Long Dimmest Poems

Inner Strength 

I gave up on me and never gave up on you. In the dimmest light, chance illuminates the real desire to fight. I could never feel justified or right, to take a stance...

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Line of inquiry:

“we look for that light eternal 
that does not come and go 
the screen upon which life plays
cognised in staid stillness slow”

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Blanket of stars mask a dreary sky
Haven of shadows, listening for the...

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The Night The Ravishing Vampire Came To Feast

She came with the wind dark as night.
Cried for love, in the bitter dust,
Her sadden pleas brought a strange must;
That solemn moment earth shone bright.
Her aura soaked into...

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A layer of my heart is shaved off every day, and no one is responsible but me
Why do I turn to letters to break a heart?  Can I not speak it with my voice?
Is...

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Ife my love I dream that time
Should haunt or hesitate to be
A whisper exquisite till it requites
With love every rose upon the sea
Then memories wake each crimson blossom
Sometimes aspiring till when free
If my love on...

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While watching Bill Reid’s wooden sculpture 
“The Raven and the First Men”(1)

One day, 
after the long and countless searches of bottom of the abysmal waters
with cycles of formation and extinction of renewed waves and ripples,
a...

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AH GREET OH
 
I greet Oh, ye grandmasters of stealth, 
In your cloaks of deceit nightly seizing wealth.  
With a handshake, a nod, in dark corners you deal,  
Your ethics as fluid as...

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“It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all”
For the gift of love is our human call,
Miles can’t hold you from what you desire,
Deep in your soul love rages...

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How I long for you,
My sweet blue moon
To see your face,
Sparkling and glistening,
High above once again
To see you in
Your brilliance of the night,
Kindly shining so all can see
In the darkness around
To see you, so
Beautiful and...

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We cannot indefitnitly avoid depressing subject matter particularly if it's true

        Deranged minds turned to genocide

            ...

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I was wafting above starlit crimson secrets,
releasing perpetual whispers into noisy ears listening
not to my kindness...
but to the shame I carried from NEVER BEING LOVED.

So, this folly I called hope became a thing I was...

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Written: July 1st 2023
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The rain poured down with gentle grace.
Washing away the tears from yesterday's face,
Every drop is a cleansing balm for the soul.
Healing wounds and making shivered hearts whole

In the dimmest storm,
A rainbow waits...

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If I must die, let it be before the break of dawn
When peace and stillness sway in people, homes, and places
When earsplitting music in alcohol selling places, cease
When even the foul and abusive drunks have...

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I wandered in blissful darkness;
My arm outstretched,
Hanging in limbo.

The hardwood floors creaked beneath me.
The rain pattered patiently on the glass
As though asking to be let in
To make acquaintance with my sodden breath.

So dark the woes...

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Ondine 
  
Ondine ...you are untamed Tonight 
A yielding Lover….You held me long before I was born. 
speak to me with the language of Dreams 
A Mystic Bridge between the Light and Mystery. 
You...

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There's a lady I know as pretty as primrose,

With innocence of soul,

   how I know ----

None whom has walked this wide world 'ere

   more lovely than her dimmest delicacy;

The sweet of...

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Night witches own the dark, as they sweep the skies on their knotted broomsticks. They take to flight, in pairs, on the waxing moon or new moons, when the sky is darkest, the stars at...

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Metaphoric Maze
 
Still damp from the wash of a waking dream I realize the pain from the past and how much 
its lied
Although not by force I was led to believe in the dimmest of...

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Crystal moon, hidden by the shadows, of misty air,
Cloudy skies float endlessly, all around here.
Blinking the suns reflection, upon the night’s mirror,
Some think, this is a description, of a night’s terror.
The beauty is written between...

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Borders Galashiels and Peebles
Sycamore Gap By Hadrian's Wall stood a sycamore tree
m cut it down for a world to see. Maybe the shoots will resprout
we heard an angler say. 

Her smiled signaled her excitement
she was...

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A long list of names with not a friend among them
Is it just of book of hidden faces
Forgotten faces?
Not a single word I've ever said was
written with truth
And here's the proof

When there's tears streaming down...

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The blackness; 
Thick and oppressive, 
Cold and void of all that is pure and clean
Like a horrid gaping maw 
Hungry to devour 
Even the dimmest of light shining within us 

Sinister and malevolent 
As it...

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We could have been the perfect pair,
love openly without a care;
secrets, not lies, made me more aware and sad!
You were already committed to someone else,
had kids and a handsome husband
within your reach;
the only missing link
was...

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a master of suspense, a teller of dread
he wove his tales where shadows tread
with cameras rolling and stories tight
he painted fear in the blackest light

a train in the night, a stranger’s glance
he’d twist the ordinary...

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Wake me up when it all ends
Please wake me up when my heart mends.
I don't want to see the dimmest light
I don't want up til it's alright.
Don't shake me up, or say my name
Please wait...

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