Short Unsheltered Poems

Park bench dreaming
turns my gray skies Blue
until  I'm night stick awakened....

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I write from a place 
  that’s old, endowed

With brass left tarnished 
  and cobwebs spun

All time unsheltered, 
  where thoughts conceive

The truth reborn,
—and spirit runs

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Angry Birds
Crowing. Distressed Echoes
Find God. Hapless, Infernal January. Karma 
Levels. Mangroves Neutralized. Ornithological 
Panic. Questions. Razed, Sawdustted Toyon. 
Unsheltered. Vaporizing Wildfires X-rated. Yowlers
Zapped!
...

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We walked this mile
for calm to stay
This drying tear is a gift
we cannot claim

We tug at thoughts
of painful moments now deleted
This place we craved unsheltered
is now our home

All love now endures
And feeble compassion dies
Our selves retain the goodness we kept
This place restores the hope we had...

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Tall yet scrawny,
Contrition attempts to 
Force its way through.

In this small window
Breed opportunity but of
An unknown flavor.

Goog-a-lee eyes always
Scrupulous and indeed
Tempting perhaps for
Once ignorable? 

Unsheltered of course 
Two wills in opposite
Directions cannot
Demand wholeness.

________________________
More works at alexfalls.com...

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Still we hold a colour at our watchful eye,
a voice in our attentive ear.
We escape nothing from our mystifying past.

Perhaps we sing a song, old or new,
feel dark or light against a so unsheltered face.
In ears a voice remains.

In an eye resides the face of a loved one.
Colour, voice, songs will never leave one's life,
though one stands before that loved one's grave.


(Aug 2022)...

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Building my walls
Using the same bricks
I said I’d use

Flat, hard, and strong
This wall could last long
If I could but leave it alone

The color beginning to wear
The edges have bruised and broken
The fresh faced start
Reduced to regretful sighs

What of the wall?
Mortar and blood mixed to hold

Do I dare try a different stone?
Knowing that I may never come back
To this wall
Unable to build
Unsheltered alone....

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Hearts naive
In clouds
Of her masquerading sun

That’s when
A pocketful of innocence 
Spills into the rain, so numb

And the warmth
Of Love fantasy
Mingles with reality and its coming flood

Caught ever suddenly
Unsheltered
In the down pour of rejected love

Lost like...
Oil swirled rainbows
Drained through life’s gutters of emotional mud

And I wait, and wait
For the cold stinging pain
That never too soon will dry and just be done...

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Solace lacks in the crimson night
Diabolical vindictiveness lessens the light
Drink up your absinthe and feed on unsheltered prey
Not to walk beneath unmarked shadows at day
Fearing the loneliness consuming your soul
As well, blood sinfully shed for sense of control
Courting dread mentally within your being
And loosing sight in what you are seeing
The corpse of the earth keeps proposition in sight
When you are walking alone in the dead of the night...

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screaming wind
crosses wires
transformers boom
sticks in the rain
spewing sparks
hissing 
sizzling
vomiting
smoke and steam
trees topple
creeks overflow
rivers rage
we beg for it
and it comes
atmospheric rivers of it
bomb cyclones of it
avalanches of it
tornadoes of it
acute hemorrhaging 
extreme
as the 9 
and 
the 5
our politics
our culture
flaming hot cheeto
apocalypse
pray for 
the unsheltered
the strays
all victims
caught in the storm...

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