Long Quaternion Poems

OPEN

Each
      chiselled
                     line
enamel
       ...

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as a sequence

Bella
He
opened
the window-
in streamed his first
love
with
flowers,
dressed
in white-
she haunted his
art.
The
eyes show
subjection,
melancholy
and 
a
resigned
acceptance-
yet beauty shines
through.


Ekphrasis lanterne after
Head of a Negro by Watteau
THE WIFE
Of
Mahler,
Gropius
Franz Werfel-
filled life with her
song-
she
gave Klimt
her first kiss-
but like a Strauss
waltz
her
affairs
of the heart--
never lasted
long.
LANTERNE...

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pt 3 of quaternion

Autumn's 
     long evenings
     long hours
         after sunset
in the play of moonlight 
   ...

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PART 1 of quaternion

austere
        confused
                in disarray
desolate
      ...

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pt 2 of quaternion

sweltering
     the unpaved streets
intolerably stifling
everyone
       seeking cool air
sitting
    enjoying the resite
from
   the unusual heat
the past
  ...

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HAIBUN QUATERNION
WINTER in anger whips up the waves,pounds the shingle shore,whispt later SPRING in action,brings to life and feathers its nest.SUMMER ,so lazy rests the soul and flowers the land as AUTUMN ,so mellow scents...

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The mumbles and giggles of a baby,
wobbly, shaky I soon stand maybe.

I frolic and prance with energy strong,
for I am youth and can do no wrong. 

Life you are full of such sweet gladness,
yet, my...

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F   O  R   E   S   T
F   U  N   G   A   L
F   O  R ...

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F   O  R   E   S   T
F   U  N   G   A   L
F   O  R ...

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A QUATERNION
When the buds are tender green
And the fig leaves begin to sprout
None will mistake the end time scene,
The earth itself will shout.

Upon a horse,faithful and true,
He returns on a cloud,
As, in the air He...

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~He Will Be With You ~
(Quaternion)


When with life you can not longer cope
He will give you love, peace, and hope.
He will help you to be very strong
When everything for you go wrong.

When you fight and...

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Deep within green forests I wandered alone,
a nature child of seasons like a leaf blown.

I recall my first real kiss upon my pink lips,
and will never forget how my heart did flips.

Oh, we made...

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An oyster can go very fast attached to a piece of string. But a ping pong ball in a car can drive over a sealed jar many many times. Now raise a glass to a...

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FOUR SEASONS  (lanterne sequence)
May
breezes
in the trees

High summer
lightens
long

Fall
tints red
Autumn's stall

Asleep,winter
acts as
dead

QUATERNION   (free verse)

Ah, Spring come again, the
warmth, the rain, yellows and
green.Grass, winds, blossom
bright,showers of life aloud in
the sky

Then Summer, her
beauty displays.
All nature in
flower,...

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AGES OF MAN

Winding brooklets filled narrow streams
into rivers of his childhood dreams

Youthful romance begins with a kiss
concluded in a lifetime of bliss

Love,life-long,ever-lasting
with moments,so tender-tasting

Not for  second,did he regret his choice
Each minute now,he missed her...

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pt 4 of quaternion

delight
   of the season
expressed
freed
  from the dark
beginning
   a busy cycle
   a celebration
   of
     the poetic senses

a sudden calling
a reminescence
a
silent
...

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