Long Climbing(a) Poems

Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine was at work and I always leave last in the...

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Strategically placed when raised 
Upwards
By your masterful and well 
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing 
Skylines 
That frown down with arrogant 
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous of 
This just and tolerant island.
To study and pontificate upon...

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The Body, the Mind and the Soul 

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There was a little boy
His name was Godot
He was searching for God
Since the moment he was born
He was lying in a crib
Woven from branches
Of dry hand-picked weeds
Staring in to his mother’s eyes
Listening to soft lullaby
Her...

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This is what it feels like to have your heart racing 
and not knowing when or if it will ever slow down.
Your fatigued body can not keep up with its rapid thumping against your chest,
you’re...

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Yesterday I went home for lunch
I never go home for lunch

When I got to our apartment I don't know why
 but I didn't reach for my key 

 I was sure I had locked the...

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Dr. Mark Hall undertook the task of unarming the rigged satellite there in the secluded part of the lab. He is trapped in a section that, due to an oversight, has no substation. He must...

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“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”
Rumi

My poetic beginnings 
emanate from silent suppression,
revealing evergreen verses hiding...

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Strange this all falls on deaf ears 
a mockery of justice twist whichever way you wish 
people killed in a hospital act of terror yes or no 

Where those blind cannot ever see 
the gospel...

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My Angel Spirit Bird Neelkanth                    Dedicated to Deborah Guzzi

I dreamed one day, 
I was climbing a...

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(A little slice of paradise, 2021)

A Good Day to Die

Every time I go climbing I think, “This could be the day I die.”
I also think this when driving in really bad conditions
or when flying on...

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You are the music in my ears, catching my very last tear                       ...

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The moon rabbit is chasing a man on the moon                         ...

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Life's lessons has taught me when and when not to speak,
It has also taught me that being silent doesn't make you weak.
Some things are better left unsaid,
Because at times it drags you behind instead of...

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A funny thing happened to me just the other day.
The friendliest cat came to my door wanting to play.
He was meowing like crazy, peering in through the screen,
As if calling to someone it’d been a...

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There is a place i used to go
a place i longed to be
i remember it like yesterday
and hold it dear to me
it is my young thinking tree

when i mustered the courage
to give climbing a try
my...

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At the edge of twilight's embrace, I found myself anew
Under the caress of an ancient wind, whispering forgotten echoes
I soared on the wings of a dreamt desire, chasing the phantom light
Climbing a staircase woven from...

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I drink privilege, I breath iniquity.
Everything around me wreaks of docile obsequisy.
I was a born a prince, of a minor province.
And ever since, I have often heard words minced,
By those below, who dare but tow
The...

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  #racism #love  


Mindless judgement

I wonder when racism is going to end.
I hear loud screams and cries. 
As if a… lightning beam hit individuals. 
 who seem to be walking without a worry...

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I want to explore God’s nature and its surreal sunset that I cannot deny
Again, He is our haven-like abode

I want to play in the fields of the unknown
I need to keep away from really scary...

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I want to explore God’s nature and its surreal sunset that I cannot deny
Again, He is our haven-like abode

I want to play in the fields of the unknown
I need to keep away from really scary...

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I’m writing a letter to you because I want to talk to you, tell you how much you mean to me, tell you how much I care about you, tell you how much I love...

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Like a finger and a nail, we have a relationship.
Nothing pale, but great as we make contact.
Like a key on a door, the importance we serve
As we mate like red imported fire ants,
We produce words,...

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Back in late pre-millennial times
of lava lamps
and Rolling Stones,
many searched for peak experiences,
in response to valley depressences
repressed
suppressed,
rather than panoramic,
even revolutionary,
resonant and resilient impressions.

Peak experiences were,
and still are,
I am told by those who've had them,
personal,
individualistic,
or possibly...

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sing a long now la la la la la
A thermometer dash through an eighteenth century painting is said to be as exciting as a needle sewing on a fifty foot blanket. But wearing shoes on...

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