Dark Waking Poems

“Upon Waking”


Slumber has its upsides 
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard, 
cacophonous 
pecking at each other 
and at the ground…

Elsewhere, 

like dull background...

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Heyyyyyyy!!! Oh my god it’s you!!!
Come over here and give me a hug
Let me buy you a drink 
Take off your boots and stay a...

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The dark of night when turns to day, 
Slowly when stars begin to blur 
And birds, barely from sleep bestir, 
Older by day, greyer than...

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unconscionable - how precious life is
under wraps in a dark web
surrounded by silk lies...

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Dew slips down the gentle leaf,
Unburdened by the sunlight’s reflecting
Grace over the mountains, misty
With remembrance, beautiful like the burning
Wonder of a painting, only these colors
Can’t...

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even though
my eyes are
open there
is only dark
ness yet

in the quiet
ude my ears
sense and then
hear a familiar
though my 

Indian spirit in 
lore is a deer 
i...

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White flakes of snow float down on to the ground,
they make the earth look so fresh, clean and bright.
Flakes twirl as they fall, they don't...

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A Waking Dream

She wasn’t perfect
none of us are
her face was lined with
experience and comfort
crows feet at her eyes
laugh lines in her smile
dark hair flecked with...

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In endless moments waking

Alone she sits at twilight
to dream of shimmered lace
While staring at the moonlight
reflecting on her face

The winds of change are brewing
through evergreens...

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Dramatically the door burst open!
It was as bright as day.
May I step out of this this dark space?

I have enclosed myself within. 
I have always...

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Sylvia writes, “I have the choice,”
And her words gut me like
An overeager pubescent student
With a scalpel and tweezers.
I feel the same as she.  I,...

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Dreams, Battles and Waking To Rejoice


Times that my mind wakes to take flight
flying away in spheres of magical dreams
So often are near hour of black...

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Stigmatized.
A drone kills a dove.
An aphrodisiac ?

Bashing the ground,
cajoling the sky.
Trapped in bed,

coupling in amber.
You want to rein in
moon, for a shout ?

And weather had...

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In the dream my nightmare strikes,
With human faces like zombies,
Hairy and teeth like vampires,  
Deep in the jungle beneath the caves.
I tried to run...

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Whispers all around me, but I don't see a soul
Feelings of dread and regret consumes my being
Is there some dark spirit around that I'm not...

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