Long Unwraps Poems

stared at the two passionate lines for the longest time,
       what I wrote ..I created ... as if in a trance, as if in a surreal dream ..
 ...

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"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." Mary...

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Influenced by "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Rape of the Lock," my goal is to write this completely in iambic meter with (mostly?) rhyming couplets. (Though the intro's meter varies, the main...

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When the moon unwraps electric rays,
reflecting honey-gold roses
from Freyja’s chariot,
emanating spellbinding jewels
merging with magical dreamcatchers,
I see the scatterings of fairy forests~
veiled with archaic, rusted runes,
lost in the tunes of forgotten time,
while this heart hears the
kaleidoscopic...

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Return Of The Tyke

Tyke, tyke, tyke' they’d chant to bait the bairn.
But insult hurled at Yorkshire folk is water off a back.
Take it, use it, grind it through the crank
As fuel for the fire, grist...

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Granny`s spooky house
My granny has a spooky house she has a spiders web
She keeps it in her room at night just above my bed.

I cannot take my eyes of it however hard I try
As it...

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I forgot who I was, almost lost myself 
in a mirage of diffidence, 
for a lingering stretch of time!
From the emotional age of twenty-one....
I switched to one role from another -
diverse roles, divergent responsibilities, 
But...

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Take away my blind walking stick, been stuck with it way too long, Pedals of love, unwraps  in my heart, I see light approaching swiftly inside my heart piercing through my eyes, thought miracles...

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Take away my blind walking stick, been stuck with it way too long, Pedals of love, unwraps  in my heart, I see light approaching swiftly inside my heart piercing through my eyes, thought miracles...

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We are not kept in this world to be test run,
Discarded and thrown away if considered unfit,
We are not experimental beings 
kept in a controlled facility,
Taken out of the system due
 to inherent unwanted flaws,
We...

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One of the many things I love about working in a bookstore is how, every now and then, the magic of the store unwraps…Like the other day when a mother sat in our big chair...

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In his ever-blue eyes
I cry for Mercy 
Into his everlasting arms
I am so tenderly Found
His effortless smile 
Turns me Away
From hells of lives
Leads me astray 


And in the utmost truth- 
  We bend
In the...

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Cast Iron

       the unfamiliar sound rolls on and on
       a sack of words
       vultured to bloody shreds
...

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Women in my family 
                              ...

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Scarlet Ribbons

Angry bullets curse and swear
Paint scarlet ribbons through your ice blonde hair
Scarlet ribbons burst the skies
Scarlet ribbons haunt my eyes

Then time stands still as I drift away
Drift away to that sun-kissed day
When we kissed...

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(Dedication: For my grandson Axel Caleb)
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Your curious eyes
Seek to wander,
Curious strange sighs
As you wonder.


Touch prompts fond feel
Just for a while,
Your curious will
Fronts easy smile.


Curious hands reach
For things to grab,
Ply each to each
As touch unwraps.


Sight tells...

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A melancholy feeling  flutters in   my heart
As  raindrops fall gently to nourish my thoughts
As one season arrives  and another departs

In a whirlwind of emotions I am now caught
As mother nature...

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my anonymity is stalking the streets 
like a preoccupation. mornings, slowly I creep
into august daylight, filling beat boroughs.
passing the time: digging fake burrows: 
motel rabbitrooms don't come with sheets: 
boxes gloomy in the dinge; dead-end...

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Mist veil in haze, winter unwraps,
A rejoice raptures in reverie of spring. 
Amber gold touch of Midas perhaps,
Bees and frilled petals in amorous cling.

A mystical harmony of beauty serene,
Magnolia and tulip, hum for butterfly.
Honeysuckle vines,...

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Reflections of Love

Where are we going, for love we chase                 
To places unknowing and cannot keep pace  ...

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Broad reach branches, dark scarred where limbs emit
Bounce shade places, host seat of friendship 
Parasitic Mistletoe grows yellow finger medicinal cure
Administered in tinctures mixed by druid pure


Ailing then prevaing, seas writhe with full school fish
Activated...

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You try to make them civilized and grown-up,
but the words are infants,
they want to crawl around and yell for a bit.

You know that an eye is upon you.
watching you in that whelping room
where creation rearranges...

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A chilling degrees,
Paralizing their knees.
Racing to the tower,
That the fire is trying to devour.
Breaking down,
Destroying the town.
Coloring the sky,
As the flames grow high.
The men in yellow,
Trying to help the dear ol' fellow.
That remains trapped,
As the...

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Two friends had emerged as fellows would,
And shook swore they ought not under oath
Be they two travelers, long time stood
They both looked at one pass par as good
The other went next to an outgrowth

And he...

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Somehow, the deluge of cloudburst
unwraps my flesh pallid, as if to spill
holy water--maybe thickened dew—just
to give a name to lapses of my unheard cries,
while an insolent breeze fails to listen
as I howl in utter despair...

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