ScottMPotter's Poems

Here's the list of poems submitted by ScottMPotter  —  There are currently 59 poems total — keep up the great work!

Amtrak 3

Strange how the color drains nearly empty from the morning sky before the tangerine sun even peeks above the lavender-purplish horizon….

Akin to how the color also drains as the sun sets on a much darker violet-purplish horizon after the...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Amtrak 2

William Doty and I watched the sunrise, another mythography yielding to the possible closing of Amtrak, while a family of four, younger son and older daughter, three amigos and a gentleman feeling older than his days would dictate joined us,...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Amtrak 1

Changing scenery, always something new, from white frosty pea green (sea foam) shrubbery as former coral cousins—desert tundra replacing teeming seabed, to red, orange and yellows of brilliantly painted earth like the blood of Orpheus sprayed across...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Mythology Definition Numero Uno

Myths, as living stories,
free us from our surround
while fastening us to it—
depending partially upon the environment
and interpretation or translation—
usually center on deities or spirits—
responsible for creation or the creation of...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Yin Yang

When firstly the two commas,
One light the other heavy
(Each bearably part of the other
enjoined in a many-dimensional helix),
Joined in mutual attraction,
Like two sperm [or eggs with hair
if you prefer] of opposites,
The land paused to...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Daphne Transformed

As if in a transcendental state,
I proudly call for swift justice
from my relentless pursuer,
a way to escape this infernal chase
whose outcome desire or até
for Eros’ revenge wins!

An answer draws me inward
as outward closes in—
all...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Dark-Moist Winding Upwards

Shades drawn on cavern walls
Names etched on Mother’s womb
Spider spins glorious
~In liminality~
Iridescent cloaks
Underground rivers mist
Spray pirouettes rays
Similitude frenzies features
Surface reflects inward
Attentiveness impels...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Give for Giving

Tap into the unconscious
While you sleep I enter your head
Visions rush into your dreams
You follow the images I usher in
And the windows of the world church open
The graves spill their contents, nothing but dust
No cloud rising to heaven with...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Great Art

Great art transcends
What a brief examination comprehends
Whatever reigns as cultural preference
What an individual audience
Brings to the equation
Regardless of the connection;
Speaking instead—
Not from the head
Of this great art
Or of...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Image on Loan

Challenges and obstacles bang sleep’s cupboard doors
Open and shut, flung wide and slammed hard
That cupboard still seems bare—even of the bard

Then an image reposes
It fills one shelf, and though all else is empty, it shrinks
The rest, so...

by Scott Michael Potter

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With or Without Spirit

Heart and mind
Body and soul
Of we find
One yet not whole

Render gender
Tale-thin tailspin
Inward in word
Rend her mend her
Pale twin gale-win
Not poor—what for?

Ween thoughts wean oughts
Spirituel gleans
What spirit well means—
...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Liminality

Leftovers in the refrigerator or on dinner tables
Ingrates seeking passive agreement over confounding fables
Mythologies seen through a past tense lens
Incorporating lessons within condensing contends
Numinous encounters goosebumping skin
...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Ode to Sappho, You & I

I will go on and
Continue
When you move on

In the moon painting oceans white
memories of you filter in

Daffodils, anemone, irises
Rhododendron, crocus, coleus,

When the plankton carry the red tide
On their green backs
And spread...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Mythic-Moving

Three spirits moved toward the unconscious—
salty oceanic reserves
Movement formed waves of gradual projection
a range deserving some thought
One moves in shadows
of prosecutorial vengeance so serves
Leave me something of what felt itself
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by Scott Michael Potter

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Temple Trees

creates trees
three special trees one before, one now and one after
trees that give and take
beings emerge to see the fires and beyond
unshackled and free they dance
impregnation flies in the air
one is life the other mortals
both have...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Tree Talk

Once a tree
Jumped and plumped itself
In front of me, as if to say that it had a right
To the place it had been growing there in the woods
In the middle of what I imagined would be the perfect bedroom
For it was feng shui and precisely...

by Scott Michael Potter

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The Nature of Nature’s Nature—Our Nature!

Our tender loins of deepening thoughts foster further…
But, fragmentary mordancy demolishes, disparages…
Yet the glowing sun, brightly stars, nimbly see easy passages,
as blinding shade pools darkness of ghostly follower

All perpetual curves,...

by Scott Michael Potter

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The Eulogy for James Nicholas Potter I follows: Who was Jim Potter?

Was he the man of his plethora of stories?
An athlete of considerable prowess…
A hellion in Grandville forced into the Marines…
A fisherman—from whom not many got away…
A hunter at one with the land…

Or was he the man that some others saw?
A...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Cave-Painting with the Shaman Einstein

Bison staring into history’s gaping maw
spear belt hitching posterior haunch
Lo, what legs are these spindly and human
that you tread the rocky ground upon?
Could it be that the gory bloody head—
bespeckled in grey matter discussed instead
by...

by Scott Michael Potter

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I'm in Charge Here, so Allow me to give it to Myself Please?

