Long Fainter Poems

“The Scorpion’s Touch”

Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath 
like insects running around 
frantically out of time
we are magnified 
in our tight enclosures

internally observed
the external turns away
two heart...

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We were embarked on a fruitful mission, to explore a far, distant world,
In the halcyon days, since wars had ceased, like confetti colors hurled.

Our magical spaceship was comfortable, and it afforded stunning views,
Much like the...

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I was born 6 lbs. 9 oz. with blond hair and blue eyes. 
I was also born gay
I am anorexic. 
And you would think people would ridicule me for this instead of me being gay.
...

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'Love at first sight' ain't a truth for me
Hearts like mine are too robust to melt that quickly

Yet, more as I saw him
My childlike heart took a dip
In his ocean-like eyes in which I wanted...

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As I searched the calm sunless afternoon sky- looking for the humming aeroplane;

piercing the layers of patch sky under the fie-
shade of undense orange sapling,

as the effulge plane became fainter-
the hum louder; and the pale...

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My hometown, my lost friend,
Thank you for greeting me once again,
at a time when we both are lost.
When I wander your streets,
you also wander within me,
weaved into my thoughts.
Winding down to your core,
to the oldest...

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the bittersweet silent story of my life age
fifty and nine automatically rebroadcast 
     in indelible (yet never washed out) beige
indistinguishably linkedin, when counting 
     the last three...

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Behind your earlobe there was a birthmark that had the shape of palestine 
But they taught you in there that it was called israel 
In the hearth of your chest lied a heart full of...

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Old
Old is a key word
Old friend
Old friend come to the end

End
End is THE word
End of my old friend
End is REALLY the word

At first the news is surprising    shocking
The news is mystifying
My reaction...

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Ripples of love attended your birth
Your delicate mass bending space-time itself
A gravity well that I don't want to escape.
This event looms on my horizon,
And encompasses my being like a song
(Draws almost all of me back...

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Be like arundathi-vashista;
          Single soul adhering two bodies;
  An ideal couple, epitome of the marriage life;
   Travel together in the troubles and strifes;
...

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The voice was loud and clear
Whispering when quiet in his ear
And it spoke to him of evil things
That urged him to do what it brings

He heard it at school every day
Urging him on in its...

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Though we’ve been labeled the second string we will resonate the loudest.
The profoundness will be heard in our voice for we will speak deep and roar the loudest.
Ironic because our cries fell on your deaf...

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I see a flash in the sky bright as day and my skin tingles as i hear a crack in the midnight air knowing the white light of day will come around the storm that...

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You asked me what it felt like when the needle pierced my skin.
As if you couldn't see the pain filled expression on my face when the needle went it.
You side line, my thoughts pine, this...

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The ringing of phone awakes,
Out of slumber and causes shakes.
To the hand that finds it in dark,
And the ear where it finds it’s mark.

Eerie silence from other end,
And then at once it all begins…
Terror screams...

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I
Proudest of graves as get grey mass of moss, 
Where goats greedily browse young sprouts still green, 
The graves as get grey that had grandeur seen, 
Tallest of fames fade fainter with dull gloss. 
The...

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Woke to an empty bed
He wasn't there.
Overwhelmed by a cluttered kitchen
left from the night before
A freshly cut green pepper and lemon 
lying on the counter

He's asleep on the sofa
wrapped in the wine-colored robe I had...

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there they came without a minutes waste
and climbed up the ladder into the devils fate.
they sprinted fast here and there trying to save a soul from the death bed,
i saw him climb up into the...

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My nights are worn in coats of filth and dreary
   sometimes...the sound of thunder rumbles
far in the distance
   where I use to live
kicked out of my home at fourteen
for reasons I...

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(This is a fictional poem)

I used to think that those Rocky movies ruled.
When I saw Rocky win, that was pretty cool.
Those movies inspired me to be a prizefighter.
Many times I couldn't eat because my jaw...

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The crescent moon overlooks
The pink taffy sky as it melds 
With the grey mist that rises 
From the creeks and gently rolling hills

I read a long time ago
To avoid criticism one should
Say nothing, do nothing,...

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An empty trace – part 8

The shaman held the vial near
it trickled slow into the glass
A shimmering this welcomed tear
as precious moments came to pass

He shook it slow with tempered stroke,
the gem, his staff, once...

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FOR THE LIVING   (ALREADY DEAD)


AS CREATIVITY WANES, MY SPIRIT, IT ALSO FADES ……

NO ROOM LEFT FOR LIVING
BUT I AM FAR TO YOUNG TO DIE
NO ENERGY LEFT FOR GIVING
BECAUSE MY RETURN ARE THE TEARS...

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One of the four pushed me back,
And there I fell on the ground,
No support for me to stand,
My heart began to pound.

They clutched my hands,
And tied it tight,
I began to kick, and run,
But just a...

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