Long Hemlocks Poems

(for: them who are ever there!)

these branches and roots
that cord to the grave ancients
should be free from man’s swords!
both oracle and priest held for days …

I 
Your voice speaks in the silence of the night
To...

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Moby Dick, geometry, physics.
Study every subject everyday.
Homework is an indicator of future success.
Success is not necessarily happiness but it helps.
Freedom is to formulate your own definition of success.
Happiness is an imaginary tree, its own reward,...

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Diving into the depths of dams of disdain,
Scaling the seas, searching for success, 
To prove the truth along with the pain 
We endured and the challenges we have slain. 

When they see us devouring safe...

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Underneath the looming hemlocks,
the incline makes each step a strain,
up sandy earth and broken stone,
but I see sunlight up ahead.

Emerge upon a high ridgeline,
underfoot now is all bedrock,
scraggle pines peak through its big cracks,
throw shadows,...

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Spilled.
.
Spilled an ocean of hurt and anguish
Over my lost formative years
When my lonely betrayed heart 
So full of pain couldn’t take no more pain
And burst into acid burning tears
.
The frightened unloved inner child
That never saw...

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The thorny bush of resentment enwraps my heart and soul,
Suppressing the blooms of joy that try to spread their petals;
Like hemlocks, nightshades, castor beans, and oleander knolls,
It poisons my pure environs blemishing fine fettles...!

I'm enraged,...

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Two faces; two juxtaposed deportments; two qualities;
On one hand, past pains; on the other, future jollities
Janus, the Roman god of progress and dualities
Dwells with keys of the door, gate, and threshold formalities

I have it. Each...

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Your world collapses    A name shies of comeback
breaks the water for bare bones     unaligned   you
hunker down for the happenings   didnot fit

in the shoes of...

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Your world collapses    A name shies of comeback
breaks the water for bare bones     unaligned   you
hunker down for the happenings   didnot fit

in the shoes of...

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~Enchantment~ 
(Free Verse) 

  
Colored glasses spinning light, 
From tulips blooming very bright. 
Bedding glorious beauty past, 
As you smiled at me so glad 

Blessed Grace by the Most High, 
Zephyr flowers opened wide,...

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Thoughts honed to a razor’s edge
The dictionary and thesaurus be my whetstones
Set atop my stalwart quadrupedal aide
Pulverized hemlocks be my stationary cohort
A hewn cedar be cylindrical partner in rhyme
A sooty viscous slurry be my workmate
The...

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In spring sunlight won't 
penetrate the dense forest,
while the redwoods grieve...


Their flat, sharp leaves are 
dull, a shimmering luster  
gives them full life again...


The oaks suffocate,
their new branches can't spread out:
their wish suppressed... 
...

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