Well, I thought, pleasantly, I'm in charge here…
I used to be so proud of how in charge of things
I actually was, that I'd charge admission
Just so's others wouldn’t fall into remission
Through missing my emissions…

See, I was so in charge, I...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Writing on the Walls

Connections rushing everywhere…
Whereupon time crushes connections
we soothsayers smooth not sooth
Soothsaying soothes no truth we
desire not to hear, despite the message
messengers relate what fear we desire
lost to remain, whatever the cost
...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Poetry on Writing Writing for the Haul

All this writing is nonsense…
just a fishing,
hoping to snag
the biggest catch
or the smallest,
one
that’ll make profundity
useless;
that’ll set new records
for inanity;
that’ll perch upon a wall
eyeing us all;
that’ll mark time
an...

by Scott Michael Potter

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The FourFold of Poetics

I (One, #1)

I stood on top Everest
and painted heaven amongst
not past, not beyond, and not within
the clouds,
for I knew not many could find my heaven
since the tendency is to seek literal
to cultivate esoteric and ineffable
to convert...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Breathing in and Breathing out Mythology

If ever you should by chance encounter some snakes copulating
lest like Tiresias androgyny you start advocating
seek not the counsel of even the wisest of deities
and instead breathing deeply into shallow vales
where rattles give their place...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Horus Forgave Prometheus

Driving into an area
where the sun drapes darkened benches
when the moon’s lost its light to campfires
when I learn-see again…
Underneath the sheen of the Milky Way
herein fairies roam and dwell;
for, they seek something similar strange…
...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Untyped Scribble Circa Bachelard Studies at PGI

Water is the unconscious,
is the unbridled creativity,
the field of dreams—
all run one into another,
as in the interconnectedness and interpenetratingness of the Helixical Fractality of Life—,
is the nourisher of life and the sap in the...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Humor on Notes

Trees of Socrates
Untie the current
tongue of Socrates
to see why we covet the trees
to their bleak destinies
of forests absent

absent/present
unloose/unleash/untie

Deftnitions
Dogmatic: The ability to “walk the dog” in an automatic...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Shivers Dancing Bumpy Waves Crash Skin Crests [A Peach Orchard Transformation Sibling Dedication]

Standing lonelier than midnight indigo light,
arms clench tightly sides as if hugging for life….

Would you see my nearly spent peach-hued aura
while biting large fleshy chunks from overspilling bushels
of hand-dwarfing, fuzzy-burgundy-clad,
...

by Scott Michael Potter

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February’s Backyard Urban Red Fox

Patchwork tufts ruffling gusts
puffy belly icy slides
Crying plies past to present
reddish lady lays on sides
Gliding gazes maybe trusts
musts, swollen teats make...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Counting Breathlessness

Count the ways to breathlessness…let me
They alwaysalready begin with Sweetness…
Add a dash of C Rose and mind whirring stirringnesses
palpable, click buttons to time those breaths; lest
we test no theory well enough to say it’s three or four;...

by Scott Michael Potter

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LIFE FLOWS....

flows headwaters
fountains of youth
babbling brooks stream
joining creeks and cricks
to form soothing roaring rivers
whitewaters shattering boulders
unto sloughs and breakwaters
bubbling over and tussling with brine
salty wombwaters...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Bouquet for You

I ponder whether heather or no,
light as a feather in whatever weather,
fairies glow hither thither
even more amongst the lavender
over yonder therever...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Death Brings Renewal

A death drive seeks renewal…

What happens in-between?

The in-between is the import:
to individuate is of utmost importance!

One cannot focus entirely upon New
or else Death and Renewal are given short shrift!

Yet to focus on Death or...

by Scott Michael Potter

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CRAIG ALAN POTTER

Taken awful soon to remember
All his faults and skills
Often did we dawdlers make jokes
Especially fond of the aberrant
As deep as moments allowed we’d poke
While not worrying over love or rent
For our dallying crafted timber
Amidst forest...

by Scott Michael Potter

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ThereHereNow: If You Had Only Seen Me Then….

There, squatting at the precipice of abysmal dark chaos—
squatting massive weight in atlasian obeisance;
precipice-edged graying matters not;
abysmal dark as nothing with existence showed;
chaos for no fractality emergence henceforth grew;
...

by Scott Michael Potter

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A Soul Cards Series Revisited 2022

Sweetness re-membered, stillsitting…quietlaughingly recalls standdancing…tastes
Ambrosia aromatically rises enspiriting past landmind-wastes
Flat lines overcome, tolling screeches roaring tonalities thrice normally
Perforce, wherefrom hail does,...

by Scott Michael Potter

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1 in 20 have an Extra rib

So, Adam gave a rib to aid in Eve’s creation,
and now we have moved too far from Eden…
Therefore, we see a prevalence of anomalies,
such as extra ribs and fingers, and whatnot…
Should we see this as something physical or scientific,
then...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Dreaming Whenwhatcomes

Listening intently laying quieted
Strings and quarks strum and hum
Dreaming vividly a small community forms
Flowers multivariant bloom and glow
Chicory blue butterflies flit and alight
To dusky rose hibiscus they flock
As skirting surround do...

