Long Spools Poems

Conditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...

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Please help yarn hexed door neighbor...

Yours truly pinned down by invisible 
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry plague 
of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn
grossly mistook me for human sock 
to seal and line...

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He stared at the empty sheet in front of him. Everything had been said. Minstrel’s nightmare and it was only ten in the morning. Writer’s block. A poet arrested in void with nothing left to...

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North Richland Hills grew a rainbow I wanted to hold in my hand
Wand for wishing I don’t know what to reach-ask for?
Plethora is sunshine below the bow along your Texas land
Donned a different approach—your rainbow...

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It’s frustrating, isn’t it? 
Creating meta hypotheses based on observations and data, 
but not knowing whether they really fit or not? 
Quantum particles change behavior when you are looking at them versus when you are...

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I'm choking on this misinterpretation of independence, 
Even if I tried to get out, 
Try my hardest to cry out, 
No one would hear. 
No one's out here, 
Locked up in isolation but me, 
So...

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listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.

now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the rainbow?

i had a dream and in the dream i wove...

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For you
I would
create a mixtape
which I know is an ancient technology but
with me and you it is just that simple.
I race to you like we used to rush into each other's arms in highschool
where our...

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Written: November 19, 2023, For Ink Empress Contest

The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of...

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your Little Wonder

I broke away from all;
all of your little trappings;
God saw to that;
Your eyes;
Eyes seem to have hate (just where is the love);
Yes rights of hate this truth;
Sitting here napping, romancing...
All the negative things;
Being...

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She had Velvet eyes, Satin lips
Silk skin … Seamless hips

Threaded her way into his heart
and Stitched his mind up Tight
But the Needle Point, was coming
Pricking… with all its might! …

… Posed her Textile-smile
Watched Fabric –...

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JUST    TOO    LATE

Five  past five
Sign across the glass door states “Closed”.

At the adjacent store I had just left,
There were no more spools of whipcord
For the grass trimmer
Which I...

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Journey Journal Page
HYMN AND PSALM
By Leon Enriquez


Here we now pray
Fond hymn and psalm
Upon the way
In surreal calm


Now soul and heart
Join body-mind
As breath feels art
In touch divine

~~~~~~~~~


Blessings now bind
Our lore and lease
With sublime find
Of fragrant peace


Bliss...

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Stuck on a hybrid labyrinth race track in undue course

Crash helmet cracked under the raw tempo of stagnation

Chequered flags waving but a motor running against the clock

In reverse and the traffic prohibits pit stops for...

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Flailin’,  flailin’, flailin’;
There goes my ball sailin’
Into a trap, the water or the woods.

Flailin’, flailin’, flailin’;
You can hear me wailin’,
“Why won’t that damn ball go where it should?

Drives go right.  Putts go wrong.
I...

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A course of obstacles await
in corridors along Life's way
behind the doors there lies our fate
in tangled chests of junk and jewels,
you can't know which from day to day...

Behind one may be tears and pain
some may...

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The soft self-praise of your own heart,
Is this not our lost secret?
Bring forth that feathering truth
Like fields of canary bells
You ring, you're ringing,
Ringing from the rib cage.

Poetry is the land where all rules fade,
Rules for...

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Press and dry; stamped aneath a logo of their own design....

This colourful pigment melting upon red velvet seals

Via the telegraph wires amid these morse code keys 

Songbirds, singing their midnight songs unto me!?

Compositions notes to...

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Sleep washes ere and yore in sands
as Lands of Kip unfold before
and tear the seams of old demands.
I trust my soul to me once more.

Who can I charge to nurse the sores
when living fades to...

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Looking for time on roads causes wonder
Where will they lead, here, there or under
Possibly an object to hold in the hand
But seeming more nebulous flowing like sand
It's threads are woven to sunlight and gold
With power...

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THINGS WITH STRINGS

Spider's web, strings of stars,
a weaver's loom, and old guitars.
Balls of yarn, and DNA,
string bikini, and crochet.

Cats cradle, spools of thread,
Tails on kites, and hairs on head.
Theory in music, or in science,
together making...

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"When threads of love are frayed, 
                a heart is left threadbare and broken."
      ...

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my parents came to America with 60 dollars,
clutched between their anxious fingers-
 the same ones they used to build me my future.

their memories-
comprised of a tattered wedding picture and decaying postcards-
cling to the walls of...

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The house is colder now
  as autumn sheds its leaves
  the push-pull  falls wildly beneath the plows
  along the edges of the gutters and eaves.
perhaps because the house is emptied
 ...

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This was her thirty first year and she could not wait to start
And with Christmas now getting near she so enjoyed her part
Gathering up the different spools with colors joyously bright
She took out her knitting...

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