Childhood Wave Poems

Trauma stained 
my innocence, 
before I knew 
that the sunless 
sky lost its glory
to doomed darkness,
an empathetic gaze
which roamed beneath my 
saffron skin, 
an ungodly...

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I remember where the sidewalk ended
Next to where the old fan palm grew
That waved its many hands at me
As I walked home from school each...

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WAVE  OF  FANTASY 


     Me to ripple on wave of fantasy 
     Dreamy desires sparkling...

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My volatile mind wanders in fanciful emptiness, 
floats on the flotilla of sunburst cloud’s recess, 
makes a fascinating painting of formless fantasy 
on the blank...

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I am very small,                     ...

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A
prayer
I
say for
you today.
I pray
for
your health
peacefulness
angels to watch
over you.
My love
I
give you.
May God be
with you
each
waking
day.


Date Written: 6/13/2021

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The Seashore Gathering
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge.
The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters...

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Nightingales, a pair, dueting,
A pair, dueting, dueting.
Music, beauty, unrelenting.
Music, true love it stirred.

They sang with passion, true love flared,
Old true love, true love, true love...

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A Christmas Waltz Wave

     A
Candy
  Cain,
    
    along
with Apples
and sweet
sweet    ...

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The world is full of cold hearts
Being bold is not a suggestion told.
The road is in a mood, with a crude little boat.
The float in...

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inhuman torture
in a beautician's chair
willingly self-inflicted
hopeful of the outcome

childhood dismay
hair curled on rollers
hooked by wires
to monstrous machine
relentless weight

aftershock 
embarrassment
head cap of electric frizz
fright wig extraordinaire
Li'l...

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Heat Wave

   Hot
   Everybody's
   At
   Temperature
 
   We
   Are
   Very
 ...

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If I could wave a magic wand and make a fantasy week,
I would rent some cabins in the wilderness near a tourist town.
And fill each...

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Heat from  the pavement
Rises in shimmering waves
Torrid  summer day 

Looking for relief
Fire hydrants gush cooling spray
City children play...

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Like some Dantean punishment
It descended in mid-May,
And turned my favorite springtime month
Into an endurance test.

We fell to sleep beneath a tide of heat
And rose to...

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