Long Songless Poems

I feel for gentle hearts in this loud world, 
Ever suspect, dismissed and derided, 
For long has been the shy a songless bird,
That Darwin dismissed as ‘odd state of head’, 
Jane Austin gave shyness a...

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Visions comes and Visions goes
Deep within my soul lies the reflections of an aging soul
A distance murmured cry was heard
From the echoes of a songless wind
Singing of a song long forgotten

I cannot say that I...

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There she was moments before
she flew away from the snare
in your arms a songless owl.

Strewn pictures on the floor, half-hearted
sketches of her face, her forgotten
velvet shawl with a cheap cologne that is priceless to your...

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There she was moments before
she flew away from the snare
in your arms a songless owl.

Strewn pictures on the floor, half-hearted
sketches of her face, her forgotten
velvet shawl with a cheap cologne that is priceless to your...

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A breast of rocks and woods with no song
Four hundred miles of pines that endure
And a path of chocolate sand with only hoof-prints.
Cherries are red but no one comes to pick them 
And grass here...

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FRAGILE

I watched my mother
Beautiful, petite, smart
Widowed at 28 with three small children
And people said, "Be extra good, your mother is fragile."

A blonde Jackie Kennedy,
Right down to the pill-box hat
The early 60s when women were pretty,...

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I teeter on the edge
Of a crumbling cliff, beneath me
Is nothing but cloud and indistinct shape,
A bird or two, laughing at my wingless back,
My songless throat.  I spread my arms
As if they had feathers,...

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My  First Love :
I picked the pen in my hand and move back in my past.
Sunsets gathers clouds to the horizons.
But the sky Above 
is clear 
And cold 
The stars a songless scattering.
The brimming...

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In the mazy thicket of thoughts I search
With the fork of foresight on cloudy march
I pick meaningless pebbles from eerie plane
Meaning hisses at the futile chase of fussy lane

All doorsteps lintel-ling and leading to the...

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Tears bring the eyes its shivering spangle of stars
In liquid pools dilating light
The firmament spiraled to bandage time’s scars
Shining in empty bowls night

And sometimes the common carbon of the air
In soul deep fires like butterflies
Becomes...

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Lady parrot, Roman parrot sing to me
A song of love in the highland oceans
My ears are craving to hear you sing to me
A mouthful of those songs in your throat
My mother had gone home and...

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On the ground, stark still
The child immobile stared, saw
Its dead broken will
            *
Songless feathers cold
Limping back from shivered tears
The bird speechless too
  ...

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Another day has slipped away,
     the Sun has come and gone.
And in the night I hope I might,
     enjoy a new day's dawn.

The month of May has...

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You,

Veiled in the mysteries of light
black cutting off the white
unmasked in the cotillion 

of life

no debutanted call
you said left, I was right
patience holding close
an eerie songless night

but the melody played for hours
in the breeze, the...

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Crumpled Wings That Fly

I hold close your crumpled wings,
Trebling fear that traps your flight
Quivering in the grip of songless things
Night crushing pinions swallowing delight.

Your caged heart beats wildly next to mine
Wrapped in brokenness - numb...

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O, songless bird, speak thine plight to thee!
I awoke to hear thine tears in the deepest pit of thy slumber,
My songless bird, the night has stolen thine heav'nly ballad,
And given thee a life of sorrow,
Fly...

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I

Euphonious today is the tone 
And though tomorrow is shrouded , unknown,
I trust it holds a blissful opaline pod
And to this repose a prayer to our Lord and God.

      ...

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Sky-clad, you are going 
to meet the nemesis,
digging the street to?
find the nails. Do not fret.
Nails had burrowed deep in the 
flesh of unknown. When you have
nothing to say, what are you 
going to say...

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Let's take a walk together maybe have a songless dance. 
Have a wordless conversation only letting our eyes speak. 
Make whispers with our hearts of feelings that run deep. 
Show our happiness with a touch...

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