Long Southwestern Poems

The U.S. Constitution: Amendment 11

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security
of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear          ...

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The elf stared into his eyes for a very long moment, pondering his answer.  He knew this would change everything in the life of the man who sat before him.  He knew what...

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The orbiting host of a forenoon sky claims a sunny day. They are attributed for the better part of each year, primarily affecting the island's leeward side. On its windward side, periodic downpours from time...

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Five in the morning
Orange and red glow in the east
A new day is born

A single rain drop
Looks to be the final straw
Now the flood begins

Albuquerque view
Volcanoes on the mesa
Since the age of time

Once green and...

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I live in a rose-tinted town
bowing mainly to White Western skies
bleached of blue blooded color
but also of dire Eastern dawns
with smoky red skies,
warning farmers and gardeners
taking and giving nutritional cover
under bad-blooded weather
on our way to...

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The Universe is contained 
Not in a unlimited      vast    space
But in the street in front of my yard
My universe is magnificent
Blackholes in stomachs and cyclones of tortillas...

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born under the sea, an irresistible force
  two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
  alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
  equatorial deep-time child of Laurentia and Avalonia
  journey northward, surfacing, submerging
...

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None other state can stake the claim
That Texas has to worldwide fame
No where else would ever be the same

It’s people are the proudest, yet
The truest hearts you can bet
Life is as good as it can...

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he wrote non- sufficeint love
in Spain.
he hide their for months while
his wife searched for him.
she found him their
and retreived him to stay at their home
in southwestern america.
they grow tomatoes and sold them to stores all...

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An accident of history,
a coincidence,
I wonder,
EurAsia's Nightingale
sings toward newborn dawns of life
hope
faith,
while New Western Hemisphere's Eastern Whippoorwill
sends a darker through SouthWestern chill
warning of dualdark's bodily demise.

These two,
Nightingales with transatlantic Whippoorwills
continue singing through our outdoor dreams
of...

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The moon, a glowing yellow hammock lying low and lazy in a cold southwestern November sky beckons me to sleep.  I watch as my breath rises behind me.  The cold keeps me awake....

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The Lonely Fisherman  
He sat on a rowing boat in the fjord he wore a yellow raincoat 
and a southwestern cap matching his coat` colour. Fine rain it 
was like watching a movie an...

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The Lonely Fisherman

He sat on a rowing boat in the fjord
he wore a yellow
raincoat and a southwestern cap matching his coat
was like seeing a French movie, an intellectual one 
I couldn’t stand by the window...

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Kaolin ceramics shelved for display
A framed mirror suggests a window into time
Fortifications in a continuum surround this fortress

Inside a Southwestern style is secured
Bulldozing nature for architectural delight
Rich in warm tones and textures of stucco
Baroque oval...

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Arizona Spring Training Sextet


running the rapids
life jacket on fully tight
knuckles, fully white

white water rafting 
I thought I would surely die
mates made me smile bright

sports-bars, fun, laughter
cowboy steak-out much later
bright time, what moonlight

karaoke, too
"The Funky Divas"...

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The Rozhen Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God (Bulgarian: 
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"Rozhdestvo Bogorodichno") is the biggest monastery in the Pirin Mountains in 
southwestern Bulgaria. It is one of...

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The earth is parched
and southwestern winds whip the sky dusty
The world feels dry
and the evening sky bleeds a little rusty
Dear Lord if you please
a little taste of rain we surely need

A fall foliage is wither...

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MORNING STAR


Morning’s minion dancing on the dawn
Tiny Terpsichore, trembling fay :
To her uncertain smile I am drawn  -
Shy Venus, goddess of  the early day,

Shimmering along  the far horizon
As the sky lightens and...

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He was walking,
as he often did,
out back by the patch of peppermint
he'd planted
at the edge of the grass,
a low hedge against the weeds,
the dark a canopy
over the hill,
one of many,
suddedn and high
like Indian mounds,
there in...

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1858
Southwestern France
Mother Mary appeared 18 times
Young woman Bernadette Soubirous
Announcing: “I am the Immaculate Conception”
Mother Mary helped Bernadette
Discover a hidden spring of grotto
That Spring was soon to become
Fountain of faith, hope
Healing for millions of pilgrims

Lourdes, truly...

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A bell-jar, crystalline, as transparent as an aquarium
Vibrant colors burnt umbers tints glass atop the kitchen table.
No elaborate gardening, just gentle misting in the terrarium
Muted pinks, earthy tones, texture soft as Siberian sable
My supercilious ways...

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Shark, the contortionist cat, is sitting catty-wampus today.
His head is north, paws west, crossed in a weird southwestern way.
Wearing his glitzy tiara and a feathered boa of blue.
He will not take direction, and has a...

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Southwestern faerie you look too delicate to live out west
Where the prairie dogs and the tumble weeds never come to a rest
Your orange hair flies away in the tornado weather in a pretty way
Wings are...

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