Long Drowse Poems

My dreams were of the dire Queen
I had allowed her reign over me, callousing my heart,
She was inside me, laughing
Having crawled in
My walls closing, as she filled my soul
We were one, yes for a time,...

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Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas

I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from its narrow ledge,
in the midst of ravenous rage and great...

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Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss 
Collaboration with Robert J. Lindley 

I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from its narrow ledge,
in the midst of ravenous...

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The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the strengthening light, 
In its deliberate and unconcerned   ...

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War, Is Unholy Hell

War is wicked rot and most holy hell
 man's evil is its murdering spell
Yet mankind never ever truly learns
 love and faith it arrogantly spurns

Poetry by the great Siegfried Sassoon
 glows like...

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God has got many paradoxical characteristics
For example
He is the Giver of Life
And the Giver of Death
He is the Giver of Honor and Prestige
And the Giver of Insult and Humiliation
He is the Most Merciful
And the Most...

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Sunday Morning
I try not to wake him, though he stirs slightly
As I crawl out from the warmth of the covers.
I'm tempted to change my mind, and stay awhile longer,
But a glint of sunlight peeks through...

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Our dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its porcelain thrones into the walled garden’s weedy rear yard. Village...

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LOVE AND DEATH

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The sun blowtorches its way into the water, 
fragments, and the bottom is an aqua sky 
webbed by white-hot lightning. 

Here and there, legs hang like halved mannequins 
disappearing into a squiggly-bright ceiling, 
through which...

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Untold  brutal tales of wives battered. 
World all over, violated wedding vows, 
in merciless kicks, her screams drowse. 
Black-eyed Cindrella, dreams all shattered. 

Injured love hurts... in horrific nightmare. 
Red petals pumelled in dark...

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We go for ablution 
Before performing Salat
And stand on a clean place for Salat
Because God is the most holy
Then we express our intention to do it
Since at first God wished to create
Then we raise our...

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ALWAYS. ********

Understand.  I MUST go
On these clearing acts of
Instinct and inspiration, these flashings
As they come.  For a blizzard has
Been moving in and the snow is
Piling up by the foot...So the doors
Must be kept...

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Fall back into lucidity,
A surrounding
Where there is no such thing as clarity.
The power that is confounding.

Your world is confused and distorted,
Nothing in order,
All is unsorted.

The only certainty,
If any at all,
Is that of absurdity
Seemingly informal.

You abruptly...

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Life is a flow…
A constant flux…
Relationships…
Are sometimes full of Sun,
And
Sometimes covered with Snow.

They sleep and wake as the Seasons do,
And a Thousand Times, we say ‘YES!’ and ‘SURE!’
And a Thousand Times, we say ‘NO!’

And our...

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I've met her at a party 
and I was charmed by her beauty;
her dazzling purity 
was like a drowse of ecstasy. 

I watched her dance with crowd around her;
my drunken soul became sober.
It was my...

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Flying by in broken
Thought. Eagles
soaring just below
thy midst as
ye role sweetly
to the west and
northernly.

Just aft a cooling
storm. Just aft the 
cooling of my
being form gifts
dropping abruptiously 
amongst the heavens.

Perhaps to drowse
another brethren
of man. To give...

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millions of words all neatly filed 
silently shouting please try me ,
open my covers escape to my worlds 
i’m so small and neat you should buy me 
here i could browse linger ‘til i drowse
under...

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Tale of desire and captivation 
That turned to doze of deep devotion 
She was a spark - my fervent passion  
For when she’s near, I felt a friction 

It was a day I miss,...

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With omnivourous appetite, 
across the Asian loam
she tiptoes in on felid feet
a coat of rust, fingered deep with sun and heat
not meek, yet gracefully, dripping tar
of black and white which neatly marks her form

With languid...

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Breezes ebb and rise as gentle as night tides,
tinkling wind chimes dangling from eaves,
their glass prisms flickering
by the porch light like moths.

They are my stars in sky's chasm.

Among shy notes played by a gust
birds adorn...

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O' Christmas Tree, dear Christmas Tree, you've given us so much pleasure!
Again you've graced our home this Yule Season with beauty we'll ever treasure.
How we look forward every Season to awaken you again from your...

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Overlooked beauty

At the backyard of my colony's lane
Crumbles an old banyan tree slowly on verge of getting waned

Not worthy of a second glance
An overlooked beauty as in forgotten time's trance

Pulchritude ignored by almost every passer-by
Sole...

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Version 1

If stars can sing a lullaby,
I shall fall into an eternal sleep.
If the breeze can kiss a goodnight,
I shall fall into a pleasant dream.
If the crescent moon can swing,
I shall dwell in the Neverland.
If...

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The tabby slinkily strutted across the yard
fresh kill held loosely in diamond teeth;
a turtle dove, its tiny head bobbing,
to the lazy rhythm of the loping cat.
A flash of pink spangled collar
around a plump, too fleshy...

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