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August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...

Palimpsest of Love

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Written: August 05, 2025, for contest Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest / Sponsor- Mark Toney

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As it rises shakily, the aurora radiates,
 Shore gets ba...

On the Summer Fields

...I’ve been walking for a mile
The woman stalking me has been sniffing for a while
She has become my second shadow
I hope I am not the source of her sorrow.

I quicken my steps on the quagmire of ...

What Makes Me Smile

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Greeted by the sound of the ocean all sadness eases away 
as I skim the surface of a smile, I suddenly make headway
Showered by rainfalls I am filled with the scent of petrichor  
I smile, at ...

Summer At a Riverbank

...Summer arrives in golden light,
Mountains shed their snowy white.
The river moves with joyful gleam,
Shining bright in the sun’s beam.

Through rocky beds, she winds with ease,
Nourishing earth...

Back Yard

...Back Yard
 Just sitting on my back porch.
 In my back-yard.
 Looking into the sky.
 No worries.
 Keep things simple.
 Take it easy today and tomorrow.
 Live alone.
 That’s the way it goes.
 ...

As we metamorphose

...Trust your imagination, dream, believe,
Take my hand,
I'll show you land,
that you cannot perceive.

Join me as we take a ride,
Not across the planet, but inside,
Each creature, plant and ston...

On the River

...Morning, the river belongs to the geese
Who congregate on the bank
Poke about in the grass
Run, take flight, and land on the water
Heave their wings to skim the surface
Noisy and honking, splash...

Wind Binder

...Wind Binder
First plane to fly 1903.
A flying machine.
Made from the Wright Brothers.
Take flight through the air.
Glide through the horizon.
What an amazing feeling.
Transport here and there....

Sailors' Souls

...Solitary seafarer sings sea chanties,
salty sea breeze serenity,
sea birds skim waves,
suddenly, so many sailors' souls
of the sunken WW II ship USS Indianapolis
started singing sonorous,
soari...

Boring Life

...Buy orange juice. 
It’s on the list. 
There’s nothing like it. 
Nothing. Nothing. Nothing at all. 

Buy milk. 
There’s two percent. 
Whole milk. 
Doesn’t fill the void. 
Doesn’t make me less...

Deprived of your love

...Like a raging river barreling toward an arid basin,  
sediment collects inside a hardening heart.  
Weighing heavy, eyelids flutter over drowning maculas;  
all that can be seen are murky ript...

ECHOES OF THE LAKE

...Trumpet-like lilies by the lake
preen for the flamboyant flamingo,
sifting through the murky waters,
searching for algae and shrimp
where crawdads click and clatter.

While silvery fish glide s...

How to Hunt Love

...Throw an arrow, remember to sharpen it before it reaches it's end target 
Who is naïve enough to cross your parameters of closeness 
Capture this person whose mere sight you adore 
Aim at their le...

Memories In A Frozen Mist

...You are locked away in a frozen mist
Your hand once warm upon my knee, my phantom limb—
the sky atop your shoulders I kissed.

You were never a man who balled your fist
Instead, your eyes had gu...

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