Long Pinking Poems

PALEO PAIR

Hands rapturously
slashing satori
Bang !
Light released filter down
bats brushed skin to
fly knowingly low
then water gushed
through cracks
snakes spiders scorpions 
were our toes
stones spoke in bugle
sound as Sun set in
whirlwinds

the cave was nowhere 
yet everywhere 
Beethoven’s symphonies...

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I remember reading a short story by Hitchcock. Three friends walk and converse as they make their trek home from work. Huddled in mind,
independently fearless, the cold air or hot night baring their souls.

crows on...

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Appearing from nowhere, a red stain in my colourless 
vision, I found them cold in the whiteness of the first 

snowfall. They lay there in the misty haze, stunned to silence,
smothered in their white blanket;...

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How did a cherry kiss? Bitter flower petals with sweet pistils.
So laden they act as halos while we breathe the love
in a pink hollow, silence sounding like taste, acting like epistle
to hold this moment in...

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If I Were a Man, I'd:
     Never purchase another dress,
     chop the heels off my stilettos,
     burn every pantyhose in the house,
 ...

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Absolutes
	
		1
	
	Darkness dominates 
	the earthly cycle at year’s end. 
	This is true 
	no matter how many fools 
	legislate otherwise.
	
		2
	
	Dogs have unerring internal clocks
	and finite bladders.
	
	
	Taken together,
	these absolutes of nature
	guarantee that I’ll witness 
	every dawn from November...

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Airplane strolls on, above the clouds that look like whitest snow
Unknown if this black shark has passengers or is a ghost ship though.
Blaze of the sun sparkles out in the form of an angels’ wings.
This...

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An Empty Box


My oldest daughter got her diamond ring.
Brother Bob’s daughters choose next
Each reaching into the box
 choosing some memento.

Grandchildren next. 
I looked away
Telling myself it’s part of the process.

I don’t remember most of those...

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Here are a few more Than-Bauk, where I have used a particular letter-sound instead of a rhyme on the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd syllables (lines 1,2,3) I find this to be a fun alternative to...

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La’Donna was a beauty, and most were jealous of her daily.
She can’t be all that! Argued my devil’s advocate cousin, Bailey.
Then he met her, and he knew what we were all thinking.
I noticed when he...

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