Long Immobility Poems

Sinai Campaign, 1967

“Operation Focus” sees Israeli jets streaking, 1
Attacking Arab fighter jets and air force bases, 2
Thus attaining dominance over Middle Eastern skies,
While IDF ground divisions launch into action. 3

Israeli tanks (Pattons, Shermans, and Centurions)
Blitzkrieg...

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I miss my Mama
She left me too soon
I still see her in dreams
And even then I wonder
"Mama, are you going to leave me again?"

Everything she was
Seems to live inside of me
Her love for words
And rain
And...

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Shutting Down

I see them everywhere 
When in reality it is all over
It feels like it is happening over and over again
I can still feel them on me
I can still feel them inside of me
My dad...

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1  LONELINESS

(Message of hope dedicated to all those that have been through such an excruciating experience.)


Loneliness:
Painful
Agonizing
Merciless 
Unbearable solitude,
When you are present, Time immobile remains,
And
Each second an eternity of intolerable 
Suffering becomes. 

At such moments,
We...

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Carlos Bousono’s poem : Recordando a pastora imperio

                         for Damaso Alonso

(Poem...

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I am the environmentalist in love with wine,
my shoulders carry and reside in the cutting edge side of life,
the establishment craves to be the human race
while I stroll the memories of “Sailor fields”
amongst ancient Jurassic...

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Solitude:
Distressful 
Afflictive
Merciless
Unbearable solitude,
When you are present, Time immobile remains,
And
Each second an eternity of intolerable
Suffering becomes.

At such moments,
We implore Time to advance,
To accelerate its pace,
To hurry up

For

The next second
The next minute
The next hour
The next day to...

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In an irrevocable warp speed instant, 
my head collided into the likeness of drying tar, 
absorbing each horrid layer of concrete. 
That pitch-black, tacky substance covered my body, 
so that I was trapped, sightless, into...

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In my imagination,
My vision encapsulates
Dusk’s parting darkness,
 and silver clouds appearing between,
 dull twinkling stars.
As night melts to early February morn,
the moon lies half hidden in the dormant skies.

As the morning moon shines,
A murder of...

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From hunting comes 
From hunting drums
From hunting hums
All bright stars
Near and far
In New York or Trafalgar 
Those stars in skyscrapers
Those dazzling gold vapours
The government shapers
The controller of all papers
All go on hunting 
And keep counting
And...

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waking up to
what I thought was a
normal day
until I take a step forward
walking into
the invisible barbed wires
cutting into my outreaching hands
blood dripping down my arms
my face scarred
tears of crimson
i couldn’t see the limits
still can’t see...

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Shuffling along
with the rest of the herd,
noticing the nuances
of the livestock,
slowly feeling 
the numbing pulse,
       shake through my body,
twisting my soul
to match the cull.

It almost
    slips...

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Letter after letter
I imposed on your heart my will to love
Affection became sentences I still serve
Periodless
Upon the evening table of supper
And the morning counter of tea
Where loneliness impales me more
Each moment with you.

Letter after letter
You...

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Cupid, isn't this your day off; vacation time
February is still a couple months away
though I appreciate the service, the help
why have you shot another arrow in me
This was not my destination, not supposed to be...

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Light has left stains along the walls like shadows of exploded memory;
After images behind objects that glow with an aura of effervescence,
cramped and unchanged and rotting away in the corners.
A mind held captive-
A nostalgia that...

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Faint flame emergent from neurotransmitters.
The brain, a torch arranging patterns of awareness,
patterns of recall, encounters, adventures, and ordeals.
Covert consciousness realized in coma patients,
detected in vegetative invalids by the analyzers
of EEGs,  the probers of the...

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I look at it
looking at me

So silent,
so sinister this immobility

I smell
Something 
different from fragrance of her hair
no one is there

Perhaps out there
In the nebulous air
Where words live
Like birds
In a scramble of trees
Outside the brain
Outside
Fallen from...

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Discovered:  Two Ibis at the edge of the lake 
in compatible company of four Canadian Geese
who've absented the gaggle of twenty or more,
daily in command of our grassy slope where they 
come to feed,...

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she came from the sea
a determined wanderer

he stood on shore
rooted to earth

she washed over him
filled with highs and lows

his legs were thick trees
unmoving, solid
his chest withstood all
remaining staunch and firm

his immobility angered this female
she attacked...

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He heard a noise that foggy eve
and how his eyes, did deceive;
out in the lake, hovering there
a maiden with sword and golden hair.

Up to him, she did glide, 
cutting through the foggy air;
and handed him...

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Oblong outlines of a soul
Stretched in elliptical misery
Redefines the perfect circle
To a breakable volatile tautness

Loosely cloaked in sheaths of epitonic blue
Draped upon the shrinking body to hide a terrified world 
Dressed in swirling ominous patterns...

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Loneliness again pushed me to grab a read 
A read to kill ignorance and wander in the thought of another
A  Shakespearian device called for calmness and devotion of the mind
Oh! the perfect spot was...

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I felt utterly sapped to the core
  that glorious August day
  and hence decided to take a rest
  under a massive shade tree
While in such a meditative
  and carefree oblivious state...

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Difficult life


Life is life, hmm, yes, if we are still alive
This is a question only, a question, what is life
And what's for, and why? Freedom or jail?
Independence or freedom?
I don’t know
I don’t know
This guy is...

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Children cry.
     I cannot scream.
     Finding the itch is more than losing the twitch.


     Pain speaks every day.
     It...

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