Sunrasmoondog's Poems

Here's the list of poems submitted by sunrasmoondog  —  There are currently 166 poems total — keep up the great work!

silent winds

Silent winds

Within the silence of silent winds
and the blowing of the wind wind

Grounded in winters solace
The mind turns as the earth

Through eternal mystery unfolding
The sound of rain falling from a silent sky
Remembering becomes...

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Open to a recieving sun

Open to a recieving sun

Softly swaying grass
bending in the gentle wind
Between the lonely
blades of green and the stars above

 
descend into living of the grass
roots that sleep beneath the waking times

 
in the fragile music of our...

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Tender is the air

Tender is the air

Tender as the air around us
Song of winds that shake
The barley from its grain
Open quietly to the winter of our lives

 
Drying leaves swirl under naked foot
Shadows rise
Which none could see
Singing in the winds of time...

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Pilmigrages to ourselves

Pilmigrages to ourselves

From earth to leaf to branch
Going in its coming
It forms its curves on edge of time
And ghostly shadows in the air
That shed their lives anew

 
Like leaves in fall
We watch their dance
in the place of our...

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Through the substance of our lives

Through the substance of our lives

Awake in our sleep
we sleep to wake in our dreams
Through the substance of our lives

 
Slow moving Hands tilted
toward the filtered light
Reveal deep set lines
and shadows that speak with age

 
potted...

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Timeless resurrections

Timeless resurrections
Set free amidst the rising tides
Crystal light moves
Like symphonic notes of music
dancing on the waters edge

 
Highlights of colored leaves
In brightness of their reflections
On the winded breeze
leave thier traces...

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Boundless fields between the stars

Boundless fields between the stars

Among the ceders of wild woods
Spring flowers among the hills
To wake to stop and listen

 
to Eyes that open to a living world
where fields of green are turning

 
between the boundless hills
and water...

by Ronald Tirino

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Frozen stillness

Frozen stillness

Amongst Frozen stillness
In breathless breath
Along the winding road
Of woundering lanes

 
Adrift in mystery of our lives
Voiceless voice of our times
Speak as streams that rise
To the paths beside it

 
Peace wakens...

by Ronald Tirino

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Falling leaves

Falling leaves

In the air of falling leaves
The woods woke without a sound

 
Shadows lived far away in
The quiet of the day

 
Reaching shadows turn
Slowly off the edge
In a place of simple things

 
Where buds asleep open to the morning...

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Memories of progress

Memories of progress

From narrow lives
We come and go
Replied with tender hands
In its handling

 
Living through that which persist
And has survived anew
The loving things we try to save
Inherited habitats of our world
Through Memories
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Wilderness within

Wilderness within
The grains of sand
And the palces of their living being

 
Opens slow to become
in its becoming
All that’s ment to be

 
Falling water over fallen rocks
Spray of freshness through moving light

 
Moistened mosses cling in...

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Frozen rain

Frozen rain

From the droplets of frozen rain
Over rocks and running fields
Through the streams and rolling rivers
To the raging of open seas

 
Evaporated into clustered clouds
Come full cycle again
From all that’s one in all
From seed to...

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Within the entry of our departures

Within the entry of our departures

In the face of faceless selves
Something
coming as in Its going
beyond entry of its departure

 
footprints fade with the wind

 through the surface of its beginning

 
beyond the depth of recognition
...

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Forgetting flowers

Forgetting flowers

As the flower forgets
within Its form
and its growing

Comes to life
Seeing in its being
Figurations displayed in the
Outlines of its waking

 
Among the atoms of the space between
Through the moments of here and...

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Perfected imperfections

Perfected imperfections

Minds move without its moving
Beyond the memories of today

 
Shadow of daylight
Surrounds the silence

 
Outside changes from within
See the changes of our lives

 
Coherent understanding
Of shapeless shapping
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Living seeds

Living seeds

Living seeds beyond beginning of its end
Form transcend dispersed in the subjects of its object
It becomes a microcosm of itself

 
Mosaics inarticulate
as the living eye
designs of color and form
leaves delicately traced
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Within the thresholds of our humanity

Within the thresholds of our humanity

Washed in the threshold of our humanity
Amid in the kindness of posibilities

 
Empty handed with held out hands
In the need of all that’s needed
Led to where we all once started
To the beginning of its...

