Tribute To My Friends

When we meet again, I shall call you friend.
Among storms' clouds...only sunshine's shrouds
of the moment.
Past all that is left of the last planet...
Within the abyss, where fins the strange...

When we know each the other as shadow,
Will be time to laugh at life's rhyme...
The ending couplet depending on resolution
Into reality of friendship's treaties

Within the time we have...now.

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Anger's Logic

Anger...energizes enthusiasm for truth.
Anger...destroys rose glasses.
Anger...antithisizes depression fears.
Anger...has no use for crutches.

Depression...anger turned inward.
Take the pill. Wait, wait, wait.
Anxiety...is the pill working?
Fear...call the doctor. Again. Again.

Doctors never prescribe anger.
Anger needs management.
Sane anger is release.
Managed release becomes anger.

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Butterflies And Kites...Goodnight

Balloons on strings,
Sailing, bouncing June
Into July kites skimming
Tails like afternoon

Mosquito hawks on quiet
Water. There! The butterfly
Making its rounds of
Moonflowers' snow petals

Enticing emerald hummingbirds,
Giant moths soundlessly
Fluttering topaz and ruby
Wings. Again! The butterfly

Dips, bobs angel-blue wings.
Balloons, kites, put away
For the night. Hummingbirds,
Butterflies vanish....

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Silent Verses Shout I

Night bowls over Earth.
It leaves one pin.
The pin rises, laughing.
----------...
Sunrise is sparkled
in dew. Sweat
from Night's defeat.
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Winter is in recession,
warehouses empty.
What is the price of ice?
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Sensitivity-
the best guide.
I see where to walk.
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Where is your warm smile?
Robins wait for you
beyond the last white.
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Hysterious Blossoms

Wind scuttles foam cups down the streets
Fluttering coat shouldered ghosts
Stepping quick, not shopping. Stopping
Only before paint shrouded doors.

No voices echo city canyons
Of multicolored grays smudged,
Brushed by eyes of artists
Eating death with ketchup sandwiches.

Knocking. Peepholes.
Air on staircases, stepping
Down
........down
............. ...down
To breathe in watered basement walls.

Where are the caution words on
Pesticides?

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Truth Can Be A Boring Neccessity For Poets

The aim of the poet, this frivolous
Foggy drip morn...
Is not to in-line 'untruths' in poems...
Not 'lies' like we know,
Rather, knowledge of where/what
We've been, seen, heard...in poetry.

For the Raven beomes white,
Which well may be.
But, we must 'see' this
Raven shading new color...
Wonder, mystical.

The Great Father knows poet-shamans
Well...the Tricksters, Shapechangers...
The Great Father smiles...
Poets laugh lines...
True!

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When You Least Expect It

Knock-kneed Nell had stories to tell
About all the sights she'd seen.
That sexy sway began her day....
Thinking how things could have been.

'I'll not condone a herringbone
For the price you want to pay!
Be off down the alley, old fool!
But, one man decided to stay.

Nell clawed like a cat, hissed, and spat.
The man stood his ground, and laughed.
'We'll take this to the marriage vows!
Clean my house, and cook my food!

In the marriage bed you can sass! '

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The Reason For Achilles Death

And when fire bred no breath within him,
did he inculcate innocuities...his being?

He had tred intrepid cities' tears underfoot,
while gods forged, in tandem, stronger plate

For his head, chest...deemed unnecessary by
miscreant mortal within, misbegotten in Time.

Achilles dealt his brother's valor a trifle,
bauble, for value.

In turn, Achilles brother knew that weak link,
gods' foolishness. Awarded his great brother

Syncopation of laughter, and revenge...
Silence.

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Star Journeys: Accelerando

And if, in our onward Journey...
Universes of thought, decision
Leave us behind...
They will be heeded by those
Ahead of us...

And if, in our onward Journey...
We do not see those
Ahead of us...
Know they leave paths
For us to follow...

And so, in our onward Journey...
Know that those who have
Gone before us...
Have left Star-Glow
To Light our way...
Star-Dust paths
For our weary feet...
The arms of Eternity

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Sorrow Versus Revenge...Justify

Sorrow. Strange word. Six tiny letters....
Murmured by murderers. Priests.
A word bled from lips. Eyes. hands.
Dry sand raging hearts. Doubt. Decision.
False. Steadfast. Indecisive.

What sword drips sorrow, slicing freedom
For nations?
What nation oozes sorrow, being lifted
From despots?

What joyous revels bought in blood.
Sorrow. Sorry.

Boudicea, daughters raped, raged
Tribes to war. Romans' blood-bath.
Revenge by sorrow.

Lakota Sioux, Red Cloud's curse remembered,
Left one pony alive. Custer...sorry?

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