Long Pocks Poems

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Premium Member Phases

(Pen in hand, the work will follow -- 
writers’ nature deplores a hollow)

I’ve seen the moon
in many phases
a wonder to behold

with telescope
sought clearer to define
only so much revealed
by the human eye unaided

the blinkered heart 
having even less options -- 
senses themselves
Creation’s greatest mystery
what determines a life
the mortal language of feelings
very private till on vivid display

the craters of the moon so much like
love, even in light a pocks of shadows
at its elusive edges – strange what
we gaze upon in our abstract nights 

wondering if you occasionally recall me
if you yet have visions of me and notion
to wonder what may have been missed
in transience?


Premium Member Cul-De-Sac

the good

The doors to my mind and heart
circle as revolving doors.
A peek inside and you see
happy memories and joyous events,
the loves, and lifelong friendships

A cul-de-sac, though a dead end,
has a circular finish, a merry-go-round
that accumulates happiness as it spins
into a cloud of beauty and nature,
compassion, gods, and faith.

The breathless moments in life,
birth, newness, novelty, exuberance
in being, living, experiencing
laughter, butterflies, and springtime
within my soul, my gratitude.

	the bad

The doors to my mind and heart
circle as revolving doors.
A peek inside and you see
the pocks of the years that came 
to leave their soured, sadistic truths.

So, like a cul-de-sac you may enter
but the exit is the same as you came.
A Ferris wheel, past the highs and lows
of lost hopes, of murky dreams that end
with more questions than I will answer…

A dead end with death as the prize
for endless dreary days and noxious nights
of sorrow, sadness, misery, and grief
with no hope, no desire, no ambition
faith gone and forgone, abortive.

	the ugly

The doors to my mind and heart
circle as revolving doors.
A peek inside and you see
the sear of anger and revenge
spiraling apocalyptically.

The cul-de-sac where giant wind turbines
turn and churn and gnaw at my insides
generating incompressible turbulence 
that amasses until it ruptures, spewing
rage and outrage that I will honor…

In and out, inescapable, dead
like my heart, my soul black as coal,
seeking retribution for perceived
wrongs against me, ill-timed and
sanguinary persecution.

Premium Member Pileated Woodpecker

This boy must be in season,

this blaze-headed feather jack 

hammering shack up condos

into swooned oaks, sautéing up fire

ants for a seductive nibble in the pulp.

You can hear him all over the island

a mating pummel; his peckered pocks

embarrass us along our saunters

such a committed pecker, this woody,

drilling wood, making mating dust 

around your mailbox by the road, 

out there, an exhibitionist hammering

Nessum Dorma’s into the timber, 

belting away at his craft; 

his hard wired love gut 

to persist, and the fade out

of us jaded human shucks,

looking through our

windshields at such wide 

wondering howls 

in the dead of the wood.
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