Long Hieroglyph Poems

"BLACK CAT"



SILENCE
prowls on soft paws 
with sharp claws
Cutting up the 
Middle Road
Dark shadow moves 
SILIENCE
In absentia 
Empty Absynthe
Puncture wounds
Cold wind blows
Over tracks
Skids softly
like warm 
gants de Suède
on 
Poets’ Row
Rat goes 
Rat goes
Red scream 
scarlet ribbons...

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Lakes and beaches are wiped clean like a whiteboard, 
each day by waves, tide, wind.
Then marks of ripples and tracks provide transient tell-tales
of what has gone on since, of what is yet to come.
What caused...

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As Pharoah thought
Deep thoughts on Thoth,
He became serious
And thought of Osiris.

What of Seth?
What do Anubis and Horus sayeth?
Of Amun and Mut,
And panoplied Nut?

It may take me forever
Mused the Pharoah -
To invent the Alphabet
To honour me...

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Hieroglyphs and Holograms
         
             A hieroglyph
         ...

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A space inside
wounded, scarred, and growling
I invite her to this place unseen
touching all damage delicate
 knowingly heals with tenderness
   mending hands work over my flesh
      soothing with sensitivity
...

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              Hieroglyph burns a silent secret
Within the ancient walls of time.
A story whispered in a pictured rhyme.
Un-sanded un-sifted entity 
etched upon the...

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GAZA 2014

Which veil b
                locks o
    ur view  of the app
     ...

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Apocalyptic sight

 

Six pairs of Homeric children’s eyes
Over the tomb of ice gray world
Multiply my infinite sorrow into sins with no eyes or ears
In tangents of nostalgia
I kiss the death there that life suffers lung...

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Poets, do not give up
Whatever you write
Whatever you spit out
A genius will be up
To it somewhere. Someone
Will understand the tone
Of your voice, the hieroglyph
Of your thoughts, the myth
Of your vision and the dactyl of your...

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Everybody has experienced a turning point
It’s a natural part of life; it’s part of growing up
Life is a sleek roller coaster that goes down and up
There’s a Carrefour which we must turn to a point
To...

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Yon rock you represent me, once dust a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object
No, do I worship thee
your function, or process, I admire so easily
rock is a sign
rock is a...

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The ankh is more than a symbol or cross
It’s a sign of both physical and eternal life
Relocated from the land and death and dross
Men are believed to be living an afterlife

The hieroglyph stands for zeal...

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A visionary wandered lost one night
inside a tempest thunderous and strong.
He looked for shelter in a canyon.  Light
of moon poured down and bitter sweet of song. . . 

For as the storm abated, he...

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in the icy climates of winter's days
when only then, do the days grow longer
love slipped, careened, and fell away
balance and stability sway to reconquer 

and teetering on that glacial cliff
squinting at glinting diamonded ice
attempting to...

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Your heart is a stone 
inscribed with cobras, vultures, ribs and reed.
You say what I see is not what you mean.

You confound me with sounds. 
One word is a zoo 
with water that ripples—
an arm...

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