Long Keep apart Poems

They come late at night
When sleep finds not its way to my eyes
When I can't reach out to your heart
When I can't hear your side of the story

At such time, the sky, with stars, is...

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Night brings us close unwrapping naked bodies
Of old conversation left hanging in the window
Of an empty house
This house had no tenant so long time now
You laughing from stern to bow
Your wine glass amazing pirouettes 
I...

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A Christmas present?
Not a Christmas present!
Dude anything but a Christmas present!
I’m beggin’ ya! Not a Christmas present!

“Give me my way or I’ll show my butt!
If you don’t do what I want, I’ll send a spook.
Give...

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Coronal Ruminations
		
Here is a war let loose -
a plague upon the frailties
of our unresisting unsuspecting flesh

another plague invisible
inspired in the very air 
invading passages where 
life would breathe

does our world seem broken now
viral failures magnified
rhythms...

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The God Behind the Curtain

By Mark D. Stucky
Curtains sometimes keep apart things that need connecting
and conceal things that, in their time, need uncovering.

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,”
the hiding humbug Wizard of...

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No one is completely good 
                            even a...

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Sinners, Publicans – Pharisees, Scribes
Unto neither of these could I ever subscribe

For I read of both groups in the scriptures each day,
And both make me feel to exclaim when I pray,

“God, I thank thee, that...

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The only thing that's sleeps next to me,
Is a pillow now and occasionally,
My daughter who climbs up into bed,
Softly on my chest just to lay her head...
She's the warmest thing that I ever feel,
So enormous...

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FRIENDSHIP
of FRED and ROGER
Free Verse

Like true brothers, for many years you’re friends,
From Calabarzon to Mimaropa regions
Sharing secrets, stories and laughters
The countenance of friendship forever. 

Yes, you’re growing old and your hair is gray
But your hearts...

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My lady waits in yonder tower
Trapped, locked in the room
I will prevail, save her this night
Release her from her gloom

She calls to me, I hear her clear
As my steed approaches fast
The power of that lock...

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Time like Tide, or so they say,
can wash all trace of things away.
But Time cannot wash from my heart
the aching left when some depart.

No Tide that washed upon the shore
could cleanse the wounds that time...

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I know the things and people keeping all
my spirit whole, the death of these
can only mean the death of me; the call
is blaring out the door, to me, to please

my appetite, I live to hear...

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The notes, oh the notes that soared above
The music to grab and hold the heart
A rhythm carried by the winds of life
Two things that cannot be keep apart 

So feed the soul with music then
The...

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In a field of flowers you're the one
Who stands right out, I catch the sun

Reflecting off your pretty face 
And onto mine, there is no space

That is too great to keep apart
This love I have...

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I know not how to guard a timid heart
from capture by the reckless wanderer,
to close it from emotion, keep apart
the helpless and the cunning conqueror.
I have not an impenetrable wall
prohibiting your entrance, have no shield
deflecting...

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Neath the surface of the lake
there is a magical land
cool blue waters with a stake
of reeds and plants in the sand

Small silvery fish dart
prey for the bigger fish
careful to keep apart
not wanting to be bonefish

Follow...

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