Long Diagonals Poems

Embrace The Lines

Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water 
marks engraved...

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*** Sketching the Ballerina ***

It is well, quite well after midnight. 
My pup lies fagged on the blanket
    as close to me as possible.
The young ballerina sits slightly slumped
On a bench across...

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The checkered board, a universe contained, 
Sixty-four squares where destinies are feigned. 
A quiet battlefield, of ebony and bone, 
Where intellect ascends its lonely throne.

The pawns advance, a humble hopeful line, 
Sacrificed often for a...

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My guru carries a set of brass knuckles
you'd think he'd be all yes sir and no sir
but instead I get ahah hoho and egad
I can't do anything right on my best day
and I have the...

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Weigh the ideological anchor, set sail to the flexible space.                         ...

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Two Dimensional Love and Life

Some lines move horizontally
Others go diagonal
There are lines that travel up and down
They all make love within their set parameters
As is their culture and tradition there
Always within the lines, as is...

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DEVOTION POEM 39th ANNIVERSARY

On this stilled night, 
Dare I presume?

After a listening to the way
Einstein came to realize his
   Relativity realities,

Dare I presume to sit once overagain in memory
In a student center’s crowded...

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Every  time I remembered a tiny fraction of 
Mathematics,  there  would always be some
Monstrous mathematical computation  waiting
To fight me.  Yeah,  math was the worse BULLY.

THOUSANDS more steps a few...

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Sexual Employee

It clocked in at 7:02 am
No orifice in sight
Placed the time card in a slot
Made its way to a metallic table
Blank white paper on the top
#2 lead pencil, covered yellow, appeared 
One hour later...

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Zentangles are relaxing to me. 
Those spirals, X’s, whorls so neat
Zentangles are fun for thee
They give my heart a slower beat

Just take a small box, two by two
Drawing several on a page can be fun
Inches...

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On a sand less stepped on 
By many, I drew a square
Whose side is twice my height.
I lay on my back in that square
With my head tangent to its side
And with my feet on the...

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On a sand less stepped on 
by many, I drew a square
whose side is twice my height.
I lay on my back in that square
with my head tangent to its side
and with my feet on the...

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It's only Tuesday
Yet the whipping outside
Is quite lovely tonight
Hopes and expectations are
Aligned with fiery desire
Mulled with insatiable fruit
Steam arises from holes
Better meant for quaint beginnings Everyone traversing by diagonals And conquering marches
Disguised with vibes buzzing
Into...

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APPRECIATION
outlines
 of emotional
       euphoria
diagonals
counterpoint
   filtered
       light
 inflated
pointed
    angular
a comparison
      to extract
the permanent
an inescapable
pathos
   tranquil   integral
  coherent
in visible expression
   with formal elegance
restrained
   in an
    authentic response


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two...

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I have fun with the world of geometry
The square, the rectangle and the parallelogram
Oh' the trapezoid and the rhombus
The triangles, the isosceles and the equilateral
All are a great happy family together
The circles and ellipses are...

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I have fun with the world of geometry
The square, the rectangle and the parallelogram
Oh' the trapezoid and the rhombus
The triangles, the isosceles and the equilateral 
All are a great tight family together
The circles and ellipses...

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Doodle me your funny strokes of frog looking just like hidden Mickey
Or your princess that wears a tiara made of a plane triangle
Go ahead!
Indulge yourself! 
Fill my sheet with your vertical lines
Top them up with...

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Out the window,
diagonals and horizons
are riding hard between
the transparent.

The bold porch wrapping
a clean bow before the
grated metal fence in
the neighbor's yard.

The aluminum honeycombs
throwing shapes of
discord into the levels.

Green flutters spatter
against the breezes.
Flaunting more a blur...

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