Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
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“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”
Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows i...
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Categories:
unstill, muse,
Form: Narrative
Nightingale and Roses
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“Nightingale and Roses”
the heart burst open
like a canary cracks open its cage with a song
listening to the nightingale with roses
flying like a throatful soul escapi...
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Categories:
unstill, muse,
Form: Free verse
Something Beautiful
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“Something Beautiful”
Something beautiful befell my eyes
yet inside the silent child,
The Unheard, loudly cries
ugly turn away,
I hear it,
it cries in the m...
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Categories:
unstill, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Stillness of Silence
...For few days between the shaking and shattering of my consciousness,
The soft arms of Silence
Wrap around my aching torso
And pretend to soothe the ever-rapid
Battering of my heart.
In tho...
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Categories:
unstill, anger, bible, body, change,
Form: Free verse
Resurrection Machine
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In the purple shadows of the black's monoliths, where an ancient echo calls forth, at the blurry forge of "Ralkon Dis",
a salient dragon from mystery's petra cliffs drifts you off to a f...
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Categories:
unstill, art,
Form: Rhyme
Hunting The Hunter
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Moonlight shines on the lake,
The gentle ripples make it shimmer
in the eyes like slivers of silver,
Dancing on the unstill water surface.
In the chilly, late Autumn evening,
The cold...
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Categories:
unstill, dark, integrity, irony, literature,
Form: Free verse
Husnal Charag
...your beauty, hidden inside
can only be felt, or experienced
but not explained, in words, or otherwise
for it is perfect, pure, infinite
that illuminates the elements of my soul
in a mystic radia...
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Categories:
unstill, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Belles Lettres
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“belles lettres”
It’s a slow drifting
off, that moment
before you dive
into the dark
you surface
to find a boat
surrounded by
shining pearls,
Styx, a mirror...
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Categories:
unstill, dark, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Deep Sea Sky Blue
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"Deep Sea Sky Blue"
the contented life
rises and falls
bedded
the treasure chest
is touched briefly
inside a shell opens
constricted mind
of heart swallows
the be...
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Categories:
unstill, blue, muse, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Treat
...When the day prowls with fear
And dark, little less in pair,
The eyes, a shuttle for tears,
The heart, beating in pierce,
In nature's treat, I sought repel.
A subtle rythm of an unstill pour
Fl...
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Categories:
unstill, grief, imagery, nature,
Form: Sonnet
An Ordinary Story
...An ordinary story
Sometimes
So bitter
So bitter
Yet bound
And written together
Penned by you an me
Our great annuals
So heavy
So heavy
Of every wonderland
An' madness
We had dreamt...
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Categories:
unstill, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Casting Earth's Redemption
...I need you to sing
the straight white male lead
in Phantom of Our Opera
as a Catch-22 steed.
I don't sing with wit
and I won't dance without it.
If that's a no,
but hard for you to show,
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Categories:
unstill, fear, health, heartbreak, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
The Witch
...Behold!
A gaping black-
Curtains of a heaven, drawn
Set adrift
Across the wilt of the zodiac!
An’ so, she emerged
An’ madness dreamt into reality
A bow, to tether-
Then glide down hu...
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Categories:
unstill, death,
Form: Free verse
Reflection On An Aging Nomad
...I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
h...
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Categories:
unstill, age, health, integrity, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
Unstill
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Lullaby
I promise
A kiss so silent
It will fall with you
Insignificant, yet unstill
Down, down, into darkness
Beyond streetlights’ white islands
Its’ un-kept pyres an’ bro...
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Categories:
unstill, dark, deep, dream,
Form: Shape
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