Long Unshared Poems

Embrace The Lines

Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water 
marks engraved...

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Discerning one's universal right of conscience
forms comprehensive unitarian consciousness.

Or so we future hope
recognizing self-governing justice requires trust
in each eternal past moment's empathic truth,
rooted back in organic time
anchored in universal consciousness,
bicameral intelligence,
systemic awareness,
multicultural understanding

Universal awareness is
as...

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Sexually powerful energy,
longing for healthy
deeply resonant experience
of regenerative compassion,
both natural and spiritual,
metaphysically leftbrain
but yet embodied rightbrain,
reconnecting bicamerally sensory consciousness,

When combined
with disciplined
adult, and yet not fully mature,
religious passion for multiculturing fulfillment,
yet still grasping toward short-term ego-privileged
ultimate...

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My car-ride silence
is not judging you;
maybe me,
but certainly
and more generously
unconditionally not angry
or shaming
or blaming
you for unpardonable sins
against sainted me.

With you in a powerless passenger seat
and me in a self-punishing driver's
need to alone defeat
our unshared lonely...

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Since childhood,
as alexithymia struck my soul.
I kept all my hopes a secret,
hidden in a bucket of unshared dreams.

I kept my soul sweet like marshmallows,
but life has finally caught up with me,
Like a fast car overtaking...

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In waiting for you, my love, the seasons have snowed in black and white,
The landscape of our time together has been painted in trenches of lingering silences,
And every moment without your voice, an eternity crystallized...

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My sister stopped to visit on her flight home from a tropic isle.
Are COVID mutants on last legs? (Most think their death’s long overdue!)
Trump’s naive crimes seem more passé though Putin dreams his lies are...

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Shizumanu Taiyo
Japanese Flight 123 

[Verse 1]
They say you are a sun that never set 
I thought the time would never come 
Remembering the unremembered, forever without beauty 
Now, I sit and wonder what it would...

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Angels demise

They fell, haunted by the past
Caught in a net of despair
Separated, alone, frightened,
Broken and forlorn.
 Wings shattered against the cliffs of time.
Raging hell stormed around them
The spell of paradise now broken
Such anguish and sorrow...

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It was a hot summers day, in our garden in the countryside. Sheltered from noisy
cities and towns. Where we are able to approach life so differently. My girl my love, always 
in liberty flow, so...

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i stand here my back against the wall, nearly defeated, sedated physically, mentally well and alive. Death threatening to cease the beating of my heart, my blood runs cold, i pray, lord please allow me...

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On the day I met your smiling facade, I should have guessed  
That you are a mapless labyrinth, an enigma clothed in the false light of evening,  
A guide to wanderings, where my...

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when she came to us 
She spoke very less 
Unlike other maid 
She was silent 
Brows-up seems -
Filled with self respect 

My mom tried many ways 
To hear her
Atleast once a day 
"In her past...

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UNCOMMON
By: William S. Labtis

When would uncommon be a common?
Or vice versa, a common be an uncommon?

Common* as we know as those belonging
   to two or more;
Shared by all alike; one pertaining
  ...

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Deafening Silence
By Sy Roth

Are they going to die like that 
Buried under the silt of time with it all unresolved?
Are they a ribonucleic disaster, a broken string of DNA 
Deposited in a weary, weeping womb?...

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Success in my hand
The power and the glory

On top of the world
I am invincible; me

The little ones left 
by the wayside without care

I take what I want
and to hell with their despair

for my life is...

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Bought at an antiques store for a song:
unframed print #225 of 750, signed by the artist
Number III of the family name, all painters,
(presumably) Those forbears hard to discard--
"Stay Awhile" its title, hospitably captioned by
a country...

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When it’s time for them to go…although we’d love for them to stay
We try to show we’re happy…when good friends move away.

We remember the first time we said hello…and our body lets out a sigh.
There’s...

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we talked for hours at a time , without even realizing it.
sometimes our conversations would be about life , religion and love .
a few times , it seemed to be more about laughter and having...

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When Jacob fled from Laban’s house,
He went with everything he had.
With Laban off and shearing sheep,
He set his face towards Gilead.

It was while Laban was away
That Rachel did a thing most odd:
While packing for escape...

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Written: October 29, 2023
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Truth aspires in amorphous silence.
Upset, drowned men's bodies rise in impatience.
Man squandered affection through his...

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She sacrifices herself,
on an altar of secrecy.
Leaving the best of her,
on the cold stone of iniquity!

Hidden behind a smile of "I'm okay",
she says she can't remember yesterday.
Yet those scars on her bitten lip,
have a different...

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Love

From the greatest joy
Comes the greatest sorrow.
In the laughter of today
Hides the tears of tomorrow.

A first smile, a first step
A first word saying your name
The first illness, first fall
When mom can't stop the pain.

To be...

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I had thought I faced the face, that’d give me peace.
It’s that time of night, to breathe deep.
A shallow descent of my heart BLEEDS for you.
A distant memory of my heart still BEATS for you.
I’d...

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When life's chaos 
     leaves you overwhelmed;
         it's roar so loud you can't hear 
        ...

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