Long Binocular Poems

- 252 - fireflies - 

      phantasy times dream
      luminous in the pitch dark -
      does not charge in rain…

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May showers are brewing underneath the clouds and the temperature keeps bouncing up and down the ocean floor and the pregnant skies drips water from inside and my heart is singing a sweet lullaby. 

Lightning...

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While walking I saw 
something move in the corner of my eye.
When I gazed straight at it,
it was gone.
But, on second glance, askance,
there it was, again.
To and fro, direct and peripheral,
it appeared and disappeared on...

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Oh, my dear oval faced owl,                             ...

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Cover me in feathery down,
warmth against winter chills and frozen  ground
leave me to sleep in deep refrain,
until tidal waves recreates my home again.

Step, step, stepping in deep snow,
Hobnail boot prints in trailing go. 

Full...

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Abandoned baby on the doorstep,
	    a post-partum 
        depression delivery

Pitter-patter sound of feet running away
Binocular scissors
cut the umbilical cord emotionally

Driving in the morning rain
to nowhere...

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I don't know why I love your smile
I don't know why I admire your style
I don't know why I appreciate your ways
I don't know why I want to carry your trays.

Through your eyes I can...

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a day we went round in cycles until our senses cracked open
our eyes into the vangogh
greens birched our ears smacked by seabirds gulls
gobbing off perchpolluted in our nostrils the toxic bay
and ozonescent that seaweed belches...

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Young fathers;
Young men
Left to be fathers
Of their own.

 Answering
To the call of nature,
they crave for some flesh
At an unripe age.

The prize
They cannot pay,
The pain 
They can't keep.
No Level 
But BaBa God
Dey 
Is their slogan.


Probable fathers;
Their...

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Hints not taken from countless missed calls,
and no replies to tons of texts.
Still she searches through social media clues,
pursuing like a hunter,
pondering why his green light illuminates.

Investigating google's archives,
she claims to be his number one...

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Why can't my blind spot see?
it’s shadowing me        in the eye's periphery 
edgily creeping              ...

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My first spectacles perched on my nose,
with frame and glasses, my first photo pose.
Optician cried," Wow!, Can you see clear now?"
"Oh Yes, my beautiful binocular,
I could see my world, all spectacular.
But my future still looked...

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LANTERNE PHRASIS 2
Coloured filled swathes,bands of
blocks,circles,squares&oblongs
attached yet apart in migrainous
views,grating abstract shapes
triggering stark sensations.A 
painted mist,emblems of the mind
introspectives that hover between
the abnormal & true.A light-dark unity of
pervading symbols in perspectives,
simple yet meticulous,weaved into
themes& threads...

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As I sit still in the still vehicle looking at the water hole with sure expectation, once through binoculars and again with normal gaze, there was sudden movement as a herd of deer approached the...

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Ships sail on the surface between sky and ocean,
water and air.
People toil and play, 
live and die
on the surface between sky and globe,
air and earth.
These two surfaces meet in a curving line
under the sun,
and when...

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Street-lights golden nuggets on a plane
I shimmer with anticipation
Aircraft dips left like a soaring hawk
Golden eyes zero in on its prey

Aloft and descending turbulence
Undercarriage open like talons
Binocular vision so alert
As screeching rubber thumps the tarmac

Decelerate...

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In the deep darkness of night,
They complete their silent flight.
With a flat face and forward facing eyes,
They rotate their head and neck upto 270 degrees.
Despite having binocular vision,
Their eyes are completely immobile in...

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I hurt so many,
Coming my way saying
I was loveable
Falling for me.

I knew love to be more
Than just binocular feeling,
I was looking for a love that lasts.

It was by design that
You would come my way
In my...

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A new species,
In the mist appears
Darkness disappears,
In his binocular spheres

Never seen before smiles
To conquer primitive fears
Overcoming basic instincts
To rule he was destined

The beauty of his offspring
Bright as a fresh ray of spring
An innovative, beautiful mind
Leaving...

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The Long Delay 

On glittering morning sea I saw a u-boat surface
covered in barnacles and seaweed.
On its bridge the captain looking onto shore with 
his binocular, scanning the land for enemy activity. 
He saw me...

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