Short Caldera Poems

Distance breeds new hope,
Time, a measure of being
a life without rest
relentless Love resisting
weakened, awakened in death.


David J. Caldera
04/13/08...

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Clothed in fraud,
his disguise supreme

Frightening listeners,
confusion schemed

His world inside,
a caldera waits

Armageddon trembling
—the hour late

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)...

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Pain Concealed,
deceived I feel
I rage silently
In this cage
which doesn't exist.

Eternal rest
No lifes' regrets

Death before 
blind hope,
no chance
for me left.

I feel.
Therefore,

Alive,  I rest.

David J. Caldera
03/23/08...

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Hollow red brick walls
surrounding open fences. 
Lost corridors to home
covering trenches.

A journey of 
the mind Leading 
me far away  
from life & out 
of existence.

Someday to
arrive & 
Understand
 why

Hearts cry,
souls die
trying 
todefine 
a love
twisted.


David J. Caldera...

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To know you, to feel your pain & hide myself
inside you again & again,
To walk with you, walk away from you,
where I'm beside myself, outside myself,
letting you just be you, letting you be, me...
Wanting to hold you, not control you
 mold you into what I know you could be..
Still I find myself, outside myself,
Watching you hide your self from me

David J. Caldera...

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Pre-received,  by some to be, 
A bit of a shallow fellow indeed.
I followed the swallows
down the road to 
San Juan Capistrano
In search of a better life for me.

Better a sight there,  did I see.
Appearing & leering angry unto me,  was he.
I didn't know, had never seen.
Not one to show fear
I glared back, with a sneer.
But looking closer, I did see here.  
It was only,
me in view,
 of me,
in a mirror.


David Caldera
03/24/08...

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Santorini, a stand out beauty, a splendor in the sea, a semicircular
Cycladic island in the Southern Aegean Sea with dramatic caldera
landscape so unique, crescent shaped, offering breathtaking views. 
The famous whitewashed homes, structures with some featuring
glowing blue domes, cliffs falling into the blue crystal clear waters
of Aegean Sea, spectacular sunsets of dazzling kaleidoscope of colors.
Sadly, located at a fault zone with tectonic activity causing tremors.   
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