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Because I Would Not Stop for Death: A Homage to Emily Dickinson

...after Because I could not stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson

Because I would not stop for Death,
he kindly stopped for me.
A wilted bouquet in one hand—
a reminder of life's mortality....

Sympathies

...
Forget about it
Don’t think about it
It’s not important 
Put it out of your mind

Things I have been told

Advice for the lovelorn
The bereaved
The broken hearted
The lonely

Your love ...

The Pied Piperess

...Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet

Once upon a time,  there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat
Beknownst to all...

Broadway's shut down

...Cannot sense the time
There's no need to report
And nothing's left to find
For the days are now too short
No one did remain
To see the final act
The author went insane
When his Face book page ...

Moon Sighs

...Catching Moon Sighs

 
From time to time
as clouds pass
     — those  plumpted puffs — 
               touring  by 
…Out 
      from behind them
  a
  Night’s  lit
               Blink!
 ...

Of Mice and Men

...I am a mouse, catatonic with fear;
just trying to stay still and silent,
to survive.

Batted about by an indifferent cat;
for him a lazy afternoon,
for me an aching lifetime.

It has no idea ...

You Can Always Have My Sympathy

...Such a pity you can’t be happy any longer than a day.
You have my sympathies, for the sadness you never say.
You have every right to speak rather than lock your feelings away....

Ghosts

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Trapped beneath the surface of the ice again
Nothing I say will penetrate the thick crust of permafrost
That has surrounded and enveloped me.
Sympathies of my confidants have been exhausted
A w...

Mike Parke Eulogy 2011

...It is with great sadness we say goodbye.
To a truly smashing real good guy.
His name is Mike Parke who was our boss
The whole of 202 now feel lost.

He leaves behind his good lady.
The one we k...

Free

...Uncaptured sympathies 
From the lost departed 
No turning back 
All plans are thwarted 
Revelations and tears
Washed away with the rain 
Forgotten tragedies 
Unspoken in vain 
Here I am a cas...

Garden of a Wounded Soul

...
Like an ebony rose in a province 
of ivory and golden flowers,
you poisoned each peaceful petal
with your senseless scent of death.

You were never just another floret.
Was I a fool to sow yo...

Learning when how to close seat then

...Learning when/how to close seat then...
flush... the toilet with good frisson!

Bull leave me you, though how bison
teen and juvenile 
from a sixty four year old
married male no less!

(alter...

A Poem For My Mother

...Every small sore is numbing pain 
As if morning can't see the rain 
Every small touch on your light skin 
Makes the world like it stops to spin 

Teardrops can't mend your heart's sorrow 
As if...

Forgotten Entity

...
I'm breathing like the sun in black horizons,
but internal embers burn in invisible ignorance.

Tired from being constantly raped by life,
I've become ashamed of veiled emotions,
confused betw...

Aftermath In the Garden

...


                  Orb pulsates above a secret door,
proudly beaming about the find,
skitters to and fro as if to etch the coordinates into
a celebration of the surrounding nearby.
Of the pl...

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