Long Unwoven Poems

I grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.

Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear pants,
yet with a surprising matriarchal cooperative understory.

The boxers outnumbered the...

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Here we have a list of antonyms.
I hope terms on the left dipolar co-define
those on the right,
and vice versa.

Form                ...

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In the embrace of the unseen moment, love bloomed humbly,
The cosmos writhes in ecstasy, beneath the unconstructed gaze of mastery.
Gathered around it are emissions of time, transmissions of ancestral eternities,
Reveries in water strokes, heavenly reflections,...

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EarthMother's unwilling Emissary
asked each faith community
and patriotic party
what they thought and felt
about God's preferential option for the poor,
despised,
criminal,
homeless,
wounded and powerless women and children,
physical disabilities,
sick,
terrified,
rabid with anger and fear,
enslaved,
addicted,
insane.

Does this sound like an accurate description
of your...

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In this time the cloth is unwoven, the threads laid bare.   
Most of the dung removed, cleared, given no fare.
Massive steel plates hold back the uninvited from boarding the train.
Going and coming returning...

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Cupid loosed a love potion
     laced arrow alas and alack
thy nineteen year young daughter
     Shana Aubrey, smitten
     with glassy eyed 
  ...

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50 Fallen Stars
There's a plague of insanity among us
Is it blind ignorance or just the blatantly ignorant?
A whole new land of despair and those with golden bars shall survive.

Hitler too was a citizen-
Also illicitly placed...

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Come As You Are
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Come as you are, forget appearances!
Is your hair untamable, your part uneven, your bodice unfastened? Never mind.
Come as you are, forget appearances!

Skip with quicksilver steps...

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I need to find out what it all means,
so I searched for the truth in my dreams,
illusions of a shattered reality, unwoven at its seams.
All of life's cohesion, a plan or just by chance,
the gravity...

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About Pain

                                 What...

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Muscularity slowly flexing with a calling permanency, 
Permission without clicking that the doorstop’s gone, 
Inherent hardiness springs you into moderation,
And the Castle’s protective rock scatters criminalisation bon. 

Lighter shade of grey without looking aside, 
Whilst...

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"Sanskrit"



Tears like pearls of wisdom
crystal diamonds slip salty cool
hour glass down cheeks to lips

purse of gold unzipped 
forms exposed vowels and consonants
in the hostage pool

forming ebullient echo words
on moist glowing cupid’s bow
a ripe plumb kissed,...

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His eyes are sapphire gems
Coloring my world in passion
Whispering dreams fulfilled
Endless mysteries unwoven
~
His breath is a spring breeze
Blowing through my thoughts
Beckoning with hues of hope
Echoing desire as a chance
~
His bare skin sighs with insight
Heavenly entreaty...

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Your light shines through this wattled heart of mine ...
It seeps through the cracks unwoven in a twine.... 

And though my soul is filled with thistles and thorns ..... 
The light you evoke is what...

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Words unspoken reveal an honest thought
becoming a reality never forgotten.

In the depths shall the water be still, untouched
by unwoven memories never recovered.

Sheltered softly by the warmth of creation coolness
comforts the raging beast that escapes wounds...

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Words unspeakable
                                 ...

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ENOUGH WITH YOUR 
IRRITATING RUMPUS 
PANDEMONIUM GBUDU 
GBANG!
ARE YOU THE ONLY ONE HERE?
"I AM MY ME"...AND SO WHAT?
ARE YOU THE FIRST OR THE 
LAST,
TO HAVE ACHIEVED THAT 
FEAT?
THE ONLY ONE CAPABLE AND 
ABLE?
IF YOU CARE....
JOB...

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From the walls the voices clamor,
Chasing me away from my solace and contentment,
These laughing phantoms of dreams almost forgotten,
Reminding me of almost and could have been,
Showing me places I can’t quite remember,
Of faces that I...

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Isn't this all I wanted? 
But why do I still feel haunted?
Flashbacks echoing in my mind,
Stop it now, just leave those memories behind.
This residential terrible memory lanes,
Runs through the veins in every part of my...

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THE MOON’S SECRET DIARY

I am intrigued by them,
the ones who call me the moon.
Who are they? 
the inhabitants of my imaginative world?
or am I a part of theirs?
some eccentric children of the cosmos?

I watch the...

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Paperless dolls and run-less runs –
Roller coaster rides and fun-less fun.
Hopscotch and blisters; banana-seat bikes –
Hand games and shout-backs too.

Quiet-less walks at 3:00 in the morn –
Virtual stranger rides with indecency.
Cracker-jacks and white wine spritzers...

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What to tell our children,
when we’re back from War,
back from Peace too,
from Death itself, -
what shall we tell them:
We looked for Love
but found it nowhere?
Looked for Freedom
but found it in slavery?
Longed for Happiness
but wedded Misfortune?
What...

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If I could roll my words in tightened balls
and throw them then, against the critiques walls
some might stick while all the others fall
like drunkards, stagger home after last call

to greet the rising sun with swollen...

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CONFIGURED AVATAR 

Traversing the flushing meadow of life verdant
I uncovered a veiled pallet at the bottom of mind, 
filled with mélange of colors luminous and vibrant,
waiting for the time when the painter it would find.

As...

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I can forget you smile I can forget your kisses I can forget the way we felt and how it was. the one thing  I can't do is  forgive  because if I...

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