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Albuquerque American Place

A moment of silence for John Cummings

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2024 Albuquerque American Place New Mexico Poems Poems of a Nature

Slow and Steady

The Snow
Falling through
The Air
Low Clouds hanging near

Warmer here
Than when the wind howls
Across a stark Blue Sky

Calm out here
On The Trail
Revealed Only by the
Footprints
Running ahead of me
Fading
Eventually
By the new Falling
Snow
Easy to lose your way
When a white blanket
Softens every inch
Of The Foothills

Acuity Clear
As the miles
Cure Anxieties
Of a week hard trodden
No truer sense of Purpose
Than keeping one foot
Steady in front of
The Other.

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2023 American Place Jemez LOVE Poems Poems of a Nature

Impressions of Jemez – The Chariot, The Lovers

Warm healing waters

…………Reeds and Grasses
Mountain crevices, white caps of white rock

My Love, Lovely
………..Lady, Blue Eyes
Aquamarine pools

Thatched roof
Smooth calcified
surfaces

The light smell of sulfur

Curved pools
soft……sharp Mountains
………………..Rising
Penetrating…Falling
……………..In Love
River’s Center
……Cool breeze
My Lady
…..and me….Lost
In the Longest
………..moment…

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2023 Ars Philosophica Poems

Sparky

Is
there
A Darkness
(That from within my own mind can generate?)
A Spark
To make a canvass
Out of my inner space?
It starts in the generations
That came way before
Me

Embedded in my intuition by all
Those genetic relatives
That Inspired this
(blank)
Curiosity.
The Flame
Giving Light
for a New Ideology
An identifiable
Identification
An undeniable
Inspiration!

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2023 Poems Why

What plan?

What is THE LIFE I want to lead?
What am I willing to sacrifice
Just to be
This fictionalized vision
(of myself) that no one else accepts?

Do I give up what I have, so I can fit?
My Triangle Peg
Into a Round World?
Where I’m misunderstood by almost 1/3?
The rest of me is lost
In the atmospheric swirl?

So, I don’t know, if I even could create
THIS MAN who I’ve made up.
Who is supposed to be
This HAPPY ME!
(who will never exist)
So, I need to understand
Before I come to THE END…
Just what it is I want?
Just what is the plan?

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2023 Albuquerque American Place New Mexico Poems

for CH

I wish that I
………………could find something to say…
A clever story to ease the pain.
……A silly meme
………………to change your mood…
Ah, alas, what to do?
……When we’ve lost another friend!
A legend, a titan, a Gentleman.

What is one to do but
……………….to sit in silence.
Await the guns to fire!
And the trumpets to
……Call the triumph
Of the Heavenly Father
Who welcomes him
………….Home!
And, remember the place
……..In our hearts
……Where his light
……..Has shone!

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Albuquerque American Place Footnotes

A moment of silence for Courtney “The Flash” Hines

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2023 Poems

Fleeting Lines

These fleeting lines
Disappear before
my mind
Can convey them
to my pen…

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2023 Ars Philosophica Poems Why

Prophecy

Nothing supernatural is required for Prophecy…
Intuition, history, social psychology —
It’s easy to predict the patterns of human beings
Convey it in clever predicate
Let them presume just what you mean.
I need no Godly insight or flash of epiphany
To monitor the moving flock
And call out their destiny!

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2023 Poems

Airborne

My little Butterfly
with wings out to soar.
Don’t be afraid to dive
into the mystery where there’s more
to be discovered
once of the Air
You’re Born!
Your beauty and your radiance
Light smiles where e’er
you go.
Your presence is always
Welcomed and your wisdom
helps us grow.
So fly, fly little butterfly
to see the world unseen!
Go soar amongst the flowers
Go dance with
The Beatles and the Bees.

for Gwen