Long Mounded Poems

Born into a world with only one hand to hold
Delivered by eyes impassive to his existence 
cold fingers brought no warmth to his welcome
While no strength held him high.
The yearning in his eyes hollowed with...

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Sacrifice made when selecting abode
Unit not ideal, but affordable close to City
With a three year old daughter, I worried
About noise transference below and above

Three level town house style was unique 
Huge unit fronted four smaller...

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Minute by minute is my fleshy integument perspired, 
Lathered and lathed and laved in my own shiny sweat;
And my heart it beats rigorously and unremittingly against its costal chamber,
In the iliac region in which its...

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In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

- Excerpt from A Christmas Carol by...

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Herons fragment the mist,
appear and disappear while remaining motionless.
The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past.
A dewy sky shivers.

Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio.
This morning the sun reached the top...

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If I held a candle while the cold and dark wind blew
To light the way along for someone I barely knew
If I held a wise mans hands and listened very still
To know the things he...

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Brush bristles edged fine in light, 
As I fought the battle inside, 
A fine clothe matty was on board, 
Most expensive colors lay all spread, 
Other brushes and pencils cluttered the floor, 
I had already...

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How many years did I plant
 dig and dig up again and silently rant
where a flower placed here, should be moved from here to there
 at first, not well planning where 
this one or that...

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I live on the frozen tundra where cold winds blow
I'm never bothered by the amount of ice and snow
The thickness of my feathers are deep at my chest
like a downy insulated coat that's better than...

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Whit wet Vetted Splendour...

Pervaded mounded jeweled ground
gunmetal sky incessantly
pelted and did pound
asper staccato round

arhythmic, emphatic, melodic sound
to this clown,
who felt housebound
as precipitation reigned down.

steady rain quintessentially
patterned oodles of necklaced
mini mellow marsh lands
wee hour early this...

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Gone fishin' in a pool of bloody limbs,

With a skipping boat made of salmon's jello,

Unable to hold, I've been washed down a chute of ooze.

Springing into a mattress of milk-flavored syrup,

I like to imagine myself...

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Fallen needles soften passage into the forest.
Precise footsteps beckon her to him,

Like a portrait of symmetry in motion.
A kaleidoscope discloses awe-inspiring beauty,
As sunlight freckles tease fluttery fronds,
And stillborn dew splashes spongy mounded moss.

The green velvet...

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Beyond The Closet Door Of Intimacy.
.
Behind the locked closet door of intimacy
Two kindred glowing hearts and high spirited souls aflame
Naked as birth awakened by desire and fevered lust
Set restricted inhibitions free
.
Natural urges take flight
Erogenous zones...

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I sit in the sand
With my knees in my hands
Just staring out at the sea
Contemplating
The meaning of life
And maybe the meaning of me

For all that I've done
And all that I've won
Is that the meaning of...

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Through tall iron gates into total serenity

as past meets present, though undesired,

from consecrated earth of high fertility

giant conifers and oaks flourish, undisturbed,

sorrow and pain dispersed over green marbled ground,

labels engraved in black or gold where...

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rolling up
with pedaled breath
I came upon the mounded snow
that telltale shape
in streetlight glow
my prize! 
my goal!
crumpled bills, rising hope
I spilled off my bike
ran up that shoveled icy slope
cracking door, splitting light
I threw the cash, I...

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Door open,
hurtling loud and at full speed
towards my destination,
beneath me a blur 
of mounded ballast
and withered grass,
the world coming into focus more
the further out I look -
graffitied fences, factories 
still wearing the soot 
of steam...

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A cold wind shreds
into moans
through the gritted branches
of apple trees then quietens 
to a yawn rippled
across the waters of a lake.
Further up the valley,
half the trees have been uprooted
and mounded into bonfires
that smoulder through
a moonless...

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I stood as though reborn on mounded dirt which seemed so moist
it strangely could assuage the ache from my bowels howling
from so much hurt! Would ground then be my cure or a mirage? 
Enticed, I...

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It began with rain, pelting
yellow daffodils to the ground.
Sleet rode rain's coattails,
staccato dings on our windshield.

In the empty parking lot,
black-lettered buses stood
empty; no church today.

Through potato-soup lunch,
we watched quarter-size
snowflakes cover sleet.
Over hours of a long,...

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Papa’s Victory Garden
we begin

many folk began vegetable gardens 
in answer to a call from Ottawa.
be a good citizen help support
the boys overseas, fighting for us.

Poppa took it very seriously.
He asked the land lord
for a bit...

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Turtle Time


Ever wonder what they think?
You know, the turtles.
The throwbacks, the procrastinators,

“Land—water—both?”
The first houseboats,
heads sitting on the bow

guiding the cumbersome craft,
stalking the unsuspecting
in slow-mo silence.

Mud slide building
sun worshippers
living life in the slow lane.

Old folk
at warm...

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....happening a few hours north and west of where I live in Minneapolis


Bulldozers pushed earth into mounded walls all along the watchtower. 

Wild Sunflowers, roots exposed, gasped for life, uncomfortablysideways, faces driven into 

mud.Stun-gun wires,...

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I stood as though reborn on mounded dirt,
which seemed so moist it strangely could assuage
the ache from bowels that howled from so much hurt.
Would ground then be my cure or a mirage?
Enticed, I deeply pressed...

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Sunlight's shadows, breeze tumbled
Kaleidoscope of jig saw puzzles
Pond's wrinkled face, old and wise
Accumulated  knowledge
Fallen coconuts, lazy lay
Pink skirts, deeper eyes; hibiscus, oleander
Flirting friends, fat bladed grass
Green with envy
High stepping investigating crowd
Folded flapping wings, noisy...

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