Category: My Poetry
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A New Poem | “May’s River” (Part Deux)
You tore on past the river’s flow. Now I know, now I know. You walked from the house’s door into the snow An instinct to let go, to let it go. The menagerie fortress tower looms larger by the hour. Talking to the morning’s vestigial crops into the elevators’ chop, chop, chops. And disturbing them like…
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A Poem | Scarlet Fever
I want to become the flower Drinking a hawthorn berry shower. I feel that the painting is alive That I could jump inside and live a life. The love you want resides inside a flame Burning Jerusalem to the coast of Spain. From the secret Indian province to the street children’s colorful ribbon dance. A…
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Poem | “Thunder Painting”
Don’t be desireous under White Mountain. The river’s tall feathered tail Will blast you into the crag’s milky fountain. Will whisk you away To a faraway place In the steam boat’s desert Sun, Buried beneath a 17th century ruin. You won’t get to stay up and play. Each door will turn you away. You won’t…
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Poem | “9 Miracles”
We can all be good. The rough beast crawling towards Bethlehem says, “You should.” But we can let it go, face in the wind, rain, and snow, as the falcon of our soul soars off Kilimanjaro. The distant bells are Black Sea shells, and her lips sail closer as we fall deeper into a dreamless…
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Ocean City (A Poem)
There are stars inside my blood And my blood’s inside a star. We’ve rolled the comet oceans, survived the flood, And harmonized infinite worlds inside a beating pulsar.I saw silver tonight and one red flame. My sky was below me and my sea above. Though we knew the answer, we couldn’t say the name. We…
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Where’s the King?
Where’s the King, The radiant crown? All winter long he’s been down, Down to the ground, Driven by a stake. Oh, how he pays for the glowing mistake. But I’ll take you in my arms at night. Alice will soon find the cat, And everything will be alright. The lake will glitter with moonlight With…