Long Observances Poems

"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades, except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen...

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"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly 
become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... 
it all fades, except love. Love is forever and thereafter, 
even when we've fallen to...

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Part Five

Some couplets apart
         much remains redundant
    even obvious
inapt by way of pointing to fresher vistas
  and those that follow the rarity of...

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"How fragile is life in nature's forceful wind..."
Dylan Thomas wrote of October gales
and their harsh, buffeting fingers. 
He called them an "autumnal spell."
Autumn...the season when leaves hang trembling.

Christina Rosetti's lines have been well read...
"Who has...

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Already the month
     of August 2018,
     May never become 
     a je June'm
     (Forget-me-not)
     time...

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Little known holidays occurring on February fifteenth...,
awaiting commercial sponsors to become...
what else...,but hand over fist money makers?
(http://www.holidays-and-
observances.com/february-15.html)

Excess Valentine's surplus sweet treats
and assorted paraphernalia
need not go to waste
said sappy accouterments
can be repurposed

quickly without haste
less pronounced celebrated...

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Are you there Benjamin Franklin?
Yes, I am, 
I live in the benevolent intentions of the Constitution   

When a malevolent leader appears who spouts untruths 
and offends the sacredness of the Constitution 
making you...

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"Alas, ancient Celtic festival of Samhain; 
When people would light bonfires; 
And wear costumes to ward off ghosts,
Yon fearsome hosts;
Halloween oh! Hallowe'en,
Also known as All halloween, 
All Hallows' Eve, 
All Saints' Eve, 
Celebration observed in...

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He wished it to seem magic!
He wanted there love to be at best pleasant.
More than doing cures and having favor,
he wanted romance and love, she appeased him
because she loved him: but more than that she...

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The stock of the rifle is hand-selected walnut.
I polish it with a soft cloth and occasionally
use linseed oil.

I dust a porcelain lady
twice a week. She does not need my attention,
but I give it.

My Nikon needs...

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It can't be known in its totality,
It seems to metamorphose and shapeshift,
It emphasizes human brevity,
It ushers the new dawn and builds a rift.

All that it brings to us we seek answers,
We are surrounded by perplexities,
Complexities...

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There is no need for titles
  forced as some may be.

Random thoughts and observances
  frequently pervade these pages
  and make their way across the kibes
  diminishing their reality.

Meager and frail representations
...

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sexual tension running high
crossing the squiggly line implied
for a relationship that could be sublime

somehow things get all mixed up
is it that we cared too much
observances that hurt when touched

another poem that doesn’t rhyme
skipping heartache, fast...

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The afternoon sun 
now clears the trees
and comes through the window
to where you are with your book,
deciphering the clues to reveal 
who committed the crime.
Imbedded in the surrounds
are the rituals that connect 
us to life...

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When I remember to think of you
things are lighter and more smooth

Learning recently of obstacles
that have existed without my knowledge

awareness not a huge enlightening
grains of salt fill my suitcase

More than attempts I exercise daily
reinforcing positive...

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