Short Insular Poems

covid mutates dividing earth ~ insular denial seeds rebirth 


By 
David Kavanagh...

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In insular cocoons
      lie sleepy heads curled

    Can a deluge of death
      rouse a somnolent world...

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Miniature Edens. Regularly insular
but small hopes can't be
everything in poverty.
Big brains flee from atrophy....

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 When the stars align
'tis then the magic unfurls
Prophetic moment
Insular earthlings challenged
Their narrow vision enhanced....

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A laughing boy
he was our own
our one and only own child
so beloved
so serious a child so easily traumatized
so insular and difficult
so beloved
his mother
different and difficult herself
brought him forward
into crazy
and left him....

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THE HALCYON TIME

Dust of twilight hour 
Settles on insular life
Introspection time.

In days of sunshine
You melted in my shadow
My halcyon time.

You hold my hands now
Support remaining journey
Embrace till time ends.

May 21, 2018....

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Isolated,insular, I
Forlorn,help,help my cry.
Desolate,deserted,decrepit
Almost ready to die
Isolated,insular, I
Tired and timid
Heart frozen and frigid
A sigh of me,mine & my
Isolated,insular,I
Looking in ,not out
Within and not about;
Help,help,help ..my cry
Isolated,insular,I...

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(Dedicated to Toni Marie Labadie.)

A little Tahiti
in our hearts abides
where you and I
love through the tides

Wherever we go
it's always there
under weeping willow
above solar flare

Yes, life is simpler
when I keep this in view:
My troubles aren't insular
My peace is from you...

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Many are insular beings,
attending to egocentric desires.
Strolling on the beach of life.
Footprints washed away.

Some leave prints,
that record their lives,
as if walking on fresh concrete.
Steps of sacrifice, goodness 
and compassion for others 
as if, they were their own.
Footprints remain....

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There are two sides to a coin

First toss

Masterful
Ingenious
Decisive
Discerning 
Liberal
Enterprising

Cautious
Lithe
Astute
Suave
Sensitive

Time to flip to the other side 

Muted
Insular
Disdainful
Dubious
Lacking
Envious

Covetous
Lumbering
Artful
Selfish
Shallow

It all depends on how you view it...

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Solid in star-burst 
and harbored connection
to mind and to matter 
and all things alight

Glass idea shattered
in wrought conversation
impending on tips
of the top of the night

Platinum moon shine
and sing along star songs
to whisk me in circles
'till lucidly spun

Blowing the evening
in wrought conversation
alone in the world
unmistakably one....

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OPENING THE MIND'S PETALS

Smoldering life spreads suffocating smoke all over
Clouds the insular mind in pessimistic opacity,
Beauty unseen beyond the myopic vision unclear
Deforms in mind defined by contours of negativity.
From the depth of depression it’s time I recover
The sunk values of life, appreciate their sanctity.
It’s time I leave desolate psychic landscape behind
In flowers of a new garden I open petals of my mind.

April 14, 2018....

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