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Of Memories & Men
November 2004

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Poetry

November Poetpourri Musings


Dishonest Ghosts

Stepping into grotesque indolent shadows
Masked spectral apparitions unnoticed pass
Hideous inviolate whispers seepage murmurs
Quiet escape unlit burner gas

Undercurrent shadows float beside craft
Hidden fills breathing crystallized salt
Misplaced breaths smoke stained air
Acarpous moon stillborn lunatic assault


Romance Saga

I want to read the
Book in which you’re hiding
Vast unnumbered pages beyond words
Scanning most intimate thoughts abiding

Sentences slipping away from margins
Indented paragraphs mirroring each other
Heartfelt fingertips tracing Braille speedbumps
Spinal taproot embossed roman-fleuve hardcover


Snarled Perfection

What happened before the beginning
Waterworld shedding aqueous light source
Dying sun shadows imperishable ghosts
Wearing tired expressions emitting force

Snarled perfection knotted sworn sacrifice
Free-floating wandering spirit unbound cloud
Wondering beyond infinity whatsoever next-time
Promised landscape framed original disallowed


Stilt-legged Cranes

Graven image repository temple confines
Beguiling monkhood simplicity marking time
Wallflowers echo contemplation chanted prayers
Chaste winding path sunbeam climb

Hollow gullet full-throated forged meltdown
Resounding bronze bells heart-shaped wings
Rufous candles both ends burnt
Extinguished ashes forehead daubed blessings

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