Long Retires Poems

Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...

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China Tour Diary Moment #3
SHANGRI-LA, TIBET
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Paradise on earth: Himalayan range;
A phenomenon carved by elements;
Here magic gives birth to ways that seem strange;
A place where lessons of soul mark movement.


Our tour coach winds round the mountain...

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The ecosystem’s perfect design
A providence of the Great Divine.
A holistic balance that should not fail
If well-taken-cared of by those that dwell.

The atmosphere was just enough
To sustain the living and its habitat.
Green vegetations were all around
And...

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Journey Journal Page
NEW YEAR GREETINGS 2023
By Leon Enriquez


Two-zero-two-three comes now
To usher charming feel;
Live well this new endow
With blessings of goodwill.


Love is the charming way
To bless each face you meet;
Peace of mind fruits each day
As joy...

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Spiritual Communion is about Agape,
about Sacred CoEmpathy
about Yin’s Love,
which is Erotic Yang fertility Love of deeply dense nutrition,
but disembodied,
implicate (David Bohm)
concave rather than convex (Buckminster Fuller).

So YangLove is to Bodies
as YinLove is to BiCameral Left/Right...

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The Boatman’s Song                       7/Many

Inner Conflict of Urveshi

While her mind was cautioning her to...

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INCUBUS
Do not wake me when I sleep
To deaf my ears when the morning weep
For tonight I shall elope with him
My hero,the light of my dream
I will be where quietness do sing
With Incubus my romantic king

You've...

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I was given passion.
I was given eyes that fall in love.
All of them betrayed me
and whisper that I’m not enough.

I tried to breathe, stubborn and be,
but all they could ever see,
is someone who’s not worthy...

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As long as you haven't grown tired of me yet,
You can read to me the bed-time story,
About the horrors of the wicked witch,
Or even the fantasy of the Snowwhite princess.
You can even sing to my...

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A God-forsaken city
Dictated by incompetent people
Though characterized by secret frowns 
Lying in wait for a beautiful day
Please resurrect one from the ashes of the past
Growing like grass is the sense of melancholy
While innocence dies like...

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By Sunset's Gloaming

At this lovely time of day when we put all cares away,
When the clouds display their pink and blue soft colors,
And birds are seen in silhouette as they return to roost,
That is the...

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Moon isn't different; same do sun. 
But we all for peace get the streets shun. 
Weather caress us so well. 
Should earth not be healed; won't all wish hell? 
The pleasure taken indoor is off...

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THE INNOCENT HEART ? 

           When your heart was innocent
          The cups of her chest is...

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In the office, he smiles so charmingly.
Saying and doing all the right things,
he puts all his female patients completely at ease.
Even the women hard to please return to him,
for he is famous for his bedside...

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(Prelude)

A practicing hermit comes ‘board the train— 
"Faux Pas Degenerate’s the name."
The sundial dust of a spider 
on silken words retires; 
Easy now with walking 
‘fore the secret slips out: Desire.
 
"Paranoia: witch’s brew. 
All...

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Anatomy of a curse

Let it be so
Let it come to your turn 
 These dark hallucinations of my mind
 The hope that your lips burn 
When you kiss some other 
Your deepest hazel eyes to...

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March 11 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Kings 1-4

Key Verse – 1Kings 1:3 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid,...

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I crave the simple things, the littlest moments bring me most joy
Still, I hold the biggest of dreams and have amditedly developed a ploy

Flowers in a field and the laughter of a child
Things that make...

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What a quaint and small conception you have of the world

Sunday

Sunday

while you are polishing your rhetoric in pews
with the silver laden coffers of your charity
tucked neatly into your wallet

Sunday

A bright angel of hymns goes dancing...

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Have you seen the old woman shuffling down the big city sidewalk?  She comes from a 
different world privy to her and her suitors.
     She carries herself as elegantly as...

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Everyday as I walk down 
The feeble passage 
Across the center of poverty 
Where it perfume gives 
An awful smell 
Voice echoes vulnerability 
I cry helplessly with helplessness 
I can view every episode of your...

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at times the soul gets clenched
in an unspeakable grief
in a demoniac grip, it chokes and wriggles
the pain of being stung by a dozen scorpions
or hacked piece by piece by an axe
tremulous grows the heart, over...

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Granpa wakes early needing to pee,
then sits at the table sipping his tea.
Ahh remember the time he could sleep through the night,
but now he holds on with all of his might.

Pop longs for the time...

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Dusty day departs
Nightfall brings rest;
Home awaits heart

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Weary day retires
Night birds coo Good Night;
Sleep on sweet dreams

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Electric words whiz
Electrons on iPad;
Swirl of feelings

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Silent hours
Rain washing panes;
Streaks of lightning

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Fragrant kitchen
Food on the stove;
Happy meals await

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Jasmine flowers
Scented explorations;
Garden...

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You belong to another world when you fall in love 
Especially with the ONE above 
You will surely become gentle like a dove
And enjoys been His darling belove

But never should you feel helpless 
When things...

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