Long Unpossessed Poems

Living happy and content
is to celebrate the lilt of life
a treasure gifted by God.

We join the celebration happily
with gifts wrapped nicely
in flashy wrappers designed to capture
the eyes and to enrobe crafted pieces
of our unclad hearts...

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I don't know what to say when my voice is being controlled
Even after all the millions of joints that I've rolled
I can't change the fact that both women and men strike my fancy
Even as exposed...

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Feeling the touch of emotion, the beginning, 
finding the meaning of emotion, the end. 
As they were superposed at the edge of my twilight time, 
my mind started to sink at sunset, unexpressed. 

After futile...

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The feeling of emotion, the beginning,
the meaning of emotion, the end.
When these crossed at the edge of my twilight time
my mind started to sink at sunset, unexpressed.

After the futile walk through the clouded day
the garden...

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In the dreaming domain 
of dainty dawn 
gentle zephyr flows,
ripples the radiant facade 
of the placid pond,
where
on the lilting lap 
of a silken lotus leaf, 
floating forlorn,
rolls restless 
a rain drop,
    ...

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In the domain of dainty dawn gentle zephyr flows,
rippling the lustrous facade of the placid lake.
On the lap of the silky lotus leaf floating lonely,
rolls restless a dazzling drop of water.

The sparkling rays of the...

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As the morning breeze flows softly 
rippling on the placid lake,
on the lotus leaf floating lonely
reclines a dainty drop of water,
sparkling in the rays of the rising sun, 
rolls as an opalescent pristine pearl, 
the...

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A tree in the hills felled by the summer storm
river in spate carries from cascade to cascade.
Deskinned trunk haltingly moves to the bank,
sticks in mud and boulder the water deposits.

Next rains come, the river sweeps...

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"The-Were-Never-There" 


Corrections serve
their superiority 

a place of ere
sucked out 
by the vacuum 
of those in need
of love 
messages buried
remain watching 
far removed, undone

the possessive 
pronouns
cursed 
the unpossessed

Corrections serve
their superiority
until they drop 
their keys
and through the...

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The stream surges in turbulent torrent
the dry tree felled by the summer storm,
the truncated trunk anchors at the tilted levee, 
in the web of boulders it sticks, stranded. 

The flood slackens the grip of the...

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The morning breeze gently wafts on the lake
A water drop trembles on the lotus leaf floating
A shining pearl the rays of the rising sun make
The leaf holds, but doesn’t cling to its belonging.

The lake water...

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