Long Squally Poems

THE SENTINEL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

					

I took the elevator to the lobby of the small hotel
I’d been here six days the ennui was starting to tell
I’d been sent to cover an international gathering
Sessions so long and dull...

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“In the cold embrace of death, we come to realize the fragility of human existence.” Unknown
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*“As o`ver the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor`d spirits rest in the far haven of Eternity.” Robert Montgomery.”
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I sailed the tempestuous sea

The squally water threatening to drown me

As I follow the stars hoping they will guide me home

Shouting at the wind

'Don't assail me!' 'Lord please save me! '

As I sailed this tempestuous...

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Can someone turn the taps off
Or is it leaking from above
I feel that we will float away
If it rains another day
It’s slowly driving me insane
I’m sick to death of rain ~ rain ~ rain

The sirens...

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At the frail fringe 
of the twilight zone
the dwindling day flushes
depleted
the halcyon horizon 
with the last shower                  ...

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‘Tis You’

It’s a tempestuous, wuthering, wuthering day
as I set forth exuberant and merrily on my way.
I pause to hearken to the symphony of sound
as natures harmony plays and swirls all around.
Ignited flaming thoughts to fill...

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At the fringe of dark clouds of despair
Beguiling dreams gleamed like the silver lining
Created fluttering wings of birds of desire
Driven by the squally winds through the rainbow arc
Entered the realm of sunburst new horizon.
Flock of...

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At the fringe 
of the twilight zone
the dwindling day
flushes halcyon horizon 
with cinnabar sequins,
the sunset splendor 
spins celestial strands 
in the formless film
of cadenced cloud, 
turning to cosmic violin,
r e v e r b e...

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Your flushing face winsome in the wild wind, 
the ebony strands of hair insolent, flutter unbridled.
Some swirl squally, threading the gushing gale,
on the ivory forehead their lattice captures my yearning.

The sculpted window panes of the...

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    I sought my truth within the sky,
 The squally blue, my wings to ply,
A thrust on thermals, carried high.
 And yet, the gospel that I found?
    My feet...

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Your face in the wind
the black hair unbridled
some swirl squally knotting the wild gale
some wind untamed lashing the forehead
create a web of tempting pattern enigmatic 
trapping the mind in the tangle
lest it blows away.

Your face...

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"The surge of despair floods the heart, it slowly sinks
as the anchor disappears with you in the depth of sorrow." -by Poet


Through the diaphanous mist 
of the frozen dismal night,
you disappeared early before time,
I didn’t...

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It was but a sandstorm, wind blowing hard and high 
Nature’s way of redesigning the landscape 

The mountains stood like guardians of the desert floor 
Their jagged rocks did not sway as the earth shifted...

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The life stream swerves in undulating landscape,
the concert of murmur cascades melody 
that ripples in the whispering air,
the sound of music flies past me unheard
in the depth of silence.

Rains fall in torrent on parched psychic...

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“In the surge of love the transient beauty needs to be held 
close in heart lest it flies away in zephyr” – Quote by Poet


Joy beads on your face in the wind rolled,
the ebony hair...

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In the resonant noise of continual commotion,
as the voice of hysteria feels quietened  
by the tender touch of consummate calmness, 
the serene sheath of sentiments sinks slow 
with uniquely unexpressed notion
in the unreachable forsaken...

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Dainty drizzle drops of melted cloud alight 
Descending as tumbling torrent of shower
In the deep darkness of the opaque night.

Blows of winds' wrath the squally sky devour
Refuses to waste away into oblivion in vain
Descending as...

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"Dance with me within the wind, then just let me love you" - Orania Hamilton.

Your flushing face in the wind,
ebon hair defiant, flutters unbridled.
Some swirl squally, thread the gale,
the forehead lattice captures my yearning,
lest like...

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My hopes became big and bold
The mind could no longer hold
They grew wings of lofty desire
On birds flying in the squally air.
Through the arch of rainbow hue
To the misty horizon they flew 
Where the shrouded...

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"drifting in the cosmos of eternal peace 
my liberated soul flies contended with the euphoria of being." - by Poet


High above the wasteland of my life
hovered the clumps of gloomy cloud,
in their shifting shadow a...

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Dainty drizzle from the melted cloud alights slow,	 
descends as rippling rhapsody of shining shower
in the rapture archway of the memory rainbow.

The squally sky’s gloom the surging winds devour,
turns into rhythmic sprinkle of delight not...

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Inspired by Glenn Hughes song "The truth will set me free"

Gone are the ruins of the palace I've built
with sands of my dormant dreams,
at the bleak bottom of the breaking waves,
rolling in the squally sea...

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“The effervescent beauty needs to be embraced,
for it may drift away with the wind” –Quote by poet
 

The onyx hair untamed 
Some swirl in the squally stream  
Some lace lilting lattice on ivory forehead...

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Chilled by cold Canadian air
Lake Okanagan’s waters run deep
And so does its Ogopogo
A legend the centuries keep

Native Americans feared it
Animal sacrifices were made
Before they boarded their canoes
And set out to traverse the lake

Campfire stories natives...

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