#associativepoetry

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Poem...

Defining Heart & Soul

A melody

Harmony

A beat you can follow

Get lost in

Easily connect to

The mind & body melting into each other

Through notes

Love

Sex

No limits

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Poem: A Mirage of Anicent Egypt

The beads of sweat still trickling down

All but one instantly evaporating when they touch the sand

One bead transporting the melting souls back to Ancient Egypt

The sun still beating down

Miles of sand to get lost in

The pyramids in process

Translating the hieroglyphics

Read in between the lines…

When the salt stops burning the retinas.

Slowly coming back to reality,

A mirage

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Poem: Unparalleled Lines

More dark clouds than rainbows

More fear than happiness

More raisins than luscious grapes

When will the rich tastes sprout from the soils again?

When will the gods let us enjoy their pure nectar again?

The unparalleled lines hold the answers.

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Poem: Every Philosophical Question

How do the birds have the energy to fly around in the hot sun?

Or tropical storms?

How do the spirits find the rhythms to chant & dance throughout the night?

How do the gods not run out of stories to flood across the night sky?

Will the rivers never continuously flow?

Showing no pain or troubles in their waves

Every philosophical question

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Poem: Some Emotions of a Spanish Guitar

One pluck can make you smile

A strum, anxious

A few chords, unsure

A full song, optimistic

A wrong note, laugh

Two wrong notes, annoyed

Trying to blend two songs into one, overzealous

Some emotions of a Spanish guitar

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Poem: An Unsure Self-Protrait

The brush moves on the canvas with no idea in mind

No broad strokes

Or familiar hues

Dipping the brush into white wine

Painting over the “abstract art”

Resembling what could be…

An unsure self-portrait