Long Nearness Poems

ONE NIGHT SLEEPOVER
The embers of the fireplace glowed,
We were all alone in the forest 
spending a family vacation
 surrounded by big, shadowy trees 
and a river that never flowed.
At first, I acted as though 
I...

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Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it corrodes your soul
To see how the stench that follows your...

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*** ENDURING ***

(A Part Two about my recent illness, following “Lunacy Loo Flies.”

Fear
Stepped into the holes of my weakness
To impede my pace to recovery, 
Absorbing the basic radiant light —

My going forth walk had previously...

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Psalm 27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

When the moon is riding the ebony skies,
Hallucinating stardust, laughing like the distance
Isn’t echoed...

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SLAVERY AND REPARATIONS
I am a descendant of slaves - from India!
Anyone who demands REPARATIONS shake & quake at my words
Competition? So, we have competing tales of bondage?
The Jewish people's perhaps the longest & cruelest,
With smaller...

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He paced the living room, furious with himself. What had he gotten himself into? Why had he agreed to Laila’s request to see her family? Here he was alone…all alone in the house with the...

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The THIRUK-KURAL highlights the role of the AMBASSADOR* as the King's Messenger-SPY: THUUTHU, Canto 69

[*THUUTHU in Tamil translates as ENVOY and principally connotes variously as: "messenger", "message", "ambassador", "embassy" and "SPY" (little wonder, today, we...

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You may have heard the 3rd class would dance
and many among them did not stand a chance
to be rescued out of the tragic Titanic disaster
but have you heard more of their heroic pastor

Who in 1912,...

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My intimate stranger

Why are we so far away from each others thoughts?
And we are not so thoughtful to each others needs
And we live under the same roof on the same bed
But our minds are miles...

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Soft rose petals seemingly host my skin, feathers upon my soul. With every beat of my heart, my body trembles, falters with every step you take closer. Electricity delights my every fiber as your gentle...

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The singing of the ravens catch my eye in the dead of night,
the whispering of pines reveal the lingering of my loneliness.
No other human can be seen, with two sticks a fire I ignite,
I scratch...

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"Hurt Is Not Apart Of My Love"


                       Oh! Here she comes again and...

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I missed you today. 
With an suddenness, a bereft slap across my skin.
When that familiar hair ahead of me on the sidewalk
turned.
And it wasn't you.
I missed you in the hollow of the moment of the...

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Much harder to bear
Than the absence of words
Was the silence of her eyes
There were no shades of love
In their depths
No dawning light of recognition
No glint of passion
No pooling of pain
In the form of tears
Nothing...

Her eyes...

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"In Eyesight, Earshot And Arm's Reach"


                 When it comes to seeking nearness to you
     ...

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-- The World of Opposites --
John Herlihy

We live in a world of opposites,
Nothing at all rings as it seems.
Emotion arises from deep deposits,
And we know little of what it means.

Things near often seem incredibly far,
The...

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The Way

“Oh God” I cry, “This path is not so plain and sure
And it is too dimly lit for my eyes to see:,
and though I trudge along blindly now my, Faithful God
my ears have heard...

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***AND NOW GOD BRINGS TO YOU… ***

Ladies and Gentlemen! 
Through the auspices of
Our Glorious God’s
         Creation  Company…

Traveling the infinite of Love…
 Across the heavens, then
Through our...

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My Chocolate Knight on a black stallion…
Riding into my desolate
Darken heart 
Decay

Galloping toward my disillusions, heartaches…
Radiating a hope of
Brighter
Days

~~

I wait 
Breathlessly
Hearing the pounding of his presence...

Desiring
The reality of his nearness
Sensing the soothing comfort of his...

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In the veil of twilight where shadows stretch,
A gentle undulation hides unknown truths,
Nestled in a silent celestial cloak,
A universal whisper, a boundless mystery.
Ethereal hues spill and slide gracefully,
Floating through the night's vault of felicity,
On a...

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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer

In the orbit of nearness, where hearts align 
Where synapse  evolves into a cherished...

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Dusk brings a primal knowing into my soul, I can smell the nearness of the watching ones. Animal is here, I have no idea if it be bear, panther, deer, quail or mouse, but I...

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In your absence, a ragged purple dusk stretches over the soul,
And is petrified, reliving at the frozen window of a heart invaded by silence,
I close my eyes, and the air becomes the cold silk of...

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Spring doth bring
Pairing of the loons
Apples blooming on the branch
Lemons scent, as birds so sing
Woods so wet, never ceasing waves
The tides push madly, crashing
Upon the springtime waves
Chanting and ebbing out to sea
Life lifting music, concertos
Sound...

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The spaces between your fingers were created so that my fingers could fill them in.When you hold me in your arms my heart and soul meet yours and are content.I love you the moment I...

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