Long Semaphores Poems

the inside attempting to outside
each with its own absurd shopping list
we are after all composite beings
clumps and aggregates and glomerations
made up from all the faces we have seen
all the people we have imagined to have...

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Unless…
        by Odin Roark

Seems just yesterday the sun arced
Over precarious ice
The street’s one elm
Leaned its naked branches with the wind Bringing winter’s announcement

A Coney Island cat crouched puzzled
Gradual...

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LOVE’S STORY-A STRUCTURED PROSE
On the verge of love
and mutual discovery, unveiled,
in our secret world;lips to lips,
sealed,hearts in passion, pound, 
ardour's whispers sound; our needs
unchain  desire,pleasure's fever
fans a fire,each flame thrusting
higher.In duet's crescendo choir;
realisation exceeds...

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Driven to Distraction

Can’t help it
Can’t do anything about it
An innocent photo
Fantasizes
Her word repeated
Re-read and re-initiated
Touches
Swims me through 
Her soul
Finds my spirit
Traversing the spaces
Hanging with kisses

She repeats
And replete
On tantalizings
Almost tasted
I fall
Control-less
Can’t help it
Can’t do anything about...

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What gets possibly gained from poetic encounters?
A friendship sets sail though mast’s shadows can’t merge
more than sheets in the wind that two sailors might set in defiance
of oceans, whose trembling waves surf on their opposite...

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Whispers in the night, they come 
With honey crooning litanies of 
All that wallows lost within the 
Vortex of a callow past. 
In their soporific tongues, their 
Cargo loaded semaphores, that 
I can barely strain...

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It was 3AM I suppose, or to be precise
A complete hour of sleeplessness and
I was walking behind or rather following
The footsteps of that decrepit old body.
Her hoary head signified semaphores,
Illuminating and reflecting a way onward,
Onward...

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Serene sunset, star studded sky, seamen setting sail,
    Sixteen salty sailors, surveying southern seas,
    Singing somewhat spicily, saucy sea shanties.
    Sea sirens serenading, seductively sedates,
 ...

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Cold cobalt skies unfold their lanky limbs
The sovereign land awakes in zealous time
Where low mesquites abide the feral winds
Defiant blooms the lupine in its prime

Rainbugs dot the earth in velvet red
Ant lions quietly lurk in...

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My love,
her hair,
              sweet beauty,
garlands, crown;

My love,
her face,
              ever...

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Her hair,sweet beauty’s garland
now crowns her face,the fairest
 found.Eyes,deep pools,silent
semaphores.Lips,such perfect petals
to welcome a kiss.Soft blossoms to
pillow my desire and cushion my
caress in passion’s flower.There,
to pause awhile enveloped in ecstasy
draped in tenderness.Her body spoke
volumes,her eyes...

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