Long Splays Poems

Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank, 
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...

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Will you make the cut?
Or settle for a shortcut?
Coaches' scuttlebutt

Execute the steal 
Professing rather than real
The truth to conceal

Blessing progeny
Highlights God's sovereignty
Not autonomy

Man's wisdom swaggers
'Til adversity staggers
Making Sandbaggers

Men try to judge Him
When self-righteousness rules them
Worthless...

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Time is a fickle thing for those
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Heartstrings stretched tightly
Over love’s violin
The bow of memory slides slightly
Stirring you once again
 
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Ooh...this... just an amazing grace note
     recalling how I felt like an ass
and wanna toot 'bout me getting steered
     (as a heavy metal kid Rocker)

  ...

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The wolves do lope high and free
in mountainous trails and her masonry
the hallowed wood and rocky clefts
hold the dens of their hidden nests
Golden eyes pierce thickened dark
hunting prey within their park
hot breath raises mist in...

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Our soul's luminous light filters the depth of darkness
shining like a woven thread into the stillness of time
It was there where we met, in a universe long forgotten
where we merged wrapped in the twilight of...

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This is one of a few sonnets Mystic and I collaborated on
she has left PS and in her honor, I'm posting it

To you Vienna, my writing buddy

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Her pink okra fingers play violoncello,
Rises from her harmonic throat songs so mellow;
Is she a swallow? A skylark? A Nightingale?
Or the Greek goddess Calliope's sweet-sounding tale...?

An amalgamation of Bach and Beethoven,
Splays open, in and through...

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The heart of the meadow
is a solitude of wonder that stretches to the horizon
where a red ribbon offers the awakening dawn
in a paradise of glorious glow
that reflect in my eyes of wonder

Where silence is welcomed
by...

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twas dark, a hen's night   
stillness abandoned fright   
knocks echoed freely   
her presence held
chimera fragments 
an innate realm   

unbeknownst reasons 
dare overwhelm   
  
a...

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Oh, Wintertime with weathered hue
   of leafless trees and faded lawns;
      the sting of cold with biting winds,
much shorter days and dreary dawns-

Oh, Winter, with your weathered hue-
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It's here- that special time of year- once more,
when autumn leaves bid their farewell to trees
to spread bright cheer o'er summer's old decor.

The velvet green that covered them before-
no longer kissed by summer's gentle breeze.
It's...

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It twas dark, a hen's night 
stillness abandoned the fright 
knocks echoed freely 
and here her presence was felt 

Chimera fragments an innate realm 
unbeknownst reasons dare overwhelm 

A shoulder-companion gone lain 
unearthed my being...

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Rugged mountain peaks are now snow-capped
Wintry weather creeps down with passing days,
The lips on the blossoms are faded and chapped.

Many of the larger critters are sadly trapped,
For they have not adjusted to our urban ways
Rugged...

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I sit in silence with my thoughts
to watch the sun slowly rise, on the red ribbon of dawn
as it splays its glorious glow across the flowering meadow
casting small shadows in motion dancing with the grass

Beyond...

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The end of the day splays on my window sill
Complete with soft rays from the setting sun
That casts long shadows from an oak tree
To be painted on my shirt before day's done

Night creeps in at...

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Echo 

A web waves in the warm breeze,
caught between ancient wooden struts,
indefensible, beneath an empty seat.
It splays to breaking point; 
fine-knit, like a fibre-glass veil;
delicate strength resisting air.

Behind, purple bell-shaped blooms bow their heads in...

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ETERNAL SPIRIT

Eternal Spirit over land and sea
Your wingspan sees all under thee
All under thee
All under thee
Your wingspan sees all under thee

Eternal Spirit from East to West
Your eyes offer comfort from suffering
From suffering
From suffering
Your eyes offer...

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Unarmed in shadows,  slumbering 
with unwritten rhymes,
collection of that first dawn,
wet with precipitation; I am


To hear your words,
breathless in time, with
white linen dreams, in your arms,
 strokes of early bright; waiting to  ignite…

Barefoot...

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To be in love along the rushing shore
And hear sounds from your heartbeat to enslave
To kiss your hungry lips, then wanting more
Obtaining love's desire, its constant crave
Besot, beneath this dazzled sky, I find
Love's lightning splays...

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Like the sparkling stream flowing down the hill
I see you dance around my green meadow,
Feel the air of ecstasy standing still,
Enticed by the ripples, your shy smile shows.
Shimmering dawn flushing the horizon

Masks your mystique face...

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Whether ocean or mountain with valley green
or every deep forest in between

My love for Nature fills my eyes
With every creature of Earth and sky

The changing hues on quiet display
From dawn's red light to twilight's gray

With...

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on a moonlit hill, Earth and night meet
beneath a star-filled sky
filling the darkness with a softer light
as they appear one by one

beneath a star-filled sky
a jeweled necklace hangs from the throat of God
a beacon glowing...

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The slow red sun falls through the dusk gray sky
Shadows from bird's wings glide casually by

Feathered limbs carry them away from night
They float through skies of layered painted light

The day changes coats when night creatures...

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