Long Unstill Poems

I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
harness them in,
and wheel them back...

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      In the purple shadows of the black's monoliths, where an ancient echo calls forth, at the blurry forge of "Ralkon Dis",
a salient dragon from mystery's petra cliffs drifts you...

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Behold! 

A gaping black-
Curtains of a heaven, drawn
Set adrift
Across the wilt of the zodiac! 

An’ so, she emerged

An’ madness dreamt into reality 
A bow, to tether-
Then glide down humanity
Every heart string, to vibrate an’ tear-
Tooth...

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“belles lettres” 

It’s a slow drifting
off, that moment 
before you dive 
into the dark

you surface 
to find a boat 
surrounded by 
shining pearls,

Styx, a mirror 
reflecting 
otherworldly stars
hypnotic, 

you trail
your long 
pale slender fingers 
in...

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For few days between the shaking and shattering of my consciousness, 
The soft arms of Silence 
Wrap around my aching torso 
And pretend to soothe the ever-rapid
Battering of my heart. 

In those few days, 
Between...

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I need you to sing
the straight white male lead
in Phantom of Our Opera
as a Catch-22 steed.

I don't sing with wit
and I won't dance without it.

If that's a no,
but hard for you to show,
you clearly have...

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Moonlight shines on the lake,
The gentle ripples make it shimmer
in the eyes like slivers of silver,
Dancing on the unstill water surface.

In the chilly, late Autumn evening,
The cold wind blows across
Welcoming the winter
With it, stabbing icy...

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In

Lullaby

I promise

A kiss so silent

It will fall with you 

Insignificant, yet unstill

Down, down, into darkness

Beyond streetlights’ white islands

Its’ un-kept pyres an’ broken-down engines

Into the dormant, deeply -feign of only memory

Drawing water slowly, from clouds beneath...

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your beauty, 
hidden inside
can only be felt, 
or experienced
but not explained 
in words, or otherwise
for it is perfect, pure, infinite
that illuminates the elements
of my atman
in a mystic radiance
that leads me to the 
lotus steps of...

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An ordinary story
Sometimes
So bitter
So bitter

Yet bound 
And written together
Penned by you an me

Our great annuals
So heavy
So heavy

Of every wonderland
An' madness
We had dreamt into reality

It's our ordinary story
So dance with shadow   
Sway almighty!

As the...

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"Deep Sea Sky Blue" 

the contented life
rises and falls
bedded 

the treasure chest
is touched briefly
inside a shell opens
constricted mind
of heart swallows
the bends, 
it is found
wanting, so 
releases 
the fast, 
changeling
embryo soul, 
le enfant terrible
feeling the rips
like...

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 When the brief sounds of barking dogs fade

and the loud voices of children echo away

When winds stop shaking  apple trees

and leaves settle in the lake

When the sweat of  a tangerine sun

sets across...

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yOur telling me I'm gOing crazy
but dOn't you think this a i r ' s amazing

yOu lOOk at me as if I'm gOing u
           ...

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