Long Scintillated Poems

My old life seems monotonous to me now, but I allow it was fine then,
As cobalt skies allow warm butterscotch rays, to linger in the glen.

I worked through those golden days, but most evenings stayed...

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*Image of The Collection Plate by TPW.

The Epiphany of Three Men of the Cloth

My submission is of an objective accounting that had scintillated at my workplace yond the mid-'70s. It had spun into a resplendent...

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Kiss me,  I want to lift you skirt flying
Inside my heart like the wind
To dance on clouds of joy my kite
Embracing time, to hold you in my arms and spin

Festively playing in the clouds
Long...

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If downriver a conscience sliver should make me wonder
Why in the face of challenges I should blunder
Fearing to thrive into a hope giver, preferring to pull asunder

Pangs of conscience, veering away from sticking out my...

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Horse


Sixteen point three hands high sparkled with sparkles
with a sparkling bay colour covering his coat
shimmering in even the darkest of the darkles
every part of him had a shimmering mote
a white mane that shines with shinning...

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Married into esteem, wet blood of rubies
Eighty one ladybugs jitter over decoletage
Prince winks at my wonderment, approving
Twinkle pink flashes, silk rhubarb mirage

His newest attainment suitably adorned
Heavy with resplendent raspberry prize
Chest rise and fall, cool gems...

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Frozen chaos painted the widows
pristine sky blue seen through ice
icicle patterns spirals and swirls

We opened the door and stepped outside

“Jesus it’s cold” your breath the only cloud

Upon the fields of snow
no footprint touched
the freezing glitter...

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The alchemists seek to change iron into gold.
They have never succeeded, so I have been told.
However, I have found gold within your body.
Everything about you has scintillated me.
Heloise, not only do you have great beauty,
for...

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For many an historical generation,
you scintillated man’s imagination.
The subject of numerous films and books,
your presence was worth some astronomers’ looks.
From writers such as H.G. Wells and Jules Verne,
the fire of man’s curiosity would burn.
With mankind’s...

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Slotted rocks allotted in a stacked wall of stone
Greeted me gray as smoke, carved statue honed
Halted my walk among sun snuck tall trunk home
Flatly reminded my psyche I'd arrived here alone 

For beyond its forbode,...

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In a world swathed, in the darkest of night
She danced and she twirled, emanating light
The very place where, her dainty hands lay
Scintillated sparks, of glorious day

A woman touched, by celestial grace
Heavenly glitter, sheened angelic face
She...

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Within the hype of hop-head hitter's fear 
Are bitter crystal lies of siren night. 
The sight of city sounds will surface near 
As frantic raging rhythms rise in flight. 

And songs we play in honor...

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