Long Risings Poems

Flint 
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...

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There will be two resurrections
The first one is holy,
will it include you?
There will be two risings
     in the valley of dry bones
Which one will you awaken to?
The first resurrection
is reserved for...

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Destined for the hopefulness of dawn,
Dewy eyed, mist like tears forced themselves
From the corners of sorrowful eyes, resting
On the sunrise, briefly elated by the melody –
Music in colors, graceful and blazing,
Never hesitating behind the guitar’s...

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We can all look down into the depths of slavery
to the crippling effects of ownership
that our ancestors allowed to control the world 
slaves used and abused, raped and whipped

Yet slavery was not the only abuse...

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Multiple choices with one last try, amid this myriads maze

Someone very dear unto myself asked me the other day

"Is the sun shining where you are?"

So I took a crystal glance, into an oblong box....

Actually I...

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Multiple choices with one last try, amid this myriads maze

Someone very dear unto myself asked me the other day

"Is the sun shining where you are?"

So I took a crystal glance, into an oblong box....

Actually I...

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Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back together again...
Each of us witnessed her fall,
yet we failed to...

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The name 
mistakenly saintly, 
the other one 
a rite-of-life, 
a gauche passage 
for some, for most
the contract costly,
imprints its meaning 
post firey baptismal dive
to rise again somehow
from each our own
calamities, the personal
cataclysm we confront
or shun...

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Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back together again...
Each of us witnessed her fall,
yet we failed to...

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** Devotion Poem, VANTAGE POINTS **
(For Jim. #17 in Devotion Poem Series)

“I’m not a romantic,”
   you announced at the very beginning
With a side-flick of your hand
As if you might then stand
To exit…taking along...

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At what point in life is one allowed to give up?
After how many falls and risings,
Do we give them a go-ahead to giving up?
In a land of verbal freedom and peace like this,
Where you and...

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There are recalls of blasting winds across my cheek.
It was during an 8 year tenure in the city by the bay.
Performance of my tasks required early morning risings,
and so many of those early mornings were...

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Tales from the Crypt 2

Date: Tue, Jan 19 2016 at 12:34 PM

This A Tale from the Crypt Keeper
Of A Boy with Mystical, 
Physical, 
Spiritual,
 Lyrical,
Features
Created as A Creature
With An Extroverted Demeanor
Inside him is Ether
That Burns...

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He laughs like an ocean
His breath is a breeze of a crystal blue sea
That passionately meanders
Through and across her naked, burning heart
His depth boils like a patient volcano
That irons her rough edges with
Penetrating heat of...

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Harken...those hollowing drums
Over cold vales so beat,
Exhorting a multitude of glistening 
Star-tipped spears,
As marching over shattered landscapes
In shinning replete:
Crunch Artumes eternal legions
Across the snow bound years.

Casting down from the mauve 
And cloudless heights
The pale witch...

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An appeal of poetry
is its lack of rules...

though not to be loose
as a plucked goose – 

without bare essentials
for flight

struts of logic,
living words
that excite with lift
long after the reading
and initial gliding

a pleasant aftertaste
not necessarily sweet

often...

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Waves crashing at me feet, noble tall as I stand.
The beauty I see beyond me, tides washing in the sand.

Bright sunny days, to mist in the mornings.
Cold winter chills, see the whales adjoining.

No other life...

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chit chat but no chewing
Nothing could be as safe as a two pronged apple cart rotating on a journey. Such sturdiness. If a single voyage is thick with angst and full of weeds. Lie down...

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With a poignant tale, he stands in crimson tide
His soul curves a silver lining like a wispy masquerade
The resonance in his innocent gestures tells a story
Of a rare, undeniable infancy so impeccable
There is a silence...

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The delicious odor of home-baked bread
instantly takes me to mum's kitchen door,
I'm in heaven, though not a word is said.
Kneading the dough, she'd punch it down once more, 
calling for three risings, she'd give it...

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ROSEN BLUT
And when the final times had come
to be known by all,
as the doomsday rock
had set its way,
those who had seen its course
chose they must not remain in silence
but prophesy even about the end.

And people...

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Modes of thousand minglings


Modes of a thousand mingling
 Distilled within itself
 All forms within their structure
 None equates without the other

 All is one and of the other
 Within it’s every things of nothings
 Through...

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Breathe laden islands rise and fall beneath the lap
of crystalline water, a steam graced surface breached, 
rosettes crest, their gently risings peaks to cap
mouthfuls of desire whose lower gate's lie unbreached.

Submerged beneath chest's hollow lies...

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I think I know
 Happiness
Survive the drought 
I see the vvivid rainbow
 radiant 
Brilliance shows Stormbreaker 
Earth's shaker
Sounds bleak demented 
Shattered animated 
Loudly awakens all animals and birds
Loud and deep promised Mesquite 
Major key...

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Haven't heard from my daughter
in many moons
But I don't interfere in none of that
My parents didn't interfere 
in my life
Looks to me like a cosmic payback

I refuse to spend my time
worrying about her
Because I raised...

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