Long Gathering(a) Poems

A is for Artists, ageless souls ignite, In Malleshwaram's magic, bathed in golden light. 

B is for Bard's whispers, stories that unwind, Connecting young and old, a tapestry we find.

C is for Children, curious and...

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memories
vast x-pan(d)s
BLue
Symbullic Prower
each let-ter numb
my hands
my oh my
the seimene

cognizance 
WHHO?

its all backwards
the wizard? states plainly

you should grow your hair long and sail the sea once more
with a handshake and a heavy chest being loaded onto...

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Science and scientists can be very divisive.
Some seek truth; others seek accolades.
My creator was such a man
Who made me to demonstrate his greatness
And denied me instead.

I am not cruel, uncouth.
In fact, I am much more...

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Eradicated, exquisite, hypocritical, and divine
Given your own heart --- but not given your own mind

Slaving through this lifetime to just rush to the next
Disqualified, degraded, and generation-hexed

Unintelligent, psycho, and deranged
When you open your eyes ---...

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TALKING TO AN ELEPHANT IN A TREE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I was stunned this morning saw an elephant in a tree
Motioning, trumpeting, hey, please come talk with  me
Tell me please, how in the world did you...

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Along the tracks of Grandma's quaint backyard, her lavender perfume reminded me of my early teenhood,
digging the soil to thresh the roots as I buried seeds through its clayed womb.

 In this late hour, my...

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Birthdays come and go
Some are looked forward to with great anticipation
And some anticipated with gloomy thoughts of time passing
But each one must be acknowledged in customary form
If nothing else, but to please those who try...

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Where I once said forever,
I then said not much longer.
Where it once felt like never,
I then got ever stronger.

6 months left became 6 weeks,
which became 6 days.
What havoc and hope time wreaks,
what mayhem and miracles...

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"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces." - John Ruskin  1853

Remnants of a Rainbow

Empty road
Winds the season of afternoon
Through still, anticipating, plains -
Wilderness savannahs -
Chases earth’s ever sloping curve
Lost in time
Under the...

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In the Australian vernacular
he was a ‘flea-bitten’ grey.
Not dappled like a dream horse
but speckled like a rock and not a 
fine large horse like Tom Cable’s
 roman-nosed, Major.

Dad had traded for him- with Tom -
two...

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Used by all to see the sights 
Centuries of power cutting through darkness 
Hand in front of flame as you walk carefully 
with candle light.

Strike a match lighting each wick 
The cakes a glow celebration...

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The Philippine Arena wakes in grand array,
For Summer Blast dawns on the twenty-seventh day
Of April in twenty twenty-five's bright sphere,
A day of pure joy banishing all fear.

Beneath the vast dome where echoes reside,
A festival spirit...

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A ferocious sky rattles overhead,
Gathering a vault in electric red
As lightning of fire grills my night, aloud
Like a mad howl piercing edges of cloud.

Rapid the hours’ flush deepening a smear
When sudden gusts of blatant winds...

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The sun has set on our harried noon,the owl
play elegy on the lintel of gathering  a dusk,
serenating sounds scour the soul,with searing rhythm of pain,
a ricocchet of cracking hearts,heard above the beatitudes muttered in...

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Gathering a plethora,
of abandoned blossoms high and low,
a covered basket and pockets full.
Light footsteps through shady trees
releasing dainty blooms for me,
nature’s soulful aliment like a
rainbow placed strategically
for a little girl's innocent eyes.
Blooms falling into my...

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Enjoying an appealing repartee
Over scones and a cup of tea
Belching whilst cooking
Avoiding chronic particles from choking

Comradeship amongst landed gentry and friends
It all makes faultless sense
Avoiding topics that’s nonsensical
Keeping a lid on emotions and remaining sensible

Being...

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MARCHING INTO MAY'S MEMOIRS

May, here
Many dead
Memoirs to share
Much more being said
Maybe these man-hunt here and there
Will be finally put to bed
May's dues is due
Many mates mumbles in fate,
May we maneuver through
Memories of many months
Making mask...

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I wish I could be someone else,
someone I am in dreams;
Because a dream is a fix,
deeper than any drug gets,
and for that it's something for which I fiend.
Maybe it's because
it helps me forget;
All of the...

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And who's to blame??? Riding supernovas trail across the celestial sky ~

Escaping the realities of which always fill these, my weary eyes....

Wishing to make a heart smile and or to brighten anothers spirit; inside

Bringing hope...

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almost every day
before the sun’s first blinding ray
clouds are touched by warmest hues
displaying their splendid red-soled shoes
each a ship of cumulus shape
far and high their tops will scrape
grayness off the blue domed sky
heralded by a...

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It was June 1st, 2002
that's the day I married you

We were united by a J.O.P.
but that didn't really matter to me

No written vows,just a few words to say
it was still our wedding day

With our Til...

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On late summer evenings,
or upon winters chilled looking-glass sky
reality will change its mask
just for those who seek their place.

For a few magical moments
space and time will unfold its sheltering tent;
and the margins of light and...

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Stormy clouds are traveling through your heart
And bitter grudges are ruining your happiness
Hate destroys and love builds everything which
Is beautiful. Get a grip on yourself while the midday sun
Shines on the neighboring hills and on...

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Welcome autumn with your beautiful
          colors and cool breezes ...
How I love you !
    And all those swirling  and drifting burnt orange
red,...

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