Long Smooths Poems

Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
                 II

The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...

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Digital Creationism
(Man 0, God 1)         

Part 1: Binary God
For men it seems God is a binary function
And like ones and zeros 'HE IS ON or 'he's off.'
Is...

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[An Autumn kitchen a crucible of y e a s t and y e a r n i n g]

Samantha kneads dough with determined hands, she hears
    Hank's cry—"Vi vi an"—a phantom...

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Picture a man’s solitary stroll on a sandy seaside,
Early time of day, just a short time after low tide,
Water almost calm, gentle waves lapping the shore,
Early morning sun brilliantly blazing the horizon.
Feel the wonderful breeze…smell...

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And I disappeared back into the books,
Whirling in a seamless stream of context,
By whose scarlet blood I assumed some looks,
Forevermore ready for what was next.

From this moment on I could not assume,
That what I had...

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We are all improbable in our own way, 
and who can augur the future?  
I never could have laid out my course in advance, 
though in looking back it all makes sense, 
even if...

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He heard the car and came running,
Jumped and whirled in the air,
Barking his happiness! 
Dad lifted her down in her yellow-flowered 
Camisole  and high heeled shoes.
The dog dropped,
His hind quarters hunched down,
Body sprung parallel...

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Time colors the dawn 
In hues of the morning sun
Buttery soft silence like the light
That kisses gentle with its touch

Time breathes a sweet melody 
Songs alive in echoes of faith 
Whispering music through me
Enlightening my...

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Lisa was carefully pulling a strand of cotton candy off a paper-coned “barbe à papa” - winding it around her finger while absentmindedly gazing at a carousel. She seemed hypnotized by its white horses, trimmed...

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Do you know where my heart goes?  
It moves in and out of me.  
I don't have the strength to put it aside, work on the other things in life I value and...

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When the sky rains down in jelly bean lights
Colors bright, multiplying themselves through lightning bolts
Seen through their candy cracks opened loud
Like clouded green glass glowing thick
Glowing wide jello wavering in a blinding flash
Across the landscape...

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Written: September 1st 2023
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Blithering from the depths, every word I trace
A crimson river of my soul's embrace.
Ink spills such as tears onto a vacant page.
Etching tales of love, joy, and rage.

A metronome dances in sync,
To...

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As he sits all alone in his rocking chair
the frail, old man smooths his thin, gray hair
With his companion, Loneliness, he whiles away the time
Rummaging through memories in the attic of his mind

A young man...

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A Nightcliff Evening

The pastel light of evening fades to the indigo of night,
Trees brooding silhouettes above, save where the string
Of lights picks out the furrows of pale trunks and
Thrusting limbs. 

“42; pizza” rings out in...

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A face of age, a septuagenarian that magically reverts to my twenties when I turn away from the mirror. 

My hair of silver does what it pleases to cover my face. I can't move one...

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Temporary nirvana (albeit elusive),
nonetheless I strive to access
attaining bliss mine soul bless
exceeding exhilaration winning
(with fewest moves against

deadly opponent) bittersweet game,
where life analogous playing chess
mortality embraced hesitantly, I confess
gnarled, knotted, pitted... old fingers
wrinkled mottled flesh doth...

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Graceful lights pouring over 
Dew covered petals
Gentle as a caress, kissing the spirit
With inspiration and serenity
Joy that comes from knowing a blessing
Has fallen from heaven’s realms
Calling to the soul, a breath
Of insight, hope, imagination that...

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“I open the door and cross the threshold of imagination”

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Lavish locks sprawl pillowed in peace this morn.
Gently whiskered cheeks hint of last night's lipstick
Tensions banished blue grassy fiddling lingers
Let's take it easy

I'll make the omelets
while...

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He slumps in his chair
Looks at the papers 
Spread over the desk
It has been a long day.
Walking to the bathroom
He stops to look in the mirror
Smooths his fingers 
Through his hair 
Shit, another grey hair
Already?!
He's...

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At the edge of the evening, when the world gathers in shadows,
I begin to lose my thoughts, like a river flowing restlessly,
A man, not a societal dream, not a projection
Of conventions, but a fire that...

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There are many signs I have grown older…that make me wonder…how
in the blink of an eye…
All the time I’ve been alive…all the years that have slipped by.

When I look into a mirror…sometimes…I feel chagrin…
What hair...

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The young and the old are part of man's fold.
Love between them, better than gold…tenfold.
The past before told, as the future shall behold.
Depends upon love shown, not an empty billfold.

Chores hide and seek, anger vanquished…controlled.
Life...

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Exodus 
Under a big holm oak, I sat on a stone resting a little
the sun so early in the year was hot, years ago there were 
flocks of sheep here they laid chewing ignoring me.
This...

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Near a distant sun
Under an uncontaminated crystalline sky
Exists a world without me

Where the viridescent grass ages unchallenged 
Wears wizened beards
And bows only to the wind

Where the waters crash when you thirst to surf
Smooths when you...

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Rippling water

Smooths my tears

Silk and thread

Ribbons and lace

Sooths my deepest fears

The darkness swallow's the sun deep

And my heart nearly burst from all the secrets I keep

The silver lining I hold to my flesh and slash

Leaving...

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