Long Blazing star Poems

The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers

The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's" fair hair,
Shed history's warm light to chase away all care...

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All things that glow and move,
all things that change and pass,
I gather their delight
as in a burning-glass;
Judith Wright

The Queen's Conjurer
1.
'Given to magic and uncanny arts'
'Art mathematical' to make strange works
 Genius of movement artificial
Mechanical scarab...

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"in the guest house of the dead
where pain and mourn summoned me
a blood call of an impromptu visit
my dearest poem poked out itself
in an express tell, it loudly spell
“we fade away slowly and silently too…..”
And...

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The Wild One


I watched, as in a dream mist….

….after a day of rain, fog rolling in off the rocks of Lake Superior

Three large deer, nibbling moist leaves from sapling trees, unconcerned with my presence, 
only...

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In the fog of human sentiment, where shadows lose their form,
I see them drifting, those with weak hearts, cloaked in borrowed sorrow,
Their essence, a barely heard whisper, lost in the cacophony of others' cries,
They wander...

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White Devil

Call it what you want!
I call it, his favorite season hunt...
Two hoofs imprinted near the riverfront.
Echoes calling my soul with a loud, ferocious grunt.

I smell it in the air, lost upon the white golden...

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"Someday we will fly free ~~only this physical body prevents us."

                       ...

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The crystal white orb guarded the night
With sky full of jewels sparkling so bright
Mirrors etched in the tranquil black pool
Where underneath rests a sleeping soul

Oblivious to the stench of murky darkness
Echoes from croaks and jump-in...

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Her sweet smile is like the rising sun 
that brightens my heart when it is faint, 
like a brightly blazing star 
that sparks shimmer to stir my blood. 

Her sparkling sights are so divine; 
They...

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As beautiful as the purple flush of dawn,
loveliness broke on me like some rare flower,
eyes like mountain water that overflowing on a rock,
as bright as a blazing star,
brilliant and as hard too, as electric light.

Her...

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It had been a day full of miraculous detail.

Freezing rain played the ground like a kettle drum.

Trees snapped and flowers curtsied 
before engaging in a pas de deux 
with blades of grass on the stage...

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hello golden
delicious beautiful
sweeter than 
any breath
falling back 
a waterfall
falling fire
molten hot
into the core

twisting backwards view
eyes sparkling sweetest
of all jewels
ruby hot red
freshly scenting
blazing souls
air blowing 
across ocean breeze

inside out
spiced with salts
erotic flowing feelings
as night
follows day rising
sweetly...

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On a page, I'm designing a little nursery.
It will typically be a splendid moon.
Dreams I'm putting to witness bursary.
The space portrays a pearl, strewn.

The trail winds its way to this point.
Each day I assess my...

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Here, time meets space
In drama sweet
As bitter pace
Transacts and greets.


Here, joy and woe
Engage fond play
In precious flow
Come night or day.


Here, stop and see
The path of cheer:
Truth and beauty
As faith now steers.


Here, by the way
Seek out...

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Like some Dantean punishment
It descended in mid-May,
Turning my favorite springtime month
Into an endurance test.

We fell to sleep beneath a tide of heat
Rose to rising heat, uncoiling
From the roasting ground.

The heat was thickly wet though no...

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If love is our fate, let each moment be our journey,
let love be our guiding star to follow

From the moment we first met
our souls became a guardian of time
our eyes became the warmth that melted...

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She told me she loved Pushkin
and yet somehow, she loved me 
my gentle heart and purple prose
made her think of Mister P

Awash in florid idioms 
and romantic imagery,
my modest little poems
drew this blazing star to...

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Beyond the hills of Auburn
Past the river, through the trees
I found a secret garden
Pretty as you please
A field of red corn poppies
Cosmos and blue bell
Candytuft and blazing star
Bedecked a wishing well
Scarlet sage and tidy tips
Covered...

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Same old faces, Same old town.
I never got out I'm still hanging around.
Sometimes I feel like I'm coming in last.
Sometimes I feel like I'm living in the past.
People change as the years go by.
Growing older...

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Mother Moon, queen of the night;
guardian of her children;
you light the way so that they might envision
with clarity, not provided by daylight.

The formative years are spent
in your kinder care;
a seven-year nursery of enlightenment;
charted in ephemeris,...

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Her hand of friendship, not desire
Though we traveled roads long and far
My heart was hers for all to lend
She sought from life a blazing star

The years became a seedless tree
A love kept silent, never grew
My...

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Beyond the night I see a light that shines from a distant shore.
A light so bright across this black night that I cannot ignore.

A blazing star so far away that sends a sweet dream to...

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Heroes episode powerful like a blazing star 
His brightness shown across the horizon a star 
He is so bright and powerful he blazed The lawns 
He merges captivating burning the trees temperature rose rising strong...

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This heart of mine is like a flame 
Like solemn candle, it is tame 
It glows so bright against the dark 
In darkest pit, it makes a spark 

This heart of mine is like the...

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