Long Illumed Poems

As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and...

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*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been edited many times over the years. I consider it to...

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Hildegard of Bingen, aka the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German christian mystic who had visions of the Love of God beginning at age three. 

“Cry out, therefore, and compose!”—Hildegard von Bingen, Scivias, translation...

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Silent lake secrets of a summer’s evening
Beyond meadow’s grasses, rustled in bits of expectation
Light sparkle of reflected diamonds dance on shimmery pond 
Cool clear waters delighting the heart of Sister Raccoon and Brother Opossum

Devoted forest...

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The vast array of colored lights illuminated the jovial faces of the youthful teens
As Ms. Durmstrang antiquely waltzed with Mr. Chestwood.
I sat alone as I watched my velvet red date swiftly fly through the crowd,...

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Will I Recognize… The Face Of Love?
Or the Wonderful, Bedazzled Appearance of:
A Moon-kist Meadow, Hushed and Dark
A Solitary Silhouette, this Beauty Mark,
Windswept Grasses, like a Babe’s Soft Lashes
Rippling across Earth, that’s smooth as a Cheek.
In...

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The grain of wheat 
dies 
at Thy command
unconscious
of Your living
in its shell
turning it to life 
giving bread 
perpetuating it 
ages 
without end
nursing it with rain 
and sunny smiles 
from seed to stalk
a golden social plant
bowing...

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It’s not oft that I take flight through icy woods on a moonlit night.
More oft than not I would be sleeping when through frosty panes come creeping
Moon shadows playing on my walls like spirits dancing...

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The grain of wheat 
dies at Thy command
unconscious of Your being in its shell
turning it to life giving bread 
perpetuating it ages without end
nursing it with rain 
and sunny smiles 
from seed to stalk a...

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As I wished for a dawn -
The dewed leaf fell up on the miry earth, 
And the budding friendship blossomed with the auroral sky
The birds cheeped out of their ardent nests
And I greeted another new...

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On a frigid winter evening, so still
that hot breath lingered around my face.

In snow sparklingly dry and crystalline
I encountered fresh-made footprints,
leading off my mostly trodden path.

The sun was low in evening's sky
creating long dark spectral...

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Distrait within the dismal night
while drifting down deserted track...
Beyond the bend, a lantern light
illumed alone the vacant black.  
Such are the tricks that fate will feign
with passing trains in winter rain.

The darkling sky sighed,...

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hearing the word
              through
               the speech of God
said...

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A hand of sand in spectrum of flow of time,
ministering thoughts by simple pantomime.
So many sand-curies it has been,
and dessert hills moved gently keen.
Caravans slow vicissitude by blow of wind,
seasick on a camel ride pinned.
Motion...

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Lamp posts eyes
through cracks 
of curtains 
spying
sewing needles
through mine
uninvited
screeching tires
honking horns
sirens
plucking mind’s guitar
unstop.
Take me to the Sonoran
steal into a hut
while its inhabitant 
hunts
fall asleep in its belly
hidden
from rattling reptiles
hunting grasshoppers
coyotes  
the howling hunter mouse...

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You walked addicted on the sordid quicksand
as gripping as the demons of sin could ever be,
sink in the destined depth of abhorrent abyss,
wrapped in the despicable layers of disdain.

The wounds of evil slashed the moral...

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the longing
          for life
fragile
          transitory
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ACTUALITY

so remote
distinction
between
appearance &
where
 reality
   exists
illumed


self-assertive
yet fallible
 by
 mutual suspicion
insecurity
   &petty
appearance
but
unusually
interactive
&
 motivated
   focused
&purposed

perspective
 with the idea
of
love
in
 relationship
 so very real
with a  sense
 denial of self 
 capable
 of
genuinely
  telling
&
portraying
 a life
free to be

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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Lamp posts eyes
through cracks 
of curtains 
spying
sewing needles
through mine
uninvited
screeching tires
honking horns
sirens
plucking mind’s guitar
unstop.
Take me to the Sonoran
steal into a hut
while its inhabitant 
hunts
fall asleep in its belly
hidden
from rattling reptiles
hunting grasshoppers
coyotes  
the howling hunter mouse...

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Those old memories crash
     Like frenzied hurricane waves
          Upon our sand and stone beach
     Our sacred moment
 ...

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Woven perfection posh and copious
Threads of illumed infinity converging
Thrumming life in the Almighty breath
Varying designs of diligence and entreaty

Fading to an ominous melancholy gray
Selfish as his struggle becomes greater weight
Becoming vivid hope of unrelenting faith
As...

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The only thing better than snowstorms
Is watching them with you
So sit down on this blanket
And I'll bring tea for two

Could I interest you in staying?
I have an extra room 
I'll put another log on
To keep...

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Many times through many lives I fought for freedom of the mind
As burdens made by living’s curse ensured restraint of freewill’s kind.
Then something found in search beyond the rampart walls of prison’s kind
Revoked the parapets...

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