Long Squyres Poems

This is for you, Mystic Rose,
The closest cyber encounter family tree, my spree
Harry Horsman, Sara K, summer's gone, let's haiku and play.
Achoo contest, butterflies, Parise Pariku, and the awesomeness of Michael J. 
Andrea Dietrich, Debbie...

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The Tree and I 

I met a tree today while walking under cloud ridden skies.  She was a young oak past her sapling age.  Her bare branches, still in winters hold, stood stark...

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I remember when: on an August day, while on a Caribbean cruise
My echo rippling across the sea as I vowed Forever; "I Do"
Take thee LENORE for the Eons of Eternity, my ever Loving WIFE
Entwined as...

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When ere the clock  strikes the midnight hour
on every Halloween
It’s best to be found behind locked doors
or prepare for what is seen
As this is the time ghosts walk about…
for most a frightening scene
If they...

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I remember when
The streets were safe to walk,
shops were opened till late.
And with guard dogs in the yard,
No one dared to jump the gate.

I remember when
Rape, hijacking and crime
all ceased to exist
and if anyone messed...

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Small room with one door
Pale green carpet lines the floor
Two windows, shades and curtains
Pink roses scattered uncertain
Paneled walls remember
Our Moms love this December
 
Figurines rest on dresser tops
Some gifts, others from local shops
Flower petals that...

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( A sequel to my poem “The Lady of Whitelace Castle” )


Are ye, my lady, an apparition
or perchance a fair servant frail?
The ruddiness of pinks 
touching neither your cheeks
as you wander about so pale

My lips...

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I am but an entity in a vast universe,
human in form, of female persuasion
I breathe, I walk, I run and I talk
of my skin I guess label: Caucasian

I wear a few flaws upon my form
though...

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The Son of Love’s Union

Two hearts swelled to twice their size the day that you were born
   As we counted, very gently, ten fingers and ten toes
   then your daddy sweetly...

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The alphabet monster
lives under my bed
I know it is true
for it is what it said:
“Gather me blocks of wood!”
He exclaimed
“Colored alphabet blocks!”
He proclaimed
“or say good-bye to your curls, dear girl
or perhaps your little bear named...

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Tangled
in satin sheets
…who sleeps?

Spooning affection
Lips consideration
Midnight reflections
Sighs interceptions

Firelight crackling behind the grate
Shivers, racing to the moon, escape

Whispers
in passion’s throw
…we know

Captured caressing 
Intimate undressing
Forever addressing
True love’s blessings

Roses, delicate pink, release their scent
Desires, intricate link, now blissfully...

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I’ve Never Been

I’ve never been where they’ve been
Amid the rubble and splintered wood
Dripping tears on rain sodden clothes
Staring at destruction where home once stood

I’ve never been where they’ve been
Shivering with fear as rockets explode
Streaming tears...

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Notes in play may have you dancing up the staircase, gay.
Exhaling breaths of fascination with sighs along the way.
A sharp and minor taking turns now tripping up the scale
as your embrace upon her form leaves...

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Nightfall Surrender

You became a part of me
as I join in and became
a part of you…
   rolling along with the waves
   you complete me
   as I complete you

Soul mates lost
in...

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(Can you guess which Sheep/lamb nursery rhymes
I’ve parodied with these three piggy rhymes?)

1. Oink oink, white pig, have you any pork?
No WAY, Mister! Drop your fork!
You think you’re takin’ bacon? In a pig’s eye!
You’ll have...

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The earth wails in cracked silence
 fissured with gaping yawns
 in the noonday sun.
 Parched smiles riddle the ground
 flaking off in a summer breeze,
 each a silent message begging for rain.
 
Grass is now...

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Twas it happenchance or divine intervention
 that brought us to this place, this time
 this plane of purest desire we share….

 
Just north of the moon, past the fourth star 
crossing over Orion’s belt we...

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Never Forget 

Oh thou of wretched heart and deed
Inferior our seeds?
When thus thou felt the need to rule
Annihilate deemed weeds

Thou casteth out your wicked net
Of guns and war bent twine
No bulwark for the Jews was...

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Who then, but I, should benefit
from the awakening moments
of revelations unfolding?
Continuations of meditative wandering,
in dreamscapes certain tutelage, 
charges the morning air
with marked anticipation…
As I, … Yes, I
am but a puddle of wanting
to experience, to clarify,...

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I remember when
I wondered about my heritage;
just where it all began
Yearning for family I said
I'll find them if I can.

I remember when
Mama passed when I was five
my siblings were far-flung.
I cried so much I could...

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Though wise be the voice
of each passing season
I am becoming the wisdom
of mine and others reason
While connections with genius
I seldom barter
Understanding life’s courses
makes me feel smarter

Possibilities garnered
where creativity assembles
I am attracted with passion
where love intermingles
Kindness...

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Unquestionably, a marked reaction 
is better than withholding all action
Factoring in, of course, the distractions
created by pie-chart wielding factions

Sharing the wealth in minute fractions
while gathering corporate pie rations
without any equal sliced transactions
has become to most...

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See all these lines
That are written on my face
Each one tells a story 
With the line they trace

Some lines from hardships
The times I got upset 
Others from the joy
Gained from people I've met

There are lines...

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On tender heel a waif did chase
a simple meal of bread
For his belly grumbled for any crumbs
before he went to bed,
or the morrow find him dead

Bread could be bought a dollar a loaf, 
way more...

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Dare we wear the frocks of an old year’s passing
into the new… threaded deeds overlapping?
Or bare we anew on fresh laden free wings
the beckoning’s to come of much newer things?

Shall we leave behind what’s said...

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