Long Unset Poems

So bridge to bridge, of other things speaking
Of which my comedy does not take care,
We walked; and reached the top, when seeking
For watching the next slit, then we stopped there
Malebolge to see and crying vain;
And...

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many miles I have rome
and called many boats a home
they've taken many place
to meet alot of faces
I lived different lives
with three lovely wifes

the first on I met at a red light
got her pregnant that night
all...

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A Change Is A Com'n

Though this baby boomer,
     (who didst roam man
upon this Earth
     since the year
mcmLix) does not
coon sitter himself
a political activist his wear
re: some ness,...

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Phase:1


I found myself in a market..,
Market of human cattles.,
Trying to get through the situation.,
My wrists were tied with metals..
It was half past seven.,
Neglecting all my requests and prayers.,
Weighing my proper count.,
I was announced for a...

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Life is entanglement plus time,
A Gordian knot of opportunities,
Each ravel a riddle to solve
or a battle to be won.

We grab and pull at the gnarls,
Greedy fingers seeking solutions alone.
Though the more we worry them,
the tighter...

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I did not mean to snatch your heart
Like with the claw of a vorocious bird of pray
You fell into my unset trap 
Speared yourself upon my harpoon 
Which had only been hanging on the wall
You...

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With descent and ascent in every walking steps
Treading through the coppice thorns and comforting steppes 
Being drowned and floated into many mighty oceans 
Bearing the torment of chides and humiliations 
Getting browbeaten and vanquished by...

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Here, where all things burn
When finally we learn how we could never be enough
These tears shed for the empty years
Such searing pain is all remembering

She sang a song of sorrow
Like Cassandra before dead ears and...

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From beneath the patina of the rusted times
on the surface of the marooned mind
I uncover a buried pathway in the dusty memory
on which the tormented thoughts travel backward
to the deserted room, its peeling walls pasted...

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Master Magician

Oh the thrill, the wonder.
Each move something to ponder.
From whence did this come?
Out of a hat, rabbit is from?
 
My heart races and my brain aches
As I try to have some sense this make.
Abracadabra...

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Ode to Heathens
For Bob Atkinson

Tree bark never minds
that it is not smooth,
or is peeling,
or bears the scars of two stranger’s names;
It stands against the wind
and lifts its leaves to the light.
Trees never fret
that their limbs...

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He left this morning after tea and time with me.
before the early morning dawn and between sleepy yawns.

He has done this all his life and the better part of
the past thirty years his wife left...

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my pen this night
is weak
my thoughts though
strong are meek
my dreams are dreams
and that's all that they are
but until i make them come to life
they are as far away as the stars
stars at night are so...

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A  Soul’s Breathing Way 

Alleluia —my soul reaches — while 
Presently
My body keeps still — only in the motion
Of breathing — 
Unable to walk —  I lie here
Riding time — through visions
 ...

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NORDIC ECSTASY

You asked me a question, a nostalgic one
Where I was in the seventies
I was in the land of the midnight sun
With the descendants of the Vikings.

Looking at Norwegian rocks, their structure
Along the corrugated coast...

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Spindly limbs are softly sighing,
Undulating in the chilling breeze.
Sunshine dwindling, slow comes the night,
Uncovering hidden mysteries of Harvest old.
Rampant in the glistening dew,
Rise reflections from a crystal moon.
Untimed music rustling in the leaves;
Sunset pandemonium come...

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Uncaressed
no hands can hold you
you slip away like the tide
but your ocean spray fascinates me
into lingering by the shoreline
for another sunset
swirling in foam
magically
unknown
the reach of you
is beyond my imagination
because I do not grip you
only do...

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Wheelchairs
Chariots in Heaven

I tell you now in earnest, 
there is a secret behind all things, 
real and unreal, 
set and unset, 
tangible...
believable...
and knowable, 
to your core. 

The practice of driving a chair, 
here where people...

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Humpty Dumpty cracked my eggs
Theses pristine solid becomes a liquid mess
With The yellow fat yolk jostling wet
In a bowl like a squabble comic pair yet unset

Humpty Dumpty left my eggs broken
As delicate as a fetus...

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In your skin, 
tones and sunsets pale 
to
shades of grey 
a passing lonely ship 
sailing 
away, 
taking the 
breeze the sun 
and all that could have been,
could have begun,
with 
a billowed sigh,
your eyes are
closing 
like...

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Unset Porcelain
You knew of my porcelain fragility
Chipped and marred quite recently
Though yet unset, my hope to be,
Repaired.
Inching steps, you said try yards
I am here! Relieve your guards,
My back was safe you sounded clear
The lioness artillery’s...

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E yeing the majesty and magnificence in the great gifts of God's 
C reations affects me in the most reflective way.  The moon and
S tars provide light in my darkest nights, and the beauty...

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