Long Stranding Poems

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My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography 
qua zee mow toe natural formed...

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Everyone is waiting for something dramatic to happen but they cannot tell from which angle, everyone is waiting for something to happen and it has to be a miracle.  

There is so much tension...

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with midnight dreams we dance
unyielding, i stir unwilling to awaken
incessantly seeking
You

like virgin wings of the monarch, your shape gently unfolds
i clutch the edges of slumber
aware in my wakening you will be gone
Again

you have come before,...

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HARMONY 69
The night of twelfth December `69  
knotted together an icy storm wind 
that whipped False bay`s waves 
to white -frilled blankets.
Thunderclaps against primal rocks
resonated through a ghettoe of glowing tents
on a dark, rough...

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Like rivers of time / our lives drift by /
as seasons / providing  the trees / 
acquire soft, green leaves / and then in time / 
turning red and golden / shed their leaves.

Travelers...

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Written: May 20, 2024

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Siren stunningly sprung a sanguine sway
sailboat sheaths spread, and storms swell 
splendid summer shorelines spike
summertime spousal...

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Aeneas crept into the depths
of the underground, upright
he stepped
darkly
as dead roses pressed
and she wept
(Persephone)
in the pit
(indemnity)
where shadows slept
bellowing
as bellows sing
so readily
below those mourning bells that ring
burrowed
'neath the death of Spring
borrowed
from the breath we breathe
burroughs
of departed...

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Thoughts froth, crest, and merge through ocean’s 
indiscriminate wandering, no recognizable
beginning or end like smoke on the wind, 
melding, melting, fusing coalescing.

Reality a fragile grasp held on 
a two-dimensional canvas once white, 
clean, stretching taunt,...

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..........Smile forged with tears and sorrow
          was all I could feel
          i felt the pain on my...

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This place is mine especially in the spring.
Distressed and stranding my soul in guilt.
Sometimes as I sit here, I hear the bells ring.
Of the schooner, my lover of the sea built.
He sailed away many times...

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REUBEN

With whips dancing round her flesh
An arrow of tears and fears 
Dropping from her heart
She must be strong for him
She must be strong fro Reuben

It is sunset in Ethiopia
The initiation swells
Echoes of whips and whispers...

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Penetrative prodigious plundering pestilential prod of pain
Ambiguous avarice amassing astounding avalanche of ache
Injuriously instigating incessant inconsolable irritation
Nattering numbness needling nerves to nail the heart with fire and fear. 
      ...

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I wonder how many wrong turns I took
before the momentum ran quietly out;
before the stranding on the high and dry 
took place.

I wonder how many signs I so mistook,
to point my trajectory to wilderness and...

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URUBAMBA.


Chipped mountains
With the condor eyes
Flaked by some sinister
Grey hounds of the rocks.

This is a place
For reflections
Stranding together 
Some multiple fractions.

Wider vistas
Opening to alluvial lands
Geared in the high plateau
Imposing on winding river
Designs of their hoary hands.

Beyond...

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We have all, every one of us, been there, 
yet it's never the same as being there; 
with that bright razor slash of confusion 
like scalpel fingers through one's hair. 

And the lightning bolts of...

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Chipped mountains
With the condor eyes
Flaked by some sinister
Grey hounds of the rocks.

This is a place
For reflections
Stranding together 
Some multiple fractions.

Wider vistas
Opening to alluvial lands
Geared in the high plateau
Imposing on winding river
Designs of their hoary hands.

Beyond...

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Here, Here Now

Here, Here Now with each single word
Is strangest poem you have ever heard.

America's beauty all around was abounding
We had family fathers who were founding
Dreams of theirs had been so astounding
No defeats only victories...

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"Blessed assurance glory divine ..."

Supine haze swiped tall grass wooing shadows,
as chimes of wren's feathers a float parade,
begs a trace with leaves sought resting barrows, 
the fondness parting loft and low portrayed.

Nourishing willows stranding morning...

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Dark shadows stalk the imaginary paths of my brain
Mirroring conscience reflects the torpor of my anguished soul
Black clouds hover in every dark corner of my jaded psche
Raining doubt and fear on the canvas of my...

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by Mark Miller © 12/05/2014

Arms of blood living harm

Ruin track veins open lines

For dismal posture charms

Yellow tatters skin gore itch

Dark draw future empty essence

Longing Son's lost youth innocence

Only spoons stain last will remains

Of powder frozen...

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Fast
Toss the knotted rope
Thrust the knife
Standing still
I wait

Kill the pain
Leave the burdens at heavens gate
In anxiety I saturate
Standing still
I wait

Rain
Falling from hell
Washing me in bloody tales
Standing still
I wait

Drowning
As I drink old mans ale
Tranquility killed
Stranding still
I...

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