The Poetry Marathon

The chill

Fir tree shakes outside

Giving a damn to the chill

As a hollow chime reverberates from the dock

Moonbeam gleams haughtily

On the coffee table beside the shelf

And the night fog rushes through

With a hush

Damping the concrete canteen wall

Hour 10

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The age of innocence

The doll’s play gives way to bigger games

As blasphemy loses its might

When a young girl and her lover

Declare their vows

To be together forever

Conflicting emotions surround them

As they hold each other’s hands

And watch their age of innocence fly away

Hour 9

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…And I lied down

I came down

For a spin, a jig

And a rhapsody

I drew the strings

The canes, the blinds

The bedspread neat

…and lied down quietly

Hour 8

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Resurrection

Your ghosts versus our ghosts

Crying out each other hoarse

Raising toast to the last drop of wine

And they say Ahoy!

The graveyard’s now ancient

Yet there’s no undergrowth

Like a king’s palace

Of yester years

They cry for the summoner

Ahoy! Resurrection, Ahoy!

The battle lines drawn again

Little sympathies wearing masks

Protruding veins of blood

They carry scythes around their necks

As more time passes

Resurrection nears the half limit

Shouts of Ahoy! Dies down

Your ghosts versus our ghosts

Retreating endless times

They will fight another night

When moons will cry atop the grimes

The graveyard for a generation will stay still

Hour 7

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Locked out

Locked out

In my own space

Echoes of my voices rebound

Making tiny holes

In the great soul of mine

From whence escapes

Lithe songs of innocence

Alas!

Time is oddly spaced

And there’s no way out

Hour 6

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Pilgrim’s dream

Sleep, you are unvanquishable,
The eternal shadow of a jaded sun;
How long a voyager can you be?
The free fledgling will return to its abode
To refill with hope the unwanted vacation:
You are the Morpheus
The single actor on the stage
The nemesis of youth.
Sleep, you are the undying spirit
The renegade new sun;
How long’ll you restore broken lives?
Your leonid legions unmatched
In this moribund world
For I am the next pilgrim
My disguise unparalleled as you
The timeless traveler of the next world

Hour 5

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My own star

Profound is the night sky

Bathed in a sea of vastness

Jeweled with as many stars

As there are life forms below

There’s also my own star

From which I came

One day to return

Bright and sparkling beside the stars

That others adorn

In the same vastness and luminous

As a child reaches out with its heart

Hour 4

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Senses

Night is powerful

Engulfing darkness within darkness

Happy apparitions shimmering all over

While fireflies try to hide their lights

Lightning strikes precisely everywhere

Drowning earth with incandescence

Sweet petrichor dissipates in the rumbling thunder

The tingling feet measures six vibrations

Revealing the tectonic drama underneath

Night indeed is powerful

Hour 3

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Simeria, the magical land

Where you fly in water and float on air

The flowers laugh with many colors

And mirrors speak with each other

Where rainbows sing to fairies’ dances

The angels bow to me with wishes

And wands clash with each other

Where leather boots vie for my feet

The pebbles decorate themselves

And happiness quibbles with each other

Hour 2

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I am

A speck of dust I am

In this nebulous maze

Searching for infinity

Yet I am within myself

I am in every pervasive dust

Trickling on and off

Settling down often, shaken up sometimes

I am the wind hoofing at

Churning each particle and anti particle

I am the particle and its anti

I remember I am within myself

Hour 1

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