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Fated

And so it goes. Seated, contemplative. A sudden cacophony abiding. Many floods ebb then flow; good/bad. Memories distilled, truth distorts. Folly found fair ‘gainst fear flames fanned. Shame ignorance opened, book bound veracity logged. Guardrails bent, bowed, betray. Step, then step again, mindlessly tumbling ‘cross lifescape willy, tilting nilly. Ramble shambles consequences unvetted. Year strategy unfolds unscripted. And then once more. The chronological avalanche swift recall swipes quickly to next. Where I have been, never again, yet reminiscent, always. Trails erased and failed anew. Aging days no longer brighter, burning coals dim to ash till heat demise.

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                erosion attitude
season’s grind edges away

saves stack each upon each

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A Goodbye Lie

Dark chocolate eyes bore into me,
Beseeching, brimming, tunneling for truth.
A single tear trails silently
Cascading o’er lifted cheekbones so
Perfectly angled they’re matchless
Throughout nature’s beauty scheme.
Exquisite, ethereal amber skin is
Glistened by a single path tracking south
Till brushed tentatively aside and away
With a deliciously delicate crook’d index finger. 
Adjusting focus with a bow, her upturned glance
Begs understanding, explanation.
Crimson lips, lavish in their trembling,
Part in silent query, “Why”?
Two years ten days no joy could compete. 
Renowned in circles select, discreet,
Our couple bid the daily world depart.
Sealing curtains leaked primal sun bright-strewn
‘cross comely sheets, fantasy games oft fulfilled. 
No doubt the future shined, out there.
Sparkling horizons, her urgent beckoning. 
Glacial azure eyes avert at this sight
Of flawless beauty marred by an unrequited
Inky threshold placed anew across
The spectrum of her charted dream.
Cooling cooing stills her tears momentarily, 
Hypocrite rising fresh, predicted.
Hope extended but a moment more, 
Remembered embraces reenacted
Pacifying heart-ripping avalanches
Sure to embalm, feigning calm,
Endless love promised, bestowed,
Bloomed, embezzled,
Freshly bamboozled...still,
By her guileful paramour.


~~~~~~~~~ (the goodbye lie)

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Healing

return to patio
garden glee, August swoon

benediction

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Patio

suite morning music 
surrounds one deaf man

zephyrs trace my face

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Cozy

           flame bright hearth crackle
         winter night temperature fall

                friendship quilt wrapper

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Raw

I cried to spy you laugh
to see your ballroom choreograph
shameless pleasure with a smile
my heart breaking all the while

a week ago we split
and no way I am over it
tear falls daily catch me up
every time a memory hits abrupt

your joy laughs at my pain
and those sneers bring such distain
as though we never were a we 
all torment surrounds the lesser me

from the ooze I will connect
as much of me as I recollect

(raw)

[a re-post circa 1991)

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Bullsters

Forgiveness is sweet
                     Yet so many love the taste,

                                         Not the act…

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Buzz

buttercups and bees
symbiotic love fest

Earth spins

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Sayonara

Respond feature blocked
                        Status quite clear indeed
                                                  Never know what could....




A piece that speaks to those souls lost to the ethereal spaces by bullying, lies, misunderstandings, and not hearing real sincere words that may be a foreign experience.

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Hypocrisy

Pretense of virtual character ~ Rancid Soup