Long Reignited Poems

He reignited my creative passion when he reentered my life
His can sense to the core how I am feeling and asked me right away to be his wife

Though it's been 45 years we have known...

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The atmosphere is about to change 
In a way that can't be explained
Families will be reunited and fires will be reignited.

The most important things in life touch your heart the most, 
Have no currency and...

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Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                            ...

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O beloved chevalier, 
cloaked in shimmering champagne armor,
tonight I long to feel your sultry skin,
embroidered with emerald embellishments 
and twinkling teal topaz, 
tailored to tempt,
veiling these tanned desires.

My soul sways to a chained string 
of...

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Before man, there was only twilight upon the earth. The earth was divided by two realms, realms, not kingdoms; one above the earth, the Sky, ruled by the birds. The other, the Land, upon the...

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Foreword: Contains excepts from, and additions to, my own three part poem ‘Bone Idol’, which is way too long to submit here.

Skeleton Quay

He lingers on the quayside and heeds the phantom howls
Out on mist shrouded...

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"Scarecrow"



Worldliness 
in those 
who traverse 
poets’ 
re-edited
edited 
re-edited
thoughts;
semicolan, pause
their notes;
Mark a line
crossed black
on a 
Poet’s cross
caught still 
breeze blowing 
through
tightly tied 
forgotten
Love Knots

See there, 
an entire 
field of 
a thousand or 
more
Scarecrows
nodding
fixed to one spot

Witnessing...

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I.

Eros walked slowly through the forestland,
   Near Mount Olympus, in the soft twilight.
By his side, he held his bow in his hand,
   As he walked on through the advancing night.
Above the...

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REINCARNATION THINKING?

Life is like a coloring book
with few or many pages
filled with complex 
outlined images.

We are given a box of crayons
and are asked to color in the 
background and spaces of the images

Sub-titles are allowed.

When...

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You can call it love
That I know for sure
But, I think it is something else
Something so much more

It's a feeling like no other
You know it when it hits
It's when two things go together
When it's perfect,...

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One lone rose tumbled from the basket,
the same as the others but set apart
All were beautiful. They congregated
in one basket, these Southern belles,
but she, with her pink cheeks, tumbled,
she’d cut her ties. She loved them,...

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As the final glimpse 
of the sun leads into 
an everlasting spectacle 
of twinkling dreams, 
peeking through 
    turmeric traces 
of an amber aftermath, 
I listen to the 
nesting nightingales
  ...

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Sometimes you can love with all you have. 
Yet it is never enough to capture a heart. 
Sometimes the love fades away over the years. 
Hearts are broken without words even spoken. 

How can it...

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Their eyes widened, and the group leaned in with curiosity. “What’s in it for us?” one of them asked, lowering his phone and adopting a tone that suggested a wild adventure was imminent, perhaps even...

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Skeleton quay - abridged for Give Me Goosebumps contest



When the sniper fired his rifle and his faithful canine fell
A second bullet found his heart and he went down as well
Might we stay together, somehow he...

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Somewhere in the dungeon of my soul 
was a memory I supressed, 
and a song, a scent 
reignited the place and time long forgot.
And I remember leaving the cocoon we called home 
I remember moving...

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05/13/14

What I Gave

Why sleep when
dreams of her only
cause me to spiral
deeper?
What once woke me up
smiling now jolts my
body awake in cold
sweats.

No more are the
nights where my mind
drifts away into the
peaceful happiness
of her arms before
easing into...

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What happens when you untie
a ribbon in the sky?
And for all the known reasons
for rain, you still cannot
reconcile why
 these all-to-familiar
tears must be cried.
Tie a ribbon on a kite
and find joy in the wind,
direct your...

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Dream a little dream – sing a song of authenticity
Remember yesterday, though it’s long gone
Light a heart with love and peace, joy 
From the hopes, belief in what will be
When time has smiled down beautiful...

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I hope you would still remember me as we were,

every time you see pristine 

passing pomegranate hues of the horizon.

When clouds smear our unspoken love 

in inexplicable figurines,

of those simple moments we 

reignited beneath our...

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"You're here," he whispered from shadows

My fragrance consorted before me 
Heady scent of musk-infused blooms 
Intoxicating allure, lustfully impure

On the bed was an opened poetry book,
across it pages,  a perfect red rose
Dark crimson, like...

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I The Phoenix 

I recall in my youth how the world around me seemed so alive vibrant in color and beauty. As I aged this beauty faded and was replaced with a new world filled...

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Splinters and Beams

                    Stream of consciousness gleams under stark cover
      ...

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7/24/20
"Lopsided"

Folks being simple minded
So blinded
And staying one sided
Meanwhile, life and death coincided

Not every wrong was righted
I guided
Pathways were lighted
And a helping hand was provided
But still many remained divided

Some were frightened
Others caused violence
As the sky brightened
For...

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The  world is in a great turmoil
All around  disquiet and confusion reign
Russia and Ukraine engage in war of attrition 
Massacre of genocidal proportions 
Has torn Gaza strip to a mountain of ruins
As Israel...

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