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Among the shadows of our past

Among the shadows of our past

Open amid its opening
we walk among the shadows of our past
Among the new beginnings
Lifting as to a place anew

 
Flowers cling in clefts undone
In the marbled stones
Vacated places find their nich
In the...

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Memories of winter's past

Memories of winter's past

The empty space of created place
Natural in its wilderness
Among the wasted tides
Growing free sings anew

 
Twisted spiraling foilage
bursting color and design
the ground alive beneath our feet
through memories...

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The greening of the grass

Through the Fields of greening grass
Where seagulls calls are calling
Flowers blooming through fragrant breeze
the Seasons came with stillness
as though it never left

 
beyond form or the figure
within shadows of a dream distilled

 
soft...

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Through the center of our lives

Through the center of our lives

Wildflowers in bloom
Through its center of the flower
Petals reach out to sky
off the wings of pegasus
in flight

blue bird fly through the chills of night
blue bird sing in the light of our day
Sing blue...

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Nature in it's place

Nature in its place
Shadows dancing on the walls
through the dreams of dreamt remains
We reclaim the day
Visions in the valleys
Sustaining journey
Beyond the thought of...

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morning comes to life

Morning comes to life
Dust settles on the open road
Earth rise from the stillness
behind setting suns

 
Flower petals open lotuses traced in wisper's
that fall like snowflakes amidst the cotton fields
shadows of dreams leave footprints in...

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In the waking sleep

In the waking sleep

In the unshaped wholeness the sleeping wakes
Over floods of torrent streams
Empty to the mind and stones of time

 
Through clouds in sunlit haze
Held its quite solitude
In the silence of the storm

 
Images of shapeless...

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Alone to our distractions

Alone to our distractions

Alone to the sounds of distraction
The hums of voiceless voices
Awake the sleeping child of our souls
Under the stillness of ourselves
That speak before it speaks

 
We walked the empty streets
We woke to the...

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Accross the bridge of time

Accross the bridge of time

across the bridge of time we roam the labyrinth
of a dream.
Narrow streets of twisted steel
covered in ash and shadows.

In the stillness
everything retreats into silence of dreams, amid
facades of broken...

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Mannequin in a store front window

Mannequin in a store front window
Lifeless frozen
Without strings or puppet master
Looking out as if looking in

Through the Still quietness of the day
Behind the framing glass
With coal black eyes
Looked deep within mine to my very soul

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Imaginative circles

Imaginative circles
Stories within the story
Through surfaces we walk

Within The stillness of mirrored skies
To see the radiance
Reflected to that radiance
Within the born in me that
Comes through you

Like water among the pebbled stones
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by Ronald Tirino

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In the continuum of being

in a continuum of being
detached observation
Through the hearts of time

Between the outer and the inner
Between the space between
Single moon simple note
Reflected in each drop of rain
Casts its shadows
Off reflected pools
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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis
Shedding the skin
Reborn within itself
Spiraling coils unwind
unto themselves
through the flexible
transcendence
Of original transformation

From the organic integrity
Structure is reveled
Awakening to new minds
To...

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Within the darkness

Within the darkness

Raging within the darkness
Within the shadows of lifting fog
Where madness of imagination meet
Out of lifes dark trenches

Transformed in alchemy of forces
Within the haunting nobility
Of terrifying beauty
The price is...

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Instructions

Instructions

instructed by how things are
Effected by the living day
Within the spirit that
Slays the dragon within our dreams

To find the spring within
The childhood innocence of man
Quietly it wakes

Open to its presence of what can...

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Shapes of a flame

Shapes of a flame
Reflected in its shadow
Eternal formless forms of
Raining light

Through its breathless breath
Rising from its sleep
Dawn breaks through
Stillness of
Mists lifting from
The morning fog

Raindrops flow
Through rivers of...

