Long Rewinds Poems

Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...

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If we could sing
of futures searched

If we might ring
with resonant sacred research,

We might find within each inside thing
a place Future co-invites,
outside reconnects
ego-remembers
from dreams of Ancient Paradise

Each unfolding chapter heading
becomes retitled
unentitled revival
as we pass

Renaming Future Searches
as...

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“One’s destination is where one’s been, if in a surreal dream a reverse world, is what one has seen”         ~~ The Poet ~~

A surreal new take on...

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A thick, white smog crept through the park that night,
that one color besides black.
Occasionally, street lamps would beam around like wheels
but the lights burned strangely dim.
 
"Let's shoot the breeze, " he said. And so...

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Me very late mum, a funereal day...

courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian, 
sexagenarian, and Unitarian son
and modest mastermind maven maverick.

Another anniversary of her death occurs
upon advent of 
May fourth two thousand and five,
not quite seventy years since her...

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I’ve been runnin'

Out of breath,
cold sweat, lungs burnin'

But these legs, they move but they aint goin’ -
no place, no distance can be found between the chased and the chaser
cuz they’re one and the same

The hunter...

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You would think that because the lows sway with the highs your moods would fluctuate but I find that I don't live in that way. In those moments I find myself often times in the...

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My chamber teems with tensions, taut, that logic can’t withstand,
fragmenting mental masonry with memories unplanned,
as bitter tears from hazel eyes reduce the stone to sand.

Dim shadows cast by candles flit across the haunted room,
beleaguer apparitions,...

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Its been 8 years now and not a day goes by,
That you dont cross my mind... 
In flashbacks or in a way,,... a mind that auto-rewinds.
Though there are little memories that remain, 
Far and few...

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Way back before this baby boomer waz astute
countless decades before aye became long in the tooth,
and also prior tomb ma sporting dentures to boot
fond memories rush more than so far back
envisioning illusory wind blown steppes
(wait...this...

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I thought about my older brother when I wrote this


One morning I woke up
and my bed was now a king size,
No more chow lines
and my wisdom[wife] was puttin' in kitchen work
and I was blessed to...

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L i f e
a prison of pretense
and I still dream of
walking through tempests of chaos
barefoot,
allowing stones and pebbles
to tattoo my languid skin with love in lilac,
as ashes of yesterday
erase the thunder marks
that struck my spine
in...

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Little Girl swings in the air,
legs pumping, wind in hair
the closest to flight she’ll ever be.
freedom and fairytales whisper in her ears,
telling her with each swing, she’ll be closer to the clouds.

Little Girl and Little...

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On the other side of romance;
I do;
Two words that changed my life.
I do;
With these words we became husband and wife.
I do;
I will, I promise this to you;
my heart to you will remain true.
I still do....

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Humanity 

The pagan pilgrimage, sun-worshippers frequently make
Latter-day phenomenon, take off on a Bronze Age break
Constellations change position, solstices realign
Tropic of Capricorn peaks, Cancer starts its slow decline

Astrologers reassure us, the end is not bespoke
Astronomers can’t...

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At times I lose my mind to the world outside
I plea to your kindness on my knees
For as long as my never ending memory rewinds, it has been your name that gave me most joy
At...

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You  look  at  me  and       I   g e  t     l    o    s...

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 I often close my eyes in hopes of it all being just a dream
Slowly I drift into my imagination and pretend all is well
I paint the sky a perfect blue, the stars a warm...

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I’m tapping my feet to the music escaping an old man’s saxophone
On main street
I can feel the raindrops hit my hand
I roll them in my palms like marbles
From my childhood
They apologize to me
And I ask...

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I stepped off the porch unsteady
A memory had crossed my mind again
And I began to unwind
Come morning light, I'll be gone

Its been six years now
And I still think of you
And what might have been
What should...

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There are many times, 
When we are stuck,
Like when a player exclaims, “Checkmate!”, 
And our king falls, as it is struck.

At that point,
The game is lost,
It is over,
Despite how we were flossed.

There are also moments,
When...

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As I woke up in the night
I felt a whisper plainly light
It won my urgency and might
and left this stricken heart afire.

'Twas then I recalled amongst the ashes
a tragedy of placid acid
my conscience stained in...

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THE WIFE
The fog smoking to the skies
Architecting more grey clouds
The ticking hands of the clock
Day getting old for more sunrays
With the luggage, I slam the door behind

Praying for traffic to fold up
Ugly devils working round...

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Secularization of nature
begets secular demotion of sex
rewinds reminds reversing time
before Western therapists
of ego issues beget eco-healing medication
including secularizing meditation
into mind full of LeftBrain dominant
patriarchal capitalization,
commercially marketed commodification
of what were once more private worship services.

Reducing sexual...

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Why is all i can remember about you pain, and loathe, more than joy and love?
You never wanted me happy, yet my misery created your own happiness,... you never listened... didnt even pretend to.
Were you...

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