Yin And Yang

All because it was unexpected

Yet already I was in the frame of mind

Up for it some would say

A good way from the karma

All pathways to the Dalai Lama

Frayed, frozen, certainly broken

All because the response was quicker than instant

Words chosen for their turgid and heavy emphasis

Pouring scorn on the non-expectant

A good way from the laughter

All pathways to the light of heart

Closed off, blocked, impertinently unspoken

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We Have Someone To Do That

It is, calm

There it is, minus calm

Between the two

There is no continuum

What is broken

What might be repaired

Between the two

Some kind of officium

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Frozen Out

It is a low-cut Sunday

The newly slung autumn sun

Floods the stubble with its orange light

The fields, once fresh with crop

Are shorn; for the winter, for the plough

As lovers we slept

Under Egyptian cotton sheets

The dreams though, soon to be abridged

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Put Upon Another

Thursday lunch

Crayfish & Rocket

Watching the guy who cleans up clean up

I sit with my own frustrations

But soon I begin wondering

What are his rack-able doubts

Does he talk to himself about a past love

Is the swift sidestep

A sign of more flamboyant times

He reminds me of my own poem

The Fedora from Buena Vista

Already I hear the samba & the rhumba

Maybe he was once a galactico

On the sands of Rio de Janeiro

His sensual slipstream movements

Reminiscent...

A feel of the breeze

With the sun on your back

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Crumpled

Dew

And mist dampened leaves

Seen as singular objects of art

A vulnerable disappointed collection

Fearful of the scathing dry winds

Spring 

She promised more

A journey to a collective of joy

Life affirming bows and flexes

Eventful, as all new births are

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