Long Uncrossed Poems

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Hate

As a child I was taught to forgive
In my family hate was a bad word
I took it all in 
Sometimes forgiving too easily
Yet here I am 
Hurting more than I can say
Because in my heart...

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lasting... 
all through your life, dear child, 
the following crucial life lessons... 

let go of the things 
you cannot change; 
all things beyond your control.
the past lies decayed 
in your rearview mirror.
don't look back!
never mind
that...

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We have evolved over the years
As a people with a way of life
We have learnt of a new way
To express our anger at every passing day.

They say you only die once,
But today you have an...

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The Legend of Gusty Brown

This is the legend of Gusty Brown
And all the beans that he could down
He and his steed ate beans by the pail
Together they issued an odorous gale

A Wild West crack-shot of...

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It burns
Brighter, fiercer, nuclear
With effulgent incandescence
But only when untended or 
denied the expected trajectory

For there is beauty in this 

A Glorious Thing indeed
The rarest of things truly
But to wilfully deny it? 

There is beauty in...

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Stubbs Park is decorously rampant,
its paths scamper here and there
                         ...

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As we age we regret words of anger and spite
That were heard and remembered and can't be unsaid.
The remarks we thought clever or proved we were right
That resulted in losses of friendships instead.

All the heartbreaks...

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I am all over Wiltshire
High up on the hills
I am immune from fire
To tourists I give thrills

You can see me from afar
By plane, on foot or in a car
I am as old as time can...

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Now all that remains is a silver framed photograph
A reminder of when there was a splitting of paths
Between one realm and the other, a bridge uncrossed
One day to be readjourned, but for now is just...

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MY SUN~~~

Like the sun
against the day sky.
Releasing unrestrained light!
Diluting your daily sphere
that repulse
my intellectual needs.
Take Death into my desert
dumping you a side.
Uncrossed boundaries that multiply
concealing your eyes of beauty
from the world.
Never embracing eternity.
Like an atomic...

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A Make Believe Tree




The outside is looking in on the inside out,
  once what was known true is upended by doubt.

    Anew feeling altered, frozen stiff, can't move,
   ...

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Whisper to the whistling wind the wistful worries of the day
For she is sister, tightly twined to smoke that winds and floats away.
All that I confide is lost, adrift, a cloud upon the air
That flows...

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Stubbs Park is decorously rampant,
its paths scamper here and there
like unruly children.

Perhaps its topographical language
once spoke of bridges 
for the landscapers have run riot
planting arching spans
between and over 
many of its hillocks and humps.

If you...

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My star-crossed lover,

For eons we swirled through the galaxy congruent,
gravity keeping us apart.

Our journeys paradoxically parallel.

Then two dimming stars unstuck,
in the most extraordinary stroke of luck.

Once torn apart by terrestrial variables,
now uncrossed and together exuberantly...

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This ball is mainly water as are we;
touch Mother Earth and hear her soulful cries
and climate is ruled most by air and sea.
Stare into space beyond where science lies.

Seems plants and creatures thrive and then...

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Hear the untold song we sing at any cost,
Though the crowd may laugh and children, jeer:
Through the parting clouds, lascivious angels leer,
Till a fall from heaven spells their holocaust.
Sing the unsung tale of dirty angels...

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In school-days on poles 
scratched the birds,
if they were even number 
especially two 
(Sometimes bonded sometimes 
quarreled)
we kissed palm to lips to 
utter good luck
if odd especially one, 
friends touched 
others to transfer 'bad 
luck...

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The epitaph has been read,
For the man with no grave,
With eternity as his bed.

The very love he gave,
Turned out to be his snare,
To destiny he was a slave.

Yet the signs were there,
Turn back or be...

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Asparagus shoots, tender, and green~ killed
By late winter's artic blast and hoar's frost
All that intensive work, tossed aside, lost
The natural world rode in so skilled
Though maybe there are some shoots like love's thrill
In poor soil,...

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They came together, love entwined,
When stars in heaven were aligned.
But their love hit a hurdle,
When their vinaigrette failed to curdle,
Their blitz emulsification ill-fated,
leaving oil and vinegar separated.
They crossed their fingers together,
Looked up at the sky,...

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Tell me, my moondark one, how come that
our journey remained untraveled;
from mirror to mirror into eternity
our passages were left uncrossed?
For the mirage of shedding a light,
we rather chose to immerse into the outer world
than become...

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