Long Scintilla Poems

.So this one was really just a bit of fun I wanted to try and incorporate some really old slang type language within the piece, I've included a glossary below for the old words but...

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When the hot sun begins to drown in the deep mighty ocean,
And the cool moon begins to rise from the high mountains in slow motion,
She starts to fly away steadily with the gentle winds,
As she...

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Written: December 02, 2023

Quote "Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified." Alan Watts

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O souls of the Island, 
I have silently 
heard through 
tropical torrents 
and surpassed 
a million miles 
of the milky seas, 
away from 
mint-marine 
silhouettes of my
utopian wonderland, 
as strawberry 
ripples and 
coconut-scented 
musings called...

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Written: February 08, 2024
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Scarlet lips susurrous softly,
amid quiescence of dusk
bequeath beamily beguin beats 
within our sumptuous souls.
As grace echoes in crimson,
tears trickle...

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Written: March 2nd, 2024
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Wingbeats on warm whisper wavelength
wasteland, waves of wasabi writhe
with wilting, whimpering, witless wring...

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Ioàn: O sacro grembo a cui per levitade
          disgravar de ' suo ire 'n cieli falsi
          i'...

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Enea, at the Scottish Court

The critics claim that this is far the worst
of all the frescoes.  Enea the star?  No
inkling here.  Can that be James the First?

And that’s the Clyde?  It...

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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!  Edgar Allan Poe
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In the...

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MINI VACATION

sweetness of four days
off in a row

to pitter, to dream, to combat
the clutter and dust, even the walls

how have i missed that? to dream
on paper with dot to dots, morse

code – oh, help-me-not! ...

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If today were in fact the end of days
We'd face it with no scintilla of anxiety or sadness 
because our fate is in God's hands
I'd leave absolutely nothing unsaid 
between us; no time would be...

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It all begins in the darkest part of our empty souls.
When we realize we won't or can't possibly reach our goal.

We gnash out bloodied teeth, crying to a crimson sky, 
Lashing out..... "Why, why, why?"

So we bring out our...

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I was too quick to trust her
Her eyes, her lips, her humility and 
swarthiness…
Conviction was all I could gave in to.
Plethora of confidence I have built 
upon her in a jiffy
Like an edifice built upon...

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THE MONSTER YOU DREAD

i can’t handle rejection,
the unhug of perfection.
a piercing scream of perplexion —
my complexion streaked
grouted and piqued.

i backhanded you by
closing the splintered door,
vainglorious to the core —
now you can’t see the open sore.

you...

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It is simply being at a still point, where silence speaks 
volumes. 
Where guilt turns to tranquility and I can trust to risk or risk to trust,
either way, it doesn’t matter. It is a matter...

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Against the dark vastness of the sky
Beautifully marbled disc of blue;
Through viewport a scintilla I spy
Thin ribbon of the very same hue.

But eons ago what  Mike Good saw
Myriad life forms which survived there
Couldn't be...

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I’ve started looking into your soul
          now don’t be scared
I mean no harm, just let me stare
         ...

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MUSING AT THE LIBRARY

Curmudgeon staring me down, what do you think betwixt those eyes? I dare to stare back this time. “Are you having a good day, sir.” “No!” he says back just as fast....

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Written: August 07, 2023
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Within the depths of soliloquy,
A voice unfolds in a sempiternal plea,
Seeking solace in the scintilla of rhyme,
Guiding us through the corridors of time.

In surreptitious whispers, it speaks,
Through every word, a story leaks,
A...

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WE THE WOEFULLY WEAK

We the woefully weak
learn how to walk feather lightly so the floorboards don't squeak
while the moon has clouds to hide behind
we will rob you brashly and blind

while the lights in your house...

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THE WOEFULLY WEAK

We the woefully weak
learn how to walk feather lightly so the floorboards don't squeak
while the moon has clouds to hide behind
we will rob you brashly and blind

while the lights in your house are...

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WAS IT WHAT IT WAS?

It was a time of temperance for a temper tamed
It was a time when, on beauty, was mournfulness and belligerence blamed
It was a time when a recently birthed masterpiece was smudged
It...

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When Neptune's 
nostalgic sighs, 
weave ruffled rosaries 
of brocade ink, 
bleeding from 
blackberry wrinkles 
in torrential time, 
I wonder if 
herculean eyes
of my earthen heart, 
are afraid of being 
abandoned by the
electric rhapsody 
of life's...

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we pull the car over
photo op for a toddler
a scintilla of snow

moments like this
a kiss from God

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arms are  open wide
for a Vermont bouquet
a spectacular display of poppies

“honey, honey!
stop the car!”
i pose aunt and uncle
then...

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The wind rattles and shuttles leaves into fall
And grass wipes off its tears in the pour of night.
I hear throbbing haunches and tramps of stallions.
Garlands of blinking cowry shells
Ferried long from the treasury shores of...

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