Long Minuets Poems

"Baroque Spring"


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I am the Winter House
Internally I am too too much 
I am eternal Baroque Spring

He watches his 
mirror twin 
and assigns fatal love
to the mind swing

pushing away feelings
logic surely is the burning
answer to...

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 Continued from Part 1 

The forgery of Multitudes between the Silhouettes
(and discarded cigarettes,
neath the haunted parapets)
mock my lonely echoed steps
         – mock my lonely echoed steps...

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Once upon a dusty shelf, half-hidden by the rafters, I chanced upon a fine old violin.
Quite surprised to find it, I could tell that it was old, and wondered whose device it might have been.

“Dad,”...

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he slipped into a dreamland
as the grass was turning brown
the king was in his castle
on the town he looked down
three men rode six horses
half of them for sale
and the undertaker hammers
down his last nail

the sun...

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why is so heard for a man..
to give the equality to a woman..
when they were even born trough one..?
why is it so heard to see a woman ..
as they see there mother whom they love?
why...

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As I stared at him lying there in his casket I thought of my dad. 
A tear of unfulfilled dreams fell from my eye, 
and like that in a snap, 
Reality was just doing what...

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Ever sense I killed myself on that horrid day....

You mourn my death from afar
You Speak of me to your friend at school, whats his name again, Jfar?
Up in heaven, I ask god to let me...

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Mary and Joseph fairly did it,
That night when they each gave, 
Everything to the other, 
In energetic zealous rave.

Heaven and earth co-aligned, 
Stars shone just on them,
Nature whispered unabashed,
As their voice was of 1000 men.

Morality...

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Music intersects your soul with mathematical connotations
It is both logarhythmic and exponential in its ability to heighten or diminish moods
to multiply or reduce emotions
to cause enjoyment as well as reflection or introspection
 
Music brings joy...

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I have a Dream 
Four Score and Seven years ago
The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God 
With Liberty and Justices for all
Send Lawyers Guns and Money
Follow the Yellow...

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Dance of the Spheres

As clear crystal fiery stars dance through the Milky Way
The music of Heaven’s spheres vibrates harmonies -
In dainty minuets comet’s trails and starry orbs waltz into the day.

With solar breezes astral tarantellas...

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So I had an appointment today to inspect a motorcycle in Stevenson. I pulled up to the house and walked to the front door then knocked. A woman opens the door and I say, I'm...

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With in all Your Strength
By: Susan Lynn Covington
Date: 17\2009

With out your Understanding and your never ending  faith 
In what i said was  given just to me and that was my destiny 
And some...

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Cho:
O friends forgive my hiatus that I wandered away
I miss the poetrysoup, and here is my life's lay.

My soul has come to rest at a dismal place
Where the winds no longer ripple the sea
The calmness...

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FOR THE UNSUNG MAIMED AND DEAD—2015 

On the ragged edge of brittle time, the paddle of life
Plays ping pong minuets of war and peace.
Yesterdays’ enemies have now become today’s allies;
And old war buddies are now...

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Ending moonshine      

We shall linger in the silence of the darkest of 
nights                 ...

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The call goes out, the horn it sounds.
                   Someones fight for life begins uptown.

   ...

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Down The Years 

O, my blanket smoulders, 
     too warm for you and I, 
Drape, my dear, your shoulders 
     and not upon your eye. 
Lay between...

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this noisy head i live in
it just never quiets down
theres some motherf#@ker screaming at two am
about some unpaid bills or parking tickets
and some other idiot going on and on about some girl that left
somebody is...

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13 Weeks, 2 Days, 11 Hours & 21 Minuets,
That's how long you've been gone,
and today I thought about you non-stop,
Its like that everyday
So hard to forget all of the things I loved about you, but...

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I sit in the empty school cafeteria 
Watching the floors being mopped 
By a dark skinned worker in jeans and a bandana
Taking in the smells of disinfectant

The tables and chairs are all lined up like...

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And we, the bad seed, 
will follow with impulse
of devil games in sweet
compulsions.

And we, the bad seed,
our hearts swell like 
filled balloons that is to burst.

Excitement shakes and eagerness
is never ending- one and one
crime after...

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I’m caught some were in the folds of dreams and night mares
I can see the ceiling covered in a thick blanket of twig light
I can see yet I’m not awake
My brain dose not process anything
Is...

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Halcyon – 10-6-23
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Halcyon

Across the still and placid lake
Halcyon drifts
 In misty cloaks of tranquility
   Stitched with twilight patches of contentment,
Bits of unbound moonlight
Bow 
      In courtly minuets
 ...

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Open lotuses of purple and indigo hues 
casting spells beneath lawny skies of midnight blue  
each brilliant star more sparkly then the next by heaven's roam;  

Like shooting fireflies and minuets of silent...

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