Adventure Paradise Poems

Life is quite good
-indoors in Inwood.
It’s uptown Manhattan
at the northern tip
-the northern tip is
the tippity-top,
where the kitty cat 
Calvin loathes to stop 
-cat napping.
Curled in...

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Life on the windward side of our island,
at times, the tradewinds persuade downpour,
still, the sun light's gods and goddesses tanned.

Sailboats adrift, surfers thrill life ashore,
nightlife...

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Written 24 December 2023 
Placed 5th in :
No 1243 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand

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All night, all night came  shimmering light 

And lit all winding unseen ways
In clusters came there from the skies
The angels , elves and beauteous...

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The whistle blew, signalling the start of my journey,
 Aboard the train, my degree and future bright and blurry.
 3000 km to travel, 30 hours...

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Once upon a time a way to start called Paradise.
Where it was supposed to have the best time.
Far above or whatever, those beautiful gardens to...

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My beloved up down by the valley's low floor! Rise Up! My love rise up! My sweetheart come away take a look toward the door...

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Hot hot from the pot
The Earl of Grey
To start my day.
 
We sit and chatter
About this and that
Socrates and Plato
And things like that.
 
From a...

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From across the rainforest I stare: 
Women, with waterfalls for hair....

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Living in paradise
Oh! how lovely and nice
To take a world cruise
You and I together, we can't lose

Sandy beaches and radiant sun
Loving each other as one
Stranded...

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Where dares the pavilion stand? 
Some Sweet opium desires fire my dreams...

And vacant empires long loss, passing pyres rise 
High through ancient desires, they linger....

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First appreciable (healthy) snowfall 2022 occurred January 28th

Virgin whiteness blankets terrestrial realm
bajillion snowflakes tumble out of sky
atavistic fascination awakened
agog at ice crystals stinging each eye
while...

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From the pages of a strangers life
I note how the seas are searene
Coming upon the Gas Stations glowing lights 
There in the distance it sits...

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Mountainside laced with light
Carved of ice and snow.
Bubbling pools
Spanning wings
Scanning rocked plateaus.
Trees towering high
Chirps and chimes of tempo.
Reaching leaves
Gifting rays
Giving off to tomorrow....

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I stubbed my toe ...

  (I do this a lot since turning fifty-five,
   when everything I picked up to read began going...

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