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Ode to Catherine

Catherine you move me and to what end or to where or how much more
Is unknown and scary yet enthralling, fairly altering but exciting
It feels virgin to me hence Catherine not Cathy feels right
In these moments, and upon angelic harmonious waves ...

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Part Western European Says 23 & Me

I wuz rushin and rushin and rushin…
The only place that got me…
Ural Sea—
Ain’t nowhere y’all wanna...

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The We That Is Us That Is You That Is Me

You on top of me…
I could hear, see, taste,
talk, feel, think, sense,
build, perceive, emote,
support, create, uplift, greet,
chance, smell…nothing more,
as if some graybeard Greek,
spouting unintelligibly
did speak but one
clear...

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There Too We

Too languidly did I lay
like a triangular memory
become ode to Elsewise

There reposed midst deep shadows
Wandering in abiding stillness
by your hot breath...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Alwaysevermore my "disappears" muse...

Tears well
and, well,
as seeking well
or good
looses its import
and significance
on how its food
dances better
to this and that
for the hat
now worn
is tattered
and worn
nowise fitter
forewarning prattle
impending flatter
...

by Scott Michael Potter

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EZPZ Duz It

Rattle rattle rattle charmer
Leave a handling by the by
For more gentle snakes such as...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Eating My Tail

Herein is the uroboric return
Move downward spiral within
Grooves etched echo the downturn
Begin improving after the tailspin

--by Scott Michael Potter...

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From Within the Without of Yggdrasil the World Tree

Fondly hang thee witless nine nights
wee the dawn tickles the upmost boughs;
hang thee well and upside down;
see thee into inevitable breakdown;
see thee into the eye that e’er floats below;
read the meaded messages even though they flow;
read...

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From the Mouths of Babes

Infants speaking in ancient tongues heft the weft
Left bereft on the loom of arcane weavers
Leavers of the clothing of original ones
Wondrous fabrics of rainbowed hues
Humors would not allow done garments instants

--by Scott Michael Potter...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Disassembled Beingness

Once upon a time there were three no we’ll make it four, little bits of time running a race that actually paralleled that of an anaconda digesting its large prey; a grizzly hibernating on a bighorn; a swan singing in sunlit daisies in...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Fanciful Imaginings…

In the beginning of light within the dark and dryness in the moisture,
Four cougars craved solace and while crouching on lily pads
They suddenly were transformed into lotuses,
Which many deities and their devotees noticed.

Millennia later,...

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Excerpted from I'M DEAD—Osiris

The cadaver horizon is a mountainscape
that spreads from my eyebrows across the world
spanning outward evermore,
for death is everpresent within everpresent life,
and so it is not purely chaotic
to see in my death the death of all
and within...

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Soothsaying Necromancer

Seeing shades of death wash over, all around are touched by its dank feathers
Rancid, the smell of rotting death, swooners'd sooner fair better than be necromancer;
Yet none there is who has escaped this fiend called death whom some refer to as...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Seeking Fresh Searching True

Seeking, ever seeking, who is this searcher I sometimes call me?
Is this searcher more aptly called myself?
Or perhaps the searcher would prefer self?
What if the searcher should see its way to Self?
Other times, this searcher definitely seems...

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Soul Companion Whole Reunion

In the finding of the souls
A mixture of love and remembrance overwhelms

It is the strangeness of being one
Before one knows the other
Before one sees the other
But as one has been with the other

It is a reunion

Give me that new love
...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Sown Words Drown Swords

Moving through reeds on the edges of each cool pool
what was carrion has risen anew with mewl
The leaved poetry on trees viewed as a macule
speaks passion only sweetly wafting past the fool
who instead of hearing all sees but majuscule

--by...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Watery Creature

Changing skin for clothes
and rending teeth for toothy smiles
a wedding soon ensues to treasure.
Skin secreted in hidden chest awhiles
where hearts beat much less
but whose pounding for fear of founding
leave detectable scents nonetheless
...

by Scott Michael Potter

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Weaving Becomingness

Clotho once wove a weave so fine,
so exquisite,
its rainbowed hues left none
witnessing it without tears.

The fabric entwined
that thus clothed
the heroes who donned it
throughout the eons,
protected them from harm
and allowed them access...

by Scott Michael Potter

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What

What is not how or why or when or even where
What finds itself distinctly separate
from the above more temporalities and moralities,
as attempting to define some element
of truth in beingness in quality
in order to describe
the is-ness
of...

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Unconscious Love

I glimpse you peripherally and I yearn to hold you, to crush you nearer.
I espy you across the courtyard, amidst the falling leaves;
resplendently dressed in their last hurrah—your beauty outshines them.
I see you in the vanity mirror, but as I...

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Why Sky

A Salmon sky is one for fishing
Especially if one hauls romance

Whereas a Peach sky tends to influence melancholia
For all the bittersweet memories of past bountiful fall...

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