Long Hideaways Poems

Psychologically still thirteen 

Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener 
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship, 
(whereby one or the other of us)...

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The Avenue of Gastronomic Delight

Down the broad avenue called Gastronomic Delight
City life gathers when twilight awakens;

In eateries, drive-ins, greasy spoons and taverns – jumpin’ joints jumpin’
Like Snoopy with his dish doing the suppertime dance;

Lured by...

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*** ENDURING ***

(A Part Two about my recent illness, following “Lunacy Loo Flies.”

Fear
Stepped into the holes of my weakness
To impede my pace to recovery, 
Absorbing the basic radiant light —

My going forth walk had previously...

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    "Highlights of New Jersey"



New Jersey is quaintly known as the Garden State for fun
with sandy beaches kissed by ocean waves beneath golden Sun
amusement parks and midway piers stream wooden boardwalk
arcades offer...

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I came walking on daytime’s wake
a pigment dry palette of dreams
filled my pockets with hope
digitally mastered visions of glory
fuel for the broken fires of passion
each step of the journey a trial
each path a temptation to...

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Imagine or actualize that at the bottom of the heart,
there lies a massive storage of feelings yet unspoken.
There's a room of secrets yet untold as we grow old.
They can only be unfolded if we dare...

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In the secret hideaways of my mind, where the shadows of thoughts dance their play,
I see you as a forbidden verse, a stanza from a tome lost in time,
Inscribed with words that, when read, awaken...

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P.O.E.m 2013

I.
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Pretoria isn't far from Soweto yet
Earth's curve still hid each from the other
As blind eyes denied the other's pride
Colored only, European only - apartheid
Eradicated, chance for understanding

Only blood and bombs could determine
Negro and white...

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In war, no glory confides absolutely.
Or is resolute in its righteousness.
Its essence holds no certainties nor goal...nor future.
Clear objectives fade... Justification merely a work in progress.
Clandestine agendas drive enmity across air, sea, sand and meadow.
Misdirected.
Towards...

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Hat gloves, boots, scarves, I thou chin t we Got rid of these already.. where is spring? It's not here : Minnesota yet, we are.still hearing of snow and rain, the weather man must have...

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******This poem had special appeal to me in that a friend had brought up that I had a talent for poetry and he encouraged me to write more. I was very proud of this piece,...

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April Love
April comes rushing to the shore,
bringing her joys in by the score
It's looking grand down in the woods
and the adjoining neighbourhoods.

Coming alive now are the trees,
filled with blossom and budding leaves
Scattered showers helping to...

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These Are Mountains 

Trying, failing, 
     second best, 

In front, behind, 
     betwixt, beyond

The also-rans 
     and hard pressed, 

Are destinations 
 ...

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First date
Is most lingering
And the most memorable
Happenings in ones’ life
Especially to anyone
Who has fallen in love!
When the first date 
Happened in ones’ first love!

It is an unforgettable
Moment in ones’ life, there’s the killjoy and the...

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The park empties
inside a nightgown of dusk.
They have talked
yet only now are they speaking
through a rhythmic articulation
of the unsaid. 
She a trembling levee through which
a river seeks a sea,
he a plow
in the hands of dark...

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It has been low, dim, and heavy,
heavens part, light swoops onto open waters,
the overflow of recent torrents
glittering sky-fish skim. 

Keep on driving as if the road were silver rails.
Right and left window worlds out of...

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As a child
I sat beneath my grandmother’s table
And listened to the stories and whispers
Of all who gathered 'round

If mom was in a really good mood
A cover could go over and make it into
The most exciting...

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Shimmering

                                  ...

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Gypsy Heart 

Gypsy heart aimless wanders galaxies,
Astral hideaways, callow time, fantasies,
Tunnels of amnesty – mercy’s galleries

Through agnostic atrophy heart agony,
Frantic nomad rips at denial’s repeats -
Cleaves to the rock of prayer’s sweet vitality	

Reverberating stillness parrots...

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Love affairs, wars, depression, gastronomy, obsession,
weight loss, job loss, don't give a toss, Bill Goss,
arguments, instalments, increments, incidents,
discension, derision, indecision, my pension.

Bad looking, dodgy cooking, let's make a booking,
sloppy dresser, second - guesser, more is...

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Like dominoes the vows did fall
Till there was nothing left at all ---
Promises and vows you never meant to keep
Constantly haunt me and keep me from sleep.

Wayward ways from yesterday
Have turned your world around.
And visions...

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Umbrella	

Under an umber umbrella
An utter utopia spreads 
‘Neath ultramarine skies
As undertones of ube unwind
Upon a wildwood’s uplifting reflections
Through undulating naked boughs,
Upon the hideaways of hedgehogs
An acapella unison,
Utmost urbane contentment, 
Unleashed on unkempt undergrowth
To unmask a...

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