Short Unscheduled Poems

Clouded fear
Strongest emotions
Darkest addictions
Relentless thoughts
Restless nights
Unforgiven sins
Haunting past
Unscheduled future
Inconceivable thoughts
Unimaginable regrets
That’s my life in brief....

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She rode on the back of a cyclone’s tail.
We did not put it together until years later.
I am sure she was standing 
Probably did not fall once, knowing her.
She left on the back of Hailey’s Comet,
The only one who saw it, as it was completely unscheduled....

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Had they left this trail of words
Leading to a shadow
Concealing a mystery
As a challenge
Perhaps
A map-less guide
To an unknown horizon
Peeking over a surprised sunrise
Maybe an invitation
To an unscheduled celebration
A moment of awakening
Dancing atop a pointed moon
Awash in a midnight surf
A wrinkled paper
Scribbled upon
By life.
...

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AND THEN IT HAPPENED - Part 2

Through the open elevator door
Walked a lady with looks galore
I decided to see which floor she'd take
And not appear obvious, for goodness sake

She punched the button for the Penthouse Suite
My mind raced at this unscheduled meet
The elevator stopped and to my surprise
She turned and looked deep into my eyes

And then it happened . . . ....

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Summer’s almost over - that convalescent state
where successive modes of pleasure
were the order of the day.
Now fall commands awakening -
drive simplicity away! The hounds
of hell are yelping that it’s time to banish play.
They cry “forget unscheduled hours 
that owned no share of care - the virtual halls
are scheduled and we’ll soon see you there.”
No apotropaic magic can delay my slated fate - 
to pixelated halls of learning I must soon acclimate....

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