Long Cheek(a) Poems

PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met...

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I walk through the forest in the evening mist.  The
                        ...

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I am home ...

oh, my heart
      pray, hush its cadence
         for the sacred sake of unsated thirst
   beg its thrums...

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IT'S THURSDAY AGAIN ALMOST PENACOST SUNDAY AND HOLY WEEK WE GRAZED THROUGH ASH WEDNESDAY MY MIND FOCUSING ON OUR FAMILY OUTING TAKING FLOWERS TO MA I ALWAYS ADORED THE YELLOW ONES FOR MA AND TINY...

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Soft rose petals seemingly host my skin, feathers upon my soul. With every beat of my heart, my body trembles, falters with every step you take closer. Electricity delights my every fiber as your gentle...

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In the glare of a stalking spotlight, impulsively he moves 
As his eyes adjust to the mystery of the darkness beyond  
His animated monologue flows with fervent idioms sweet 
As a vintage wine its...

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(Written in 1970 when I was a junior in high school)

Kyle’s only three and quite the tyke
And he wants to ride a two wheel bike
But his mom and dad say he’s too small
And they’re afraid...

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(What an honor it was from me when a poet whom I greatly admire asked me to collaborate with him. I was absolutely thrilled! I love his work! This is the result of our "conversation"...

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Dushyanta was glad 
sage's absence
gaze at Shakuntala,
beheld her exceptional beauty
sweet demeanor 
flawless features 
freedom and humility in speech
She looked ascetic 
he saw the bloom of her youth
Dushyanta : Who are you?
O beautiful one ?
Why are...

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Chairman Xi Jinping you seek a new geo-strategical order

Sick of the blame game burden and fake foreign news

Like viruses internet hacking sanctions and accusations

Spew a fault line of tsunamis and earth shattering quakes 

Pacific surfers’...

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Deep within the night
I search for a light
Above my weary eyes, a star
Who's light lies not too far
Yet as I tread the globe
Darkness guards its trove
Only ever to see
Apart we will ever be

"Oh that I...

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how clever a peck on the cheek, a kiss on the head
a hug with a boa constriction for the parents i love.

how cruel this fate of social isolation, to stunt the breath
of this illusion, that...

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I jumped on my bike as fast as i could
but not fast enough, it did me no good

The bully kid was big and mean and acted very tough
laughing all the while he quickly knocked me...

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In this quite garden alone I do sit                           ...

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You take my hand and pull me into the dark
I shiver from the coldness as I look upon the marks

Marks on the walls of the hallway we went down
Telling a story with pain they let...

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The poet does not love you for your changing beauty, a leaf that shivers in the wind,
But for how the sun plays on the curve of your cheek, a subtle mirror of light and earth.
For...

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I seen you at your doorstep
when i pulled up to your path, 
wondering if it was the right thing
or was i being daft, 

when you came to me, you gave me a massive smile, 
throwing...

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What can I say about a person
who's turned me into their prey thing.
I've turned a cheek a few dozen times
taken on the burden of your procrastination
though always at a heavy price-

You look at my passiveness...

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As dark descends upon the day...
               When footprints park a kiss today.
The slight divide of lips young verve.
   ...

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She wanders to a dream, a place
Where weeping willows brush her face
Beneath the branches bending low 
She's walking where a garden grows

Grass gently sways, as cool as glass
And timid blows the warming breeze,
That fetches shining...

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Boast brownies baking
in dirty palm oil bacon fat
Sugar-coated swine vanilla cupcakes;
pineapple upside down snout snacks,
so coconut phone hasty ...
Sound-byte puff pastry

Flour-face teflon pan —  
tart marshmallow mint muffin
Silver tongue baguette 
spooning out citrus acid...

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Here I am awake again 
the night as black as hell
Is there someone out there
so dark I cannot tell
Mostly everyone's asleep 
there is no sound
there's not a peep
Am I the only one awake
it feels that...

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your hand lengthens down my barren neck,
i'm enthralled by your motivation to love me-
you whisper in my ear, on my cheek a peck,
i needed you back then...oh, can't you see?
when we met twenty years ago...

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In her tear and dirt streaked face
Her melancholy eyes still seek
Shifting memories that flit and flee
Shadows of the past still speak

A Spark of Hope for each passing glance
Searching for her love long gone
Rain or shine...

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The Perfect Painting


They said he could not put his heart
on canvas, capture time in a timeless
moment, allow his passion to explode,
and yet contain it in the flicking of a brush.
What is it that she sees,...

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