Long Percolates Poems

15.7
“You are That in which the universe appears 
like waves appearing in the ocean
You are Consciousness itself
No need to worry”


The concept being that the world is nothing but thought
Transient and therefore necessarily unreal like a...

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Argh! Oh no for dog's sake...
Uneasy thoughts commander in chief...

Will be elected president
(putative tsar of United States
forever long he lives)
until... he abdicates faux
official crown to Jared Kushner
will be handily elected
Tuesday November 3rd, 2020.

Said foreboding intimation
insinuates,...

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“birds care not for whom they sing” - Silent One
 
The Gemini Garden stays close to mountain springs.
In this magic garden, countless flowers bloom and wither,
With pruned trees, shrubs and sprawling lawns,
And beds of geraniums...

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Spinning like a wagon wheel in the dust
Swinging like a kid on a park swing…these wild days…
Beginning to lose touch, turning to rust
Like an old bicycle, left in the rain in its watery rays…

Reaching out...

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Though I posted the following poem 
(B)efore (C)ovid, a sense 
of glee donned my being 
the notion arose to trumpet anew
said literary handily crafted endeavor.

Not far from here – Perkiomen Valley -
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
regular folks going...

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While rummaging, mining,
and distilling me gray matter,
stoking mentality activates
oft time surprising me,
where unexpected novel

cognizance never abates,
I experienced becoming
linkedin with cosmic fates,
sans collective unconscious
soul of the universe,
and chanced to espy,

(albeit only a trimmed speck),
the spirit of...

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I Theme To List Toward Secular Humanism ©ø¥

Mine excel leant
     powerfully pointed
     nonestablishmentarian
     outlook accesses
     prolix laced threads, whereat
...

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(Re tiny box-like homes lining the west side of
South Bundy Drive, north of Nebraska Street, in West LA)

The soiled feeling comes not
From the indignant paradise
Scurrying past their frontal lobes 
It arrived in silence
Borne of being...

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A few hot-orange embers burn low in the fire pit.
Morning has sprung, evident only
In the vague concrete illumination
	of an overcast sky.
Scattered twigs and last night's remaining logs
Are tossed upon the coals,
With a few shivering breathes...

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This generic creek king mortal mwm 
   (who generally river ears the bay sea gully feels ire ate 
asper propensity plundering positive human qualities 
   tested to the max), bait
ting virtue...

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Hot humid heatwave
Discomfort percolates long;
Sudden drenching rain

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Sexy curvy strides
Vibrant elegance catwalks;
Hungry eyes focus

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Two stray cats fighting
Furious body language here;
Small tigers draw blood

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Ancient atmosphere
Old tea house in the city;
Strange calligraphy

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Bus-stop commotion
Two drunken men in a brawl;
Tipsy...

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A tent of brightly coloured wool 
Along an effervescent pool
Filled with deliciously cool streams
This would last a week and I would surely weep
For in my sorrows, I made haste 

Beneath a bleak sky adorned with...

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Two hundred forty two
(12.1 score) years ago
countless stripling soldiers
strapping farming homeboys
healthy agrarian lads
raised among generations

in summer re:
offspring original settlers heirs
family acreage encompassed
wide uninterrupted forested swaths
across sprawling vistas
sparsely populated enclaves,

now heavily industrialized
lovely bones occupying
unmarked never known...

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Beauty smiles
Truth keeps watch;
Joy murmurs

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Jacuzzi trip
Clear water massage;
Aqueous healing

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Midtown moments
Sunny side up;
Poignant flavours

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Walkway charades
Morning fiesta;
Umbrella cacophony

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Old Mister Lee
Two years gone;
Tembusu memoir

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Such silly antics
Blindside politics;
Monkey business

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Glimpses of home
Michelin Star meals;
Vivid prosperity

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Dark skyline 
Thunder and lightning;
Rainy dawn...

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Temple bells
Echo fond longings;
Feast day prayers

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Old room
Memories collide;
Touching time

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Brief vacation
Island paradise;
Getaway trip

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Loft sanctuary
Stillness percolates;
Quiet recluse

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Children's playbook
Tales to tell;
Fond distraction

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Sad glimpses
Earthquake disaster;
Desperate moods

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Evening escapade
Banquet feast;
Wedding celebration

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Stillness attends
Wounded day bleeds;
Dark night comes

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Super mart crowd
Groceries in tow;
Stressed cashier

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Haiku...

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Clever craft
Wild words will;
Touch travels trip

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Windy breeze
Cool comfort soothes;
Humid day dreams

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Stillness moves
Silence percolates;
Completes doing

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Zen moments
Shopping mall garden;
Sand and stone sculpture

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Apple of my eye
Cellphone hardware;
Exorbitant glimpses

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Words work
Feelings surge;
Tempting touch

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Rosary beads
Calm contemplation;
A touch divine

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By chapel bench
Profound insight;
Stillness...

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Testing The Sun



Its about to happen
You can feel it

There’s a bursting scented vibrancy
Lingering
Happening
Almost
Ready

A slow stretching yawn reverberates
It dissipates and grows
Permeates 
Percolates
Rushes outward
But
Waits

Sleepily cracking an eye
It peers around
Secretly shaking off blankets
Dabbles a toe in the air
Testing...

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What The Farmer Truly Lives For

I
Across the low hills misty meadows glow,
devilishly hiding gleaming rainbows.
Today earth shines true as yawning dawn wakes,
as from nights cold, Nature gives it quick shakes
releasing powers, from its nighttime breaks.

II
From...

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Friday evening flight,
A touch of urgency,
Changi Airport Terminal One.


Check-in smoothly,
Baggage and all,
A trip Down Under.


Three souls plus one,
Baby in tow plus three adults,
An outback escapade.


A commercial air flight,
Departs near eleven pm,
A journey far away from...

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For now they abide under the earth,
the bedded and dormant,
neither do they wake nor sleep,
but defer and endure
until a sun warmed air
percolates into countless
humming sepulchral lungs.

They are almost here,
the soil is erupting
with their tunneling wings.
They,...

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a sincere death wish
percolates in the early morning,
from where it rises &
how long it will last,
there is no center, there’s no
way of identifying a source---
like a brand new cancer that has been
personalized to
one,
it lies behind...

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Broken Beauty

By Mark D. Stucky
Glamour is a hollow, shiny shell,
a rapid, pretty paint job
on an insubstantial surface,
that alluringly promises much
but never satisfies the hunger.

True human beauty is internal,
from the depths of one’s core.
It starts in...

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Sometimes thirty years
feels like a long time
When you’re an old soul
and the hours and minutes
have taken their toll

But there are songs to write
and words to weigh
messages to impart
and things to say

So another song percolates
Flows out...

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With snow’s demise and gentle shower,
seeds from sleep begin the rise to light.
Long after the sounds of man cease ring,
striving for earth and shade free room,
the lupines above the valleys will bloom.

The buds burst outward...

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Stranded on the highway
my heart beat slightly faster
I had a destination to reach
Suddenly, everything seemed uncertain
What would become of me, where would my feet go,
now that I had been pushed off the yellow auto that...

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