Long Flashings Poems

IN THE JOY OF THIs MORNING
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(For Jim, to explain why
my tears can...

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[SIZE=5][B]To Ask My Mentor, Will I, Sir Will I, Ever A Great Poet Be[/B][/SIZE]


So like a eighteenth-century painting, her almond face
this year's flowing sky and sun flashings paler by the day
ghostly marble and statues grinning...

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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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1.

The summer's thunderings gather in brooding, heavy clouds
Soundless masses with shuddering voices
Calling through the untamed sky
Shaking above the meeker Earth,
Pillars of rain, shot through with flashings in their depths,
Electric fires running through the close, wet...

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The Firefly as Metaphor

Walk in twilight
Among the flashings of fireflies
Reborn from the earth below,
From the base of tall plants, to dispel
The fears of darkness, as their
Surprising orange -quick blooms
Twinkle the night shadows
Into a joyful game...

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Falling on earth, raindrops
Resound with nimble noise
And moisturizes those crops
With its damp aquatic voice.

Lightning astounds fiercer
Than the flashings of Sun.
It scatters hither and thither
As if it were a childish fun.

The roads mingles wastes
And sinks in...

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Is then the crown too heavy that I wear?
It is not made of gold or silver but of lead and mental garbage;
yet it is bright
it flaunts some embedded gems around it,
they represent some good things...

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In the darkness of the night the light evades me
Don't yet humble and it's flight the lightning bug winks at me
Do the flashings of the night the sun dissipates it covers itself with
While in the...

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Crescent Time Breathing

There is no reach by which we as breathing creatures of crescent time,
Can ascertain the crouching intentions behind an elm tree with acorn outbursts,
Designed to scan the visions of the seething statues which...

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Inclinations Of Fan

Ceiling fan mesmerized the day’s hypnotic flashings
Sunlight fractured through rotating blades
Someone must have traduced it with black magic
Or a switch turned on when we weren't looking
False currants of air, created up there 
Pretending...

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This winter storm comes
Without emotion, intellect, or care
Blowing its dry freezing air
Puffs up fallen leaves
Floats them up into the gray sky

Will it leave death in its turbulence
Trees uprooted?
Animals' den not warm enough?
Homeless humans without shelter...

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?
Ahhh!
Shhh!
lower case letters small intakes
breath across the heaven
lightening and storms
“whispers”
slowly moving rushing tree leaves
just what does this mean
lightening flashings rushingly leaves blowing
cat's meowing, wiggling worms
while in the womb a baby cries
“whisper”
Ahhh!
Lower case letters small intakes
breath...

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