Long Enwrapped Poems

This unhappy man, that was me, was always sad and lonely like a dry log in green forest. I woke up one morning, more dejected than the morning before, threw away the flower-embossed curtains off...

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These secret silent stillnessess,
wistful wispy whisperings
which enter through the windows in my heart,
I try to softly touch them 
and they recede, far, so far away,
I try to gently hold them
they slip beyond my grasp,
and so,...

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beyond what we know is the realm of wrapping
  can be no time, can be no space
  just stuff, bits and pieces, much coming and going
  the much going and coming base
...

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change is the object and lesson of life
answer to unhappiness, and purpose of strife
moments come and confront my expectations
people move through my life in tenuous relations
distant though near, self enwrapped individuals
including others to share theior...

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My chamber teems with tensions, taut, that logic can’t withstand,
fragmenting mental masonry with memories unplanned,
as bitter tears from hazel eyes reduce the stone to sand.

Dim shadows cast by candles flit across the haunted room,
beleaguer apparitions,...

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Beneath the surface of the perceptive mortal senses
the mind nestles the buds of dreams it desires to see bloom.
Allured by avid aspirations into insipid ignorance,       
it suffers wandering in...

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Clasping the bed linen

The old woman gasped for breath

And pleaded air to enter into her nostrils

She beseeched before the heavens

To pump back health into her

She sensed the fear of her heart

Embroiled in a war between...

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That was then….
When the tapestry of contentment enveloped 
the enthralled expanse exhilarated,
of the sensuous sky called life. 
When the fervent flight was friendly 
for the esoteric essence to fly fearless 
near and far like a...

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A Time For Us, Sonata

For our time has come when we walk side-by-side
and glance at each other with small talk and smiles
of deep thoughts of yesterdays
and not of things of tomorrow
as we both tighten the...

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I stand here by the ocean, heart in hand
          A tender place that you and I made ours
        ...

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Listless waited the farewell cake on plate, 
And all the rest, nigh too eager to leave 
On uttering polite words that came late, 
I recall that custom-built tedious eve
Called a send-off to balding me to...

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It was a sultry summer day,
The air lay thick and still.
The leaves hung flaccid on the trees,
As if slumbering in a deep sleep.

No birds were to be heard
For they were hiding from the heat.
The awful...

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In the labyrinth of shadows, where trees clutch the forest's shade like a hidden talisman,
Like old, diligent guardians, they embrace the unknown stories of the night,
Hidden under the petal of an ethereal flower, a hidden...

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In the moonlit night of dreams, 
on the maiden voyage of supreme grandeur, 
destiny weaves in the arctic waters a tragic tale. 
As I stand on the sinking Titanic deck,
and hear the symphony of despair,
the...

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Schuylkill Valley Encampment, February, 1778

Dearest Beloved,

This letter, penned with nature still enwrapped in winter’s shawl,
Might reach your hands by April, should it reach your hands at all.
Your parcel came this morning, now I take the...

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Floating in the flash flood 
of divesting dissonance pervasive, 
I see a verdant valley carved out 
within the entity of lonesome me, 
drifting away with the desolate sigh, 
displaced from the stratum of sound 
of...

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*Image of Horse Carousel by Pixabay.

Paradise Holds A Horse's Crown

~o~          ~o~          ~o~

Tis naught mere magic to be...

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SILVER SPUR'S SECRET 
 
Those roaring days, oh Silver Spur, 
When mining brought your birth; 
Among the hills you came to life, 
Men flocked to seek your worth. 
From far and wide the fam'lies came,...

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The ivory sculpture of the flotilla of clouds high, 
sailing in sensuous spring air in the cerulean sky, 
turns to a menacing fleet bringing sudden scare, 
changes life in the shadow of invisible danger rare.

The...

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In quantum mechanics particles remain entangled 
And connected over huge distances.
So that actions performed on one particle 
Still affect the others in the web or wave.
Einstein called entanglement "Spooky at a distance"
Because he couldn't explain...

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Submerged in the flood of maddening crowd,
I see a verdant valley carved out 
within the lonesome me drifting away,
displaced from the still stratum of sound 
of converging cacophony loud,
I dream attached to the unanchored mind....

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Autumn As Pictures, Sounds and Fragrance

Scenery either seen before,
Or only imagined in your mind,
Or felt in your heart,
Or heard without sound.  

Sound and sight,
Aroma and feel,
All captured by words written in
Dreams and memories.

The sound...

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Inspired by Shakespear quote “Now is the winter of our discontent”
(Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1)


Your face in the polar wind 	
glinted with the hues of sparkling snow,  
emitting the enthralling aura of love,...

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THE INEXPRESSIBLE…
Vocabulary passes into oblivious dissolution,
And embankment of expression 
Awaits the fragile knocks of fear,
Wholeness circumscribed the lonely emptiness
And the subdued self desires to draw 
The figure of its universe 
In the shrinking shell of...

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A Candy Storefront window, a passerby pauses briefly at the array of heart-shaped enwrapped in velvet reds, filled with sweet treats like years before. The same tricks deployed as the byway take point passing a...

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