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Whispering shadows

Whispering shadows
Paths accrues through endless shores of time

 Reach out to the edge of the sea

We roam adrift till
Bridges crossed to find
That which we do not know

Mountains in the distance yet to climb
Through dark caverns of...

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Death mask A requiem for another self

Death mask
A requiem for another self

For we who wear the mask
and what depths reside within
when the two becomes the one
of what is dead or real

 
We who make the masks
the images drawn
to transcend the mortality of man

 
The kinds of...

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Gated fences

Gated fences
ephemeral places of being
where nothing rests
amidst its living lives

Effortless entery
into fading shadows of forever
invoke modes of knowing
toward transcending meaning

Mysterious ether in
music of the mind
remove the...

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The mighty Hudson

The mighty Hudson
autumn returns giving
mosaic splashes of colors
against the crags of rocks

On sculpted cliffs behind the rolling hills
faces molded in ragged stone
reflected off the waters edge
recede in cascades
of river tides

Up...

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Wetlands

Wetlands
Natural reefs
barriers protecting shores
fragile as a blowing leaf on a gentle wind

 
Winged migration
nesting birds amidst the Chrystal shores
on tired wings toward destinations

A rest stop of yearly rounds
wild geese soar in...

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In the ghetto of the mind

In the ghetto of the mind

Through the smell of lonely streets
sight from our eyes of silent thoughts
take away our fears

The tarnished cities beyond the shinning hills
cities swank against emerald coves
where island darkness meets
that of...

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Wonders unseen

Wonders unseen
the mysteries remain
cycle’s rhythms
of earthly rites

 
Sun rain moon and stars

 
The grass that grows on ancient stone
the seed that sown to feed a world
rain blossoms open before the dawn
plum fragrant spring
upon the...

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Ivory scrimshaw

Ivory scrimshaw
Carved in delicate lines
dissolving music of silent wounds
to mystic chords of memory

 
Through the valley of our lives
the clock stands silent on the wall
arousing breath of the soul

 
The roots and leaves that quiver on...

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Against the gentle wind

Against the gentle wind

A brush of the wind against the face
a touch of a baby’s hand
warm rain of the eastern wind
intimate smells of fresh picked apples

 
Layers of liquid voices of silence
images rise from t he self
receptive to their...

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Exiled in alienation

Exiled in alienation
of our wasting lives
loss of community that never was
through the circles of this wheel of life
that which coils around
ephemeral ripples
beneath our feet
peels away the onion skins

 
Through the tides of roaming tides
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The simplicity of structures

The simplicity of structures
which there needs do serve
comforting rhythms of the
spoken word

The connecting centers of
living things
scatter the seeds from winded seas
nature in their element

To the fields of harvest moons
harnessed to...

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The light the moon the tides

The light the moon the tides

Liquid silver moons rise
with which the wind embraces
the Ripples beneath our feet

 
Open ourselves to ourselves
a hunger unknown to itself
hold on to the day
elusive and rare
the world around and within
...

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To give a lie to reason

To give a lie to reason
that we
not it could be a constant

 
Roused from the sleepless rest
of uncertainty and mysterious doubt

 
Stenciled shadows on lighted walls
possibilities between us
and the nature of our lives
assimilate a love...

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A lesson taught

A lesson taught

Teach us to be human beings once again
teach us to care and be humane
if such things could make us sane

 
Images awake the soul of man
and a world begins to heal
through winds that blow
through hearts despair
between...

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The place inside the self

The place inside the self
absence of place
invisible to our times
indigenous aliens amongst ourselves
outside of inside looking in
to ephemeral spheres of universes
infiltrate the barriers
of hollow spaces within the mind

 
River sands...

