Lost Swan Poems

She trawled the woods to find her lost heart 
Out of view and hidden deep underground 
Still beating, wrapped in muddied cloth 
The Queen was...

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud."
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I saw you …

high …
atop the promontory
spinning with manic madness
pirouettes et fouetté
lost in yourself -
in movement …
your upper back split, low
and, I swear -
feathers …...

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The crickets
In perfect harmony with the frogs
Serenade Bachianas outside our window
Inspiring the candle to a seductive dance.
Tempted by the candle’s charm
Your hands shape into a...

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I want to entertain the virus
and make it's stay seem wrong.
When acts of death for everyone
are playing for too long.

And all the times we take...

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Every year from spring through fall, if you peered between the cattails you could see the swans in the center of the pond, head to...

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Vows were spoken, promises made
The words seemed so sincere, 
but slowly through the years
The love turned into tears

We had it all here in our hands...

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Has someone cursed our love
or cast a malevolent spell?
Why do the heavens envy our love
and wish us unwell?
The union of our two worlds--
My realm of...

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My Love, lest I grow weary of the wait
And get entangled in a web of hate,
My longing’s driving me swooning insane
My cruel maiden! Save me...

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Day Time

Dingy, pale bedroom flat becomes
All to clear in focus displaying
The dragon residue and empty
Bottles of past woes.  Supple body
Posed, framed with blankets, shudders,
Moves,contemplates...

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(after Charles Baudelaire)

It’s not the same.  I noticed it today,
while dodging Rond-Point carriages.
I’m not the sort who mindlessly disparages
whatever’s new, but Haussman’s swept away

the...

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Beneath a starlit sky
of an early tranquil night
A solo pianist sits
in the middle of a quiet valley

A lost swan,waddles by
in a forbidden lake
Seeking reflections
as moonbeams...

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Swan Song
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I have thought, said this before !!!
It is time to let go, close that door !!!
Reminisce no longer, think of Her no more !!!

All...

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Dejaste una cicatriz en mi corazón
Eres de mis sueños la desolación 
Con tus recuerdos me tormentas
Que son enraizados en mi pecho como saetas.
Te amaré perennemente
con...

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Lovelorn;
My love,
Breaking my heart,
Left me forever to
mourn.
Forlorn;
I Lament,
Singing the blues,
My pining heart pleads:
Return!


Dr. Ram Mehta's "Longing" contest....

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