Long Canvasses Poems

Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships

Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...

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          Corpus

                     in words 
designs 
...

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 [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...

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Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships

Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...

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 [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...

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Tossed my slippers, walked barefooted
through the alley of my wall where my paintings are adorned, 
saw the canvasses lined neatly on wall
where dim light of longings path throughout the hall...

Chosen good ones, brewed best
aroma of...

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SHOCKING!!!!!!!! WHAT? THAT?


Bad taste?
They know not what is at stake
They do as they please
Then later beg for forgiveness
A right sin
And a dismal business

Nothing is shocking anymore
To thump each other
They go to the extremes of bad...

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She lived her lifetime by the sea,
her life was one of symmetry,
the rhythm of the waves, in part,
matched the beating of her heart.

At every dawn she walked the shore
and wondered what she was looking for,
it...

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When the sky rains down in jelly bean lights
Colors bright, multiplying themselves through lightning bolts
Seen through their candy cracks opened loud
Like clouded green glass glowing thick
Glowing wide jello wavering in a blinding flash
Across the landscape...

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Boring is the passing of idle time,
when the day is long and the sunset delays
to dim down the taciturn sky with less luminous lights;
clouds have full brightness and incredibly become
whiter and brighter than they actually...

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"Mona, oh Mona, when will you ever understand

our mankind is not for your taking, as you smiled;

I had taken your hand." I had clearly witnessed it all;

Once I've seen sin in your eyes, humanity was...

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The soft paint brush delicately strikes
the right spots with uniqueness...
when your pensive glances project
with precision,skill and persistance,
to paint another image of reminiscence
and the colors are so iridiscent!

The features of that woman, so elusive,
are fine,graceful and...

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Behind a frozen glass window I peer,
but not for long despite the pending thunder,
to spur an inner gnawing  gumption,
I turn a chilly doorknob,
with great stealth born of winters  past,
sleet-ridden gusts, swaying tree leafs,
slippy...

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Some ride coffins
Black and slick
Completely round
The best of linen interior
For when your inbound
Four feet laid under the ground.

Some swim in tears
Blue tinted, salty, and clear
Drowning their cheers
Pain always living in it
Public with their lament
Swollen eyes...

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PIECES

Life is a puzzled piece
Striding to fix our scattered equation
We're all fixing our lives
Because none was plain & made on arrival
To this galaxy called Earth
We all came to fix our puzzle
Torn before the face of...

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Broken Seashells,
canvasses of lobsters
tossed ashore by waves
are an open cemetery
with endless laments...
as green seaweeds 
decorate them morbidly
if they were flowers!

I look around this beach
not frequented by a wanderer;
the strong stench of fish
is too unpleasant to...

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It is the origin and hope of a thousand children, the love that transforms young seedlings to plants.
 
Its breath canvasses the woods of the Zaire o'er the hills of Zimbabwe down to the lowlands...

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Three blank canvasses lean  against a hallway corner wall
Upstairs are boxes of paints, brushes and knives
Finished signed framed paintings hang throughout the house
Woodcarved dragons sit on shelves in homes across the world
Each Boston Whaler...

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Must you mileage chalk up in free verse speed way

   For Kim Patrice Nunez*, with hope

Must you mileage chalk up in free verse speed way
Let your wheels skid by letting loose grip on...

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Jackson Pollock
(American painter, 1912-1956)


His method – peripatetic, circumambulating –
would have baffled the old masters.
They propped their canvases on easels, giving 
them a standing equal to the artist.

Pollock preferred his canvasses supine
on the floor, as if...

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It is a dreadful burden to see
Life through the eyes of a poet

Rambling rivers become languorous heartbeats
Cloudless skies drawn as cerulean canvasses of god
Winter is now Summer’s slumber
Trees adorned in crimson and gold
A leaf forbidden...

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Goodbye, Phil
Why die, Phil?
Now we all cry, Phil
Your greatness, Phil, in not tainted
Most could recognize
Your paintings, prize
But who could see behind those eyes?
Writers’ group did
When you put pen to paper you took off the lid
For...

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Three blank canvasses lean plastic wrapped against a hallway corner wall
Upstairs are boxes filled with paints and brushes and several sets of knives
Finished signed framed paintings hang throughout the house
Woodcarvings adorn shelves in Germany, Florida,...

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Oh, those birds—there goes another one flying by
Wonder where he is going and why?

Of God’s creations, they are the luckiest in deed;
They can fly away whenever they need.

The birds are cast against canvasses of blue...

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As with people
Art comes in all shapes
and sizes – colors and
shades, are the lenses 
of distortion, while the lights
of revelation; textures are
our sniffing out, the soul like a
canine, on the scent of its
substance...

The novice starts...

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