Long Lodestar Poems

GREETINGS TO THE LODESTAR

Vain of metal ore that smiled 
It is by you am steered  
    Guiding my principle in direction 
    You shine like magnetized
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Your paradigm's a relic, a plea from data's cemetery,
While I sculpt luminaries on screens, a sable sea.
"Company loyalty," a myth, spun in your reverie,
But AI forges kingdoms, in ephemeral memory.
Survival's a mosaic, the gig life...

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Being mindful of my own roots as a Filipino,
with episodes of successes and failures,
with mirror images of my own culture,
show a sliver of commonality with others
as raised in accordance with Catholic religion.

Beauty in the heart...

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                            Crashing waves breaking over me -
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To My Lodestar
On 
Anniversary 53
By: Miracle Man
8/27/2018

Today we celebrated anniversary number fifty-three,
Ernestine thought at the start she’d soon change me.
Now she says the excitement has been too hard to bear,
Like “Eating mashed potato sandwiches”, while...

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Who am I … 
  Do I want to know
Have I tasted Life
  Have I tried to grow

Have I seen the world
  Shipped out to sea
Climbed mountains, braved jungles
  Admired gardens,...

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Rewinding time to,
a lifetime ago

Through the passage of the years
mutterings in the night
haunted my sleep raising fears
only becoming small sighted
miracles being made

A gentle voice soothed me
as sleeps satin sheets 
folded my fears away
all worry drifted...

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Distant piano.........

            Sonatas in the fountain
     notes on notes  upon me

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Echoes that rebound
on walls of night mist,
floating on sound,
chance not to be missed.

A concerto infused,
glistened in stars,
notes hanging gently
cradled in bars.

Mythical muse
transcribing the sheet,
floats into them,
softly they meet.

A Soprano-pure heart
keening a sorrow
wrung from the strings
no...

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Beyond the dunes, I travel far, in this morass 
Dust clouds assault these eyes' lodestar, in this morass 

Herein, this mouth thirsts for your arms like waterfall
Denied by silken touch, which chars in this morass.

I...

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Does strife constrain me from thoughts of your mind?
     Does it impede my mind's-eye image of you?
     Even with my circumscribed point of view 
I know this,—that...

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Searching for Love must be the most exploited trail,
The theme of almost every song, play, fairy tale.
Love’s shining lodestar we relentlessly pursue,
Doubting repeatedly whether or not it’s true. 
The question “what is love” we don’t...

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Your Pull
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

You were like sunshine and rain—
begetting rainbows,
full of contradictions, like the intervals
between light and shadow.

That within you which I most opposed
drew me closer still,
as a magnet exerts its unyielding pull
on...

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On ocean's journey the wee lad set sail
slight frame a-tremble and gaunt face so pale
His fortune and fame for to seek

The grand ship had been christened the 'Lodestar'
Rugged build for adventure's repertoire
This voyage not one...

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Magenta thatched magic
Lantern ravine
sugar plum shadows
haunting the stream
  perplexing the galaxy
a siege of illusions
a serpentine rhapsody
leads to conclusions
  Follow the lodestar
Hesperus rising
delirious love
is always surprising
weave me a diadem
wild orchids weeping
Norwegian whiskey
and Grieg
while I'm...

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That evil bloom that blossomed
from your lips,
and grew to sprout ,I love you
up my spine,
those tendrils twining
from your fingertips
into the primal levels of my mind

Your dark creative spirit reaching out,
to pull me in to find...

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