great poet's fly
just as they run
or crawl

some
envelop one
in foggy mist

some douse
you
in waterfall

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bulldozed family home
from cobwebbed window
a ghostly door
its blood rust lock
painted Love on before

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Love let seed thought of me rot away
leaf to decompose October ground
alone I grow greedy as desert rose display of once resilient bloom
to efface itself from memory

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in recurring dreams
the greatest grey cloud
rat shaped
omen or guardian spirit
gutter born things can also fly

#WriteMap 231 #tanka
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Fiery woman
if you're not
my everything-
I was never
here at all!

#tanka

When you kiss me next
Kiss me like it's snowing in July;
When you try to walk away
Heaven's sake -don't really try!
When you kiss me next
Kiss me like we're lost in river fog &When you brush me off at last
Don't leave for good
For good of a loving G-d!

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unrecycled I'm in
your garbage bin
like an old toothbrush
welcome worn out
with my service

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phantom limb shock revisited
fatly I cleave to how
you chop me from your life
not knowing which of us
the bigger butcher

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infinite uncalculable dynamics
Love's variables unaffixed
spinning stars verging collapse
expansive as the dark fluid heart
of our fleeting universe

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by the slow flowing river
lush forest temple shade
seductive Twilight's burlesque
among fragrant Spring grasses
urgent ardent calling
muster of peacocks
pierces deep reverie
was this made for you
plainly
as it is for me

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greying old horse
factory sent
boiled down for glue
not one respectable thing
to affix myself to

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let night disrobe its medley of stars
by heaven's light youth's elegy play
I bless your face with a godly view
you laughed sounds angels say
probes a song dull lives might sing
I feel your love in everything

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released worst impression of me
freed from fledgling fears honey
I hope it's been cathartic for you
as watching a V of flying geese
disappear into an evening sky

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right. 😌😌😁😁

canvas primed
palette colours mixed
brush bristles parched
wet inspiration-
She's my one & only fix!

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sunrise eclipse
I live a shadow
revealed to itself

#WriteMap 228 #poetry
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dapple of light through
curtained eyes
speck of melody
in unheard song
let me remember you so
on a one star night
a drop of dew
with the chill at dawn

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unfiltered essence
down to the dregs
I drink You
between us bliss percolates
redolent bedsheets

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as tides break
for enigmatic moon

impassioned lover's
become a fling

but Beloved
above all others

Darling half
dark your moon

my magnetic dream
of everything

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