Long Heliotrope Poems

“Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising”

Lavender seduces symmetry  
in her ever changing moods
slips into something more comfortable

a swollen tangerine sky 
moves its tongue over 
the blues of her violet harbour 

calling the siren...

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I met a smart aleck who was a god of lust
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SUNRISE
  
I  rise from bed and open the window.
Stars of  Cassiopeia  and small aurora are still visible; 
Venus hangs  like a lantern in the  eastern  firmament -
Goddess ...

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Likened to a bird flying 
a small flower
the color orange
yellow candles burning
the color of gold
vanilla incense on a Sunday

A prosperous existence.

Likened to a flower swaying
a happy bird
the color purple
orange candles burning
the color of fire
cinnamon incense...

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COLORBLINDNESS


I had a confused childhood  cos I was colorblind
But still I was the  logical  and persistent kind.

I would ask mum what color - maybe brown?
No, she’d say   - it’s beige,...

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         Pending next droplet, drip mirror spherical 
         Rolls speedily down leaf spine, drops sluggish
    ...

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Glorious hues arise from halo of morning sky
As dreamy eyes take me on a wondrous ride
Where cottony clouds scatter layers of purple
Adorning with shades of heliotrope flowers.

On my ride I visualize a celestial place on...

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Golden brown
and wafting
in the air,
mingling
with the
dust, flecks
of nothing
clinging to
the wanton
parallel 
streams that
dripped from
my nostrils,
burgundy and
thick
from a fleshly
gravy boat.
 
I was walking
around on the
base of my eyeball,
trying to see what 
it would feel like.
I didn't feel
anything,...

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Wan is the hiemal world outdoors, 
The biting breeze blows bitter,  
like a blizzard building in momentum, 
Cold creeps in through the closed windows,
But his harmonic heart is happy and warm, 
touched by tantalizing...

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Too fragile stems hold heliotrope heads
Taffeta flaunted purple pompoms preposterous
Let us lie on the grass, smoke cigarettes
Aft petal papering conjure new year's purpose

Behold from below the branches spread
Frilly dusk shock puffs, dancing shuffle clusters
Obscure wombs...

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Early spring crocus
Hardy purple pansies
Tall clusters of verbena
Vines of morning glory
Arabella clematis
Ornamental allium blooms
Lupinesque wild indigo
Slender wild hyacinth
Faithful canterbury bells
Dignified cattleya orchid
Vibrant effervescent cyclamen
Statuesque gladiola
Cosmopolitan heliotrope
Spiked liatris flowers
Grandiflora petunia
Magical mystic merlin
Unfurling crested iris blossoms
Climbing cascades...

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Grandpa joined the Royal Navy as a cadet,
he adored life on the cerulean sea.
Often we’d talk until midnight,
his sapphire eyes twinkled as he told me tales about ‘The Celeste’
I’d see photos of places he’d visited...

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We, in the heart of midnight, connected, 
Charged by electronic parables spun 
Through cables and channels of fragile fibre, 
Close-knit and ambitious to be as one. 

The amethyst drape of coffee shadows, 
Heliotrope hands of...

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A conversation with
ends unexpectedly 
    A cloud passing overhead
  The Darker Angel leaves his mark
on the good citizens
      In a cemetery 
a small plant reaches 
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Nothing eaten, nothing drunk.

Waiting, waiting.

The clock ticks on with hourly chime,
A dull metronome of passing time.

Waiting, waiting.

Food grows cold, drink grows warm.

Waiting, waiting.

Nightfall scuttles heliotrope claws
Across the ceiling, walls and floors.

Waiting, waiting.

Shadows cleave the paling...

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on the edges of darkness
morning sighs in heliotrope strokes
across the quilted ashen sky
as the sun masquerades
beneath the shadows outcast
from another impending storm

to a lonely soul, sad of eyes
duskiness remains 
beneath the fogged rims
of an endless...

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Red and blue blending
into liquid purple build 
spiritual tranquility;
violet energies
swirl into hues of
jubilation and unbound
elation,
euphoric ecstasy.

Lavender sprays
engulf the senses,
as nature paints her canvasses
with amaranthine song;
I breathe in her
fragrant love.

Heliotrope pinwheels
dot the horizon of my mind
and...

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