Long Returning(a) Poems

I was returning a bike to it’s home this morning…left out by a child who, no doubt, was remiss and as I pushed it along the sidewalk I began to reminisce.

Back to when I was...

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You call me a boy, because you feel you should.
But, I'm a man Momma and made my decisions because I could.
There will come a time when every boy leaves his home.
Walks out the door and...

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You swept me away into the depths of our own island,
I was young and in love yet craved independence for my life-
Six years passed and you offered me a beautiful diamond,
for you had always longed...

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Returning a pearl within each silver breath lining one gem treasure 
sweeping over deep sea waves tides turn in loves pure pleasure

Blue unfolding white washed emotions, sweeping over feelings
touching feathers of an angel floats inside...

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A hundred-ten year old soldier was interred in Arlington Cemetery today.
Corporal Frank Woodruff Buckles now sleeps nigh his comrades in sacred clay,
Awaiting that glorious morn when Gabriel's bugle will sound that final call,
To fall in...

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Rumi Quote: "We are born of love; Love is our mother."

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Peering out the window
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Even as thunder boomed mighty overhead
and power lines on San Domingo Avenue outside
faltered and succumbed to the tempest
the Ortegas stood breathless in the family room, gaze transfixed 
upon the television screen like so many deer...

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Giggle dancing vanities around bonfires your funny fancies, hula skirt feigning moves with floras and flowers I had dedicated unto your chocolate tresses of hair waltzing beside you my own flames circled about flickering ablaze...

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I threw a penny down a wishing well
But I didn’t make a wish
I was returning a wish
I had been holding onto this penny for awhile
Thinking that my wish would return back to me
But that’s not...

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Just like closing a book without reading a page,
Or as to a child who is tired of being a kid;
Like a preacher that won’t stay in a pulpit so long
Or to a sprinter who leaves...

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Your voice was born from twilight's
Breast.
Your name stole the mystery
Of the night.
Ambrosial hand of gold
Bowled along the white
Surf
To glorify the lost souls
Of a time
Winding off with each chord,
the locked secrets of the world.
Orpheus!
You are the...

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Her name was unknown to me. She slid into class quietly.
An older woman, I was young, so she looked ancient.
My first and last impression of her was gray. She looked gray in every direction.
Somber, sad,...

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Such a commotion this morning on my lawn
Way out, so I had to get closer to see what it was
At first I thought someone had left a bunch of colorful equipment out.
But then I noticed...

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The things we bury within our mind
like a ravenous forager returning a find
all the cracks between our multiple side
along with the secrets we try to hide
drowning in illusory shames false tide

respectability can be a curse
not...

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Here I lay in meditation
My thoughts are completely submersed
Knowing that when I awaken
My love life will only be worse

I have but 3 goals left
I’m sure to reach in time
It’s my dreams on missing out on
Leaving...

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Under the pale blue soft skies
On white sanded sculpted shores
Where the birds cast their shadows
Amid decreasing days of summer lores.

Paths of never returning a thousand ages
Paths of ever occurring a thousand clefts
Cast out by wakeful...

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White walls and broken shelves.
These are not ours
But many forgotten tales.
Captured by the enormity,
I stand and fall.
Have I the right to wonder?
To indulge in this knowledge
Beyond mankind,
My dunce to your master mind?

Naked books
Yet seem old...

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Her eyes are a sparkling dew inspired shade
So blue they mist with a passionate side
They stare with a loving glace on my face
Gorgeous, tender eyes, ones that come and slide

She looks at my body, a...

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“Hoc est quod Isidorus”, she said,
As I ate Swiss cheese
Wrapped in a starch fold,
While blatantly returning a nod. 

Never grace my table
With your impurity.
Is it finished?
Indeed!

Something supercilious waxes the eye,
and you beaming go.
I stay for...

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Hillary Perfect President

Remarkable, wherever Hillary may have went
After returning a great message was sent
She had been warmly accepted by a big crowd
Trump supports would say for crying out loud.

Hardly a second went by without more...

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A gold sunrise, where morning glory grows,
Creatures are stirring, a lilac rambling rose,
Noonday sunshine beams, bright marigolds,
Returning a blazing bliss, as the day unfolds.

A creamy lotus pond, beneath chiffon clouds,
And swans are swimming, an elegant...

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Each day begins as an act of faith.
We cross our thresholds and expect
That no cruel twist of fate
Will stay us from returning.

But the twists await us in their careless abundance,
Well we know, in our hearts,...

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