Long Skywards Poems

thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
  apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
  my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
  impatiently, she waits for me
  securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...

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Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 4


PADMASANA- LOTUS POSE Step 04


Posture - Sit on any flat comfortable ground or carpet/Rug/Durry.  Stretch your legs in front of you loosely. Hold your right foot ...

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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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*Image of What Happens When I Put ... by UMC.

The Collection Plate,

'Tis a simple sacred place of worship bearing no weight, whereto, one's faith unchallenged, accepted universally.

A complement of thrice their numbers, religious qualities as...

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Somehow it's like you don't exist
The stars above are missing you
You've been away for oh so long
And I'm drowning in your absence,
Just like drowning in quicksand
I can only stop the struggle
To avoid the complication
You're gone,...

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Deep ocean of azure blue

Overhead seagulls circling flew

In constant motion, heaving sides

The old merchant ship upon it rides

Rust scorched it's barnacled coat

Salt encrusted railings forever afloat

On the horizon's sinking sun's amber glow

Beckons enticingly along the...

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In the highest peak of my heavenly life 
I wanted to flow down 
Through the gates of my grave without any strife
The place where I now drown
I’ll never feel the warmth of the life-giving
Even the...

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written on time’s page
                               ...

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an angel stands under a lonely pine
    showing the way to the lost souls 
                 ...

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This is karst country
New Market is a mountaintop
She sits on a limestone hill
And sloping down to a sudden drop
We come to Middle Quarters still
As water in the bulrush 
On the wide chest of a broad...

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Predator drone recording:- 6.00am
 
The dawn sky dramatic 
Multi-coloured in rainbow array
Mutating flares of crimson reds
One portent Wednesday.

Overhead the predator drone motionless
Metallic silver it's planed wings
and tip pointed nose

Alarming to view it's presence 
Though reassuring...

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"Phoenix Wings"



Suede heart turns tin star 
wears the shining part
on the outside stitched up

blue silk now 
glistening

tears in time forgotten 
justice in the frozen cut glass 
criminal, wasted memories

clairvoyant signs 
electric lines writes and 
truth...

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‘Twas the night before Christmas with peace all around
Reindeers were sleeping there wasn’t a sound
When all of a sudden a shriek could be heard
Rudolph was cursing, with shocking swear words

Dear Rudolph was always the perfect...

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Called to journey
Through the passageway of my heart
I close the door and turn
Exposing myself in full surrender

Fuzzy whiteness vibrates around me
A fleecy cocoon tickles my limbs
I feel your fingertips calling out to me
Royal turquoise butterflies...

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It was a great evening

                    of a lovely Spring

       ...

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Sitting watching a June summer king establish his reign over hazy hills and dusty dales,
I could just hear a sharpened scythe's ring across green fields cutting away at the corn,
With the hustle and bustle of...

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“METROPOLIS BLUES”

The elemental wind
curls in from the north east,
sublime salon creations in
disarray, in grimy profusion
inventiveness subsides.
The town clock strikes out,
within ear shot, a bench seat plays
host to a cast of thousands. 
Soon! succulent rotting form...

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Oh! How I long for that
one sweet moment of
loneliness, when the human race
decides to piss off, leaving me
to wallow in my own
company.
The pressurized world,
the ceremonious
corporate reciprocates, one’s
space to foul, with flouting
flagrant farts! Creating
thunderous turmoil, a
chaotic...

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I know that you love me
It's in your warm blue eyes
As they dance to the fire
Of passion within your heart
They speak of the recognition
Of the partnership between you and I
I know that you love me
It's...

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Come and fly with me in my Gothic Black airplane, 
count to ten as we loop the loop, call my name and see the sky as I do.
Six hundred miles an hour roll upside down...

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Sun rose in the morning
Glittering on snow covered
Driving the freezing dark of night
To another place, another time
Sun set in glorious red, and shining saffron
Moon rises spreading midnight blue and ghostly pearl
In winter, in the glory...

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“Cambodia is
Cambodia but not really
Cambodia.”
That’s what some say
As the years roll on
Forty years or so since Pol Pot and his pals posted
‘Year 0”, 
Sent the whole thing to the wash,
 And it came out 
Red.

So...

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"Outside Closed Circles"



Tall limbed stories
are stilts
to walk softly 
aloft the shallows
casting shadows 
bruised in purple

a double degree 
in stray fellows

luxury is the 
comfort calling
in front of all the Lost
pressed between pages 
keeping safe between lines
transparent...

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Frozen Ground

Everything differs on frozen ground,
Brittle stalagmites obscure green skywards,
Whilst all around damp is the sound,
That crunches the breakfast walk.

Semi-permanence becomes a mirror to our image,
Bifurcated bark life agonises brown skywards,
Its so easy to lose...

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I'm feeling better now, but feel the after effects of the event that wasn't

I feel I need to care less
Instead of feeling all the pain
The pain I can't take
I still grieve that I leave it...

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