Long Intermediate Poems

Sun and traffic - day economy.
Six a.m. drive to plywood mill. Too tired
to be angry. Each day a step
toward death. What is being accomplished? The
small satisfactions
within each day. Book consciously read.
And frustrations. Package dropped, honey...

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Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed

made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...

to stave off experiencing getting
chilblains, goosebumps,
or subjected to the blast of cold air
wafting thru the opened bedroom window
on...

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the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
  towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
  kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
  old and new empires jostle, reshaping across continents and...

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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) -

Our beloved youngest daughter Shana Aubrey
(endearingly called “Shayne Punim”)
still feels under the weather,
with symptoms centered around gastrointestinal tract,
though she lives in Bend, Oregon
(experienced her pseudo autonomy
before she completed eighteen Earth...

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THEN:
The first day of Ramadan,
We all gathered at your house
All year, we were waiting for this day,
For your stories, advices and prayers.
Except, your orders to your children:
“You level the ground,” “you spread the rug,”
“You bring...

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("The Cave of Unknowing", 2012, original oil)


Talking to the Dead
(aka musings on Jacob’s Ladder)

The essential message of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Is that the clear light of mind is revealed in death.
Due to our...

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The Prophecy:

An ordinary December morning
extraordinary hopes in white,
streets adorned with snowflakes
embellished in red crystal dreams.
She boarded her cab to airport,
awaited holidays had arrived.
From carousels of Tokyo city
to sledges in the Alps, a while.
Roads blocked in...

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Have faith that you walk in beauty
Trust that with Spirit, you are in unity
Experience the world as a little child
Begin again; you have been purified.

The force of the dark night insists and demands
You examine what...

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Triskaidekaphobia

And so, you have “Triskaidekaphobia” on your mind.
Indeed, fear of the Number “13” does have a real and
a certain palpable feel and meaning for people who
harbor this particular phobia and carry it with them in
their...

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Is it fair to judge someone based on their experiences in life and write about them?

I've been told that I express too many feelings about my past...
How can that be? Why would someone say that?
My...

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Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces 
(INF) Treaty nixed, asper (gasp) infinite
wisdom (quite unsettling) trumpeting  
commander in chief de facto gave green

light, thus signals fasttrack, sans arms 
race activating Armageddon churning 
noble nuclear warheads damn the...

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I climbed to the highest mountains
and swam across the seas,
thinking what's the universe,
this earth in it, 
and us, little brave creatures.
Wisdom I searched for,
not to be wise.

Like the air of the wind
and the light of...

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Magnetised emptiness 
As pulse of stillness 
Life itself throbbing
As Ohm reverberating
The very aliveness 
Of consciousness 
Present at any coordinate
In blissfulness sedate
Is-ness within the flow
Innocence all aglow
Constancy in all variables 
Renewal of Gods miracle

In & within...

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"Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house;
                          ...

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Remain receptive and objective
Though environment spins crazy
Twisting and insisting subjective
Attempting to drive away Daisy 

To coerce you to surrender
To wills and seals bent
On nurturing and culturing agenda
You feel reel Hell sent

Messages within passages manipulated
Slanted, blunted,...

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“better a rebel, a nerd, than a blind follower of the herd”
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Buddha urged to illuminate darkness
Set forth towards the closest habitation
His countenance aglow with luminescence 
Was asked by a passerby cause of his elation

Buddha replied...

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If Darwinian evolution is correct,
then there should exist a continuum of forms,
but what we see with a closer inspect:
that taxa-defining features are norm.

We see hair in mammals, and feathers in birds,
But of ancestral stepping stones,...

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I am teetering at the brim of progress 
The self I spend to be of worth
Is the same self that I had to earn

And to what end? 
I ask,
At what fee?
The ones that stand down...

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'Vanity of vanity, all is vanity... and chasing after wind'
    evokes a mood of despair, precious few grins
  Ecclesiastes is read in most synagogues on Sukkoth
    though it...

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Fingers pirouetting semi-nimbly on the keyboard
the intermediate ballet course of my muse
encoding the fleeting images and rhythms 
before they escape, a joyous outflowing

And from the rough direction of the office, 
or perhaps the Throne Room...

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The four lettered word spoken,
by your aggrandized soul,
has spiritually awoken,
revitalized and made me whole.

Your aura is a heavenly halo,
a circle of light above your head,
known for the warmth you throw,
I cry as your whiteness spreads....

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How happy is the imperial kingship!
And who is our just King, Jesus, Jesus;
A kingship is royal,  a kingship is regal;
Our King is Jesus;
a kingship is majestic, however,
Mercies reigns abundant;

As I’m giving joyful noise to...

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A Burst Of Orange
By Lauren Hardman 

For me,
Orange
Bright and new 
Symbolizes warmth 
Acceptance 
And strength.

Orange blends well 
With fuchsia pink.
The two colors 
Match up nicely
To construct 
Alluring sunsets
Along with sunrises.

Orange has 
An intermediate tone 
That...

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If cloth was a fitting and a rope was meant to be warn I have to,

Say I be the teller because I get to dress you head to toe,

See the sophistication of the clothes is...

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