The Last Organ Grinder
...The silence stream cascades in the alien alley,
sonata of stillness resonates in the concrete,
dances with the music of the barrel organ,
his weathered calloused fingers produce.
The nostalgic ...
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Categories:
unwalked, music,
Form: Free verse
I Let It Slip Away
...I let it slip away beyond my perceptive reach,
like the dislodged grain of the memory sand.
The dragging ebb of discontent carried it far
into the dismal depth of somber sea of oblivion.
The s...
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Categories:
unwalked, analogy, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Mirage
...The allured mind roaming restive
in the searing desert engulfing,
seethes in the pensive pores
of the swirling sands desolate.
The drops of sanguine sense desiccate,
the dust of desire swir...
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Categories:
unwalked, analogy, desire, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
General Delivery
...The road taken,
a path unwalked,
direction unto fate
A choice is made,
the debt unpaid
—redemption coming late
(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)...
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Categories:
unwalked, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Melody of Solitude
...Surging stream meanders in the carved valley
Concert of murmur cascades melody on sculpted rock
I place my ears on the ripples of the whistling air
but the sound of music flies past me unpereived....
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Categories:
unwalked, analogy, desire, loneliness, longing,
Form: Free verse
A Poet of Purpose
...Feeling the touch of emotion, the beginning,
finding the meaning of emotion, the end.
As they were superposed at the edge of my twilight time,
my mind started to sink at sunset, unexpressed.
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Categories:
unwalked, passion, poets,
Form: Free verse
Across Topography of My Changed World
...The day my life went haywire
I saw the storm clouds rush
and cluster from nowhere.
The skeleton of the sunny sky
tumbled down instantly devastated
in the debris of despair,
where the wounded ...
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Categories:
unwalked, anxiety, life, sad, sick,
Form: Free verse
Father
...Once you had arms
that held me so tight
Once you had legs
that stood up for right
Once you had eyes
that could see in the dark
Once your strong hands
plotted courses to chart
Once we ...
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Categories:
unwalked, father,
Form: Rhyme
Becoming a Poet
...The feeling of emotion, the beginning,
the meaning of emotion, the end.
When these crossed at the edge of my twilight time
my mind started to sink at sunset, unexpressed.
After the futi...
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Categories:
unwalked, confusion, life, poets,
Form: Free verse
Resonating Soul Sos
...Multi-channel stream meanders in the carved valley,
concert of murmur cascades melody on sculpted rock.
I place my ears on the flow of the whistling air,
but the sound of music flies past me unhea...
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Categories:
unwalked, imagery, music, people, silence,
Form: Free verse
Trailing Closer
...Those footsteps ahead
are now footsteps behind
The past but a memory
the future declines
My cadence is slowing
my direction unclear
When frozen in place
on the wind I can hear
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Categories:
unwalked, time,
Form: Rhyme
This Poem Is a Cut
...Away, Melancholia
rhymless
life striken root
Away, Melancholia
you
dandelion sun
terrace shadow
want of want
Melancholia,
gateless fable
withheld of word
of that unwalked path
Mela...
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Categories:
unwalked, november,
Form: Free verse
Not E'En Footsteps of Angels
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The footbridge stood
Far deep within the wood
Moonlight on stone
Gave forth a ghostly glow
The stones shone white
As bleached bone might
Hard and dark
As the eye of a crow
The ov...
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Categories:
unwalked, dark, evil, lonely, night,
Form: Dramatic Verse
These Eyes Have Often Been Solaced Ii
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These eyes have often been solaced by purple hues of twilight dust
moving silently over my life ,Sprinkling pure bliss from an edgeless painter's sky
These eyes have been solace...
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Categories:
unwalked, absence,
Form: Free verse
When Night Arrives
...When night arrives my body shivers with pain
My feet curl up with the cold that travels from my toes to my spinal cord
My stomach makes weird noises that are cause by the emptiness
Hungry for h...
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Categories:
unwalked, absence, loneliness, suicide,
Form: Lyric
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