Places Morning Poems

‘Waupaca Awakens’

The thin ice cracks
As daylight breaks,
Along the still waters
Of a chain of lakes

Melting snow and slush
Both lapping the pier,
Letting the bluegill know
A new season...

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Carpet patterns 
and the swirlings of grain
in wooden floors were maps
to me of exotic worlds,
portal holes for a child
to enter and explore
places edged on the
furthest...

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Komorebi 11-8-23
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Komorebi

Sunlight dashes through boughs adorned
In autumn’s scent of red orange crimson
Tossing diamonds of daybreak from their limbs
Into the borning air of dawn
To litter the...

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In this trying time
I try to find courage in living
To feel the essence of my breath
In the  ravaging moments of a conscious treachery
Chaos echoes...

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While I was sleeping,
The stars went into hiding,
And clouds have covered my song.
Yes, the dark night has been awfully long,
And as anticipation plagues me, it's...

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** Music Within **

Remarkably…
     	Oh, do!  Please!
				  Begin the music

For my inner empty places —
    Such...

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Mythica wishes me to curse her
might she tell the tale of our
troubles to find make script for the 
fools of Olympus. She then shall
become pregant...

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Take the morning and wring it
with calloused hands 
to see what drips
from the bloat of its beginnings,
a splash of light to give
gleam to a memory...

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Flames

Love is full of moments, 
that are truly intense. 
They have passion, 
and fervor
to be kept, 
for later... 
when the fires dim, 
or even go...

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Staying in the bed today
Not getting up at all
Except to get accoutrements
Or answer nature's call

It's not that I'm running 
From life
No cover pulled
Over my head

The...

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I
Wet sky, I
Must greet morning
Rewards my eye
Flying beings swarming


II
Birds, bats, locusts?
Suddenly swarms sundered -
Sundered by Comorants
Usual places wet
None for drying
Winged variety morning
Commuting to feed
As employees...

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Like the early morning mists 
That rise from the waters’ depths
Memories emerge in swirls and twists
Foggy shadows of lives past 
Of them all, childhood scenes...

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I walked with him to the stable this morning,
And watched him soothe the cows awaiting
The barnyard coming alive with the sounds
Of animals in the morning...

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You remember in photographs, usually
And my keys, wallet, phone are not in safe places 
My mismatched socks festoon the living room 
And snuggle in next...

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My summer garden revealed gay pansies with faces,
As the scarlet tanagers flew roundabout singing.
A rapt audience, the flowers beamed in all places,
In the hour that...

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