Long Overlays Poems

sink beneath the surface every time goaded
same event distorted until colour coded
and always bedraggled and gasping for air
terrified that this is actually fair
failings cascade like works of art
brokeness perfectly playing it's part
around each hell bubble...

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The “Red Turtle’s” Gift

God's Muse both saves and offers Grace to sailors lost at sea! 
His ‘Reasoned Love' has Seasons with "Red Turtle's" buoyancy
that floats or steers most storm-chased hearts to more substantial shore
provisioned for...

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GLIMPSE 

My heart a pouch of rich wine overlays yours
A drop of blood spilled over an arum lily
It waits with longing intense, retains no tears
As it remembers its cringes of final fear when it
Jumped into...

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when scorpions crawling on the boiling sands 
dance the dance of death with tail culled up 
the gaudy toadstools grow in the dark and dampest spot
in the wasteland, and as day progresses the never-ending 
merciless...

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Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful moods in mahogany frames
     melancholy painters...

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My hands are embedded in your skin,
And your body is rambling,
To the sea of a thousand waves,
>       I am a boat ...
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I have the heart that fails,
Engraving on the...

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I just dreamt I needed to read the poem "Darklessness"
It's makes no sense now
As I slept I was troubled
The resolve called into question over and over
"What you need to understand is..."
I've always got it wrong...

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I close my eyes, and the FYP still flickers.  
A faint grid overlays my internal vision:  
profile icons, captions crawling sideways,  
the heart button pulses in phantom rhythm.  

Swipe—  
an...

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As she clutched the embroidered paper, she wept, observing her tears sprinkle as they percussed the paper. Watching her droplets marinate, she was reminded of a certain pebble she tossed across the waters upon a...

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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

        ...

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Images of ghosts fly behind my eyes
I shudder
sometimes it's cold here 
below the belly of warm eyes.

If you could would you transcend?
Slip in between the day to day
and stop time in your mind 
to look...

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Divine Transformation

Turn away from man’s imperfections
Behold Jesus instead
Divine transformation takes place
The character of Christ lies ahead
For it is by beholding
We become changed
Transformed into His likeness
From sin’s damage salvaged

Divine transformation
Requires the Spirit at work
Our willingness to...

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Over hill, over heather
   Creeps winter weather
A thin mantle of snow
   Overlays the hedgerow

Wind whistles through trees
   As tiny twigs freeze
Creatures retreat to their holes 
   In...

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Over the chain bridge
shadow overlays the light
Danube is lazing underneath
silence is drifting in fright
You are standing on your tiring feet
An eerie feeling hovers over your skin
pathos pales the face
pain mists the eyes
The eyes, watery deep...

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Night drapes slowly around velvety skin
and gives comfort to an unfolding heart
As passion's eyes enclose time, we begin,
to foster love, so it will never part
The quiet vaulted sky reflects moon's glow
and overlays your face in...

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How did he, she, they, and them come to be? 
Diminished, reduced, and ignored in society

Relegated or maybe delegated to busy city streets and desolate byways
Street souls somberly paint landscapes with a myriad of overlays

Barely...

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Spring is not a book upon a shelf

     Some things cannot be read, just felt

       Feel every change of wind, rob every leaf

  ...

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The autumn comes, an open book
To satisfy our hungry eyes
But, sometimes things can't just be read
Not like a book upon a shelf
We can't just look, …..they must be felt
With every strain of western wind, 
With...

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Through years of chuckles and vivid imagery,
They sit across from each other;
Inventing moment to moment another day,
Past transparent overlays.
Smoke encircles 
	new-found wrinkles,
In ends so filled with friendship.
Then one day the smoke stopped.
No more to circle...

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Spring Jewels

White feather tipped clouds
Design blue skies with a brocade
A coat of many colors nature dons
Her golden locks a Rapunzel’s braid

A braid made from overlays
Of grains and grass slightly curled
Budding plains of fruited beauty
Breathlessly waiting...

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LANTERNE PHRASIS 6
Honest innocence becalmed in sleep
on pathways that house the mind.
Simple,transluscent,form space
&mass made into one,an ancestor
of the surreal.Confetti spirals,
patterns of peaks&troughs in
contemplative mode.Intervals
that float into space,delicate
overlays,where does reflection
begin&end?Throwaway lines
leap out from the chronicle of...

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