Long Shadow of my soul Poems

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats 

“I love you...

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A Progressive Shadow

A series of real challenges and troubling world events 
In our twenty-first century give us a definite reason and
An urgency to pause and reflect on mankind’s situation.

Our world today—more than at any other...

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Shadows in the Broken Mirror
In the endless shadow of the soul, where unfulfilled dreams take shelter,
Lies an unbounded love, the destiny of a beloved in chains,
A storm of misunderstood feelings, a sea of despair,
And a...

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The things I've been, the things I have been, the things I am, things I'm to be,
a symbol so dark, a sign so brite, a mark of the heart,
shadow of the soul,
rind of mind,
as the...

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One thwarts the burn of troubled mires,
reserves Myself for My own lot.
The other bids I jump into the fire
and offer everything I’ve got.
One draws me up, the other down,
one draws me back, the other out,
one...

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Don't ask the lady on the train,
of where she plans to go,
for where did her land turn into to sand,
you and I will never know.
Where flies the bird unknowingly,
with voices in our heart,
the moment dies...

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How is it possible to feel so much 
and be so very numb at the same time?
How am I supposed to be able to trust
When each time that I think I am safe
I am shown...

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Inclined on the divan with a book,  in my room, I was all alone,
Wrapped in a quilt tucked around my feet, the wind’s moan….
In  the cold gusty afternoon sun – casting its timid...

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Grass meadow vast as a sea
Stretches almost to infinity
Trees like islands on that sea
Flowers are there full of beauty

Yet smell is sobering air is dense 
Sometimes looking at it one feels tense
Putting in heart eerie...

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Gentle autumn wind murmurs in trees
Beyond unknown consciousness sees
Gates of destiny are opened by smooth breeze
Watchful eye observes the transitions of armies

The wiping willow will magnify every cell
It has a secret which it can tell
The...

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Two stars are timidly twinkling beyond the heavenly dome,
Touchingly emanating their light
Into the dark void of my solitude.
Solitude is proud
If you are followed by memories,
And me and memories are like wind and roses,
Facing each other,
Forever...

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Im running through the dark, chased by questions in my mind
Haunted by loves ghost, and I've got no where to hide..
And I try reason with him, please just let me be..
I'm just as lost as...

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Sultry crowns a lunar face beam connected 
fishing in the great lakes crimson shades a shadow

Rising inside echoes see through ice crystal breaking 
the temple of an ocean lament treasure sings out sweet sorrow

Cries out...

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I will not say I love you
For love dies a dark death
And the light I feel radiates from deep within myself
I cannot stay by your side 
For your shadow overwhelms my soul
And the sun always...

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you sped by and I glimpsed your face
your stuff all packed for your quick getaway
you've tried before but it didn't take
a fool never learns from the old mistakes

you left a treasure under a Palo Verde...

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Stars burning across your garden,
Saturn's shadow chasing my soul
imprisoned within window-panes,
pressing firmly
your hand print
knuckles whitened,
brown eyes fixed through entombed vessels
once a mirrored heart.

Dancing in my darkened room,
your white cotton gown
tattered
thread-bare
transparent,
shrouding your body.

Your brazen smirk, 
inked...

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All I want is in my lies
That never-ending wish that I can save your life
But there’s no one really there
There’s only one more distant dream within a mirror of despair

So perfect in it’s role
To seat...

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Oh Lord My God

Imprint on my eyes eternity
So that what is to come is all that I see
Not on the fallen world surrounding me
But focused on what is yet to be
Imprint on my eyes eternity

Imprint...

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Your face lays soft on the surface of my mind
a deep reflection beneath the shadow of my soul
that leaves me smiling in the twilight of life
as I wonder about love from long ago
that dwells with...

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A Season for war
We rage in twilight…

At the edge of our reason.
Winter surges at the realm,
Summer comes to slay,
Spring tries to heal,
Fall loves the decay.

Black branches clutch;
Sun rays oppress the fortitude.
Flowers fall to dust
Leaves burn...

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I've touched the flame of the poet's soul
and felt the burning of wondrous wonder
it dances in my mind a brighter glow
where treasured words are there to plunder

Forgive my sin of being a dreamer
whose lost in...

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Ferry me across the river Styx
Into the realm of the dead
Charon won’t you take my danake?
Ferry me across the river Styx
Were the Judges await
To seal my faith

In Tartarus I do belong
For all I did was...

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Your face lays soft on the surface of my mind
a deep reflection beneath the shadow of my soul
that leaves me smiling in the twilight of life
as I wonder about love from long ago
that stays with...

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Touching fingers off 
deep fire melting tips 
sweetly burning brushes 
inside warmly walls 
Within four chambers 
echoes whispering silently 
softly desires warm when skipping a beat 

Oh you talk the words 
of the sweetest golden...

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If you’re ever passing Auburn Street
Find him if you can
Though he is not invisible,
He is the shadow man

Eyes avert his corner perch
And voices thin and drop
Paces quicken at his sight
And no one ever stops

The shadow...

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