Long Flighted Poems

After witnessing a murder meant for me after surviving a car bomb igniting my skull crushed my face bruising my brain i received threatening calls from my husbands mistress I'd reported break ins strange behavior...

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My first grade field trip begin Joseph Medill school of journalism Chicago my first grade class sang African American spiritual hymns performing at the Schubert theater the museum of science and industry the museum of...

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She entered the parking lot of my townhome
devastated I was after several home invasion 
my stalker an accomplice after the fact of arson 
murderer of eight Ciro Gargano the sheer reason 
the FBI approached me...

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Tragic, When Innocence Was Lost And Love Fled
(Youth, Dreams And Reality Series) poem number 1)

 
Like lake June swans once so were she and I
Passionate romance money cannot buy
Coupled and in heart's fervor we stood
Giving...

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Might it be a pool or wishing well
with rainbow ripples round it wound
within an enchanted cosmic dell
of a fabulous world newfound—

or perhaps a spacetime passageway
that tunnels through regions yonder
to place where poets come out to...

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The day my mind folded over the highway. 
in sunny Florida citrus surrounded me 
the breeze was just right as oranges danced. 
with lemons scents the sun dazed my sight 
as the ground rose up...

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The humble little troll,
Walk's about going to and fro !
Yet there is still a thing you ought to know/
Where at times very patient to most,
As if some lost seagull is on a flighted coast !
Now...

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He lived to strive toward the light
He reached to touch her halo of glory
His solace and compass in coldness of night
Flighted companions in moth to flame story
Headed by perfect though blinded ambition
Placed on pedestal compound...

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Cyclops moon's silver beams
piercing crowded misty dreams,
lonely stroll through fog filled trees
whispers heard on Autumn breeze,
side ways glances in the park
fill my thoughts of creatures dark.
As I walk through guarded wood,
peeking out from shrouded hood,
no...

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As Samuel saw vaulted Xanadu of Kublai Khan fame
In smoke-filled corridors of sweat-drenched Opium-eaters
Did I spy a vision so surreal as to render all my sentient senses to nought
And to replace them with a miasma...

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‘Come bring my bow of English yew and raise me from this bed
And let me look upon the wood where once I lay my head’
With fading sight and wearied limb through window rose he gazed
With...

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I really honor Elizabeth Dole foundation 
what it really means to be a caregiver 
I'm the caregiver of my husband's 
memories now ipte y wn anxieties 
all 101 airborne west Mooreland 
my husband is indeed...

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O half-broke wing-back, wind buoyed Kite --             
Thou is beautiful! Thou'st cruelly conspired:-          
An...

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It happens mostly out of sight, 
under cover of the world,
life ebbing away or is seized
by a claw or fang, suffering
in corners, enduring what fate
cruelly inflicts. Each night, 
millions die, are torn, choked, 
or swallowed...

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There once was a heart left there yet now it's lost in darkness bare,
              Shattered,
Yet holding out in these confines holds strong...

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Wind to wing does span the heavens, 
Eagles heart to heights abound,
Soar me there with beats of angels,
Born in eyrie's forest found,

Eyes then focus to the freedom,
Lakes and land as patchwork quilt,
Clouds do pillow circles...

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PHOENIX RISING

like eagles flight from earth to sky
transcending heavens aura
regenerated by nimbus light
obtain new life-- reborn to never die

renewing time and suns realm
consecrating ‘raptured’ paradise
crested feathers crown golden mould
sapphire eyes beneath seven rays overwhelm

disambiguous in...

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On a night such as this
A besom seated, flighted Witch
The Maple near an Oak is blowing;
An emboldened Toad on root is croaking.

Halfway down the hillside lawn
The dusk enlightened flowers sulking
As breezes toss the moths about...

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