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Breaking bread

Breaking bread
where ever three or more are gathered in the name
there is love

Come and join our circle and break this bread
of sacrament
for those who hunger for more than food
come and share this bread

In the beginning there was the...

by Ronald Tirino

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The resistance

The resistance
they walked proudly in
the brightness of that day

Comrades in arms
with flags held high
in unity of solidarity
beneath the barricades
under a flaming sun

Two percent stood that day
against the odds
they won the day and
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Disneyland Facades

Disney land facades
octane optimism behind the
parody of smiling faces
imprinted on the human mind

In the cult of consumer condemnation
ubiquitous facades of branding
to a language of their own

Air conditioned nightmares
of the empty...

by Ronald Tirino

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Echoes of the canyons

Echoes of the canyons

stars drift across the timeless skies
deep contemplating silence
traveling moons in breathless breath

 
Waking knowledge of the universe
I will never know
echoes the stillness of the soul

 
To the fields beyond the...

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Dream time for an ancient land

Dream time for an ancient land
and its native people
songs of the aborigines in the
land of forgotten time

Deep in inner caves
ancient paintings
hand prints sprayed on stone
murals of another time
layers upon layers of when time began
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To touch a life yet known

To touch a life yet known

Create a ground where
we can reach another shore
for lives that never touch

That which cant be said
the desperate needing whispered
reach out with gentle hands

Silver smooth wings
leap great heights
too close...

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The empty vessel

The empty vessel

To grasp a moment
ephemeral as the wind

To hold it as a measured gift
to mold it from its nothingness
to touch it from its breathingness

A meeting ground
encounters a fragment
which makes it whole

Complexities...

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Voiceless suns against a choral sea

Voiceless suns against a choral sea

Where Voiceless sounds dissolve
and have the strength to be found
the shrouded veils through gleaming suns

The tarnished stone
in December frost
against the blazing suns

 amidst a choral sea

Green...

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We walked the stillness of ourselves

We walked in the stillness of ourselves
alone to the sounds of distraction
the hums of voiceless voices
awake the sleeping child of our souls
under the stillness of ourselves
that speaks before it speaks

 
We walked the empty streets
we woke...

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To that which calms the winds of time

To that which calms the waters and wind of time
light tastes of morning mist
grey smoke rises across a moving sea
our work remains undone

Cloudless skies behind a crimson sun
shivering moons under a liquid sky
the face of peace
on wanting...

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Journey of a thousand dreams

Journey of a thousand dreams

Gather strength
the journey begins

Through milestones
horizons unknown
on the rising wind

Those who fall along the way
to the bitter taste left behind
and the scorching earth

Yet we rise to face the day
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Waking from the morning rains

from the morning rain

Light splashed
sun on the morning grass
through the Second flaming
of their youth

Sitting in the stillness of semi dark
on crumpling notes of tattered pages
the blotted ink runs off the page
dries up the...

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Triangle fire in Bangladesh

Triangle fire in Bangladesh
how many have to die to make the cloths we ware
died in the dying flames
of hot cramped rooms

Swirling smoke and flames
locked in dark lit dusty air of night
chained to their work
they sweat at their sewing...

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All Labor has dignity

All labor has dignity

Brown paper bagged lunches
with a cup of Joe
sitting on a counter with a waitress
standing over
rolled up newspaper in back pocket

Worn down shoes
that walk the back streets across the tracks
they earn the bread...

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Geometry of the mind

Geometry of the mind

 
Through the scaffolds of logic
between the skeletons of structure
to factor into reframes of schematic data
grasping ever higher

Converging lines meet pinnacles of tilted lines
hexagonal spires reach upward
receding...

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In the shadow of Tom Joad

In the shadow of Tom Joad

 
Pushed, pushed till there ain’t no more to push
moving to find work to the edge of the sea

up against the walls of life

some of them born on it
some of them died on it
fought and worked on it
it’s that which...

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Cherry blossoms in Brooklyn

Cherry blossoms in Brooklyn

 
Black birds perched on thin black lines
sing to sounds of sakahachi flute
crooked branches trembling
reach out to endless skies

pink with blossom that fall like snow
Portraits of wet blackened trunks
under a...

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Lost in New York

Lost in New York

Brechtian
city of Mahogonny
within the city of jungles
we make our way

The gilded city of Gotham
Sketched forests of the mind
Find solace under subterranean
Metal cells of human life

Thundering rattling cages
Scream...

