Long Uncoils Poems

Discernment is passed down across generations. 
Inside the eyes and between the partitions. 
Be that as it may, what's the alterity between them? 
How might we perceive both body and soul stem?

My best half, you...

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Swans row the sky
just feet above the copper water.
Gulls twist their necks to watch 
a lone sailor on the prow
of a sludge-decked dredger.

On the slate thatched gambrels
of a lesser known roofs
spotters search for night bombers,
the...

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The End Times

A locomotive train chugs remote wails,
The tempest brews a calamitous stunt,
Falls of exiting steam, moist teary tails,
A structure of ills desires cured a want.

Veil vibration replaced...

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Heated by sun and rock
a mottled snake licks the morning air.
Last night, stones were its eyes,
a blood-chill had frozen the flavor
            and flicker
of tongue...

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A November wind has roared for days.
Dead garden stalks lay bent and frayed.
The proud maple now stands undressed
In drifts of yellow against the fence.

Broken remnants lay on the yard;
A scattered blast of limbs’ discard,
And yellow...

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Raina, who lives next door,
is always tending
her garden after midnight, sipping
milagro straight from the bottle.

Once I watched her from my window, 
as she cut out weeds 
and thumbed her flowers sans glove,
bottle in hand and...

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London growls under the tread
of diesel driven dreams.

A stork visits,
an attic full of discarded toys.
White mice sleep in pajamas,
made of childish nightmares.

Barges reek still, just as when,
sweat was as common as dirt.

A window in Baker...

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Sunset skies drape silken ribbons of red yellow orange pink, bleeding. 
Crayola colors swirling on the watery surface of Summer’s sweet dreaming.  
    
The soft velvet lips of the kissed red...

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Pessimists leave the art of dreaming
to optimists with a half-full cup.
And when I'm feeling a little down,
writing poetry helps lift me up.

Poetry probes the human psyche
with witty words bandied to and fro.
And works to hold...

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I stand here alone on the shore 
of my horizon the place where 
reality seems to meet the facts 
of my life and where the water 
reflects the trials of my life as 
my limits...

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Sunsets' skies drape silk
colors of the Spring, dropping
crayola crayon

tints on the water-
color of Summer's
sweet dreaming. The soft

velvet lips of kissed
garden roses close, bend
before the night.

Winds race billowy
bursts across the chilled blue
of Fall, and the birds

take...

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It in now dark.
Talking of exposed genitalia
I go into a terrible shock.

A compulsive deceit
takes hold of the attention.
The candle burns me inside.

Between eyes
a *chakra uncoils, like a Naja.
Strikes ! You are stricken-


with a bulbar palsy.
No...

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MARRIED TO A SAILOR

Straight talk, he walks into her heart.
He speaks of submarines and such.
No one could keep their lips apart,
his handsome pair warm to the touch.

But being portuguese, blood boils,
and half corn beef and...

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I can’t sleep no matter how much I try
My heart is aching with all the why’s
My only joy is to think that every night will fly
And a dawn of hope will rise at daybreak in...

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Whomever a woman chooses is the king.
No table round will ever square the thing.
All knights have equal access to the bread,
Even the stout are adequately fed;
Each squire gets equal pay for equal knighting.

Then Guinevere unsheathes...

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The pain of the night,
flows in the blood.
I move in the sun, hot & bruised. 
From palace to hut, 
clock moves backward in time.
The children of love are 
going nowhere.

Space in space, 
flame in flame...

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Your death pushed me into this nugatory black hole.
Stinging sorrow whirling long, sadly out of control.
You fought one courageous battle, in deep pain.
Brave in your sickness, you never complained.

Memories of you, humorous, loving and uniquely...

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Do all you can to understand;
Explore the light with curious eyes;
Do as you plan to fire bold trends;
Ignite fierce sight with charming sighs;
Calm wears fond peace in easy wit;
Allow wordplay to fashion pun;
Touch sure increase...

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