Long Reopens Poems

"...The Secret of the Golden Flower is not only a Taoist text of Chinese yoga but also an alchemical tract. (...) it was the text of The Golden Flower that first put me in the...

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Motor skills machine in charge, thinker, planner
Decision maker, The Judge, Yes and No, court always in session
Running the show, 2 sides, left - right, dreamer at night
24 hours on the job, no rest, unlimited GB,...

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DRY MASCARA

Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my face
This time,  
The sorrow at heart is deeper than...

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Once the eye's are close, the spiritmind reopens.
    Once upon a time within the stroke of creation, I
     flew beyond the vast of many star's and each of...

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Outside, the moon is alone in the sky
and floats bright white in the ocean
of the great black-blue on high.

It illuminates slightly my surroundings,
giving everything the soft pallid hue
that makes everything something familiar,
though some things I...

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Flapping wings through the summer breeze stands a love angel. A hearted spirit made by God’s mighty hand comes to bring love to the saddest world. She is dashing through the skies appearing to a...

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T~he minds eye closes and envisages the overflowing of true love from one's
H~eart, gravitating to thy One and Only;
E~scaping in conjunction with

B~rackish water adjoining to thy feet; taking note of the wind whispering
E~ver so seamlessly...

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US horizons shine
In jubilation
For today, is the 4th of July
As cracks of  guns and fireworks
          hearten
To celebrate American Independence!

This freedom loving nation
A bastion of heart...

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The sun had risen atop a flawless sky,
The morning we heard Our Lady cry.

She stood as always proud and tall,
As she watched her beloved towers fall.

Our eagle hovered as time stood still,
The morning God tested...

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Christ is the Messenger of peace,
He gladly looks upon us
and endures patience...
even when most of us
turn away and dare not
listen to His kind words!
Christ is the Messenger of peace
who waits for the seekers 
that are...

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The photos stopped 
when you were 10 or 11.
Around that time, you started refusing to 
have your pictures taken.
A few candid shots are all I’ve 
managed since then.
In them, the look on your face is...

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Well I'm just a simple poetry man
With rhymes about joys of the heart
Living in this fantasy kingdom of words
I turn on the switch and it starts

Words and phrases come cascading out
Of love and life's simple...

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Spring marches its way south, inundating
the winter steeled earth struggling to drink
the season’s flood. So I bide time, waiting
for thirsty trees to flourish red and pink.

Yet when the heavens seal their divine doors
and the portal...

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Violent, overpowering white 
bleaches all thoughts,
Brilliant red reopens never healed 
wounds.
Pink falls into white porcelain skins 
as clear tears fall from brown eyes.

Black trails down her face as she 
stares
At the pale ghost in front...

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So many doors open before me,
infinite options
  ~ tantalizing me with their
     connections and concoctions  

Pathways stretch before me,
all roads lead to gold--
Life's at my fingertips
  ~ I...

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To live within the moment,
  and write as love does now befriend

      “Light shining brightest as 
         hours grow short”

A beginning...

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