Tag: Poetry
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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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Deamweaver
Dreamweaver secret murderin the drawing room the queen of Egypta fallen flame a moon markedtrilogy of mortalsdescended onCrescent City kidnapped thewatchmaker’s daughterstole the magician’s diarya glimmer of the other hex the witchthe charmerthe saintthe sinner in the palace oflost dreamsshackled to thedreamweaver –LE – 11/16/25
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Deconstructing Sin
Deconstructing Sin What is sina fopauxintentional or notanother kind oftransgressionegregious or nota crime againstsocial individualmurder theftdeceit in other wordsis it puttingyourself firstin all thingssurvival ofthe fittestbeating breakingthe systemplaying byyour own orno rules sin is a wordan idea some finduseful and appealingin feeling betterabout themselvesfor their mis-perceivedconceivedlack thereofand thereforemore worthy oflife’s gifts andpleasuresrationalizationsfor turningblind eyes toperils…
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Small Decisions
Small Decisions small decisionscombined withproximity inspace/time’s flowestablishthe groundworkthe foundationsof social andpsychologicaledifices which house ourmajor crossroadsturning pointsand end points that ultimatelydefines eachhuman’s life –LE – 11/12/25
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Delilah
Delilahby Tom Jones I saw the light on the night that I passed by her windowI saw the flickering shadow of love on her blindShe was my womanAs she deceived me I watched and went out of my mind My, my, my DelilahWhy, why, why DelilahI could see, that girl was no good for meBut…
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It’s Just Your Standard Mental Fog
The past few years have been filled with ‘mental fog’… Here’s hoping that some of it is finally starting to lift or at least dissipate a little. The protests of the last few months and recent elections would seem to suggest as much… I guess we’ll just have to wait and see … time will…
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Understanding The Universe
Or Universal Understanding, perhaps? Understanding The Universe No human mind can comprehendin all its complexitiesthe entirety of reality Even our tinyremote sectionin this far flung arm ofour relatively smallMilkyway is bekyondour ken And thenthere’s that quantum‘subgum’ If you think youunderstand the ‘subgum’then you don’tto paraphraseFeynman Add it all up andwhat do we find No ‘human’…