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...This day
in the deep country, the sky it is high, blue, and vertical,
with no hand holds, nor anything for the eye to cling to.
In the city we don't get 'big sky, we get pencil thin ray...
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Categories:
viewless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hemmed In
...The sky has climbed over
its usual low cloud cover,
today it is high, blue and vertical
with no hand holds,
those places for the eye to cling to.
In the city we don't get 'big sky'
we get pen...
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Categories:
viewless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
On Youth, Love, and the Muse
...I.
What delight is there, when the wine of youth
runs out and just the dregs of life remain?
When childhood flowers, and love's fire becomes truth,
the lusts of adolescence touch the ...
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Categories:
viewless, childhood, desire, love, lust,
Form: Lyric
Matinee On the Bounty
...BEYOND THE MILK OF HERA PAST THE HEAVEN'S VERTEBRAE
THE STARS BLINK GLEAMING SAGAS, IN THE DAWN THEY FADE AWAY
MY SHIP MAKES AN INCISION IN EVERY THING THEY SAY
THE SEA WEARS LIKE A SILKY DRESS ...
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Categories:
viewless, boat, mythology, sea, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Eyes That Quest
...Man's eyes see what is visible,
not the things that are viewless;
Alluring lakes and rivers
overflow with water of gladness.
Tired eyes though don't enjoy
the beauty and wonder in sight;
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Categories:
viewless, hope,
Form: Verse
Moonstruck
...MOONSTRUCK
Her bright face perfect here floating
Always thru the window darkling
Face to face like true friend would
My troubles by her understood
Around me constantly, un...
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Categories:
viewless, me,
Form: Quintilla
A Man Carrying His Cross
...O Dear Lord! I`m real bushed
to bear my shabby cross.
It is so hard an` I`m collapsed,
legs sinking under loss.
I close my eyes and have a scene:
a flock of men on a road. ...
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Categories:
viewless, faith, power,
Form: Rhyme
E=mc2
...What a region to inhabit for a lifelong.
Language of numbers in the distance of superior,
And just a little lower than Viewless Pasadise.
Numbering stars of measureless,
With symbol majuscule si...
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Categories:
viewless, art, hope, imagination, science,
Form: I do not know?