Long Enjoins Poems

The past can’t tell the future; I'd almost forgotten this,
The past six years had brought me higher yields than average,
Though expectations soared, now nada, nothing, zilch.
Our wheat fields decimated from the lack of rain.
And those...

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*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been edited many times over the years. I consider it to...

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A Flirtation With Love (Parts 1, 2, & 3 finis)
#1 Sue's Legacy (Has A Home In My Heart)

Sure, each touch that enjoins us to life has Love's sparks,
one less photon (warms retina), dies but informs
that...

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The cat disrupts her thinkable moment, by                            ...

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1. Kelly Lune:
silk rose under dome
opaque glass
thwarted love preserved


2. Jack Collom Lune:
the faded corsage
under a dusty glass dome—
missed spring ball

NOT FOR CONTEST
POET'S NOTES
The lune (aka American haiku) created by New York-based poet Robert Kelly (1935–)...

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I travel in my imagination to talk to the sky about the sound from crying 
 Mum, the coastal area erosion my interest to take the risk to talk the 
night gown glowing beneath the...

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I come not to enlighten you 
but in my way destroy; 
embellishment of personhood 
gives me such little joy. 
The dark I bring on wings scarred black 
shall blind the morning light; 
No trace is...

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S/he awoke won but foggy morning
with a benignly felt Conjecture:

Positive Psychology
is also Political-Economic Health Projection

Cognitive truth statements (+) 
feel aesthetically beautiful,
proportional.

Theorem (-,-) as not not Conjecture

False relational and transactional anti-reality
unreasonable lack of good faith,
feels aesthetically...

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All seasons come with grace and not all fall for them with grace,
Nurturing all they preserve,
What makes them different from among themselves,

We all are like seasons,different in all ways,
But commonality makes us alike,
We all must...

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A journey together,
Storms to weather;
Companions unlikely joined
Despite their task
     on this path which many ask,
“Why the battle?”
“Why the pain?”
“Does not God care?”

Martyr whispers gently,
“Surrender to Love’s grander plan.”
Warrior shouts the battle...

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Some time
before the biped thought
of history, he carved out image
of himself, and in the murky dawn
of consciousness, began to look around
to see just how he fit, and how it was
that he had come to be;...

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THE “M” WORD

Oh miss of bliss I must confess that I find myself in magic with you
The kind of magic a flute makes when it sings a note that brings you back home

To where simplicity...

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Oh, I can dream of you and toss and toss in my bed
And snap your crazy feelings with dizzying eagerness
And pump my ventricles for you in crimson red
Leaving me in a state of thorough helplessness

I...

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Red of fire

Reddish fire in place of loins,
Fiery hell to thee enjoins,
Kundalini coiled it waits, until,
Opened doors the chakras willed,
Enjoined to feet of clay.

Orange door is very bright,
Growing larger orange sight,
Fill your mind yes until,
Strength...

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Consistently inconsistent
Responsibly irresponsible
Flies among the birds
Yet the rat is his shape...
... The hypocrite...

The truthful liar
A pious criminal
Belongs to the two ends
Mouth: Two sided
Leaking words...
... The hypocrite...

Healthy but sick
Hungry but full
He is the foolish wise
Himself he...

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The laughter I laugh
In circumstances I weigh
Though they play tough
When without delay I play

The music tunes and melodies I enjoy
To delight my ribs
With tactful tactics I employ
When I visit congenial cribs

Where someone I trust
Enjoins me...

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Scattered Ash
         by Odin Roark

The urn is tipped
Scattered ash enjoins
Jetstream
Jetsam
Flotsam
Atop the winds and currents
Nature's gathering
Knowing not yet
The next evolution of life's decay

Possibility awakens
This consciousness beyond our own
This...

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(Dedication: To all readers and friends and 
the PoetrySoup community who find delight
especially in my Alliteration poems. Thank
You for your support.)
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Rich reason rhymes
Enter each etch
Affluence aligns
Play plunders patch


Real roaming raves
Endow embrace
Applause amaze
Prime precious pace


Reach respects...

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Kate Shemirani
You tossed your cape
Walked heart burning
A stand to make
You became by default
Freedoms M C 
And on the attack'
Calling out medical; hypo-cracy
Genocide in stilted tone; acclaimed
At davos' you helped make known'
Your fight and fervor 
For...

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Joyful O joy excelling
Feeling filling lips exalting praise
May the heartens live in malaise
Gnash under the ravishing heat like a praise
To him to whom they live to relive
In destiny thwarted, forgotten to have ever lived
All ye...

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A world gone mad
where up is down
and logic flees

A child discerns
but not the fool
enchanted by
his party’s stripe

The lady, blind
a thumb weighs heavy
on her scales

High, hubris reigns
over the now
unable to recall
the recent past
or to consider the...

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A Poet’s Desire
            by Odin Roark

Where go these sounds
These words
Sometimes written
Uttered
Thought

Such travels on phantom air
Where innocence floats lonely
Bearing wounds in need
Remedy in want
Scars in...

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Why, it hasten
As the clouds open
Yes, I’m afraid, I got no appointment
I need to acquaint
My problems are hard to understand
But just the same I’m emphatic and dream
Somehow, many things happen
There are lightning and thunders
They resisted...

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