Long Break open Poems

(Warning...it has a sexual theme to it. You have been warned, innocent readers! Expect the unexpected in this one)

You have the nerve
To give me nervana like I deserve
Nothing's wrong with me
Maintain my lustful heart patiently...

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The Truth Behind the Eyes

The rivers of rapid radiance slide down your face
I try to embrace the words you write with so much grace
Fine flavors of flamboyant fires thrill my tongue with dire delight
The tingles...

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It was the kind of day you step in front of traffic, then dare fate to fold you up in newspaper headlines.  

Oh dreams came true alright, but you should have dreamed about not...

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My life, like everybody else’s, is a treasure trove
with a mine from which one’s treasures are derived.
The familial bonds we form are platinum; our friendships gold.
These are precious ores that most souls are born to...

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When we open our hearts to each other we allow grace to enter. It is as simple as that. And suffering — events that break open the heart — can become the refiner's fire that...

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The Peterson Directed Handwriting System...

Tis beyond the depth and scope
of this electronic post,
and author, what triggers deliverance
housing bounty full memory absorbance,
yet no matter how many

heat sinks plumb cognizance,
most ordinary happenstance
often dredge up old nettlesome
rusty mettlesome...

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What have you done to us my child?
I tore my body to bring you here
He wetted his shirt with sweat to ink your books
23 years of learning gave you a well-paying job
Your job gifted you...

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Line of Inquiry
“I wasn’t sure what it was he said but it meant a lot to me.”

When there was still daylight lingering,
And the wind was upon the leaves,
And every leaf trembled at its touch,
On my...

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I see three doors before me.
The one to the left is blue, a beautiful lupis blue
with ornate lacework in its center.
Parisian-esque, it looks likes an entrance to adventure
and inspires me with its sophistication.
I imagine inside...

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Once upon a time on a table lay an innocent little book;
Do not open it, a label warned, not even to take a look.
You want to know, don’t you, why so many have come back,
To...

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The boy ran toward the bedroom door as the smell of smoke rose into the air
The alarm went off and the scream of gasoline echoed into the hall
He ran- jumped- dived as the loudest boom...

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Through this barren land I wander,
Down the hills of yonder I fall,
Skies wide hiding treasure
Cast shadows toward the open,
Cleansing my heart 
With power to revive.

Toeing the line of shores of peace and waters of treasure,
My...

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Fated to Love


Best to simply weigh the heart with a poppy seed
Counter balance on granite
All its rhythmical surging
Its expeditious life
Amounts to nothing

Better then, not to believe in its enchantment
For it is fated to love
And do...

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They say the hardest shells hide the softest centers,
That diamonds form under pressure,
That the most beautiful songs are written in the dark.
I believe them.

I have seen mountains crumble into valleys
And valleys rise to touch the...

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In

Lullaby

I promise

A kiss so silent

It will fall with you 

Insignificant, yet unstill

Down, down, into darkness

Beyond streetlights’ white islands

Its’ un-kept pyres an’ broken-down engines

Into the dormant, deeply -feign of only memory

Drawing water slowly, from clouds beneath...

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Great thoughts are the great means we have
To rise from the lows and miseries of life
And soar high to the levels never reached
By those who never had to suffer the pain
The setback, unmerited, that fell...

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You disable me,

before my eyes break open.

You interrupt my Spirit.

Close me ’til I’m broken.

You hijack my mind,

as thoughts hammer

at my brain.

I am quaking on the inside

until just debris remains.

I’ve been injected with adrenaline.

Not at all...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Thirty-One

The Tent-Vendor’s son kept whining and wailing on the road
Such that none could even hear their own thoughts mocking aloud:
“Now what doth yon Sirrah untimely break open our...

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( An inquiry into form )

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There-                            Not here?


Start...

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Autumn comes in all its magnificent glory
yet it's just a pause away from winter
soon all too soon the world will fall asleep
everything seemingly dead and withered

Autumn's pause is a time to recoup and rebuild
enjoying the...

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wandering in wasteland 
of denuded life 
                desolate
sinuous track 
takes me 
to the terrain 
of nowhere
    ...

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Your one hand holds the bowl of golden wine
Your chin and cheek redden in olden desire
In your eyes are shadows of the hillside pine
In your glances exposed dance of fire

Of my wine cup animatedly full...

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is you cute?
or is you mute?
they like when you mute
drowning in a salty pool and all your sugar dilute
a grin they never wanna see on your face 
 a sad clown they wanna paint on...

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I remember it well that October night
Meteors aligned tipped like candelabra lights
I'm sitting in my outhouse under a hakka lantern
Yea, in Guangxi Province, pending storm concerns

Kinda spooky feeling magnetic electric zipping
Need to lay of the...

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Happy You There
Holidays awe -  That tine of year,
“you'll break – open your favorite bottle...
               of Cheer, soooo...
“Spirits high –...

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