Long Pinpoints Poems

Stretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logic

In an attempt to recount how life came about on planet Earth,
thence subsequently spanning across the webbed wide world
birthed cockamamie idea within mind of then young Matthew
Scott...

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sun rays settle skies
prism shelters diversity -
kids breaking hard bricks

wind spreads gentle seeds
prayer evokes mute silence -
too many lost souls

rain drops whet dry soil
scope scoops whirlpools of dry tears -
god should know better

earth circles tailspins
faith...

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egad, you possibly exclaim come december first two thousand and seven
   five decades sped by at the blink of an eye
days of adolescence, and infancy  so tender and mild seemed like heaven
...

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The stale and dusty, lead filled air
Began to stir in widening breaths.
Pinpoints of light, ionic particles charged with power,
Picked up momentum, as reality stretched.

Excitedly, they began to spin in quickening orbits
Leaving sparkling tactile meteor showers.
Then...

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Triumph
                             Frank Halliwell
In silence, in the velvet...

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So deaf, so blind are we-
Our little minds (judgmentally inclined )
base judgments on assumptions,
not on related facts !

So, on and on, the squirrel cage
goes, round and round, And no one listens
to what wise men still...

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Two old men. That’s all; not much to look at.
Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning
Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches
Overhead, and crisscrossing the red and black pieces
Upon their welcoming checkerboard.

I...

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TWO OLD GODS

Two old men.
That’s all; not much to look at.
Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning
Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches
Overhead, and crisscrossing the red and black pieces
Upon their welcoming...

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The image of morning mapping from the four cardinal points at the center of 
busy pedestrians running ups and down to the bottom of their energies, 
Chasing the note they never designed to decimate 
ownership.

The...

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"The Dreams Follow"

We are on loop replay
sleeping to wake again,
morning, sunlit, shines 
through the blinds,
sparkling dust columns
dancing in front of our eyes,
where each particle 
plays its part alighting 
in front of us bright 
as diamonds...

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I'll begin my dot-to-dot journey at first light
when dawn paints the sky after darkness of night.
Dots like stars on the horizon will be pearlescent hues
all interlaced with shades of pastel lavenders and blues.

From that mark...

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An hour passed, another hour without sleep, 
	and still his son waited. 
The stars shown in through the window of their hut. 
	Orion winked. 
Mother Earth turned in her own slumber, 
The constellations smiling down...

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'O' mom, O' mom..
Am sweet baby,
Thou love the most;
Mom a preceptor and
Play partner of mine;
Cohere me in arms,
Never left alone;
Inspired me in each stage,  
Taught me from crawling,
To walk then talk;
Stage by stage I...

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Later Than Usual 
 
Stars are out tonight
wheeling sky across blue bright satellites
glancing up
distance shading trees to silhouette 
pinpoints lighting leaves 
echoing in wavering branch
 
Fluid mist forms breath into bark
ahead trees float in orange...

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i’ve goosebumps
   bold and shrill
      pinpoints that peak

my arms once relaxed
   and warm
but shadows reveal
boy and father silhouettes 

alongside the jagged fireplace stone
and a  ...

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The sun is setting
Slips into obscurity
Now it is twilight

Day’s last glow fades
Deep blue saturates the earth
Turning darker shades

Darkness approaches
Stars pop out by the minute
Twinkle, little star

Starkness now darkness
The landscape curtsies to murk
And thus takes its...

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Here is the tale of a Jewish hardware-store man
   who guards the flame of his faith as best he can
in a remote corner of the Upper Midwest
   where the count of...

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Nexus

Spinning on a sharp point of connectedness
Fulcrum pivots on micro pinpoints
A pilgrimage, a crux,
From oblivion to authentic choice –
 Sharp point of indecision and a-ha –
A sliver of either or pierces the tipping point
 In...

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My Muse 

This muse – personal trainer of my pen,
 This restless spirit pacing in imagination’s sanctuary,
Gathers fleeting moments into anticipation’s tabernacle
Swaddles divine laughter, brooding gloom and holy fire
With scented leaves from her perfumed garden
...

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Me a zombie?
Never!
Just a viral doofus poseur,
Brainiac and hacker on the loose tapping into other genie lamps,
Wireless Stikbot floater skipping ID challenge.
Hurdles that authenticate saliva from a silicone palate.
Trojan horse webber getting kicks from pop...

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Did I ever mention
the time I saw sunrise
down on the beach.
We had not gone home
after our first date:
Instead, holding hands wandering
we walked nearby cliffs.
Silence was profound,
all was peaceful, and
midnight was beyond perfection.
Small pinpoints of light,
from...

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Haibun 

Inky dark night. Jewels in the heavens sparkle like diamonds in a necklace. The Seven Sisters wink seductively while trying to sit in Cassiopeia’s Chair. Orion chases Ursa Major and her cub when he...

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Just for You 1
Fluid moments, like waves
Trickle through my consciousness
Like streams of light.
As you stand in your own square
between the shadows, making your move
I see you, step in and out, and then out again.
I see...

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"As twilight falls across the glen 

Pinpoints of light rise again

Flashing beacons in the night

More begin to rise a beautiful sight

A symphony of light commences they start to dance

Lifted by silken wings and winds of...

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When I imagine my iconic vistas of love,
I watch a sunset
red and yellow,
purple and pink,
bruised lavendar and darkening grey
until pointing jagged mountain peaks
turn to black understoried landscape
plunging against gravity
toward slowly emerging sea
of glittering stars
strobeless yet...

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