Long Schumann Poems

I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your literary accomplishments well-known,
And your courage through the misery and morphine*...

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"MOTHER" 

Mother Earth 
is Crying

Her heart is breaking
Earth is shaking violently

She is hurt and 
She is angry

Her tears no longer reign
Oceans swelling dry 

all the creatures 
She spits out 

on Her...

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Villanelle: Who's afraid of the Virgin Wolf's wisdom tooth

(As unlikely as it may sound, this happens to be the TRUTH: the foremost French journalist, André FONTAINE of Le Monde; an illustrious  Academician poet, Pierre...

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Peeling Back the Bubble Wrap

Peeling back the bubble wrap on the ancient of days, 
Back to when Nixon was still presiding,
He, leading with paranoid deliberations, 
Sold his yeses to the Goldbricks, and the Mustard Men;
And...

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Dominica
Gawaine Caldwater Ross

We share melons and papayas
beneath a sun benevolent.
A salty breeze, the river is cool,
and the passion flower blossoms
are fragile but rich. We stroke
their fragrance and sip intoxication -
we slip a little further and
I...

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Jingle!
She has a bracelet on    Hear it?
Jingle!
When she tells her friend how concert-hip she is it
Jingles!
Quaking little cupids. trolls and other creatures come together
   and they
Jingle!
On the brighter side, she's...

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ROMANCE

It was something by Schumann    or    Schubert
A Sonata for piano perhaps

I wouldn’t have cared
But the music fit the girl
Flawless in dress
Hair not short    not long ...

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Sweet dreams, to you, my precious child,
May you frolic in the meadow of a fairyland.—
Let angels keep your sleep beguiled,
As o'er your cradle doth the sandman softly stand.

Sweet dreams of golden elfin glades
Where the babble...

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I freely admit I love classical music,
And please don't think me a snob
If I keep my composure
When I mention composers
As Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Schumann,
And not Ludie, or Wolfie,
Or Petie, or Bob.

And a symphony simply...

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Mother Earth beheld
wonders man’s mind held,
of unvoiced intent
seeking soul’s ascent.

Our fervent cries heard,
Divine Mother stirred,
enlivening form
by bliss currents warm.

Heart is the centre
where bliss beats canter
but we dwell in mind,
gripped in ego’s bind.

Thus the boon bestowed
remains...

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Fire within bowels of earth,
stretch and yawn in bubbling mirth,
transforming every life form
by divine magnetism warm.

In as ordained we all rise,
ascending to heart’s surprise,
wherein flame of love is lit,
taking soul to the summit.

Vibration rise, gift...

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Manipura chakra to jugular notch alive
Cognised by soma nectar dripping
Toroidal rapture in heart gripping
Entwining thus becoming a bliss hive

We look around; each follows their path
Energised by God’s grace omnipresent 
As of yearning, flowing with the...

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