Long Freshened Poems

Time for a road trip, my  dad, mom and us three kids all packed into our old station wagon. I guess it wasn't so old but it sure seemed that way at the time....

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Black Iraqi Woman
Written by Faleeha Hassan
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
Shortly before my father died, he whispered to me longingly: “Daughter, treasure this, because it authenticates your heritage to our kinsfolk!” When I accepted...

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Skinned shins on tree skins,
Space-viewed landscapes of rust and paint 
Showing mirrored continents imagined; 
Worlds within worlds at every turn, 
Outlines of Octopi on Oil slicked streets;
Every post and pole or stone a step:
Sat on,...

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CHAPTER 10b, Hiatus, continued

Till a pebble thrown by Matto
Struck the creature on its forehead 
And it hissed in indignation 
Slinking off into the darkness 
 
When the morning sun resurfaced 
In a spectral ocean sunrise...

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Placed Second in :
Sanctuary, Soft, Stir, Surreal Words Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France

"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.” Rumi


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Keats’ Nightingale

The romantic poets were too early to postulate total atheism,
And so freshened up the church by aligning god with nature,
And I believe they had a preference for nature over god or theism, 
Because they...

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To: Mandy Jo

She called me her friend. She was one of the few.
She saw in me things that no one else knew.

I was backward and shy, a chess club bore.
I had tape on my glasses....

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I woke up it was a sunny day
'Come for breakfast' mom would say,
I freshened up, then made my bed
Put away the books that I had read,
Just another day at school
My ride was here, my friends...

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Those years were freshened years but the sea
Was filled with stomach cramps, and with burning tips
	Against the psychosis on essential truthful belly
Vibrating of dying fishes
As they were jumping angry over the sun's rim
as if they...

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“Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever 
  penetrated into the ear of man or woman.”          Quote: E. M. Forster 
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Bold navy as dark and pure as the cold frosty night.
Chilled season’s symphony opens with eight notes come what might.
Short blast followed by long note repeated short followed by long.
Thunder has begun it’s familiar fifth...

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Cosmic Peace

I have been wondering
Ever since you left us,
What were your thoughts 
That early morn?
You were silent 
While you lay quietly on bed.

For the past few months
You had learned to 
Resign to your fate.
Your wounds...

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Heat creeps across unsuspecting December 
Screech of insects' pitch is matched to previous years 
Mirror humidity shimmer doesn't remember 
Last Summer a virus spread, inducing freshened fears
Wuhan's worst nightmare went worldwide, disease severe


Several thousand consecutive...

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A man leaps from a tower's edge
And plummets to the ground.
His eyes are closed; his hands are clean.
He only wants to hear the sound
Of wisdom of the wind.

The seconds slow as he descends.
Floor by floor,...

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how soft and sweet the breath of May
          so warms to brace the swallow's wing
           ...

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She looks so peaceful, sleep.
The room is dark, unknown.
Her eyes closed, visions.
The bed is soft, floating.
Her hands empty, alone.
The drugs keep the peace, relief,
Her mind allowed to wonder, confused
The time is slowed, meaningless
Her body at...

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The night is cold with all but the stars, to judge and criticize.
My newspaper body cloaked in ink shadows.
My invisible disguise; to all the passersby.
My odour, freshened by the night air, as my shoes with...

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SILVER TEARS

You say that you have long since
turned off all the lights but one,
the light beneath which
I have kissed you
while pearly dew glittered
all around us,
a breeze was blowing,
and the birds were not silent,
but singing at...

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the paddy fields are ready to be harvested,
green crops sparkle freshened by clear early dew,
water lilts its way through channels time tested,
first of South Indian harvests, brings hopes new!

the time of the year that sees...

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The beautiful, stoned wall garden
sunlight and barren but for a single rose.
Gazing at the stem  which bore a rose of such beauty 
his breath was stolen.

As he stared, the stem dissolved,
and the rose floated...

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Should I declare my love for her 40 years hence,
should it remain an eternal suspense ? 
does love die and wither with passing time?
does heart’s melody keep its youthful rhyme?
she is mother, wife to another...

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The beautiful, stoned wall garden
sunlight and barren but for a single rose.
Gazing at the stem  which bore a rose of such beauty 
his breath was stolen.

As he stared, the stem dissolved,
and the rose floated...

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She was haunting the wilderness of Night
With the darkness over her damned Essence.
Suddenly, a roving mortal caught her sight;
She had dark grimace on her countenance.

She ambled towards the forlorn young man,
She stopped as if someone...

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Sensation of Light (Linking Pin Sonnet)

Like a Venus flytrap, you swayed in the night
Night raising the mind's trace of soft flowing light
Light of fragrance as a sweet rose moves and flows
Flows with sweetness, challenging all...

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Creasing Out Happiness

My little luxuries of life I refuse to barter
With Solomon's or Queen Sheba's treasures
Its ecstasy bewitches and beguiles me
As pirates to laden vessels to surfeit

Scrubbed and freshened from bath salts
I prepare for my...

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