Tag: Poetry
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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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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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