Long Journeyman Poems

A Journeyman

Prologue and Epitaph:

I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone

1)	Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...

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Among an unnamed female person known within mine black barbed ken

Analogous to black box
holding untold secrets,
(after deadly plane crash
no survivors except 
a journeyman foreigner),
I share the following self
introspection with ye dear readers,
which purported hidden truths
might...

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The Great Escape

Perched on a rooftop terrace in glorious sunshine he watches ahead
Floats on his sky looks inwards and ponders the magic path unravel
           ...

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A journeyman once spelunked in a cavern beneath a marsh,
Whose oily layers of algae and water made his mission harsh.

For the cavern's entrance stood in the middle of the massive swamp
Full of gators with sawtooth...

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Are my eyes illuminating are is this beauty for real? 

I’ll like to indulge within this beauty and thou lips shall be seal,

No one shall know of the secrets that I keep,

For the thoughts that...

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On the San Francisco waterfront the sun is going down 
Upon a well-heeled journeyman fresh in from out of town. 
The sky's been drained of color to a somber shade of gray
As a new day...

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How have I loved    your laws and decrees
and your Sun       in the dawn of the morning
the orders that govern       the...

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Saturated with fish fry smells, Bar-B-Cue smoke,
rodeo dust and sounds of deep water blues,
with teasing frothing lace spread on the shore,
Gulf Coast birth breeze blew winds 
in sails to Caribbean Sea, Blue Mountain
berries, banana walk...

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The clown

Circuit circuits
moving round in circles
swings and roundabouts
junctions dead ends
living closures and 
beginnings

The fool wise man
woman child in all
posits mocks
understands the world
beauty horror
misgivings paths
ahead and gone
retrieved adventoured
learned felt inspected
long gone present 

Re-chisseles
comprehends in 
jest and...

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he had often aspired to being a jester
the wise one of Tarot land
cheekily dressed with wit on his lips

as of late he has been caught up
in irreverent lies and half-truths
tossed at him in anger and...

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BOXER

The late October day
marked the last of the tragic
encounters framed by the ropes
he preferred to the streets where a 
journeyman boxer needs more than
taped hands for the troubles he sees

There had been no title shot,...

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 A tangerine moon glides across the sky; 
I am enamored, of its beauty.  
Twilight expires and gives way to dreamtime enchantments.

A color swirl opens the door; 
behind it lay monsters.  
Faces shape...

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Me and old Bill Shakespeare
Both knew a trick or two
When lost for the apt word
We knew just what to do.
It saved all the effort
It saved all the time
Keeping the rhythm while
Striving for the rhyme.

Now Old...

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I tried to express myself like you, 
Your style, rhythm, sense 
Of pace and form, which floated
From the page with every piece I read.
It seemed your language was like 
A drug, that filled each recess
Of...

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We hide and could have died 
But we only heard the faint cry
Of the wind outside whistling aloud
As the devastation passes by.

From the darkness, we heard cries,
Bringing voices of the night storm 
Crashing through invisible...

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The Journeyman, Walt Whitman


Acrid smoke drifts over this lifeless battlefield…
Forlorn cries escape from his tattered journal, bound in silence…
From above, Vultures circle lazily, stung from below, the burning
Eyes of the gray-bearded one,  give them...

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In my many years before the mast 
I’d seen rocks and shoals conspire
To ground me down to powder
Till I was just dust in the wind,
And I’d never even been to Kansas.
I was useless as a...

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The journeyman on his journey
a walker walking the lonely path
Of thorns and pains
Scribbling his footprint on the sands of time
A compass for the blind 

In his solemn thoughts, he speaks aloud to the deaf.
Vivid and...

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We tried to hide and could have died. 
But we only heard the faint cry
Of the wind whistling aloud
As the devastation passes by.

From the darkness, we heard cries,
weeping voices of the night storm 
Crashing through...

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Sad Journeyman of Death

Sad journeyman of life’s unending tests
bides time in loathsome sojourn cross each dawn
respecting naught but future’s numbered breaths
a-weep upon the touch of bloodied thorn,

Aroused to madness ‘neath the scent of war
bathes in...

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Instinctively moving through time, my judgement results in my pain, at times it feels like this 
world is unfamiliar or just does not entertain my triumph. Too many days endured 
emotionless, thoughtless, does my heart...

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Mirror broken, shard's outspoken
Piercing, rupturing, into my heart
No prisoners taken, her life token

Devoured, as latest thirst fulfilled
Appetite quenched, now plied art 
As sly innuendoes, master skilled

A journeyman of no consequence 
Thoughts brims, he can only...

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The world unfolds at my fingertips
Bliss is found at the fringes of my vision
I wrap myself in white wings
Perhaps I'm a little egotistical 

A journeyman who thinks a lot
The greatest prison is one's own mind
And...

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Against stark elements this compliment of two;
Shrug buffeting winds and driving rains to go;
To hold a course for only fate to sway;
This journeyman with trusty beaconsphere;
Let none invade this very private space;
Her radiance and warmth...

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grandpa, a hard rock fisherman
and freckled fly rod journeyman 
eyed fish in the morning mist 
kissing with giggles and a lemon twist

said he saw a bobbing head
round and fat with tuffs of red
six feet tall...

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