Long Pinprick Poems

THE LONGEST DAWN PART 2 H C SONNETS
5
Each stage of life left without a goodbye
Youth, adult, work to live to earn your place
Strive to eat, learn a trade you need to ply
Bills, bills, bills, bills...

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It’s no wonder you like secrets. 
It’s not that your thoughts are secretive in nature. 
It’s more that they are themselves a secret, penned on pages locked from view. 

Hidden thoughts intrigue me because my...

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Brother i miss you so dearly
I am sorry you left before i could say goodbye
What a beautiful soul you are
your passing away has left us so  empty
My dear brother i am sure god made...

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WHERE LOVE LEARNS NO MORE


Where Love learns no more 
two serpents crawling twine
one midnight black another 
luminous wizardy white 
entangled fanged bedazzled 
circled by ultra violet rays 
ultra red Sun the...

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I hear them talking as I open my eyes, 
a hazy something lingers on my lips like lava, 
threatening to erupt. I hear question then answer, 
then questions plural follow up:
detectives discussing something green, something...

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Last night I dreamt of them
Fleeing under the cover of darkness
Liars, adulterers, murderers and thieves
Terrified of the monsters on their heels 
They flew into an abandoned house and began pushing old furniture against the flimsy...

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Bloodlet me, my precious
You can make this my willing sacrifice
To cure me of impurity, of sickness.
Cut gashes into my face.
Discard chunks of my body.
These cliffs into my mind,
Scars of unhealing, they save me.
Blotch my red...

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Alone  the bones of the room bear no weight 
of responsibility nor does it bare its breast of secrets

a broken pane provides a breath with a pang of lavender
a wistful inhale inhabits the lungs...

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Laying in my cozy bed,
I oft wonder 
why?

why am I here when others not?
those that make a simple mistake
and perish, yet I am here

a friend telling me 
“you have more lives than cats”
not a consolation...

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Her hands, 

                heavily wrinkled,
               ...

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Learning to change stinky diapers
                 While holding my breath
          ...

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Her hands, 

        heavily wrinkled,

                      touch the...

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The day felt surreal, not sure why. 
There was an anticipation of something special.
I asked if anyone else felt it; they shrugged it off.
I am the empath, thus, the crazy one.

In the late afternoon I...

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Without sugar, I'll sip on my espresso
I can still taste yesterday's sweetness

We abandoned yesterday's mistakes, worries, and despair
all money in the world cannot resuscitate yesterday
our actions and words are irreversible somersaults.

Yesterday's wishes dried up like...

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quick! grab the soft rose
your hand now aching, bloodied
thorns unconsidered

life's dream isn't always what it suddenly seems in ice cream's melted hope
not when a yearning man is twisted; turning, churning curdles sweet milk sour
carnal captivity,...

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A tuning is often a turning. But attunement takes longer than eighty-three minutes and fifty-five seconds. Landing a duck sponge is fantastic fun in a boat yard. It is very very helpful to assist both...

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[*Hendecasyllable: line of verse containing 11 syllables with stanzas with repeated end words and a five line envoi that concludes the ballade.]*


Look as… “a crimson sky breaks the distant shore”
Signaling I will see my fair...

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When the dots won't joint together
And the planets don't always align
When circumstance lets you down
Keep your eye on the big picture.

When people disappoint 
And there's a gap between actions and words
When weakness creeps above the...

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Long after the neighborhood sprinklers
had shushed the night into silence
the closing of a door interrupted
and a dark figure glided across
the lawn, behind a wall
and disappeared.

A moment later it reappeared
and the face of a man could...

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And like that, the mind flashed on
The light was slowly dulling and the darkness was winning
Crushed into sooty shadows
Thoughts spewed from the gloom
Glowing so pessimistically dry
As if by Hades the darkness was fulsome

The quiet rendered...

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Pinprick ideology is a shatter of soul. Pins play placing polio poorly. And poodles arrive in vast kaleidoscopic numerals to bring numerous numbers to many studious tables. Tablets take hold of fortresses and a midway...

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Trapped for so long in walls that cocooned her
She struggles to break free
All she desires is escape from the darkness of her prison
And the walls that bind her
To feel the sun on her face, the...

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I lay me on the grassy lawn
And watch the stars, they're floating on

While one comes out from round the eaves
Across the sky another leaves

The sky is slowly shifting round
So different stars are always found

The dipper...

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Insult the sun and embitter the world
as you live for the day's demise.
A current of crumpled up silver wishes
passed you in the rising tide.
Once in your hollow attractive youth
the world was fooled for a moment.
It...

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A special memory


Still remember the memorable day,
When happiness was on my way,

I was anticipating confirmation of our meet,
Passion was eager to warmly greet,

Legs were trembling in great trepidation,
Heart beats getting faster in succession,

And eventually close...

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