Long Bereaves Poems

How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces, has now become a slave.
Bitterly she weeps...

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Autumn brings colors to uplift "summer's soul"
"washing withered" greens with bright patina;
the eyesight delight which brightens and abets,
with "fiery fusion," new scenes old summer will accept-

highlights, imparted justly, as her season's last hurrah
while she leaves,...

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I am left with the human wreckage of my life,
My baggage of bones and clutter, spectres and desire
To slaver around and haunt me until it ends.
To look back is pain, to look forward is fear...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " Samuel Taylor..

I stand amidst the stillness of the graveyard and browse
My unbearable anguish like drooping flowers surge,
Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs,
While hungry birds...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs;”  
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For crying out loud, the flowers are gorgeous, 
Fresh, happy, young, alive, and vivacious.
Regrettably, we, humans, cut their lives short, 
From time to time, from events to events.
	
For God’s sake, let the flowers live like...

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For crying out loud, the flowers are gorgeous,
Fresh, happy, young, alive, and vivacious.
Regrettably, we, humans, cut their lives short,
From time to time, from events to events.

For God’s sake, let the flowers live like the monuments,
Let...

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Tyrants of the Ruling Sun

Let the universe swallow my slaving soul
As the sorrows surround the sinking shoal
The light lingers before it falls on my face
Edacious echoes engulfed will embrace

Sisyphean stars of sadness will defuse
The barbarians...

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FALLS COMING

Falls coming sometimes when the leaves fall;
I envision them as colored paper shredded;
Wind is blowing cascading march to the breeze;

Quietly awaits the robin as it sees the branches waving;
Joyously bereaves as the trunk is...

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i repudiate this clock on the wall
each moment frozen of time
lashes back in internal strokes
against my weary soul

its ticking erupts
like thunderous echoes
within the confines
of my tortured mind
on this darkened night

i slip 'neath the shadows of...

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My heart's hedera [†]
Like two paragraphs
It breaks [selah]
     between you and I
It breaks [selah]
     and aches just to look at you
It breaks [selah]
    ...

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You have apologized to the world
Now apologize to me
For I did not give a swine my pearl
Nor put sugar in the sea

What this house on old foundations
The thinking group domain
What is a beginning without inventions
Where...

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Compensation
Necessity lends wings
weaving silver strings.

Ways of the world
Not yet wise
learn to surmise.

Gamble
Roll the dice
pay the price.

Blind-man's bluff
Blind faith can
divinize a man.

'Till the end
Life is rare
tend with care.

Criminal
A barren mind
dark and unkind.

Fall
Cascading autumn leaves
my heart bereaves.


~09/22/18
~"Six-word...

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