Long Bewilders Poems

True love, the kind that lasts,
Remembers to give, with an open heart,
Remembers to listen, to hear what’s being spoken,
Remembers to laugh, to smile, to kiss,
Remembers to embrace the music, the wish,
Remembers to hope, to inspire,...

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Glistening on seas of pearl like caches,
Pouring out music, softly playing
In the rhythms of beautiful, 
Still as the moon, who colors the autumn
In reflections of soothing, comforting
Tunes – songs blessed by the calm,
Lulling hearts to...

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Can’t help feeling this emptiness inside me
Can’t scream for help when I’m in this silent epiphany
It occurs to me that I can’t explain
What is in my brain, what is in my brain

Can’t you see I’m...

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Being with you; I am soaring high grounded in adoration…
Upon your departure creeps my secret resistance…
Suppressing, squashing my heart desires is voracious outside influence…
Telling me “Mocked will be your soul’s dowry” lacking acceptance…
So I love...

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As my wife once taught me
Women knew all about trimming
and cleaning
and harvesting the fertile forests of Earth
long before I ever thought to depilate my back
and other parts.

As my wife continues teaching me
I am not quite...

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Far away from the pain and hate
Having descended into the Darkness within
You wake alone within a room

No doors No windows-
Hidden from the world.

Balling up your fist 
Banging upon the bare walls

Crying out for answers 
Till...

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My mind bears the weight of you,  
a celestial gravity pulling our souls together  
in an instant—a supernova of connection—  
after an agonizing year of cosmic drift.  

It bewilders me how...

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Bring forth the subject
gagged and bound
I can unravel more about you in two seconds than a lifetime worth of research

Beautiful, ugly, whatever the outcome may be just learn from it
Knowing before knowing and taking more...

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does not think of herself first,
for her children are what matter---
would do anything for them &
does not count herself among 
anyone original in this,
figuring that
she put herself in this situation
so she must get through---
she walks...

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Written: February 27, 2024
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Dwindling diamond daub, an amber
glittering glow
diaphanous verism of glass 
and yet…
wreathed in wisteria-washed linden
a glimpse of
moon-pearled butterflies
fluttering...

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My numb soul. I peep inside its dark hole. Many sins done rinda! Now pay the toll.
Mad heart thinks. My mind scolds. What I have turned into. A man in monster’s fold
The ink of my...

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[ to the tune of My Favorite Things ]

Raindrops on dew drops and ponds formed by puddles,
Praising when phrasing bewilders, befuddles,
Nice sounding lyrics that don’t mean a thing,
This is what too much sun on your...

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The pages written in my book
Are pages made of second looks
They tell the days of happy sad
And sometimes sprinkle crazy mad

The game is played and often lost
By those who fail to count the cost
The dreams...

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Nights in white satin play as I’m looking at Vermont fall
The mesmerizing beauty touches my evolving soul
The trees like poplar, willow, birch and linden stand tall
Their boughs of leaves seem cascading like mountain waterfall

Hawk travels...

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Split Wide Open

The world of God’s miraculous,
 Imbedded deep with creation’s love,
Split wide open
With the lightning of grace
Fragile shells of human bondage
Cannot contain their foolishness,
Nor feathers in the whirlwind
Neither dandelion seeds
Of crystal puffs - dizzy...

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“The pathless path beckons us ~
To get aboard God’s bliss bus”
            ~ quote by poet


Energy highways in form
carry currents cool and warm,
through a network...

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Love hurts 
I won’t tell you otherwise 
it would then be a lie
a darkness so profound 
an animal so notorious 
fracturing our very soul with it’s transgressions
like an addiction on speed for those who dare...

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Rapids Ahead

I hear the canyon echo the cascading eddies volume,
Growing louder as I paddle closer to run the descent,
To enter the lake past water, hidden rocks and seething foam,
While an eagle soaring the gorge, shrieks...

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How worthless is he who paves violence:
Is not he who bewilders the land of peace?
With his thoughts, moulding it to corrupt the people;
In the interest of satisfying himself.

But I tell you: violence spells complete anarchy!
Of...

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How worthless is he who paves violence:
Is not he who bewilders the land of peace?
With his thoughts, moulding it to corrupt the people;
In the interest of satisfying himself.

But I tell you: violence spells complete anarchy!
Of...

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Now folks don’t get me wrong.
Carols are my favourite songs.
But times must come when 
A particular one bewilders me.
For on the first day of Christmas
My lover sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

Now the...

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"Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede
Pauperum tabernas regumque turris"
Death comes in many forms
And never counts the cost.

A brutal suicide bewilders,
Desolate are the young mother's children.

Carelessness leaves undiagnosed
The condition that kills a grandmother
And a family is left...

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Vibrant blissful presence, empathetic
Eager to serve whoever comes his way
Pure hollowed out form, always ecstatic
To the rhythm divine, in stillness sways

Spontaneous love bewilders ego
Throb of bliss brooks no thought interference
Flowing in gentleness sweet and mellow
Bubbling...

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