Long Ascensions Poems

Peeling Back the Bubble Wrap

Peeling back the bubble wrap on the ancient of days, 
Back to when Nixon was still presiding,
He, leading with paranoid deliberations, 
Sold his yeses to the Goldbricks, and the Mustard Men;
And...

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Oh Sweet Island!  Thou tropical paradise:
   Miles have I traced upon thy ceaseless reach
Of ocean-choked shorelines owed Heav’nly device
   Sheltering I, this marooned guest on thine endless beach.
Safe House against...

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TWINFLAMES 

Obsidian oscillated into lava
     slid across syntactic streams
        tumbled thick greenwood thickets 
          ...

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A friend asked this simple?? question,
which provoked this universal answer session.

Why wake and get out of bed each morn?
My goddess!!  I adore each fresh dawn.

For starters - there's life,
each day a chance to lessen...

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I feel this jump start, 
Then a squeeze in my heart
All because I heard you laugh
Well, any time you laughed.
Yours…
Beauty beyond reach
So I sulk in solitude of wish
I wish! I wish! I wish!
For in you...

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Anti-Poem — “Baxter Street Monday”

me trudging walking
gripping onward forward 
traipsing baxter street monday 
and its steep inclines
going up like a dizzy sparrow
passing vertical merry go rounds 
the sly moulin rouge turnabouts 
that sip spit with...

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Frank Lane

1877-1913

RS was my best friend,

A friend ever to the end.

Together we footed and mounted 

The pliant limbs of the Hybrid Tree

On County Road,

And wetfully whistled,

As with birds in the warm zephyrs 

Of summer solstice,

At...

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In the tapestry of time, where friendships bloom,
Mes amis, like petals, dispelling life's gloom.
Brothers, firm anchors in the sea of existence,
Une soeur agaçante, a tempest, a relentless insistence.

Parents, the roots, firmly grounding my being,
Leaves of...

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There is a body stronger than the flesh alone
it is the body of your love, that temple built of desire's stone
quarried from the chaos of your erotic emotions, shaped by destiny's moan,
where neurotic nerves, psychotic...

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Of blind cocks 
that crow at dawn
Dyeing, drying on 
the thorns of humanity
The Blood of non-creation 
and criterion of a nation insane
Inhumane and decimates 
to the red strains of Children’s games
Glory and praise the 
ascensions...

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slanting sun
kissing the ocean
her face torn
uncertainty
wide open eyes
arched eyebrows
an old bridge
life is beautiful
we were drinking
fermented red grapes

the passion the warmth
hidden the fire under the 
clear skin
i could feel i am resisting

temptation is passion
a fire wild...

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full moon of summer solstice
breaking the walls of hidden emotions
onder the bushes
passion of simmering under currants
revealed
profound impact of the divine wisdom
night of private reflections
heightening ascensions
patchy drizzle clouds engulf
darkness spread like a 
magic carpet
a dog barked...

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No Theme Chosen Mankind’s Spiritual Quest

An Acrostic by James Edward Lee Sr.

Numerous articles feature.
Other characters feature.

Traditional absolutes overarch.
Humans stop.
Evolutionary jumps move.
Malevolent spirits sense.
Erratic leaps spin.

Continual ascensions smell.
Holy ghosts culture.
Orthodox spiritualities character.
Sudden enthusiasms talk.
Earliest humans center.
Noble...

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A time for atonement is finally here,
where Jews become reflective about 
their lives,
wondering if they have been too critical
or permissive with lies,
Forgiveness and a change of heart come into play,
Purging, and cleansings help to ensure...

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Tonight I died Cold and lonely,
Caught between regret and peace.
Life hereafter for me will cease, 
but not from existence; 
Rather from cruel intentions,
inflected pain from a host of honorable mentions.
journeys of ascensions and descents into...

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