Long Pillowing Poems

-Thinking of Iraq Ware Veterans on Veterans Day-

The day after the terrorists attacked our country, I joined the military and was deployed to Iraq. I fought in the desert far away from my sweet home...

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21.

I care not a fat hairy fig
For your task to decimate
And predicate my world
With such villainy and hate.

You evaporate the sunshine.
You bring nigh the distant gloom.
Like a pestiferous browsing parasite
Intent on some impending doom.

Crawl! Crawl...

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an old clock composed of several larger and smaller gearwheels 
hung on the wall; some teeth are worn or missing therefore 
the gears occlude poorly 
they skid and roll unbalanced   

no matter how...

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I've been sitting on the sand for hours
with the moon and stars as my only friends.
But when dawn raises her sleepy head,
they will all abandon me on the shore
and with morose thoughts, 
I will be...

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The Waterbed Sea

Melinda went to sleep in her waterbed,
(Not on it, but in it, is what I said,)
Took not a mask, not a snorkel nor fin,
Just a deep breath 
and she jumped right in.

//Swim, sweet...

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The leaves fall in the consciousness
unable to find the spot where to begin.
The wind blows in the midst of meditation
without knowing when to cease.

Because it seems easy 
as sitting on the comfortable chair pondering,
because it...

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Hands met each other again this morning
they touched gently - caressed - loved.
It has been a long time
since they prayed together like this.
It was a silent sermon
a benediction.

Fingers intertwined like sea anemones
tenderness kissed each fingertip.
Left...

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At a glimpse I was played by you
In some tricky lines I was fool
And lovely velvet blossoms fill me
When autumn September fall,
In a summer night March

If maybe it'll be taking a hand
But it leads me...

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DAMSEL CAUSING DISTRESS


The knight errant sent for me, but I’ve gone missing
For three days now, while he’s composed a ditty:
In the tide of feminism I still haven’t given up kissing
Being what is termed fatalistically pretty...

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The world birthed an arching column,
its broad shoulders eclipse the sun
obfuscating the golden grain colored rays
What are their thoughts? Are they an eternal refrain?
Their hunched posture, knees pillowing breasts
Ashen hair cascading like the foam of...

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O, my life like a gray, gray smoke,
That's newly pillowing from an old engine.
O, my life like a trumpeting
That's sweetly sounded by an elephant.

As fair as a river, my life stream in meanders,
So deep in...

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Green moon in a dirty sky,
snow drifting in,
a subliminal huff-huff,
of polar bears stalking.

Ice crackles, bewitched
caw-clawing crows
gather to sleep
amid bad dreams.

If we gaze too long,
a green sheen
smears stinging cheeks.

When making love
to the pillowing dark,
snarling monkey's chase
naked...

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Nestled high upon a pillowing cloud
Hidden from prying eyes
Surrounded by fragrantly perfumed blooms
The imagination runs then flies
Balconies envelop the building within
French doors that open out wide
A welcoming feel takes over
Pulling you deep inside
Marble floors that...

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——-
Know...Trees

The sun flatters the trees:
  “Send your exquisite 
  growing higher!  Closer to me!”
The sky invites the trees:
  “Incline your branched crowns
  upon my pillowing blue!”
God comforts the trees:
 ...

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