Long Valance Poems

Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled  GENESIS RESPLENDENT)

No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed...

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Grow old along with me:
The best is yet to be!

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See! Ben Ezra stares Rubaiyat in the eye,
	In a debate so hot and ever fresh;
Their porters seem in the semels to lie!
	Are they also gone or...

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I only be looking down now, looking inside myself now,
not head set in defeat but reflection, not the thoughts but the actual events that happened, wild flower child, yea right boom boy im a power...

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Written: April 19, 2024, For  Robert James Liguori Contest

Inspired from the Lyrics Gettin' Tighter

4th contest placement winner
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Patience and length of time does more than force and rage
This I have come to learn with age
Repeating destructive patterns, like an LP skipping
Over my own radical behaviour I am tripping

Drug and alcohol counselling and...

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It is Valentine's day and I find myself brooding 
 as I sift through thoughts both perpetual and 
 disquieting; 
 I watch the crowds as they piously enter the card 
 shop for that...

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I sat and watched as you stood and cried,
you laid and pondered on why she lied.
For too long we noticed her health decline,
oh please God, why couldn’t it be benign?
For all the moments as we...

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Witness to every notable trip
highlighting life and death travelogue strip
I can recount incidents bringing heart-rip
surpassing accidents of fatal engine oil drip
yet expressing to God thankfulness* midst blissful serenity-grip!

Once I served as an ambulance
to the infirmary...

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Come with me to nineteen sixty three
The year Pope John died and so did Kennedy
We saw Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O’Toole
Listened to It’s My Party and She’s a Fool
Last year for the Studebaker 
Martin...

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Said Earth shyly to Sky, “Your grandeur is utter perfection.”
Whispered Sky softly to Earth, “I am but your reflection.”
Called Ocean to Shore, “I yearn for your soft embrace.”
Replied Shore to Ocean, “Your waves swell of...

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Sweet Home


From the tense of turbulence you profer comfort,
from the tests of time you offer abode,
Will all the fortresses of home refer incline?
Will all the fortitudes of hope adversity sublime?
The ocean of pleasure thou are;...

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In primeval forest, earth’s secrets deep lie,
wind whispers soft midst trees hundreds of years old,
as together they praise ancient Gods on high.

With dawn’s first light, avian chorus unfolds 
till fractured by din of a chainsaw’s...

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You fall behind the maple so umber
Soon to close and slumber 
Broadcasted light mesmerized 
Like a painted picture accessorized 

Shine your twilight still 
This earthly chamber you fill 
Your task is done for today 
Tomorrow...

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Events in life, boxes of memories
Hidden in mind, with a lock on her heart
Preserving love, where all betrayal flees

No way to rewind to the very start
Scars of unforgotten tears, swept with lies
Hidden in mind, with...

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They stand together in a family portrait.
In it's surroundings of designer valance curtains,
a bed appears in one corner while in another
a dresser. Together they stand Mother, Father and 
Daughter.  Each looking in different directions:...

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It's all about love,
All Madness, Pain and Misery.
But what makes it so rough
That hurts all stones so easilly?

Eternal question 'What?'
Which causes all the troubles.
But askless men are odd
Like stonish soap bubbles.

The topic is the least
Of...

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Quantum mechanics is our love relationship 
Our photon packets hold two in its membership
Our light form a duality just you and I 
We oscillate on our wavelength defined by “psi” 

We form our own construct...

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a sliver of hope hangs
on the valance
of darkness

cast off
from frosted glass
of dimly lit
street lamps glow
a shadow stands
alone
awaiting
on stars 
to glisten
through love's eyes
if he were to come
this very night

the willow
on the hill
weeps
with the air
for her
as she...

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A day full of choices. Should be a day always full. Like A run for the roses. A chase of a bull. A singing in the rain. A “let’s rob a great train”. A “Liberty...

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I have lived a life in vagabond shoes
aimlessly wandering without direction
and have wondered about all I could lose
from the weeping of dangling imperfection

Still, I've journeyed across unseen places
and dared to go where others would not...

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