Long Rearranges Poems

It seems just like yesterday not even gravity would take me off the earth
But when you took me into your arms, you changed it all

Scenes keep locks on the sound of love
I feed on riddles...

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The faded afterglow of a life passing through mid-age is also wrapped with an expected pattern of probable uncertainties. The moments that can ignite true spark, are not numerous, neither are those absent. The known...

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Darling why you are rare In the rareist of blossoms.
I can taste sweet aromas of your perfumed beauties.
I shall Inhale such simple hints of your beauty makes 
the raging blood of mine boil. 
Persuasiveness such...

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gentle slivers of His muse,
destined for the earth –
painting a silence on the spirit
with the burst of lifelike trembling,
the wonder of nature’s breath
poured out over the night,
caressing the lasting grace with one finger
who remembers what...

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majesty
absence 
cacophony 

Meditation

10:38 PM
i fall asleep
too easy;
close my eyes
craving
the chance to bask
in your majesty 
and open them in some 
strange world 
where agony
and loathing
run amok
along weakly-lit
backstreets 
that smell of burning 
candy floss
and the putrid scent
of...

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When you walk along the shore…as you and nature are reacquainting…you get this sudden feeling you’re inside of a painting.

In the early morning hours on a shore pristine, untouched…untainted…you realize the painting you’re in…is in...

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Twilight downs the sun as dreams appear on the screen of sleep

Slips into the subconscious realm and trips a few fuses in slumber

Adapts and clears clutter and narrates and alters the story in kind

Strips and...

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It’s never been about the hint of color
Blushing just beneath his sapphire eyes
It’s never been about the way he laughs,
The kindness that abides in his smile,
The grace that brings such inspiration,
The music that never fades...

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THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART TWO
CÓRDOBA / QURTUBAH   950 AD / 339 AH

From Madinat al-Zahra
and the City of Córdoba, the roads
to the Renaissance are renamed and
traveled, patrolled and protected, routed
and projected by the Umayyad...

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The greatest gift I can receive is that of friendship
It is also the greatest gift that I have to offer
It Transforms the the giver and receiver 
You have no idea who will be your friend
Some...

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Reeling from these absolute changes, she rearranges the pictures on the wall 
as she wonders, oh so reckless, why did he have to fall?
And the people and the memories, he was the hero of us...

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When our children were young and our family small…say gathered around a birthday cake
with all those smiling faces in one place…our family portrait was easy to take.

Our children and family have grown…and as life constantly...

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When I was young I thought I was cursed
I wondered why my creator was angry with me…
I thought that I was flawed because I needed glasses just to see.

I hated wearing glasses…feeling like I was...

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When you love someone.

                          When you love someone, they possess...

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As we head out of the mountains….far ahead of the winter snow…
I’m revisiting of a poem I wrote at a similar time and place…exactly 10 years ago:

When we first arrived in October…immediately we slowed
our attention...

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I ran across an old photograph of my brothers and me when…I think…I was only three…immediately I asked my self…”Is that three-year-old in the photo really me?”

Certainly it was me on the day that photo...

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Sitting here bored out of my mind 
I think back to better days left behind
I only wish to not be so leery 
As my body gets quite weary 
And my eyes begin to close

As they...

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That man you see,
On the streets he be
Living with nothing to his name
He holds no one to blame.
You call him a bum
Doesn't matter where he has come from
Wasn't his choice to be on the street.
Living...

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Staring at the mosaic, a new type of demon is born. 
One that's much far older than man's zodiac, 
In shapeless obscurity the faces form. 
Out of focus vision, blurred peripheral sight is clear. 
Looking...

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A fact is a fact in it’s own fact
while dwelling in it’s own fact 
though not necessarily a fact 
in the face of the greater fact
but indeed a fact
while in the body of it’s own...

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Falling asleep, you will see me –
faithful and yours for the claiming.
I won’t be asking, while caressing your sleep,
if we had been ever related.

Falling asleep, I will see you –
reaching concepts of piety, slowly sipping...

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She is not made of atoms,
but aftermaths—
the kind that linger in a room long after
the lights remember to flicker back on.

Her spine?
An origami of fallen yesterdays,
creased by collapse,
but folded forward into flight.

They call it resilience,
but...

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Stop, Drop, and Roll,
Fire burns eternal.
Holy inferno,
My heart is ready for work,
Criticize and Disguise true feelings,
No, 
I detect in retrospect,
My deal is real,
Too high for height almost,
My God is blessin' in perfection of himself,
Making me...

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When searching for a philosophy on how to live…how to act and why…my search ends quite abruptly…when I look up at the sky.

The sky understands how life is always moving…how it constantly rearranges…how we must...

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I was nineteen, and he lived on my street. 
I don’t know when, I don’t know why,
But I ended knocked up and living in the streets. 
We were married, divorced, I guess that’s just the...

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