Short Unpinned Poems

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Grandma sits outside
Sun cast glows on long tendrils
I watch from doorway
Unpinned tresses flowing loose
Past beauty remembered still
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Bearings lost, just like that, dark---can't see
  
  Tide's pulse doth quicken...

    Moorings unpinned, in a flash---at sea

Reaching / stretching / clawing / panic-stricken 

   Tide's pulse doth quicken......

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As the rain poured down 
On the solemn town
You could hear the cries of the wind
As the knell unpinned
For a vehicle in all black 
And a family of no luck
Were stationed near a grave
And as the knell rang one last time...

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THE LIGHT

The constellations unchanging shape the night
Constant in our sight

But in cosmic time stars whirl as leaves in wind
Random flux unpinned

So are all the schemes of men, kings or magi
Mere ephemerae?

The question: matter or spirit, gives me pause
Which one is the cause?

The constellations unchangIng shape the night
But without our sight 
What meaning has ‘the light’?

20 November 2018...

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She said,
love gives us wings
therefore lover,
we belong to the heavens...

Let us abandon
this frozen world
and fix ourselves
among the ceaseless blue stars...

Higher and higher
into the sky
you and I
will eternally fly...

Let us not
come too close to the sun
we may burn the tips of our wings
stay and be safe with me...

For in your eyes
is a burning sun
within you I find the end of space
and my wings are unpinned...
~ ~ ~...

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Unrushed  my  heart,  an   autumn's   wind,  runs 
east of the willow, east of the me, I left at home, 
for     now     I      am      the      cotoneaster,    the 
codlin-and-cream,   the   centuries   of    song   I
should wish mine own  heart  to  know, so long,
before, have I been here,
                                               unpinned, my hair,                                                              
so my heart, so - unrushed.
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