sneaking inside my head
  far above, front-nosed pilots point high-flying seated people tubes
  passengers squeezed in tight, some...

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Bot for the sake of liberty sanctum sanctity,
none would ever have perceived
	the nano ... nano ... nano 
repeated viral injected lies 
worming thru infected web monitor screens
Computers aren’t partial to receive only analog truth,
Cyber Greek...

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Atrocious affliction trembles voices of anguish 
Brewing vile horror in death of tomorrow
Fearing for the newborn, women, and children
For yesterday’s massacre killed her husband
And the war-torn town screamed in agony
Wrapped in rags of shattered hopes,
Quivering...

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The Forbidden Enigma

Before, had the light of day been long
Yet afore, the dark of the night is only just beginning
Perhaps some thought isn’t simply anyhow to be born
And even so, some dreams when awake is...

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He assembled in darkness the corroded horn
by familiarity and sense of touch.
Then cast as thunder into the empty night
long tones void of musical melody.
Sustained tones, fierce and woeful
in succession paraded the street.
Each note precisely chosen,...

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Not everybody has had the same vision I had in the restful hours,  
Christ with the whitest robe walked towards me slowly;
He was flanked by two archangels revealing His deity:
He wasn't too handsome but...

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I walked through the haunted 
house on the hill, 
through the untended garden first, 
a tangle of foxgloves and weeds,
claws of bracken the hands of the dead. 
Trees, stripped bare branches scratching 
bulging underbelly of...

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In riming realms 
of crystal contemplations -
frozen water-vapor meditations
and chilled flutes 
filled with zodiacal-light musings 
of ancient cosmic dust 
dancing in the arms of Sol..

windswept operatic reveries
rise and fall
as her stirring soprano
tickled by the chanting...

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Portraying elegance dipped in rejuvenation,
Solidifying the moon with the sun eclipsing the color of your jubilation.

Rectifying the pupils to extend its hands acrossed your waves,
Captivating the rainbow covers over the bad days.

Elevating a fascination into...

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A SYNOPSIS OF LOVE:

Love is not a folklore appreciated only in hindsight
Nor a fairytale told only to children under the moonlight
Love is real but rare as gem, like diamond and amethyst
It is far more valuable...

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beautiful inspired contrived artifice it’s
sensation subconscious sucked
past excoriation reality
thick gelatin soup top curdled hot skin
strips slipping scalded skin,
shadow of Moloch still in the room
and on the brink of sidewalks,
talk to talk to talk to talk
and...

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Vultures swooped at fast
evading carrion;
Vespa hornet squadron buzzed;
Paparazzi psychology, ruthless
across screaming Macadam black
as the blackest slabs of night.

Sheet lightning born of
flashbulbs popping;
illuminated faces strobed
under toughened glass;
wide eyes, teeth gritted,
urging crazy dizzy velocity;
all the riches and...

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Psalm from the Pools of Faith


We are kneeling atop the bottomless 
Black pools, our knees riding the tops of spring-green lily pads, our heads bowed, singing out
Above the mirroring waters of our
Faith; our voices rise...

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It was Old Man Smith’s farm this story begins, begins, gets told and ends,
And will never be anything more than a local story that’s told between friends.
You see, the cold night sky kept filling with...

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Purposeful thought leaders, empowering intellect they reign, 
In disposition phlegmatic, indifferent to pleasure or pain,
Rejecting emotions vain, impassive within taciturn domain,
Questing for mindful contentment, virtues of reason ordain.

Missives tolling of rectitude, emanate from heart and...

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Anxiety
A crippling force that feels like it’s squeezing around your entire body
Feeling inescapable
When it comes to fight, flight, or freeze
The choice is always to run
Unless you are already frozen
It takes every uneasy emotion and amplifies...

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Blackness…
I’m afraid
I can feel it, so dense
It knows me… it holds me
As it to keep me in suspense

Where am I? 
I’m terrified, my throat is dry
I can feel it…
The blackness rubbing against me
It loves me…...

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