Long Folktales Poems

“The Apocrypha of Familiars” 

Wings hover 
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family 

highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique 
spiralling into shape

more black and grey
than white spills 
from their eyes
light from their shining 
hidden away

intelligence...

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** The Weight of Ghosts *
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We do not truly realize how
Our lives are so crowded, thick
With spirits and messages.
We are as yet untuned to know. ...

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In ancient looms of my homeland,
Fairies once shuttled across threads of rainbows
Weaving folklores of gods and goddesses.

Our tapestry needed no haberdashery of
Brabubahanas and Chitrngadas or a vijay panchali,
For no tantric-needle knitted our folktales.

I want to...

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Under the tree in Africa, we sap strength
from the songs of the sparrows before sunlight.
as we walk to the farm, the 
morning breeze brush our 
body from the billowing branches.
We pick up our hoes and...

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Unknown Nothings

Infinite amounts of prophecies
philosophies
sciences
ideologies
ideas
dharmas
karmas
and dogmas of 
beginnings
endings
afterlives
heavens
hells
nirvanas
enlightenments
salvations
damnations
repentances
reincarnations
meanings
purposes
life's suffering
trials and tribulations
creators and creators' adversaries
over-exaggerated
over-analyzed
over-interpreted 
over-exhausted
over-excerted
epic poems that have been canonized and turned into sacred texts and turned in religions spiritual philosophies
mythologies
folktales and fairytales
promisings of estimated...

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But wherever you are, I no longer want to be:
for you are thunderstruck moonlight,
and I am a scarred sunset ~ a secret in saffron,
melting into the myth that floats forever, 
within silenced dunes of scorpion...

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If tomorrow  never comes
my heart will be kept in your hands
you remember me when sword is seen by
my words will never lie like an eunuch wind
i tried hard to discard those ugly image of...

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Cliché’
"Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream", While I slept I tried to figure out how "death looked eating a soda cracker". It's very poetic yet makes no sense. No one stops to think...

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While we dwell to this dreidel,
I seek to know before a sear,
Even in the most ineluctable dandle,
The fruit to which may indeed bear;
In the imbue oblivion, I tell a riddle,
Most morass yet merely in fear,
For...

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There is an old tall tale told by the elders in the Village.
It says that the skulls come up from the dead.
That their bones deteriorate and the skulls are only valued.
When the moon is full...

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Sounds of music
are here, there, everywhere!
in this, in that, in that!
They give rhythm to everything around us;
be it the crack of dawn,
fiery sunny days, 
or mellow  twilights.

I hear the sounds of music
when the cock...

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A Sitka Sunset

Mute wind chimes on the Totem Trail
 Ring through purple mists in
Platinum testimony to evergreens adorned in dusk
And leftovers from raindrops splashing from totem beaks,
Cedar poles rise from dense fogs
Of myths and warriors...

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It was our first year
marriage redux-do-over.
I kept seeing this stranger in you.
I kept inquiring of myself
as we walked hand in hand
into yet another 'Red Lobster' restaurant.
Your name is - my name is
we are...

we were a...

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 The Maiden of Carbury Hill 

I remember a story told of a red-haired girl who never grew old,
who died when there came a great famine.
In one pale hand she owned a sheep's knucklebone,
the other...

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I invite you to visit my mountain
To drink from my fountain
To feel what gives my power
To meet the actual snake with a flower

I have heard stories of my demise
Folktales given by the unwise
Storytellers with no...

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I am the mother of chaos and beauty,
       You can either love or hate me.
       I behold the mythology of the Greek gods,
...

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Venue for brooding over Death’s mischief
While equipped with handkerchief…
Tears misty eyes shall unlock
Already by heavy heart unbolted
Over Death’s wasting clock
And angering daring of the Lord’s Promoted!

A masonry of slabs and The marbled
For impassioned messages, not...

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From the unravelled and now exposed mystery 
Tales of leafy Nottinghamshire
And the dusty tatty books of  it's long history
Comes a tale 
You'd think it was just a jest
However, it is a fact and true
With...

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Within the pages of a book
I find sanctuary, a quiet nook,
Where I often retreat and find
The kindest heart, the vilest mind.

Whenever I just feel like getting away
From the rigors of life on any day,
I step...

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She spoilt today
hotly, in haste;
digging her past
only to find
a haunting shadow
billowing behind her.
Living without love;
her salty fountain
reigns and rains 
only to refresh
her untold illusion.
The fallen roses
dried at dawn
only to divulge
her needless confusion.
It never lived
and cannot...

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If you were an animal
I could summon the entire village
On the hunt for you we could be
Only if you were the forest
I could set you on a terrible flame

You are something unseen
Where you are I...

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The Lupus 

Wolf, feared animal in folktales, is back in north Europe 
it was eradicated, or so we thought, but they have been 
observed in woodlands wiser than before, they don’t 
like sheep and rabbits...

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The summer has thickened,
it has turned the hare into a dervish,
the raccoon to a pantomime villain,
made mice sing in the beaks of owls.

The woods are bare now
trees rattle, grackles cackle,
blue Ice chimes in the deep...

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There’s an odd creature on my shoulder
that whispers when my head tilts right. 
When I am quiet it gets bolder,
when I’m bolder it gets a fright. 

More often than not 
it lies when it speaks,
and...

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Lithe, light and lovely, Luanna mourned her elf friend’s death
Wearing the flowers he had always loved, increased her grief.
The rest of the fey understood her predicament,
the meadow was empathetic, eager to help, enthusiastic about her.

Her...

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