Spendthrift Heart

malingering
along
uncharted frontiers
liquid sorrow
bastes
unformed words
whose crystal
resonant vibrance
reverberates
within
a pilgrim soul
gaze once more
upon your
lint-filled navel
and share
the blossom
of heaving bosom
therein find
a brokenness
with no need of mending

poem by Frederick Kesner
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Crown

step forward
chin up, back straight
onto the stone of destiny
plant feet firm
and remember

step backward
head tilted, brow knit
only in the mind
return to what
brought you here

step aside
shoulders squared, hips lithe
be removed but
be re-placed
the river flows downstream

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MF's Roses are Red

MF: your initials hit me
striking hard - blinding
RosesAreRed - that they are
not all roses are red and
not all things red are roses

MF roses are MF red....
not if you're colour blind
not if you're shot in the head
RosesAreRed - yellow or white
screaming loud - deafening.

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Here we go passing by

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Coal-bright heat
pulsates a primal beat,
this light burns white
in the squalid night.

The windswept fury
in a drunken flurry,
toppled kerosene lamp
leaves the table damp.

Morning slips in sly,
waking the bleary eye;
pollen grain breezes
peddles raucous sneezes.

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Cyber Solitude

there is such heavy quietness.
not even the sigh of a breath
just as the lung collapses again

there is that final hope dawning
though it's darkest, they say
just before the break of day

there isn't more than one heart
not even the murmur of a beat
just a singular knowing inside

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Fifth

the road stays while we move onward

yet connects from our here to there
this life's complications on it unwind

by it we return homeward-bound, trusting:

a trick we learned from Gretel & Hansel
assured that it is safe to venture out

while we move forward, roads stay put

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Darker Solitude

there is such heavy quietness.....
not even the sigh of a breath
just as the lung collapses again

there is that one hope dawning:
thought, is darkest, they say
just before the break of day

there isn't more than one heart
not even the murmur of a beat
just a singular knowing inside

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These Arms

those arms
that know and are able
those arms
that are able and do
those arms
that do enwrap this torso
those arms
belong to you

these arms
that seek and reach out
these arms
that reach out and do
these arms
that do wrap those arms:
the shadowy imprint of
what belonged to you.

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Old Rose

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Steely piercing gaze
steady and calculated
scorn etched lips pout
scathed grains discolour

pearly teeth bared
proudly held chin gloats
pencilled thoughts
permanently carve the soul

crafty words sliver
carefully orchestrated chaos
cornering all resolution
creased yesterdays wither

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Mother, Mother

Mother, Mother
are you crying?
Come and look,
the roses are dying.

Mother, Mother
I am hungry.
Come and see,
the dishes are piling.

Mother, Mother
I am lonely.
Come and hear,
My heart's key is snapping.

Mother, Mother
are you sleeping?
Come and run,
Let's play in the sun once more.

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