Category: Poetry
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An Autumn Mood
An Autumn Mood… Cloudbursts soak my clothes and shoes,Leave me wet and cold —Web-bound bugs struggle –LE
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Which Would I deny?
What technology would you be better off without, why? Another word for ‘technology’ is ‘artifice’ … human evolution’s propensity for communication, making tools for survival, work, exploration, and ‘civilization’. All of our tools (mental and physical) are historically defined as ‘artifacts’. Artifice Artifacts defineHuman activities shineEdifices prime –LE So, which would we be better off…
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Each New Start
Each New Start each new start, an improvisationlaying-on paint, running musical scalesor penning rhymes – stabilizing time –LE This verse is from a longer poem, That’s Life, and was an epiphany for me, of sorts (a head-nodding realization) … That’s all it ever was … just ‘stabilizing time’, and perhaps my mind, and maybe that’s…
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Baritone Sax
Baritone Sax bass tonesof a baritone saxblast the underpinningsof space/time apartas we tumblethrough the voidreaching out forany residual strandsof melodyfrom the songof life –LE
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The Inevitable End
The Inevitable End Though I may not beThe sharpest crayon in the boxA modicum of intellect resides It occurs to me that reasonAnd desires can rationalizeAlmost anything The resulting reprievesAt best temporaryDon’t mitigate the end As all things doSo it is saidWith a whimper or bang Even the ‘eternal’ universeThough we won’t see itWill eventually…
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On The Beat And Off
On The Beat And Off an hour agoI wason the roadwith Kerouachit the roadJack …in the wastelandon one of those roadsnot takenas Eliot, Frostand I danced withFerlinghettiin his mind’sConey Islandconstantly riskingabsurdityas wehowledwith Ginsberghiking mountainpaths gripping ouraxe handlesin riprapwith Snyderas we ponderedDi Prima’sletters “…withno otherransomthanmyself …” –LE – 11/20/25 Yes, a tribute, mainly to the Beats…
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Between the Storms Morning Ride
Between the Storms Morning Ride Rolled out underA marbled skyHeavy clouds broodingEager to dump loadsAnd cry, cry, cry Sun popped throughFrom time to timeLightening my moodSo I didn’t brood As the recedingFloodwaters fromLast night’s stormsLanguidly ambleNorthward to the GilaAnd beyond No fauna out todayBut a few fat pigeonsBobble-heading their wayNext to the pathReady to playOr…
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Lake by LEO
Lake by LEO Once I saw a girl out by the boat dockssitting by the waterwith rocks around her ankles Hey whatcha gonna dosomebody must have hurt you so bad I’m going fishing for some answersat the bottom of the lake Once I saw a girl just fly awaybut she woke up from that dream…
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Late November Hiaku
LATE NOVEMBER HAIKU Thick cloouds and cold wind,Novembers’s salient points —decay feeds new life. –LE
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Waves A Waving
Waves A Waving a wave rolls inwashes upthe sandy beach’s inclineas if the beachwere taking abreath in remnants or the waveslide back into the seaas the beach seemsto exhale only to inhale againas the next wavefroths, rolls, andripples in the steady breathingof land and seaas constant asthe stars and trees leaves mecontentedmy mindat ease –LE…
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