Long Drumbeats Poems

Flint 
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...

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8. Transformation

Yielding to those who have mastered the art
Of grasping one's place in existence's grand scheme
Life’s constant challenges never depart
But humble diligence will grow the dream

In passing from childhood to adulthood
Innocence to responsibility
Firm new role...

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In the heart of the forest, where the ancient trees stand tall
Lies a world untouched by time, where nature’s whispers call
Tribal people live in harmony, with the land and sky so wide
Their spirits intertwined with...

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We will be the trustees of life's passions...
The villas of villainous Rome are burning behind me
from Capua to the Cisalpine Alps the skyline is smoldering from her savage sins,
monuments of luxury built, furnished,  and...

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YOU ARE GOD and I HAVE TO BELIEVE


My dear Father God above the heavens high
ever loving and ever faithful in loving me
even though, I am being sinful, stubborn,
and disobedient to follow Your call and will...

I...

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I am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious smile 
Trickles upward animating my mouth

How glorious to be here
At...

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brownian
    here I go~
       haiku number one

round and round
my thoughts and the fan...
full of air

plane up in air
can hear it-
touch the sky, why can't I?

dot to...

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I am a child of the universe.
a twenty-first-century woman
bred in the refinements of modern civilization.
   The universe story is my story.
I am fifteen billion years old, so it is said
the youngest of earth's...

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Ref. Tandava Nritya* please see my Blog posted on 17th Feb Tandava Nritya or the Dance of ...

Prelude  of this story is given in part 1 of the epic.


When the Earth was in danger...

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The night was black and dreary
cold breath hung in the air
trapped in an unfamiliar place
entirely unaware

that destiny would enter in
to change our well-laid plans
the rein of safety, tightly held    
would be wrest...

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The night was black and dreary
cold breath hung in the air
trapped in an unfamiliar place
entirely unaware

that destiny would enter in
to change our well-laid plans
the rein of safety, tightly held    
would be wrest...

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S t r e n g t h ~
a somersaulting sigil
you wear in stillness,
when the gold of ascending dawn
kisses the skin of sleeping sand,
when the skylark softly
serenades serenity for the unseen,
while I trace the running...

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In the setting sun the Sioux Tepees look like vandalized pyramids,
the Tetons themselves appear as though angels raped
by the savagery of centuries yet noble in barbaric beauty and warrior ethos,
a Scalp Dance is begun, torches...

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As the final glimpse 
of the sun leads into 
an everlasting spectacle 
of twinkling dreams, 
peeking through 
    turmeric traces 
of an amber aftermath, 
I listen to the 
nesting nightingales
  ...

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“Mad Mind”

I am seeing things that are not there; I hear my name whispered softly in the night air,
I feel a presence in this house, it follows me everywhere, 
I hear strange noises in the...

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Drumbeats, drumbeats, drumbeats
My soul is searching, searching, searching
My pulse is rising, rising, rising
My heart is pounding, pounding, pounding

I sit silent and meditate
Hoping for my sails of thought
...to catch the winds of motivation and inspiration
I have...

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Echoes from a haunting refrain
   buried deep within the corridors of her heart
   weave their tangled, worn threads
   playing on her memories 
like the delicate frayed strings of a...

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LOVE AND LUNACY

As the universe streams moonbeam vibrations;

Beyond brave blue skies dreams are tossed about.

Clouds linger to infiltrate the threatening calm

Dangerous moons practice divination while waxing or waning

Exuding more or less power,effecting evil attitudes of...

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The runway runs into her trained eyes
like a roadway that rushes red
into the dreams of her electrified soul,
she's so pretty in her disciplined perfection
a young body that knows years of rigor and ritual
with a mind...

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A thousand bees never settling down,
buzzed within his head.
Their confused drone, into a ruffled rumble grew, 
lengthening into frenzied drumbeats,
taking the might of roaring waves
or gaining the momentum 
of a plane, prior to take off.

Mind...

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“This is love: to fly toward a secret Sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet.” ~ Rumi  

Life can...

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Echoes from a haunting refrain
   buried deep within the many corridors
of her heart, weave their tangled, worn threads
   playing on her memories 
like the delicate, frayed strings of a lonely violin

Lingering...

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If I lose my path 
and cannot remember the way that I came
If I forget the sound of your laugh 
or the way you speak my name
and if all of nature's mysteries 
allude me throughout...

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I cherish the chains of her 
chocolate cheers, 
her chuckles charmed 
me like a cheap 
champion,
she lurks in love like 
lilly by the lagoon of 
love,
my flawless flower 
flows... so fantastical.

A celebrity so sublime, 
with...

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This goes far beyond poetry

here I go...

snippets of thoughts
to words
to poetry 

to hearts
touching 
to smiles
reaching eyes

I am grateful,
I am blessed,
for the friendships formed

of chapbooks and poetry books
to reading books, watching movies

of eating to cooking
…of chocolate,...

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