Long Lofting Poems

Haunted...
glowing foot falls on the dusted wooden planks cross the bridge
following them 
I swing around enormous trees 
skirt quickly...trying to catch up

were we holding hands as we walked
...did we hold hands?
I can't recall
but the muster...

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Soft as the lofting breeze, is the light of loving
Gentle is the moving sway, in the endless stillness
Of the human heart, for compassion in rheum’s
Perfection of the female soul of sisterhood!
White doves fluttering at the...

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What a World!


By Izunna Okafor

Tears roll down my cheeks
Beholding the palm tree I tapped 
From his knowledge of blue ink
With a bow, lofting off a huge gap

What a World !

Our intellectuals have all died
And the...

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I’ve been good for too long,
   my finger 
have become permanently curved
and I growl
     with every other breath
so in order to gain control
I release the beast.

Running into a field
...

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SUMMER NIGHTS

Sheltered beneath the moon’s enchantment,
Are the careless castaways, of the lost summer
Nights of innocence.
Released from the binding tethers of society,
These youthful spirits of the wild heart soar,
 Beyond flights passion into seductions
Nether realm of...

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Liars

Looking and staring
Singing and lofting
So agile and charismatic
All for the essence of the belly.

I've built mansions
And own exotic cars
But in reality a pauper
The honour is just for a moment but expires

He assaulted or raped me
But...

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Thirsting to touch the Spirit of Ages
Rediscover that which I did misplace
A sparrow that fell out of time and space
This gilded door, travelers courageous

Glorious songs, birds escaping cages
How strange to meet your mind and not...

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Grounded are the feet that be in the elemental earth
Bounded we the legs that keep the motion of walks
Rounded is the dirt beneath as the pressure begins to mound
Founded the discovery to uncover knowledgeable talks...

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I remember that day so clear
the white smoke lofting through the air
fumes from your past 
caught up to you at last
for all your sins you couldn't out run
slower than a gun
no mess to clean up
for...

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Tis' timeless this cathedral green
A constant play of exquisite transition
Lofting tribute with flawless composition
Unerring to the senses embellished serene

Above the hushed and restful peace
The thunderous water speaks aloud
And falls like torrents from Neptune's cloud
Transcending its...

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So, what does Nature
and Her Winter suggest?

that death is but a sleep
before a refreshing showery
sunny new awakening

that each resting kernel of being
is a blossom again to come forth
perennials of form with lofting 
scents and beguiling...

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Peering from Behind the Plume
A verbal sketch by Martin Braun
June 15, 2020

Peering from behind the plume
witnessing my brethren lofting from ethereal vapors.
Who shall share our divine song? 
   Not I!
Who shall sit on...

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Remembering the sky
                                ...

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A simple scene a nestling seeks the comfort of the night
to lay enthralled, engrossed,  in memories of past days,
the nectar drawn from rivulets that run past blackened lash.

A lidded eye roves left, then right,...

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Lofting
Under a
Slopping roof
With special 
Purpose.
Looking
Up towards
An upper story
Past the slope 
Of the face
Of your head.

Lofting
With you
My armored hero
With whom mystic words
Are spoken.
To whom's
Tender weapon
I am open
In this atmosphere 
Of wonder.

Aloft
So high
My soul's 
Been driven.
Exploding 
With...

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The simplistic beauty of a fair line
Arrived at through the process of boat design
Is the best example of perfection I’ve yet seen
Lofting  my lines and building pattern boats
Has further emphasized this opinion
It has also...

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Calibrated creation
sinew,
    muscle,
         instinct,
reaction,
      lofting us
by the enigmatic beat
provided by the machine gun drummer.
Bass rifts
   presented
 ...

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Lofting above the murky waters and darkness of our desperation
Guardians of clarity and protector of heart's and inner healing
Sentinel of our seas of strife to cure us with felicity and elation
Leaping from waves breaking boundaries...

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