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I disengage Little by little Day by day Withdrawn from the path of being Barred from the haze of earthbound reveries My nerves fall silent As my mind begins to rove Blossoming silhouettes and shadows That breed consciousness of their very own The black canopy of thoughts Frays and flutters away into the breeze Leaving…
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Recall The ghostly elegance of ages past As a madman Drawn to decades set adrift In ceaseless longing Enslaved by mourning afterthought Recollect Upon the maiden garbed in lily white How she wandered into your loving grace Every now and then Bestowing her kind words Blessings and well wishes Remain Bound to the husk of…
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Lives tussle and stir Beneath the high rolling Harlem sun Artisans peer from drawn curtains Perplexed, glad and greatly astonished “The world carries on “ “And a fruitful harvest lingers for the mind” They react in curious ways At the swarms of hard and soft matter Each molecule that toils and strives in unison Scurries…
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In the cold winter of nineteen-seventeen I trudged to and fro The shipyard and home again Trapped below the high arch Of Watchful,frail and sickly pines Father ails As I hobble through sheets of white Through blistering miles Frozen pastures and hollow desolation Smoke stacks billow into December skies Amidst my frigid hours My chattering…
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The golden glow of dusk I reap Dispels the worry that lingers deep Harsh miles shall smooth and yield The bounty of nightfall I’ll lovingly wield “Faithfully yours” restores my soul As daylight dwindles beloved and whole I grasp for solace in her colorful array While darkness ascends to devour my day Time hungers for…
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Utterly helpless He rolls past the threshold of manhood Lanky, without rhyme or reason With bushy locks Preserved in disarray Few adore This roving clueless spectacle Rail thin and meek Muttering throughout his lonely days Each word is drivel and falling mush As perplexed droves part and give way He strolls onward Gawky, blissfully unaware…
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Lotus blue Stirs with warm delight Racing through her locks She ascends to unmapped heights Her limbs tremor As she roves, roams and expands A faultless bloom Claiming wild uncharted lands In her husky wisp And quivering whine She jolts from her skin In a gradual decline A porcelain grin Is kept lively by mischief…
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It was swept in On one dull and humble morn Crept behind the age old drone Of “toil and you shall surely reap” “You must abide to earn your keep” From the backdrop of mayhem Many scorched and brittle lands Brave sons hurry home Kept lively in endless pondering Jazz halls still crooned Through the…
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Without regard We sing a cautious refrain Hobbling to and fro Beneath the mighty beckon and call The more disarray coddles homes The further we drift away Withdrawn into the colossal noise That bellows from flickering plasma As disarray coddles home Chiefs conspire within gilded ivory Our wealth fluctuates And streams for quiet kings The…