Long Convening Poems

 
Erlenkönig also pushed forward the idea of the Council of Six.
Which was a wonderful idea in theory.  The council eventually became the
most powerful force in the Elfin Clans, one representative from each of...

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Several days passed when Joulupukki finally had a chance to meet with the council.
     “Seileach,” Joulupukki nodded to the Elder as he entered the council chamber convening once again on the...

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I loved my job as a botanist, which took me to many foreign lands,
Like the golden sun rises smiling, to meet all our natural demands.

I was always marked for this work, ever since I was...

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Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes

Livingsocial at 324 Level Road
circa post high school graduation
found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of time
within familiar four walls of his bedroom.

He preferred solitude versus
interacting...

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In the three preceding poems I penned quite recently
I wrote how I was thankful for my house, my friends…my family.

But house and friends and family are mere words that by themselves have no appeal…
What gives...

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DNA's cooperative purpose
for ego/eco-systemic mapping
outside convex with inside concave
is to unite our cooperative WinWin questions--
not to colonize
not to overpower
Earth's entire interdependent ecosystem.

Convening green ego-groups
framing healthy ecosystemic habitats
act in messianic/bodhisattva solidarity
patriarchal/matriarchal
West with East,
on behalf of whole...

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Virtuous revolutions
are like timeless whole system recycling.

When was the last time
you thought and felt
we cooperatively feel and think in cycles
while living in a virtuous WinWin communicating circle?

Rather than slowly dying off into more private mutterings
while...

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Perhaps the most inane entities contrived by the human race,
(Leaving folks wondering why they must meet in the first place),
Are the interminable meetings of committee, panel and board,
Convening for hours leaving participants bleary-eyed and bored!

For...

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From start to finish
today my sister and I walked the woods. 
We mimicked the wildlife and crossed the creek.
We told stories in the sunlight and shade
and peeped at the birds.

Thirty years ago 
these same birds'...

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To all those who perpetually write, sometimes between conflicted thoughts are reeling. It’s not perspicacity in you that you should seek, but the validity of your true feeling. A poem that to you may seem...

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Divine messengers from Elders past
beget humane muses of culture.

Prophetic win/win messages
perform and engage
redevelop and reconnect
guardian health systems
and wealth networks.

Proactive passionate verbs
pleasing domesticated nouns
together speak co-relational language,
recreating exegesis of re-ligioning life
spread and stretched between
flaming hot love...

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As we dance the dance of life…as with each new day all the world’s dancers are convening…have you ever wondered what it is…that gives our dance its meaning?

I’ve had the good fortune to dance in...

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Despite its proverbial might, the Glass Ceiling
Couldn’t freeze the dream God wrote on the page
Where my misery and the sad feeling
That in its ribald rage

Strove hard my priceless dream to delete and defeat
Breathing hard on...

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A POET'S CRUSH - collaboration with Linda Alice Fowler

But by grace do I shadow your form
from each darkened night to bright-lit morn.
You're silvery-white in my life's storm
hosting shivery thoughts yet unborn.

Would that my pen divine...

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Mary the dainty fairy queen
Wearing a pale white veil rarely seen
Trailing after her in meadow dale, light and airy
Floated gently to a brownie’s eyes, name of Jerry.

He admired her smile, the daisies on her head.
The...

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But by grace do I shadow your form
from each darkened night to bright-lit morn.
You're silvery-white in my life's storm
hosting shivery thoughts yet unborn.

Would that my pen divine such meaning,
enflame fiery feelings unbidden
that stun me dumb...

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Adorned with momentus meaning ,
darkness can be a terrible and scary thing  -
For some- a time of nightmarish convening
Yet to others - divinely rich beauty abound

To me it is a story to read ...

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Along the Muskerry Light Railway
One can watch the flowers bloom
It will not be much longer now
’Til the old town of Macroom

Arriving at the station
Collecting bags from overhead
To depart I am too keen
After all it is...

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This honing, chance does curve ~ is still within me
that love's advance does glorify not sinning
excites me more, as fellowship in winning
invites explore, a grace convicting inning.

This onward, toward ~ God's censure then beginning,
is some...

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As writers, our life is a book of how seductive our image can assuredly be.
It chronicles how effortless it is, to emerge as seduced off of any significant episode because of the behavior our society...

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No sun sets before a whistle calls
Inviting ears to the hat that echoes cries
With unlinsable eyes that rain oceans drowning the nose
While out still the whistle seeks replies

The crowd absorbs the deflecting sound in the...

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Many eyes saw me pass, as I rode by
My reasons have fallen, like a brick house with nobody inside
Myself, I am nothing, a mere echoing of You
Yet I insist tis’ our first meeting and that...

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Reddening eyes of mine
Now thine,
Swathed by the unfurled truth, though
Embosomed by the darkness of
Disguise, 
Now I shalt see what tramples
Inside…

Amidst a misty, ravening sky,
Convening ebony lies,
Contorting like rumbling thunder,
Veneering and shredding 
The dark, cobalt portrait,
Like...

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Wide-open smiles do not deserve to frown
Into the mist of stress and gloomy stages
For I have known laughter to sink and drown
Sentenced by cheek and bone to morbid cages

      ...

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IMAGINARY FRIENDS

Consider reaching up and
placing your hand in the
night sky
or seeing and touching
sound
flying furiously fast…
too high

summiting to
imaginary friends

Envisage palettes of neon
colours spinning out of
control
or eating speech as it
floats
bubbling inspirations
in scroll

convening with
imaginary friends

Imagine dreaming awake
navigating thoughts...

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