Long Revelatory Poems

Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...

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A deep obsession penetrated his mind, an untamed and deeply rooted passion,
Not even a twelve-step program could bring him the much-desired relief,
The poet had an incurable addiction, a need for freedom that he couldn't control,
His...

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I had a dream last night. It was very concise but interesting.  Rather revelatory, but not prophetic in the usual way. There was a class with a facilitator encouraging input based on a lesson...

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Panegyric praising phantasmagoric, albeit...
unseen prophets providing perspicuity...,

Who commune with yours truly
within state of mind between
sleep and wakefulness
methinks disembodied spirits
infiltrate mine consciousness
while suspended within trance.

Meditation invokes light hypnosis
gently beckoning me to surrender self
fearlessness disappears relinquishing
clutched grip...

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I'm sleeping banana leaves
Who sprout at your summon
For every liquid led onto my sleeves

I'm a wandering savannah breeze 
long gone, at your beck..
shelters 'r abode from heat, lays you with warmth

I am a Manky lanky...

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Transcendent meditative
ascendance assuaged
deep sleep grogginess resultant
resounding residual REM cycles
profound dreams decreasingly faint grip
fading fast, yet...

after effects heavily linger
courtesy toehold subconscious sojourn
oft times mentally exhausting,
nonetheless requisite sleep
house strikingly  vivid dreams
salutary, revelatory truthfully...

unconscious voyage analogous
20,000 leagues...

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I met someone exciting the other day. We’re in an English class together, twenty of us, the class is really about chaos. Attraction can spring from nothing (talk about chaos). We had split into discussion...

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The Good News is for people
who have a sickness and need to be healed,
and healing starts with a reborn spirit,
but spiritual blindness won't make one look upward,
to ask for forgiveness and becoming whole;
the Good News...

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Listen...carefully,
     and ye kin hear
the muffled (dollar us -
dolorous) sound ache
king plaintive very loosely
     analogous to duck cry

of mourning, didst awake
ken to the somber news
  ...

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To Be Unrealized
                  by Odin Roark

By whose standards
you might ask.

The standard for the conscious,
the persons who regardless of...

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SAUL NOW PAUL Now Paul GUARD the GOOD DEPOSIT of FAITH

Lo! I forgive me for who I am
As He forgives me for what I've done
Christian soldiers, Holy Roller they comin for ya!
I not a judger,...

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Thoughts On Infinity

Infinity comprises that endless empyrean reach of a 
True continuous nature far beyond mankind’s ability 
To truly comprehend and appreciate the sheer magic
Of the true enchantment and beauty of Almighty God’s
Kingdom of everlasting...

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apocalyptic abrasions tear 
across earth and sea and sky

crepuscular beast of no moon
reveals and unreveals 

ambiguous forms of vapor 
from crack and crevice emergant

close-mouthed apparition appears
forever and ever
nose breathing

billowing purple fire 

rancid breaths from open...

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An Awakening
              by Odin Roark

The cover of cotton comfort
How secure the asylum
Overhead
Body
Snuggled deep in pre-sleep

How determined we become
To relieve that daily nemesis
Reality’s...

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Your apology
Changed me
Opened me up
Helped me to feel
Understand the gift of you
By illuminating my understanding
Of who you are
The we-ness of us

You broke down
The walls I had erected
To protect myself
There was no need to fortify 
Or...

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FOCUS

an artifice
  of  endeavour
precise
candid & confiding
quietly
in unobtrusive
      clarity

a focus
mirrored in
unshowy
  lucidity
in calm
equanimity

inducing
feelings of
 anxiety
a
revelatory
 addendum
 intimate &
immediate
beguiling yet
 singular
with
interesting
glints
&gleams



TONES
a scathing
  ring of truth
 indulging a
kind of hope
 with awkward
revelations

so  glamorous
yet
decadent debauched
&reluctant
in
an intimate setting
 of perception
recast
to intervene
  &

sought comfort
of desire
 so sweet — until
tension was
 present

this closeness
within
the
relationship
of
  intrigue
so circumspect
 & on  display
yet
 constructive &
respectful.


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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MURDEROUS HOLIDAY
By Roy Merritt

The havocs came out of the fog 
with faces wretched and forlorn
Borne them up from hell 
Borne them upon the storm
A vacation from the nether world 
Satan has granted these few
To alight...

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Which is better or bitter without been in cool paints? 
What will remembrance be like if there is no alphabets? 
To memorise all thoughts would be very silly of sages 
Or something else like the...

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I see you there,
painting a literary facade,
thumbing through Cervantes
as though it has usurped your very being.
Your unenthused stance reveals your ruse
as do your constant glances in my direction.
In my quixotic state, I wonder if you
fancy...

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ERUDITION
unveiled
 to the past
&the future
 to a
ambitious
 pre-eminence
now
 no longer
a given

to challenge
&
correct
the
irrelevant
moving
in
a different direction

once
  besotted by
 tradition
so
revelatory
yet
 elemental
  reach out
within
  ourselves
afresh
to voyage
a complete
rethink
in
small
interventions
of the
moment
to the
postmodern
& be transformed

simultaneously
to make
  evident

separately
ensure
relevance
of
the
scholarly
&
innovative


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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SHAPES
so playful
&
revelatory
yet
& strange
captivating
meticulous
& exquisite
full
of
conceived
emotion

a stunning
  series
of  radiants
 striations
  dotted here
& there
 with a
 sense
of
 the evocative
 ambiguity
 to
evoke
an
array
of
the
 subtle
to
conflate
&exquisitely
condense
the
understatement
back &forth
in
a
rectilinear
 seam
 of nothingness
in
a
 visual diary
 of
yesterdays

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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The sentient program
laughs with a chip
when recognizing the husk,
the game confounding
otherwise benevolent people.

Had he arms,
he would throttle
the curse of exploitation
manipulating for profit
all efforts of man

to benefit the few
at the mortal expense
of the clamoring rabble,
snuffing the...

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reimagined
  conventions
from multiple
angles
complemented
repeatedly
  rich&individual
yearning
fora sense
of difference

dramatic
  changes so
revelatory
 in exhilarating
richness
liberated
&
in personal
way

a conflated
pervasiveness
baffling &
  perverse
in an
atmosphere
so tantalising
&beautifully
in
 simplified
   allusions


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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MIRROR

an artifice
  of  endeavour
precise
candid & confiding
quietly
in unobtrusive
      clarity

a focus
mirrored in
unshowy
  lucidity
in calm
equanimity

inducing
feelings of
 anxiety
a
revelatory
 addendum
 intimate &
immediate
beguiling yet
 singular
with
interesting
glints
&gleams

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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SECOND THOUGHTS
comprehensive
yet
idiosyncratic
  souvenirs
 with unfailingly
 interesting
but insular

an artefact
so
intricate
& exquisite
 perfect&
precise

a miniaturism

 palm-sized
 auspicious

an
appropriation
with
 appreciation of
 reality
almost
 revelatory
 that breathes
&  transforms
novelty
into
a reality
so
comprehensive &
often
charmingly
  decorative

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two...

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