Long Uncontained Poems

I wonder if our reasons
for growing random acts of violence
are similar
to our dwindling random acts of reasoned healing,
kindness,
gratitude,
unrequited love,
uncommodified,
unconscripted,
unscripted,
uncontained
restoring cooperative ecopolitical relationships forward
not just because this is our right and healthy familial thing to do
but...

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Have you ever pondered
shadows are made of 
softness, they are not 
hard surfaced like 
those of us existing 
outside of the white noise

unable to grasp -

the invisible, 
that speak meaning to us, 
whispering their sagacious...

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When times are good friendship blossoms
It fragrances all about
The sweet perfume of love
Let’s all about know
That no ill-will can see the light of day

Animosity can however set in quickly
Like a fast blowing wind
The sand castle...

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And in the end, we had become lovers anchored by memories, 
stitched together with random bits and pieces. Two people who had run out of things to say, stilled by the emptiness of yesterdays and...

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he parlayed a condom full of nouns
in bold thrusts of the quill
for the para structuralist cadres
many of them freeway orphans
who won't even read a stoplight
on the other hand
there's a lot of other hand
upon hearing the...

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An interest in past life and extinct culture became her passion
Led her ultimately to take up a research project in Archaeology
After studying the course of early history of world civilization
She decided to delve into the...

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If tears don't run salty into the bowl of lentils of life, you don't know the seasoning of pain,
It's just a breeze, a transient wind over your infinite fields of indifference.
When you weep, tasting of...

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I’m tired of trying to tame her
Of needing to blame her
Of trying to keep her colors
Locked within the lines
The sad confines
Of this life

She is there
Always pushing my limits
She’s there
The real woman that I am
The real...

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Your ebony hair curled and cascaded uncontained, 
some swirled in the stream of craving squall, 
some laced the lilting lattice of lust 
on your forehead of ivory canvas,
engraving the contours of the evanescent charisma.
I wondered...

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I am who I am though much changed since.

Could compare a life to the changing seasons like the summer heat that dies fast 
in the bite of October air,
or the colder December winds.

And very little...

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This road is snake-like except
for the crusty scales of an intestinal
late dusk. A boy treaded on the 
lane tracks lean and nomadic...
burnt shoulders grilled and toasted by
the sun, as if his coal skin sparked like
burning...

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An orange cat slithers into
the middle of her empty lap
out of thin air, like orange juice
poured into a little tumbler out of
an enormous jug, holding more, 
more, more of the same. 

Cats have scared her...

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I have spent,
              a lifetime,
                 ...

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Mysterious



You are all that is not known or explained, the remains of explained, and kept secret yet, 

Uncontained, mysteriously maintains the mystery of loves name, for this is so secret it 

Sustains one’s curiosity membrane,...

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She stared into the mirror,
wished she could utter the Queen's request.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall...." 
What was the use?  She was not beautiful.
Nor was she rich.  No plastic surgery for her.
 
Oh to...

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Rarely did the family speak
 of secrets and knowledge weak and indiscreet
 but as we all know, shared laughter and tears wept
draw out our secrets uncontained, never kept.

For years, my aunts were mysterious
 talking of...

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The sea holds the moon, a celestial affair,
A rendezvous of light, a poetic declare.
Unbound, unrestricted, they dance with grace,
A symphony of elements, an eternal embrace.

The moon, a luminary in the vast midnight sky,
Drifting amidst the...

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WOLVES IN SHEEP CLOTHINGS
 
Darkness cloaked in innocence’s guise,
Wolves in sheep clothing, cunning & wise.
They prowl & stalk, in shadows they hide.
Their masks never fades, their true selves denied.4

Wolves in sheep's clothing, so sly &...

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They elude me now ...words
Drinking befits a drowning man possessed
Swimming off this broken page
Baton winning in a relay race
I breached the ribbon sliced with chest
Joy! I gasped


Grown tired of my own riddles
Those halting jagged lines
Conversely...

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Every poem has a story,
	camouflaged, primped, made up and dressed to the hilt;
	fill ins, understudies and leads, 
        are rehearsed, played, acted out and filmed.
Within the start all...

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tryptophan fills my veins,
lost in lingering lullabies-

i sort out what used to be mine
he was enchanting with evocative eyes,
feverish in tantalizing touches;
a fraction of forgiveness without
atonement made me weak-
and i am left
BREATHLESS

but

i am placid and...

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Tunnel digging with warped minds 
We meet right at the centre
Into the passages of rhyme
Joining hands as we enter
Through looking glass we travel
Along the course of time
Emotion spurred to ask you now
To be my valentine
Sand...

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I can hear the bells jingle 
My nose picks up the last month’s fragrance
The hassle to just see the month nigh tingle
The last wrap of it, a bundle of abundance

The first line, full of enthusiasm...

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Spontaneity 2-28-24
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Spontaneity

Arthritic inertia,
Absent of the Prime Mover,
Bursts into astral fireflies of serendipity
Coloring outside deliberate
Past ebony links in tangerine comets
 In outbursts of the unplanned ad-lib 
Flicks of incandescent glory
 And slivers of glee,
  Like...

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The cabin is a lumber store of snores
Sawing and hacking while lying on our backs
Filling the day’s orders of dreams and chores

I’m the only one up this early
Alert to the prophecies
With checklists of nails and...

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