Long Specked Poems

Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel birth cords sinuous 
sensing the ground   seeking the...

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I wake up to a deserted town
"Where are the people?"
I ask myself aloud.
"Gone." answers a voice.
But no one's here...
but me.

Broken glass litters the street, 
a Kristallnacht in the making.
Houses, half gone and half standing,
specked the...

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Memories linger melancholy
as I approach the bridge 
to the Gardens de Sol.

                       ...

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Here the Bluejay***

Here!  Here!  …These tall,
Spindly stalks, although sweetly 
JGreen, with their crowns bobbing
In the touches of air…the Cosmos
   Flowers wait…
For their rippling nocturne to begin,
To sound forth the garden dances
…Here
To...

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The wind it seems is staying on the ocean whipping up the sea
The waves tumbling to a smart chop on a shelly  sea urchin shore 
As there is no wind from the mainland but...

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Fearless flames licking the night
as the glow flickers fire in their eyes
ah the tales round campfires light
of Sasquatch shadows and cougars demise

When sleepily those embers to ash burn down
like marshmallows slipping to the ground
lanterns cast...

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Enroling  you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally -  blindfold humility
Rejected by those mocking moths
and jealously believing left the...

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Imagine a black velvet curtain
Pinholed to allow specked light
Now imagine that same curtain
Endlessly stretching out of sight
And there you have the immense
Velvet blackness of outer space
In which I hang and float seeing
That speckled velvet any...

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Imagine a black velvet curtain
Pinholed to allow specked light
Now imagine that same curtain
Endlessly stretching out of sight
And there you have the immense
Velvet blackness of outer space
In which I hang and float seeing
That speckled velvet any...

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Twilight sparkled defying its usual gravity,
Sun followed in full riot,
Blue yonder oozed ozone,
making for full soulful breaths,
The slumbering baby in cradle,
forgot about the feed,
as he enjoyed the cool breeze,
flowing everywhere and all along,
it was so...

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Winter Wildflower

A billion snowflakes do collect upon a wasteland of neglect
The sky frigid no sun to reflect appears a dot lonely specked
A tear does fall melting snow as the speck staggers to grow
A wildflower starts...

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There's a swing that is hung from a long oaken tree,
By a string where the young have a longing to be.

Where they fly to the sky, ever higher they go,
Till they cry, "Not so high!...

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In dust-laden silence, past the reach of day,
The mansion's library whispered of forgotten tales,
Its heartbeat echoed in the books arrayed.

Time's soft touch graced each spine and page,
Among them, Dickens stood with solemn grace,
Austen's wit lingered,...

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The Specked one is in question!


She saw such collaborations as againstments
Thought that were verse of her own personal
Interest. Students of the industry; who saw
 profitability, and found no way out, if they were
Wrong. They cursed...

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The lights at night
have much to say
a different story
than the day

They shine and glisten
here and there
in coolness of
the evening air

The street lamps glow
to light the way
as flashing neon
colors play

White ones come
and red ones go
as tiny...

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My Mothers' Hutch


       Finely polished, of carved wood it still stands,
       With a glass gleaming door and crossed, copper bands
   ...

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Inside an archaic framework
she fetches a pail from the fields,
the bucket on her hip is full of
broken eagles.
Wind turbines churn in the distance.

He takes the mangled birds
plucks them,
puts their heads on poles
loads them onto a...

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i hell (held) a sack of brown papered flour in my virgin hands 
i hell (held) an small round specked egg in my young hands
all to receive a grade
i hell (held) a little life, rapped...

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Feet throb – and blisters swelling –
And specked blood – on leather soles confirm 
A sandaled trek beside the Thames –
Surely my highest and measureless Most –
With God and the Devil – drinking the Fullness...

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He closed his hand to make a fist,
as he stood silently behind bars,
a wisp of transparent mist
specked and sparked like stars,
defiant, and reliant,
as his freedom was just a dream,
and her life ended in a scream,
glancing...

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in placid plastic preserve -
stolen inspiration swirling
around two whirling, winged
and curling cavernicolous creatures.
do they speak, each to the other?
do they not know of their death?
they show nothing of knowing,
drifting, feebly floundering in
the slightly flowing frosted...

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Peter Pan the morning
Pulling blue lint out of ears
long accustomed just to hear
the surface of the mirror sounds around them
Brush the hair with golden teeth
by it's roots and underneath
Crystal eyes are silver dull in need...

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 couplets 

Surveying green, leaves me somewhat unfazed;
‘til spring leaves appear and my eyebrows raise.

Riddle, ma riddle, ma riddle me green,
how many shades of green can be seen?

There’s teal and pine, and most common -...

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I plunged headfirst, my silly stilted pride


          The instant I beheld your Cheshire smile


            ...

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I fed the wild red cardinals
A special mix of seeds
They dropped them in my herb garden  
Which now grows mostly weeds

Like bramble briars and poison
Oak with deadly effects
Upon the gardener's allergic skin
Which now is...

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