Long Suffuse Poems

Isis in the Smoke
 
A hush has rested this quiet afternoons sunless wing
While his thoughts hang on a trembling tip between nowhere and knowing
And the flowers in his garden drip diamond drops of rain
The cool...

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Written: February 29, 2024
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In a sprawling sward of auburn swab
A seraphic sight soaked in dew at dawn
dazed distress and dust-laden air
delicacy and...

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Echoes


Every morning a man is seen to climb upon a hill

His mission there to bare witness 
To the suns flooding as she rises 
Her painted fires airbrushed dawning through the skies
He stands alone upon the...

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OH, DEFECTS, DIVINE!
  Oh, fabulous fallibilities!
    You, so perfectly imperfect ...

Like a rill in the rain,
  Its path unestablished 'til the sky opens,
    Yet its purpose is...

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Oh, precious little creature, mine,
The joy you suffuse my life with is immeasurable!
I pray I convey to you in affection
And inclusion in all my comings-and-goings,

Just how dear you are to this human fool,
For I love...

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April 19th 2020 - just an ordinary and typical...
clothes washing Sunday courtesy the missus

Ah... the highlight of our supposed, linkedin,
designated day of respite after a week toiling
away with ennui, yes reader a tower mountain
(rivalling Himalaya's...

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fast as a blitzen comet, 
     this dashing prancer 
     contra dancer 
     (i.e. Rudolph nary hoof) didst zip

with cupid ditty toward his...

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Strikes relentlessly thrashing
     (from all points
     encompassing me) assigned
unforgivingly, vehemently,
     witheringly, blind
ding figurative sight, then
    I finally craft a title,
then...

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Somehow he was made to feel the culprit
for the sins of all house trained mammalians
the breath he drew apparently criminalized
eventually concluding that 90% of the obstacle course
was the low hanging fruits of bland insanity
designed by...

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The signposts come along much faster, now.
And I fear most of all not my own death
or even your own sense of loss or grief,
but my betrayal, for I cannot go
upon the road to everlasting life
that...

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We become empty and void like vast space,
aided by bliss mists that suffuse our form
and there remain no tests, we need to ace,
as we’re cradled by divine currents warm.
Mind-body a vessel, in which dwells soul,
which...

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Artemide Cacciatrice (2)

The carriage trip – who’d like the factual version?
That whole idea was Tuzia’s, never mine.
“Let’s take a carriage for a day excursion,
and have a picnic on the Aventine –
we’ll see the Seven Churches!”...

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Who will unravel the tangled skein
These silken threads of thoughts?
Each strand possesses a special sheen
But is obscured by knots..

The day seems done before it starts
The night seems swathed in gloom..
For though facts fade, memories last
And...

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“As you suffuse my heart 
with the gleam of your grace,
my yearning waits,
for I haven’t dreamt enough yet.” – Quote by Poet 


In the dusty dusk of the sultry summer,
the wind suddenly stops to blow.
The...

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Throughout full room sprays of sweet nothings suffuse
Mellow are memorial moments, mirth as well as my muse
High-floating foams, filled with redolent renaissance
Gently freshen up and fondle my hairs
My hairs, eager to inhale inspiring air
Grow fixated...

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The Far Less Child
 
It was not through muscle flesh or sinew
Or through thought
It did not come from aching joints or from slow pulse of blood
Nor from silence or from heavy eyes did it come
...

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Unsatiated cravings open the floodgate of suffering,
the surging torrent of torment tosses the servile soul,
for in the karmic cycle of being born and reborn,
desire doesn’t die, but it’s a blink between life and death.

In the...

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Under a blue moon

He becomes my dream

A secret uncloaked

Emotion unveiled

A mystery revealed

Existence of warmth

between my subconscious

and implicit knowledge

..And it is there

`Neath the soft spot 

of this heart

where crimson bleeds

 its velvets

upon his bare breath

It is...

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Immersed in the madness flood of crowd,
a verdant valley I find carved out
in the lonesome landscape within me, 
displaced from the psychosis stratum 
of disorienting dissonance,  
attached to the insecure mind. 

Away from the...

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In the resplendent dawn of one seraphic spring
I saw a delicately weaved bird nest nestled
on the baroque bough of the magnolia tree
in full bloom in the backyard lawn. 
 
Since then I see every morn...

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In my journey across the undulating life landscape,
the designated track as ordained I don’t lose,
the hazards I could circumvent and safely escape,
walk toward the final destination someone chose.

I don’t believe in what is said with...

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Here in my head, the chaos whirls -
          Thoughtful impulse rips and swirls,
             ...

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The wheel of time makes 
the head drag the mind
on the winding pathway 
of the confused existence
amidst the rising dust 
of the senile summer of discontent,
but the heart still breathes 
the young spring air,
like a...

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What with vainglory vanity and pride, 
I once asked my ego what makes it go: 
It’s not me who’s on a vainglorious ride, 
Nor arrogance a gas that makes me blow, 
And vanity the vehicle...

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I love to meander a wildflower meadow
        on a warm sunny summer day ...
              ...

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