Long Unlatch Poems

The bones of winter cracked the ice black, coal black night.
A hoary wind spits frost crystals that dazzle and blur the sight.
Boney fingers of bare deciduous wood, scratch against the eaves
as the stranger's tread crackles...

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loved Loving you...

You loved liking me a lot

I put everything on the table not knowing if it was stable

And after debating

I was able to trust that my dating and waiting for a good man would...

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Lobo Little Man, and his boy Teka Maroo
Put them together, and no telling what they might do.
Sweet as pie they are, sporting too many shades of innocence on their face.
Showing off their perfect manors, with...

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My Secret Garden 

I unlatch the gate to my secret garden
Take a step on the emerald green grass beneath my bare feet
As I breathe in the early morning scents 
I watch the orange rays rise...

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I gave you my body,
I gave you my soul,
I gave you my heart, 
Until we get old.

Your lies and the hiding,
Have all but nearly ruined me,
The lies and the cheating,
The trauma runs through me.

I caught...

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The stars will fade again this morning
They died a million years ago
As if to give a little warning...
you've lost your way back home

You left me here without a fire
as if desire has turned to stone...

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He parks up the street
Then shuts his lights off
Keeps the engine running
Only one thing on his thoughts

He sits silently still
With engine idled and running
He has come up with a plan
He hopes it is cunning

Waits a...

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Go out,
show your naïve black hair,
sponge-like and strong and dripping water
because you just finished washing it.
Brave and proud, that's what makes you
the most enchanting of the evolutionary world.
How did you chance about these beauties?
Did you...

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I see a beam of light coming from the little hole of the broken window
I sit alongside the window & stretch my hand to unlatch it
It creaks when I struggle to open it

It is my...

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My boots crunch
As I walk
Across the frozen, bare woods
With, but a few hints
For what’s to come.

No thunder, no lightning, no wind
Predicts
This,
In winter,

But I see and hear the tiny signs

Like tsk tsk tsk
From a squirrel
Grinding its...

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The lichen clings to his trunk 
Like she has for ages 
Holding fast, curling tight
In pale green companionship 

The oak tree smiles down at her
Craggy smile, chafed and gnarled with time 
To admire her diligence,...

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Rain drags words out of a dark sky.
Words raw enough to grow antlers,
lightsome enough to slip between
parting flesh,
unmade words grown
from mouse ears and the stringy lips
of hollow reeds.  
A long untrammeled Celtic rivering
unabridged and...

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I love by latching on too tightly; I thought I could hold you in the palm of my hand for awhile, the way I used to catch the wind, or tried to, when I was...

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Do Not Open the Door-                              
Merely...

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In ancient mythology the Apple is one of the most sacred trees. Symbolizing  good health and future happiness. Since ancient times it has also been known as the 'Tree of Love' associated with Aphrodite,...

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POEM " THE ALLURING DEATH OF GUILT " by martin gedge

Fade not ye whose heart is rich

for tempt may draw the eyes

the sin of the defining rope

of lust and sacred lies

for dark shall lure its...

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The other side of the Gate

There’s a feeling of sadness
A feeling of loss
A feeling of loneliness
A melancholy feeling
It washes over me
 As I make my way to the garden

 I unlatch the old wooden gate
step...

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Look at the stars, look at how they shine for you and everything you do - Coldplay - Yellow

Do you ever realize how powerful your words are 
what feelings you bring forth 
and, the sum...

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Their Lovely Story

Wrapped in a small red bow,
The box so fragile,
Never been opened before,
It’s been waiting for awhile.

	Nothing special about it,
	Only that it’s true,
	The box has been waiting here,
	And it only can be opened by...

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SALVATION


Salvation is too far away
I need it now not some other day
My soul needs releasing 
From a body tired and weary
 
I am already in my own living hell
Death will offer no more tragedies 
Only...

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His charm was deceptive; you were easily impressed.
You held him like a chip bag, a comfort to ingest,
but soon he treated you evil, apathetic at best.
You'd hold tightly to the anger, no longer suppressed.

Soon your...

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A blowing wind spins up from the still and serene
Late at night a summer heat
When the sun’s not there to instigate

Knocks upon the old forest doors
Jiggles handles of Walnut trees
Latch unlatch latch unlatch

Jounces the stars...

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I stumbled on a hovel in the woods
Dug in a foothill roofed with mossy shakes.
Inside, its furthest wall was made of stones
Piled high to make a chimney and a hearth.
Two stovepipes served as draft to...

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Guarded and closed off, that's what he knows best

It just takes a noise to peak his interest

Don't bother to knock, 'cause he won't letcha in

Caution encloses the world he lives in

Four cats are his passion...

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I hold in my hand Mama's old fold-up Kodak
In its steel-blue case shut with a tiny curved silver latch.
I carefully unlatch it, watch the worn-out flaky bellows
Extend like an unwelcome, nonfunctional erection,
Emitting a strange smell...

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