Long Vellum Poems

"The Great Forgotten Language" 

In the forest
Love shows
the way
spreading seeds

strange creatures
come forth
into the clearing 
of a known self

some run away
spooked as if 
the bare reflection 
shows their undressed soul

confronting, 
are the peculiar
ghosts risen, speaking 
like...

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"50 Words for Poe: Sibylline"




Hush your mind



In ancient Persia 
Her sands
drift through your divination hands
Through Her dark mirrors,dethroned now 
Xerxes,you stand before Her naked 
Clairsentient seeps Her ancient wisdom 
Her opium gift to you



Elusive, Her...

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"O Witless Quill"




O witless quill
sharply dipped in smiles leering
joust they your words
on their egos competing
galloping black stallions, see them fall
shiny armour felled knights
and petulant proud Queens now all shiny amour, in their saddles riding

Merry rogers
Merry...

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He 
has certainly 
perfected the art 
of being a smart a** -
a trait that swims like a tadpole 
in his father’s gene pool
and nurtured by that very nature..
his tongue swells with sarcasm 
his mouth just...

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inescapably booby trapped in the region of self
anticipating illumination with a dopey grin
and a grimy determination masked by ungodly brio 
gimme your best shot you goose stepping goons
you Ragnarok brothers of Odin and his Twinkie...

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Cresento Canta                               


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HOURGLASS SAND

She sits alone by the candlelight, pen in hand.
Wax drips from her fingertips, like hourglass sand.

wind whispers
in
dark clouds

Mascara runs, blotting sad memory thoughts.
Turns to rage, with burgeoning crimson clots.

lava erupts
running
down mountaintop 

She remembers the...

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Like a ghost I flitter through the night
keeping to the shadows 
abhorring the light
Tears... Unrelenting grief

The night camouflages and no one can see 
the shadow of the person that once was me
The day lays me...

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When I met you in the language of lonely war
three feathers fastened to your breast breathing sore
many graves of gentlemen knew your score and the devil deigned for more,
tears you had for all times rhymes...

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Though inside timber walls air runs cold,
Restraints of society seem not to reach,
This room, a mausoleum to most,
Left untouched by those with other cares,
In echo silence one can choose to leave,
Not by the knob which...

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A mangled mind struggles to decipher
A lonely world...in darkness of Alzheimer.
Like million stars in unknown cosmic space 
neurons quiver million jumbled thoughts.
Tangled nerves in a white vellum
reflect faded echoes of false screams.
Hallucinating  a nightmare...

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My neck crooked backward,
I stand between the stacks
feeling the weight of centuries, 
the distilled wisdom of minds
who graced the earth with golden words,
words that pace the pages -
vellum, parchment, fine and common papers;
words, cordoned in...

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Three coins tossed at once; each coin is given a value of 2 or 3, depending upon whether it is tails or heads, respectively. Six such tosses make the hexagram. Some fortune-tellers use an empty...

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WTF burning bright with pondering ink.
Graceful swans or blackbirds skedaddling
across the vast and empty space. The think
kerplunking into cavernous link.
The quill flying…descriptives diving
onto the writer’s canvas…surviving.

WTF, loud and clear, dear John…
the calligraphic rend of relationship…
The...

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LET THAT BE

Humans screwed up the definition.
Scribes from hell put fire to vellum.
Black ink, settled, in extensive cursive.

Debates became reprobate,
Soiled with a list of conclusions,
Blood spilled like wine,
Smearing all of mankind.

Cattle droves, sacred cows, gather...

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the aroma of old people pepper air with putrid
perspiration tainting, we sit once again on settees
loosely puckered by pummelled 
time like skin hung brittly on bones, 

limbs locked on rusted pulleys 
prising on old hinges...

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FREEDOM TO FLY

In this time that moves so quickly
Old age will find me fast
So i must hide for a brief moment
Beneath warm vellum sheets

I must express myself in bitty lines
For who has the time, and...

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THE AVANTE-GARDE OF VELLUM AND INK 

The avante-garde of vellum and ink, like Cupid’s bow and arrow,
Carte blanche to choose the muse we love - imagination’s marrow.

Bullseye of introspection, a deep inkwell — my bona...

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I wrote this letter
today 
knowing you’d never see it.
I wrote so carefully,
as if I thought you could reflect 
on my words and carefully fold them 
within your heart.

I wish you could have heard the words
one...

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I read the screenplay that you stepped from,
Off the vellum sheets of winter snow,
A hood of white fur framed your face,
When the outside world struck five below.
Your blue-eyes traced by black mascara,
And wide mouth dusted...

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Glittering on the bauble brass, reflective sheen of flame, 
Logs that crackle and spit in charring tongues, 
The air of smoke and magic burns tonight, 
Spellbound breath held deep in childhood lungs. 
So sing the...

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Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. ~ Eric Hoffer

And should I cherish lucid moments of my day
to dwell on...

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Okay, Jerry, so I am posting this on PS in your honor

A response to Jerry T Curtis. A great idea, perhaps,
to leave spot 100 open, as if every poet owns it ;)
This poem thrown quickly...

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It was our first date and I had to impress her
While fighting the urge to move in and caress her
I’d have to be subtle and somewhat refined
And show her an intellect dwells in my mind
It...

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This evening 
I was humbled
by Welsh born artist,
Donald Jackson--
His profound dedication
and personal sacrifice
are truly beyond
my poetic
expression--

new insight and beauty
(such vision absent for
many generations)--
spiritual beauty
procured deep within
our cloistered archives,
written on
the sacred vellum
of human consciousness 
and soul--

I...

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