Long Beautied Poems

Solomon,
hate to disturb you
but I have a question.
If I could grant you only one greatest love wish
for how you would develop into your greatest strength
which virtue would you choose?

Well, thanks.
Great question.
Do we have such powers?...

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The campaign …
was over -
he, the last left alive on the
field of battle, and barely, at that …
his men had fought valiantly -
the odds were never theirs,
yet he was content in
their efforts, and more than...

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* This has become a fave genre for me, as I’ve always been fascinated by metamorphosis and introspection of a shadowy nature … I hope you enjoy it. *

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an eagle …

snake clutched in talons
flew across the sun and cast its
shadow beachward 
like a dark arrow … loosened
I watched it soar and disappear into the
fingery brume of the high fells
as a cold breath of...

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break …

my heart?
you did not break my heart
you COULD not break my heart
I utilized all the “Yous” that came before
constructing barriers that you,
in your most formidably malodorous
and vehemently vile self,
couldn’t penetrate in an eon of...

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* Imagine you’re a pirate longing for home, but your ocean is the Universe itself! *

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( form: treintados )


oh chant to me those...

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legions …

of shadowed purpose
they rattle the parapets of my flesh
morning paints the
stark reality that lays like shards of
tea-stained saucers before me …
an iniquitous army of intent
poised to scale the ramparts of
all I’ve bargained and built
those...

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How blessed was I to find you twined the foam
          Among the shells and spindrift you called home
        ...

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oh chant to me those ancient runes
      brimmed lands lost, long, to ices
         soft, sorrowed songs of gilded tombs
   their...

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A child shelters ...
Under a bloody, swollen moon
Yearning the daylight
Soft beams show the way
But there is no ember ... no brightened clarity
No warm-to-the-marrow saturation
It is beautied, like the elements of love
But it can not fill...

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A bandaged broken heart heaps more agony upon emotions and hurt feelings
carelessly tossed away in a wastebasket of ignorance and ill willed 
stubborness...

A kiss upon lips clammy cold and with a heart carved as out...

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A bandaged broken heart heaps more agony upon emotions and hurt feelings
carelessly tossed away in a wastebasket of ignorance and ill willed 
stubborness...

A kiss upon lips clammy cold and with a heart carved as out...

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       beautied panther, black as night
   through the jungle, prancing
 my machete longs to bite
dark and sleek
 grand mystique
   moonbeams bright, entrancing

beautied panther, steely gaze
...

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a book …

waits a gaze …
to feed the hungry
starvation by ignorance and ill ids
(neglect, the inadvertent symptom, devouring)
it has done so for time immeasurable -
edges faded to sepia and
ragged as a vagrant
but formidable, nonetheless …
the...

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That wayward heart so far away lost in frozen time of the mind's picture...
Will my heart be able to start itself? 
Will the beating heart beat another rythumic love beat for thee? ...
Or will this...

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broad strokes to ease that aching sky
          that shed its tears so hooves could fly
           ...

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That flowering petal is the flag to a nose...
It's signal's is it's beautiful but uncommon sense of one lone single rose.

Leaves often than naught fall all due to a lifely end...
This lone rose does often...

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I wonder, not, why heaven and the sun
        attend such lofty stations midst the skies
            come any...

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“A plum does not resent the hungry man, but the farmer who planted the tree.” - from ‘Bullet Train’

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breath …

of Aokigahara
shadowed … solemn
pressed upon twilight’s demise
as rouge on the face of dawn
like...

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late on the night preceding Christmas Day
I glimpsed a ghostly shimmer on the snow
and though the moon was shining in its way
'twas something more compelling in this glow

deep in it, I could see the course...

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