Long Therefrom Poems

Written 12 December 2023         
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

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Betrayal (guilty as charged)...

within mine marriage,
and all the ramifications
that happen therefrom
courtesy the social media platform
of Facebook Messenger,
wherein those subscribing
to an orthodox dogma
may consider said website infernal
(even more despicable
then once upon a time
Old Rotten Gotham
sliding down...

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Religious,
and perhaps all pedagogical traditions,
are variations on a creation story theme,
both rooted in, and feeding on, multicultural evidence
of faith in polyculturally expanding
mental-crown/physical-root
therapeutic resonant wealth/resilient health-integrity 

Fruit of Holy Spirit/Nature co-arising love/life outcomes,
actively loving trusted truths...

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We all have a legacy, which we shall all eventually leave behind

Yet how shall it read, within its epitome or epitaph?

As I beheld these words, their writings

I could tell that they were brought forth from...

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There is no part of life mine alone,
If regarding my whole existence.      
What belongs to me is only flesh and bone,
Therefrom this life has subsistence.

Down on the farm I was...

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Friendship: Just Like a Palm Tree 


By Izunna Okafor


From the crusts of lonely loams
It gently roots inner and outer
And softly pullulates harder and taller
To register its purpose to mankind.

Like the trunk, the bond glues harder
To...

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The Answer Was There

It's clearly winter, time that we splinter, solely be discontent,
in droves, we amass, divides lads and lass, beg peers disorient,

Lurch therefrom harshly, cannot dredge clearly, fastened in misery,
pulls ironed anvil, likes worthless...

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*Image of My Cup Runneth Over by Church atta Creek.

A Cup Runneth Over


we're sorry no pets
poststorm dog barks wag nonstop
an arched cat hisses

cool shades show a view
advanced a treat much delight
sun-kissed blossoming

a smile comes my...

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The following scenario occurred via the guest sharing with me 
when I was managing the front desk at a hotel in San Francisco, 
fronting Union Square. I found his morals promising and conform 
to a...

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Half solid half softened whence the moon sheds saturninity down to a boudoir maudlinly marooned.
Half directly half deviously whether the night wind sneaks to snoop about the notes therefrom crooned.
Half mauve half blue, with empty...

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UPON THE SEASHORE
Off the blue Nantucket
music of laguid hours,emerges
from the labyrinth,delicate
snail-horn perceptions of beauty,
thronging this world of sensible
things.Stirred by majesty,soft
flowing surging impressions
where sea meets sky.Infinite
purples,fragments of rainbow
gleam in the spindrift,sensuous 
lively,lovely,many-hued restless
gossamer,abysm of time in...

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*VIDEO of Barry Lyndon's Final by YouTube.
LYRICS by numbers.

As Loyal as a Dove

Whereth a realm ebbs loyal subjects  0:06
Causeth Spring to be it forever more  0:16
Whereth be it tide laurels of passion ...

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I love the rain of your lips as they are overflowing my young manhood

As fishy fingers beholding the highest and the lowest

Root of the spring growing confused and pleasant.


The way your eyes are looking at...

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1.cinquain.- love at first sght

Adeaide Crapsey cinquain form first motivated my interest in poetry


2.imagist- viduage

Capturing an enigmatic  image into words upon my page my continuing inspiration


3.shortform. footle bonie&clyde


creating the footle form encapsulated my initial...

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A RUTHERFORD  PHRASIS 1

Alas,alas he came one hour,
dried up my flower.Weep and sigh,
for fruit here is salted and seasoned
with sin.White and ripe are we for the
Lord’s harvest hook,we rarely listen
and read His book.Sweetness and
sadness,...

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This morning as I woke up,

smiling at a new day,

thinking I’m a day older,

I looked forward to another birthday,

but my mind quailed at the aftertaste

before I shared my joy

with friends and kindred:

another day had been...

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INLETS OF BEAUTY
Shell like and thin,without and
within,whose surface naturally
co-incide.Straight rays from the
eyes,horizontal,perpendicular,
grace with beauty personified.
Simplicity,intricacy uniformity
 Quanitified.inlets of beauty
evident,entertaining the eye
glutted with variety.A plain
space,pleasant to see,scroll
and volute in symmetry,surprised 
by mimicry to avoid regularity.
Simple,distinct enjoying...

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AS IN A DREAM
A drawbridge,a yellow carriage
ground a glaring orange,grass
so very green,sky and water blue
in a frame of gold.Peach,plum and apricot
my orchard passion cannot last.As if
in a dream I must paint The a 
starry night,the...

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A METAPHYSICAL MUSE
What thou lovest in her face
is colour,if her face be painted 
on a board or wall, thou wilt
love it.She speaks,smiles and
kisses much. Because it is 
painted do you not behold with 
pleasure her...

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IMAGINATION TAKES HOLD
Like chrysalis asleep,dreaming of
its wings await intellectual recreation
and active benevolence which brings
wisdom & blessedness.Such does
the future promise in the range
of high arts,parcelled out in shades
of pensiveness by the ticking of
the clock as imagination...

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GRACE GROWS BEST IN WINTER 
I had but one joy,this apple
of my eye, to preach of Christ
,my Lord.Now I hang but by
a thread,but if I may say,
it is all of Christ’s spinning;
Day by day the...

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WHEN THE WORLD SLEEPS 
This man Christ,very God and
very  man,this great design and ‘til 
the end of time,to make all sinners
‘mine’. To commemorate this
sacrifice this glorious sacrament,
a preparation daye, a solemne
Feast of mercy and...

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INNER NEEDS
This inner Harmony,an
abstract message,its meaning
lost ‘til unconsciously heard,
unfettered,beyond its boundaries
becomes a picture to reproduce
the divine.Inward vitality,the
stress of inner need to outer
impulse,scattered upon canvas
shrinks not from innovation.
From Kandinsky  Art Of Harmony
CREATIVITY
Art,transitory & isolated
purposeless in...

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wishing to clear the throat 
clogged with much anguish,
the sadbird stretches the neck to look up to the sky,

he hits the surface of the water 
flapping the wings to wet the beaks, 
but these do...

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SCENES OF A CARELESS BOYHOOD

The sound of water,escaping dams
willows,old rotten planks,slimy
posts,brickwork,old timber props
wet ditches,sedges and silvery nets
towpaths without gates,horses that
tow barges collared with crimson fringe.

Wheat and thatched cottages and cornstacks
grasses in flower,bogrush bulrush and
teazle,so tall.Bindweed,wild...

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