Long Reprints Poems

Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)

January 2,...

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As I hover over the darkened room, I wonder how I have gotten here. Did I die, was I 
dead? That was the only explanation I could think of for my disembodiedment. But 
concentration was...

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She was grace in its purest form. Thinking not and caring not of her 
destination, she soars across the angelic sky on her tiny golden wings. Yet her 
feet never left the cold laminated floor....

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I can't compare your love to a sweet red rose,
For roses whither and they die.
I can't compare your love to the deep blue sea,
For it rises and falls with the tide.
I can't compare your love...

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The Swirling Green Storm

Sea foam splattered upon his panicked face 
his boat sank and life was torn asunder. 
He had run away, he was a disgrace; 
the storm worsened with a crack of thunder. 

Each...

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Down the road, near the town,
No one knew where she'd be found. 
Stolen from her bed at night, 
Waking to find her gone was a fright. 
The window curtains blew gracefully in the wind, 
Their...

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Hidden Lake Resting Between Snowy Peaks 

Cold lake in the clouds soothes his weary soul, 
among towering, silent, mountain peaks. 
Life's troubles have taken a heavy toll, 
sadness rasping in his voice when he speaks....

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I paused on the landing of the wooden Victorian staircase, pondering whether to pick my 
way back up the portal between the worlds of the living and the dead. In my previous 
ascension, I found...

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A Painted Gaze

Sitting alone in soft and easy chair 
rustic gaze in artistic, painted scene. 
Yet, gentle beauty leaps from face and hair 
colors speaking, so softly blue and green. 

Were you happiest in your...

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Father's Gone 

Beside the seaside the fisherman's wife, 
her child in hand, walks asking about loss. 
Her father, years gone, left a life of strife. 
They both offer prayers with sign of the cross. 

A...

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Sweet Child Of Mine

Forbid that sweet child such a long cold view.
Winter delivers weeping deep chills,
upon our careless children right on cue.
Let household joy and warmth provide her thrills!

Nay! Her wants are all bright colors...

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Be not a constant reminder of such a withered existence,
State of mind being part of the fear, fear of a losing race.
Flying past the places that were lost before they were found,
Finding warmth from the...

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Magical Mountain Where Blue Cat Resides

This Majestic mount made of magic stone; 
I climbed every night as a lonely child. 
Tall and regal, it stood there all alone, 
symbol of a world fantastic and wild!...

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Ticker tape life into a single frame
Moon and stars silhouettes look down upon the sane
All the pristine porcelain faces lifted up to care
Intertwined fingers optimistically seeking out repair
Tolerance is not the toiling only of the...

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Ticker tape life into a single frame
Moon and stars silhouettes look down upon the sane
All the pristine porcelain faces lifted up to care
Intertwined fingers optimistically seeking out repair
Tolerance is not the toiling only of the...

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Her Longing Heart Seeks Love's Relief	
  
         Pretty young lady, my how you steal the show 
how many admiring eyes look back at you? 
Perhaps a...

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I am a grizzly bear in the depths of the earth, taking one last look at my forested 
wonderland before I fall into a deep, dark slumber, safe and sound in the rocky cave that...

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Two Beach Strolling Sisters Discussing Their Savior

This was his virtue; that with head and heart  
He saw life sanely, from all mist apart, 
and spoke with such assurance as he showed  
our way...

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Colorful Fantasy Flights 

You brought color to life;  
a soul seeking newer forms. 
Into bright red, sandy, realms  
holding rainbows in disguise, 
you instead slept not 
yet endured all—  

with honor. 

Blank...

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Mirror mirror made of glass, 
Reflex the details of the past.
Shatter not, less shards be lost,
And with them every single thought.
Blame not yourself, sweet little bird.
The accusations are absurd.
Fire and ice this day will rain,
And...

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Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, 
art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war 
politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art...

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Butterfly in the sky,
why don't you fly very high?
I see you with a sorrowed eye,
listen to me, that's no lie.

Butterfly why your tears,
have you any troubling fears? 
I can give you joys and cheers,
if you'll...

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They fell in love by the light of the mystic moon.
Who knew their demise would come so soon.
They held each other in their arms as they did before,
But their souls would be ripped apart by...

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Series of clerihews


Funny girl sits
Waiting among broken sticks
Looking for the sign
To crossover into the divine

Funny girl sighs
All the unspoken lies
Seeking out the truth
Evolving as a sleuth

Funny girl cries
As the music dies
Tossing in her sleep
Waking only...

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I sit in the darkness
It is all around me
Closing in on me
Squeezing the life out me.
It wants me to tell
It wants me to tell it my secrets.
I reach out my hand into the darkness
Reaching out...

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