Long Unobstructed Poems

I must say Peter, I've had the most extraordinary day. It all started when I woke up this morning. I was brushing my teeth with this new toothpaste Pepsibrite and literally after just a few...

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For years I was an aspiring singer, performing in trendy nightspots,
And I sang my heart out each evening, in all of the local hotspots.

Among the enthusiastic locals, at long last I'd made myself a name,
As...

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I was a questing, experienced astronaut, on the way to languid, red Mars,
The huge, white sun was my companion, and unobstructed views of stars.

I was enjoying the continuous, pleasant journey, like the driving vacation,
As you...

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Tuck into the public
private seclusion.

My aversion to inclusion
includes a stub, a tub,
a carelessly careful curation,
a velvet rope, a hint of hope,
a folding chair, softened and stickied 
by foam and frothing soda spills.

A not soundless though...

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One time, when I was about
eight or nine, 
Poppa climbed up onto the roof.
He was fixing something
(I don't remember what)
but he called me up.
He wanted me to see 
the sunset
uninterrupted by the houses
and trees of...

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"Major Love"


My dear Major Love, 

are You following me yet?
all the sunrising storms read?
soliloquys too many to mention
my very brave Major Love

You’ll find me yet
tomorrow 
is never too late
in this dreamscape

it won’t be the Love...

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I watch your exuberant glowing eyes as they shimmer in the radiance of your joy, 
False, false joy, 
The tears of your desperate smiles break from the icicle of confusion, 
Confusion I cannot explain, 
My...

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Last time it rained was in April.
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Growing up in Ohio it was easy to find my Christmas spirit with the snow and cold within my reach…but after moving to Florida I wondered how I’d ever find my Christmas spirit in the...

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Daughter more precious than yet to know
Daughter mirror of wife with whom I sow
Sow new love of my life
Sow a princess with a queen
Queen you will be to someone
Queen of parents heart
Heart will overflow on...

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In a weightless state of tranquility, 
paraphrasing relentless thoughts of motion 
in my head into words, which 'til now 
have laid dormant in unsung verse, waiting
for you to shine brightly upon them. 

Freshly painted impressions...

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Pied Piper in the village square – a man
With a wooden flute and a golden plan –
Whatever are you doing here?
Did the elders panic, call you in
To purge the town of salt and sin?

Are you...

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Australian Ancient Depths Of Time

Under deserts rusting tides of red
Mountains once collapsed themselves into the clay
Became flat lands stilted while sun hung ornate on the humble quiet
Beauty remained unobserved, unobstructed, ageless
At this point in time...

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Complex rhythms beat from the heart
in the body of an average well-to-do,
an unknown story in the chapter of all books,
set out to seek a worthy closing moral.

Mind aware, eyes ajar,
not a step taken out of...

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Prize be with you, in hand my drinking horn, 
As I dress you up in the extravagance of love born.
Of the word’s eternity, I shall speak
As the panorama of an unobstructed view not so bleak,
Grants...

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We move unobstructed through a frozen desert—
desolation which welcomes, indiscriminately, fools like us
with open arms, roaring heat and blinding light.
Unfounded confidence and a thirst for what comes next drives our feet forward
and our heads up.
Ice...

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Our fig in January, entirely denuded now
like my heart in your absence, is but
more beautiful, if possible, in its seasonal
solemnity than in summer's exacting extravagance.
The trunk, grown massive in manhood, is a citadel
of strength supporting...

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I was driving to my grannies country home after the end of a dinner invite with friends in town, about 40 miles away.

There was news of the oddity prior to my first visual contact, that...

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Wandering Particles,

Wandering in amazement,
At everything I see.
Nature, She holds such beauty,
Even the bark of the tree,
Are the same particles in you and me.
They go on living and breathing,
Always giving and receiving,
Outstretched arms reaching,
Slowly growing to...

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And it is a beautiful thing  

And in a thought I find
this wishy washy mind moving
in circular patterns, drinking from the trough
Searching for an answer,
bending beneath the fluorescent light
flickering as if giggling
Dry mouthed positioning...

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The Beaten Track
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Who says Love-braising is easy

Growth and affinity
crave

An elusive trigger
A split second of blast

Courage to proclaim.  Mindfully.  Courage to launch
Courage to ache

Courage to apologize.   Awakening.  Courage to accept and respect
A long...

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Light in the Darkness

Your heart is my beacon of hope
Shining Bright and true with fierce luminosity
The love you give is like a burst of afternoon sun
Your heart’s radiance guides me to you
Like a map of...

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You are my spring.
You make me feel alive!
It is as if I haven't been breathing
And you are my first taste of forest air.
The ringing of your heart
Is like the sounding of a tiny bell
That wakes...

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Death bubbles by
in such a sorrowful state.

A snowflake melting
in the midst of life.

A rusty knife
the tip of which protrudes
to make a third nipple.

Creating nary a ripple
in the scheme of things.
Which brings us to an impasse.

Unobstructed,
Our...

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