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Jaw Harp Shape Poetry


      jaw harp
  listen to my voice
it is your voice that I breath through, though
your secrets are whispered but by my arouse
  speak my thought
      o sing me

A Peg of Wine

A peg of wine at night 
By nine lessens my
Pain and makes
Me sleep 
Until
E
A
R
L
Y
Sunshine.

You Stand Upon a Beautiful Mystery - Fibonacci Sequence

If the truth be told
do Fibonacci patterns puzzle
  like the sunflower seeds stumble
   or tiny fronds of ferns spiral
     into the golden ratio of the galaxy

     sparking forth a cardiac rhythm
   peaking with a ventricular stimulation
  a tricuspid valve squeezing swiftly
pumping life into collapsing lungs
flickering light into a newborn baby's eye

rainbow feathers twinkling through a shadowy sunrise
floating lustrous and lighter than air
  a robin's egg bluer than a Caribbean horizon
   waves humming the shore into a sandy trance
     as baby turtles swim towards a turquoise sea

     or sitting atop a sturdy branch
   overlooking a radiant redwood tree 
  yellow flowers demi-pointe their petals below her trunk
as tangling branches reach for a starlit sky
crickets sing a sonata to ambassadors of another age

how an opus of prismatic motion
tumbles below a swirling cloudy sky
  while miniscule concertos humming
   but a riddle rotating in an ebony abyss.


Shapes Dancing

                             the                            
            s h a p e         
               of        clouds          
                    spontaneous transformations             
                    caused by   wind and air    presure            
       f u n n y     f a c e s  
          a   n   i   m a   l   s       
      f r  o l i c k i  n g   
   pixies dancing
              racing across blue skies         
    random  shapes   trolls  with  holes  for  eyes
angels    blowing    kisses
or  are  they  devils  in  disguise
stacked or just whisps feathery lace
    tumbling          rolling
 channelling sunbeams
   rays          of light
they         say only 
shine on          the righteious      


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Another Crude Attempt At Shape Poetry

When hope in everything else is lost, 
that is when we look for miracles.
for hiding the ever flowing tears,
the thundering rain to drench. 
To overwhelm a broken soul, 
we wish for a wounded leg.
Train ourselves to smile,
at the face of trouble.
A wandering saint! 
from possession,           -Ravi
from emotions,
we walk away.
Not to own,
anything,
we sail.
faith!
lost
in 
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Premium Member Trick Or Treat? (Shape Poetry)

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                                                i could have been a pie
                                            but you turned me into a face
                                          with jagged teeth and evil eyes
                                        that makes /\  the  /\ children cry
                                        they scream     /\  as  they run by 
                                        afraid they might look in my eyes       
                                         and see the  devil  there and die
                                         but I'm just /\/\/\/\ a pumpkin
                                               in a Halloween disguise



                                                 Written October 1, 2009


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