Short Storied Poems

Along its carved, storied history
Winds a river eroding with time
Leaving behind unforgotten trails
Once ago, peacefully flowing by...

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Nature

Appears as

Everything..

There's

No end to

Everything..

Not one

Or many

Things..

No thing

At all..

Nature's

Storied

Beauty......

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The storied "I"

Is the I

The only I

And cannot be known..

Yet life seems to be

Attempt after attempt

To find a hint of truth

About the storied I...
...

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Gaps

And fences are

Storied to

Make wholeness

All good and

Perfect..

Overlooking the

Immediacy of

Wholeness as

Not two..

Giving way to

Judgement and

Compassion as

Architects of

Wholeness..

Well..?...

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East of Eden

The storied start

Of the dream of

Separation..

And the desired

Return to Eden

With many a

Search on paths

All leading nowhere..

And of course

The parting joke

Eden is nowhere

And everywhere...

...

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Clean and minty
Plump pink or receding
Capped, implanted, or real
A whistle through gaps
Metal brackets and stretchy rubber bands
Drool on a white cotton pillow case in the dead of night
Twitchy lies and storied gossip, save, 
For a fly does not enter a closed mouth....

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Two storied teams
Creme-de-la-creme
  Yet one has to lose
  To sing the blues
Tear-stained its dreams



______________________
University of North Carolina
nipped Duke University in a 
game for the ages tonight,
81-77, and goes on to play
Kansas for the national
championship Monday night....

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Shallow sands spill,
Sharp like silver.
Several strong soldiers stand
Sequentially like steel.
Suffer so short like strangers.
So soon , so shallow, so still.
Sorry standards slyly stroke;
Send six, seven sterling swans,
Seamless, storied, swallowed.
Seas sail sanctimoniously
Severed like the war itself....

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The former MVP pawned his very last ring
    like the others, it had begun to sting
  Bittersweet memories of his storied swing
    that for a decade had made him King

  He'd hit home runs in every park
    high-arcing 'rainbows' his pet trademark
  Now resting quietly in a subway dark
    he rattles his cup, his rags pock-marked...

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The lord's page held my finger
Swift memory stole the pause
Here I’ll sit and so long linger 
Again I’ll wonder who he was

Moved as if by angelic wand
To soles and autumn leaves
Carried back to Walden’s pond
Amongst observant trees

It’s there I held his hand
And wondered what might be
As we walked that storied land
How does he remember me...

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Unwavering purple valor
Keenly aware of surrounding
Bent on hell, death before dishonor
Full on heart, strength, astounding

Men of honor these eternal,
Death the infernal obstacle
Alone in field, no burial
Fit to honor this spectacle

So honor them, they the warriors
Who give it all for the wounded
Gave it all for the storied wars
Immortal, they, the Amaranthine....

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The textured page holds my finger
Swift memory steals the pause
Here I’ll sit and so long linger 
Again, I’ll wonder who she was

Moved as if by a magic wand
To soles and autumn leaves
Carried back to Walden’s pond
Amongst observant trees

Its here I held her young hand
And wondered what might be
There we walked the storied land
Now how does she remember me...

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I never angled for a laugh
for being known as bickerstaffe,
an English clan devoid of fame,
an ordinary family name.

I mused, then through the ages cast
in hopes to find a storied past
and found my folks had expertise
in cultivating honey-bees. 

I prize my humble pedigree
and praise the noble honey-bee
for all the sweetness that it brings
if I can just avoid those stings!...

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Galleons, uncharted oceans,
honest merchantmen take heed,
hijacked by the vile and shameless,
paradigms of pirate greed.

Storied legends blaze through ages,
rape and pillage mark the sway 
of buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

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Fractals

And the non duality message..

Nothing is everything

Is the general formula

In which nothing and

Everything are the same.. 

Sameness iterates as

Similar differences

..which might

Appear in literature

And science or in 

Those cloud patterns..

Iterated stories appearing as

Fractals..chips off the

Storied formula..and

Not even that......

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True
Golden
Is the light given to write
The words that lovingly depart
Gleaned from the collection of moments
Watching the dance of life on a limitless silent stage
While the multitude of days fold in-between
A ream of poems on blank paper sheets
Rehearsing years of storied elegies
That churn and spill upon a new
Light of understanding
Recounting hope
Enlightenment
Wisdom
Love...

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Never angling for a laugh
I call myself just 'bickerstaffe;'
an English clan devoid of fame,
a plain and simple family name.

I mused, then through the ages cast
in hopes to find a storied past
to find my folk had expertise
in cultivating honey-bees. 

I prize my humble pedigree
and praise the noble honey-bee
for all the sweetness that it brings
if I can just avoid those stings!...

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Never angling for a laugh
I call myself just 'bickerstaffe;'
an English clan devoid of fame,
a plain and simple family name.

I mused, then through the ages cast
in hopes to find a storied past
to find my folk had expertise
in cultivating honey-bees. 

I prize my humble pedigree
and praise the noble honey-bee
for all the sweetness that it brings
if I can just avoid those stings!...

Read More

Galleons, uncharted oceans,
honest merchantmen take heed,
hijacked by the vile and shameless,
paradigms of pirate greed.

Storied legends blaze through ages,
rape and pillage mark the sway 
of buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

Read More

Never angling for a laugh
I call myself just 'bickerstaffe;'
an English clan devoid of fame,
a plain and simple family name.

I mused, then through the ages cast
in hopes to find a storied past
to find my folk had expertise
in cultivating honey-bees. 

I prize my humble pedigree
and praise the noble honey-bee
for all the sweetness that it brings
(if I can just avoid those stings!)...

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Galleons on uncharted oceans,
paradigms of pirate greed,
hijackers both vile and shameless,
honest merchantmen take heed!

Storied legends blaze through history,
rape and pillage mark the sway of
buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

Read More

Galleons on uncharted oceans,
paradigms of pirate greed,
hijacked by the vile and shameless,
honest merchantmen take heed!

Storied legends blaze through history,
rape and pillage mark the sway of
buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

Read More

Galleons on uncharted oceans,
paradigms of pirate greed,
hijacked by the vile and shameless,
honest merchantmen take heed!

Storied legends blaze through history,
rape and pillage mark the sway of
buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

Read More

Galleons on uncharted oceans,
paradigms of pirate greed,
hijacked by the vile and shameless,
honest merchantmen take heed!

Storied legends blaze through history,
rape and pillage mark the sway of
buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

Read More

Galleons, uncharted oceans, 
honest merchantmen take heed, 
hijacked by the vile and shameless, 
paradigms of pirate greed. 

Storied legends blaze through ages, 
rape and pillage mark the sway 
of buccaneers hell bent on mayhem, 
cannons blast in fierce array. 

Without compassion for a compass, 
murderously resolute, 
they take no prisoners, show no mercy, 
sack the sea lanes, dissolute!...

Read More