Dark Sijo Poems

Inviting him for a meeting at our Rosebank Park.
Sitting together on a once marked bench, even after dark.
Trying to reignite and relight that spiritual spark....

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Nocturnal melodies flow up through the oaks, birch and pines
Hues of joy pour over melancholy of a dark foreboding
Music lingers on the heart who knows...

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In the salty air of twilight, I watch the palm trees sway.
The red and yellow colors lay so soft on the sky's horizon.
The sea is...

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                The cold winter suffocates the world with its icy...

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The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted.
In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth.
Writes a future living...

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In passing, hearts risk their very essence, their colors, their breathe,
Love who touched the soul, then moved on, toward heaven’s hungry light,
Souls soon reflect the...

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Hail, the doorway keen on the known world ... theme wails attention,
time of roses' blooms cower ... usurped magentas, aloof maroons,
for the flight of the...

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Once the green land of morning calm and high serenity
Soon waved the blood red flag, stained with the false words “We will soon be free”
Now...

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I feel there’s but the edge of a cloud stalling my blue sky
   The remnants of a dark and thunderous shadow on my...

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Make sure to ignite the lantern candle and light it well,
For you will need this same lantern as you pave your way through hell.
Use your...

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Accidentally smoking some small pieces of acrylic 
Sure my most recent circumstances are not idyllic
But I've heard people who've gone mad end up becoming historic....

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There's a burst of mellow sunshine, the hour of my return
after many nights, dark and sable, spent in longing for my home
Bees buzz in the...

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Dramatic moon glows high above the emerald mountains
Shimmering dreams of celestial romance fade to soft sparkles
Pierces the darkness in glorious rays of hopeful beams

Starlight whispers...

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Crisp grasses reflect ghost-white;
Ethereal shafts of moonlight.
Tenebrous shifting shadows;
Declivity of dolerite rows.
A lonely spirit roams freely — 
A fresh headstone in the lee.

POET'S NOTE
When written...

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Subtle beak peeks, blowing through a reef’s ostentatiousness
Emerging from dark impervious depths, the need to breathe
Adept adaptation caught between the blues and greens of aqua...

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