Long Raw beauty Poems

"I've 
noticed 
something 
about most good 
people, with myself 
as well sometimes: 

How maybe life's not all 
about putting up fences or 
walls or marking down lines? 


Maybe life's all about abolishing our 
obligation to...

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Oh dearest Alice you’ve fallen through my looking glass of reality,
Where rabbits forgo pocket watches, and vestment coats, hopping
Instead wild, free amongst clover evergreen valley’s lust!
Here dreaming child of enchantment’s lore, storybook charm exists
Within the...

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To create art is to dance with the unseen and the ethereal,
A mystical journey, an enigma even to its creators.
Poets feel this deeply,
A difference they can't yet define, an unspoken aura.
Within them, emotions boil in...

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Hakim. The Gatekeeper from Esagila.

(A lone voice whispers)

In ancient Babylon, 

I once stood alone and mixed fire
Iron and clay 

All day 

Creating a spell
To entice my only light to come my way 

Sent merchandise of...

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I'm the bloke she never had,
she's the girl I never knew,
when I met her she was sad,
broken up without a clue.

We've talked of her past 
and touched on mine,
in love that didn't last,
insecurities, the whine.

I...

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Lanzamother
A poem for Lanzarote

Dark Mother I am impatient 
To celebrate your vulnerable, wild nature in a poem,
But I don’t know You, 
yet…
I long to dance your breathtakingly raw beauty 
But I feel like an adolescent...

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Mornings fade into evenings, evenings slip into nights.
Day colors spill from their pails, then seep into
valleys, wind caves and shale.

The Painted Desert bleeds into a Stygian hue
as the heat reaches up to embrace the moon
and...

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She bowed her head to the ground,
Focused on the grains of dust,
Her skin glistened in the morning sun,
Sparkling like the rarest opal to be found.

Whenever she rarely raised her crown,
I would look straight into the...

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You stand there in your pride and raw beauty,
But don’t forget that caressing you is my decreed duty.
That warm and sturdy fabric my heart can feel,
Because of your humbling courage-stimulating appeal.
My arms are ardent by...

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Today
when the other students were absorbed in school work,
I happened to look up
and caught a young man
        staring at me.

He is a young man who seldom comes to...

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Oh dear Artist, wield your brush upon my canvas,
Paint me naked, bared to the core of my essence,
Strip away the veils of societal pretense,
Reveal the raw truth that lies beneath this flesh.

Paint me drunk, with...

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You are the caressing silence, a silver star in the pure night,
The world's secret, a deep sea that carries me, full of magnificence.
The more you estrange yourself in your veil of mystery,
The more you become...

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She once ran and ran swiftly;
Over the green wet meadows and 
Down the shallow valley land 
Crossed the narrow long bridge
To reach at the beautiful ridge
Where the sky kissed the earth lovingly.

Tired she sat down...

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The wind cold and cutting, 
The rain razor sharp,
A lonely Willow tree drips sadly on a
Bench in the park,
The sky dances with flashing lightening,
My heart pounds as nature’s power
Begins unleashing 
Thunder so frightening, 
Its raw...

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A south westerly buffeted the house
all night, howling at the windows,
trying to find something loose
to lift up and rip away.
Then the rain hardened to hail
bruising early summer growth
with icy shot. 

I like laying in bed
listening...

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Today I caught a young student staring at me.
This young man, who seldom comes to class,
 greets me, nonetheless, with a beaming smile
the days he does show up!
This adventurer (who once described how 
he had...

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Nature Calls and..
I hear the night tumbling all around,
The wind is a character of it's own
Playfully running wild
Nature always inconsistent, changing
Crying out for us all to hear!

The raw beauty of the howling reminds me of...

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Tensions end on troubled notes.
Tired and weary she takes to bed.
Cascading rain endlessly,
A steady drum, it drips it's beat,
Cleanses and lulls her to sleep.

Awakened from a deep slumber
By a tempestuous noise of thunder.
The sky lit...

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Anyone can work a camera,
the ability to shoot and click.

It's another thing entirely
to find the shots no one takes.

The angle, to find beauty 
in the ordinary.

To look beyond the surface
and see the entire shot.

Ye we...

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It began with rain, pelting
yellow daffodils to the ground.
Sleet rode rain's coattails,
staccato dings on our windshield.

In the empty parking lot,
black-lettered buses stood
empty; no church today.

Through potato-soup lunch,
we watched quarter-size
snowflakes cover sleet.
Over hours of a long,...

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Dear Lord, I am so thrilled with great wonder
At just being alive in Your  neat world.
Some nights, bad storms appear and bring thunder.
Day returns blue skies, the sun has unfurled.

I pause in my lowly...

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Ancient oaks permeate this hidden heaven;
A hundred fifty miles from any known destination.
Filled with an energy sensed by all life;
One who wonders here is freed from all strife.

The mantra embedded is contentment;
For here is void...

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For me….. my senior years
Have become my age of appreciation 
I see and feel life more clearly now
Have heightened observations

I no longer care when people judge
Or what they think of me
I finally know just who...

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Forlornly are wedding bells here chiming
Within ears of this lonely man, forsaken
By fate, who now sits and writes words, rhyming
To find solace from his mistress, taken.
A girl whose eyes would glare with such greatness
Beauty's standard...

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Unveiled and untethered , I stand tall ,
A reflection of truth , without disguise or fall.
No masks to hide , no scripts to recite ,
My soul's raw beauty , in pain sight.

The armor shed ,...

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