Long Pirouetted Poems

I was an irrepressible and happy young woman, and graceful ballet dancer,
Who lived for twirling on a world stage, as red berries are shrub laughter!

I had practiced for so many years, striving to become the...

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"Soul Surfer" 



I bought some sea shell beads 
today, 
stood by the ocean 
while the half sharp winter wind 
washed 
through 
me 
and 
whispered stinging sticatto 
cold licks next to my ear, so sincerely -...

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We ponder Pandora as the person preordained
to unleash a plethora of plagues upon our persons.

But here's what I heard:
Pandora had two sisters,
Persephone and Proserpina.
Pandora perused poetry 
while Persephone practiced petite-point.
But Proserpina possessed the predilection
for picking...

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"Soul Surfer" 


I bought some sea shell beads 
today, 
stood by the ocean 
while the half sharp winter wind 
washed 
through 
me 
and 
whispered stinging sticatto 
cold licks next to my ear, so sincerely -...

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The House That Jack Built (Pt. 2)

During Summer’s sweet vacation and sometimes on a school night,
 When most were safe in Dreamland and the Village bathed in moonlight,
 Nancy would toss gravel near my bedroom...

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And then the blunders of the past merged into serenity. Tranquility 
ensued where wild storms had been raging.‘Safe travels’, they whispered 
‘now you’re prepared and able to let go.’ The past became a beacon and...

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I have reviewed my spots and inklings 
measuring each.
solidified my moment inside breach 
of cosmic tare

said farewell to sanity and all the hosts I fare
given lives I’ve liven for the ghosts 
of my regret
and yet

please...

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Remembering, when I first beheld her fragrant essence

This pleasantly perfect image, which tied me to entranced

A picture and a vision, that filled my wanting thoughts

With this mesmerizing lady, whoms aura thus emitted, radiances of such...

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She stood in thrall to the Magyar
As, one hand cupped to a breast,
The other picked careful notes 
From the guitar against his chest,
So they made a living figure
Sensuous and statuesque
Yet in in its way 
Both...

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Alyssa danced in the center of the 
empty historical ballroom.  
Imagining suitors standing in line
for one more waltz around the artistic 
ceramic tiled flooring.
Her dress, ivory full, swept the floor
as she turned and sauntered...

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Holidays with my grandparents … I’ve such precious memories
My grandpa was so passionate about Mother Nature

As soon as I walked through the door he’d say
“Come on lad, grab your rod – we’re off fishing”
We’d walk...

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Soon after I'd paid
My sixty
Or seventy pence,
I found myself
In what I thought
Was a miniature London.
I saw girls
In chandelier earrings,
In stiletto heels,
Wearing evening
Dresses,
Which contrasted with
The bizarre
Hair colours
They favoured:
Jet black
Or bleach blonde,
With flashes of
Red, Purple
Or green.
Some wore...

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Once upon a moon in a faraway dreamland, 
Pirouetted a young girl, like a swan so grand.
She walked and smiled through life in grace, 
the world too soon felt her emerald embrace.

For she was the...

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I have been here, I’ve been there,
over yonder up and down.
Been back home and been long gone,
been nowhere but been around.

I’ve traveled for a far piece,
just a hop, skip and a jump.
I climbed clear up...

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I found a chateau lawn once, teeming with charm
A  MAZE it was,  growing cluttered yet it had an air
Of much lushness TURNING the space into a hued mantle;
Where PATHS of herbage, bluebells, camellias...

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Surly Sally slipped and lost a flip flop
at a hearty party in a bungalow with Billy.
while dancing and prancing to hip hop
whirling and twirling and spinning silly.

Can you reverse and remember the flop she flipped?
Well...

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They were vibrant women, 
whose voices vibrated in the vicinity. 
Their squabbles were X-rated. 
Profanity pirouetted nude in their expressions. 
They fought for the rights, 
though with obscene tongues. 
Their ways were bitter 
but beneficial...

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I cut a bouquet of fresh lilies, 
and placed them in a sparkling crystal vase, 
then sat idly by, admiring 
the stillness of their beauty. 

With no wind to tickle nor stir the petals 
into...

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Written: February 22, 2024
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I love the gentle rains of spring
falling...

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Well done, she said. 
Smiling her biggest smile.
I have never seen anyone else wear it like that!
There are other ways to wear a skirt?
On a head? Or a shoulder perhaps?

You should buy it! She sang...

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Darker than the deepest sea

the TV was showing the news at eight
it was about a war
and a man ,not young but not old
 shooting his machine gun from a roof
down, down, down…
empty shells  bounced...

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Oh man, oh stupid moron twerp,
how could you be so bigoted and intolerant?
For I too saw her every blessed night
dancing in the glade, a youthful dance,
moon rays shining through dark boughs,
as she pirouetted, unshod and...

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Waltzing and gliding 
Twirling and swirling
She stopped at the mirror
Laughed at her enthusiasm

It grabbed a tutu and put it on her.
She had not worn one in years.
Two stiff short petticoats of excitement later
She pirouetted, dancing...

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As cold winds blew that stormy night
The dog kept howling at the moon
But the two kittens played with delight
They never went to sleep so soon

Snowflakes pirouetted with delicate grace
 As we kept warm by the...

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The dew indiscriminately

wept for all things living and dead

on this early autumn morning.

Its cold droplets caressed the leaves

while lingering sap-starved leaf stems

clung precariously above

and each dying leaf shed teardrops

for and onto their fallen kind.

One by...

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