Long Outcropping Poems

Day one; I leave the coast following the great black river.  Its meandering slow water sneaking slowly and silently past the ancient pines and hardwood trees gathered near its banks like a band of...

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Sane sexagenarian scribe seeks asylum in Canada...

should Trump swindle electorate by hook or crook,
(1003 days, 9 hours, and
32 minutes until 2024 election),
yours truly steels, girds, braces... himself,
and plots serious outlook
pondering exiting United States
(stage door left)
while...

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He cleared the pebbles from around them
And then, with his finger
He started making marks in the sand

The crowd hushed
Not a sound could be heard
What was he writing?
He could stand in no longer
He pushed his way...

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Wings flutter
     off in the distance
as I shuffle through these stones,
tasting the energy trapped in each,
scouring my lands
         for my lost crystal,
that which...

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I
Cut clean through two tall black mountains,
A jagged metal river froths like rabies.
Raging between outcast boulders and spires
The blue-grey greatsword eternally grinding at stone.

The footpath worn through and ground in,
Etched into the cliffs over centuries,
Standing...

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La Loba rose with the sun barely glancing over the desert’s surface.
This old hag was as reliable and necessary 
as the fall dearth marching toward the spring’s refrain.

She carried with her a sack in which...

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High up amidst a forest slope,
in bedding grounds where whitetails lope,
by ledges hidden from our eyes,
a quirky outcropping does lie.

Breaking a broadleaf canopy,
the scree-slope of an old quarry,
long ago Dibble cut blue-stone,
must be a century...

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as you walk in to this world
your power is absolute
your imagination the only cage
power is an unknown
as it seems but a dream
you take your lover by the hand
in the fields of tall grass and prairie...

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Late one balmy June afternoon,

I perched on an outcropping of obsidian rock,

watching wide-eyed up the mountain

spewing molten lava into the sky. I was fourteen.

The base was fringed with a blanket of the green canopy,

 which...

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The Petal-Sprinkled Path 


The petal-sprinkled path 
We walked together
The lip-sharing math
In the cherry weather

We walked together
Time flew with lightning speed
In the cherry weather
Witnessed by the moss and weed

Time flew in lightning speed
We knitted the tales...

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COLLABORATION CONTEST

 
The Petal-Sprinkled Path
 


The petal-sprinkled path 
We walked together
The lip-sharing math
In the cherry weather

We walked together
Time flew with lightning speed
In the cherry weather
Witnessed by the moss and weed

Time flew in lightning speed
We knitted...

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I look into the valley
A shroud of mist hides its beauty
Pale and gray it hangs below me
The sun has yet to reach down from its heights
I know there is life there
There is the smell of...

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I'm scrapin' the marrow

I'm scrapin' the marrow from the
splintered bones of my last hero

Sustenance

Flecks of sustenance as I cower

Cower under this shelf
This outcropping of old white guy

Trepidatiously I peer out at a 
Skynet world

Shadow governments
Shady...

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High amongst the mountain peaks,
Stands a gnarled old tree.
Clinging desperately to the rocky cliff,
It is the only one to see.
How many years long past,
Has the tree tried to live,
On that rocky outcropping,
The mountain would grudgingly...

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Freely Asked And Wholly Answered
In Each Others Touch.
This As Much As More
And Never Less Than All.

Strange And Wondrous 
Beauty Thou Art Rare
To Thus Descend 
Upon Me Now As I,
Stand Thus Transfixed
Transformed Again,
Turned By Ancient Fingers...

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Sorrow drowns on dry land 


Standing at a distance,
staring at staggered lines 
on a rock face outcropping
buried deep beneath 
an ancient rose garden

Corroded iron bars
chained and bolted,
left for dead as brittle petals
find a funnel cloud...

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A lone man
Standing in a cold rock outcropping
Rain soaks him to the skin
He laments the world’s troubles
War, famine, disease and poverty
His soul feels the pain of everyone around him
A black oboe touches his lips
Playing a...

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Firecracker - a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise.

Firethe Southern sergeant shouts to the boys behind him
In unison, we live or die together,...

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Senses are aware of a cavernousness, 
And of a stillness almost quietley abrupt..!

softness of light & air surround all, 
deft as breath as from a doves wing reposing

billows of liquid descending are as grains,
the seeds...

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Like so much mended steel
I grind my teeth to the gums.
Scarred and bleeding freely,
I scavenge for another love.
Fed lies like a dog's fed meat,
I choke on cartilage.
Bound tighter than a contract,
I understated my aggression.
Rebounding from...

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Cold breeze cutting to the bone
as pitter patter of sleet hit leaves.
Squirrels running around gathering acorns
blue jays, sparrows, juncos
flying tree to tree.
Fountain spraying free
in the lake 
as I walk at its side.
Leaves in winter array...

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