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In the Profits of lost souls

In the profits of lost souls

A twenty first century global order
where paper trails all but disappear
and trade moves at light speed through

Complex numbers and feedback loops of uncertainty
in a blink of an eye companies can die
and...

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Profits of lost souls

In the profits of lost souls

A twenty first century global order
where paper trails all but disappear
and trade moves at light speed through

Complex numbers and feedback loops of uncertainty
in a blink of an eye companies can die
and...

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Abandoned soldiers

Abandoned soldiers

Rows of white crosses
headstones without names
silent winds without
in the autumn of our day
where memories fade away
exhausted used up thrown away
they come home

Against the city streets of angel stares
unnoticed...

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Prairies of the desert sun

Prairies of the desert sun


 
Crimson sunsets speak to ancient ghosts
amidst the swirling dust
Time stands still under purple shadows
In gardens of the desert sun

Boundless space of open beauty
Stream through all your senses
Vastness...

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Salutation to mother earth

Salutation to mother earth

Power of the seed unborn in native sun

Touch the earth with gentle hand

Feel its living soul


Place your palms on waters edge

Breath deep rejoice as one

Drop pebbles into still waters

That ripples out...

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Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

 
Cathedrals in a timeless sky
under her gothic arches
we walk its wooden paths
under a setting sun

Birds that nest through rigged lines
amidst thunder of traffic and river flows
sun in the sky water below
city to...

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Montauk Point

Montauk Point

Ridge sides slope amidst the ancient seas
grass sown seed from storm winded shores
lighthouse beacons light the shores
laden seaweeds on ragged rocks meet the crashing seas
driftwood grey smoothed lines in withered age
lay...

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California Condors

California condors

 
Gather on rocky crags
perched high off Monterey
in wild Winds

 born in flight they soar
and glide in circled air

Through urban plight they
did persist
Reborn to new heights
off mountain cliffs of...

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Platonic caves

Platonic caves
ephemeral distortions of change
where surreal grounding melts

Grasping for meaning
mankind left wayside alone in silence
amidst the living corpses

Reaching out to the emptiness
of brave new worlds
layers of contradicting...

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Thoughts where silence springs

Thoughts where silence springs
on the shores of Maine
playing on the sands and sea around us
she touched the earth and it touched her back and let it s
words direct her

She looked beneath the sea and rocks
she came to see the joys of life
...

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A few of my favorite things

A few of my favorite things

Looking at paintings of Cezanne Rembrandt van Gogh and Rodin
thinking of their lives and of their times
of where and when they painted
of why and of who they where with
These are a few of my favorite things

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The modern gleaners

The modern gleaners

Postmodern standardized cities
ubiquitous high rises of steel and glass
concrete jungles of commerce
of buying and selling
trading moving vibration
amidst the turmoil of the bustling day
are the invisible ones

The...

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Song of the mystic whaler

Song of the mystic whaler

Come on board to play and work
come on board to learn to sing and praise the mystic whaler
sailing on the mighty Hudson

Come sing the mystic whaler
hoist the ropes rig the lines climb her wooden masts
ready to...

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To our healing earth

To our healing earth

The earth that heals the sin sick soul

The trees that breathe the living air
The sea that breaks the morning dew
within the rising of moon and stars
that shine of setting suns in golden hues

The masks of reason...

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A labyrinth of a dream

A labyrinth of a dream

Across the bridge of time we roam the labyrinth
of a dream. Narrow streets of twisted steel
covered in ash and shadows.
In stillness

Everything retreats into silence of pain, amid a
facade of broken pillars left...

by Ronald Tirino

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Persistance of a dream

Persistance of a dream

I drempt a dream to dream a dream once more
Reflections on lipid pools of tears
where shadows stand still and there's no resistance
to time. Where doubts sailed away on ripples toward
the sea. To dream this dream once...

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Sacred winds on ancient pines

Sacred winds on ancient pines
Ceremonial prayer for mother earth

Winded pine in covered snow
withered bark of trembled song
whose roots its strength is given

From fires past its seeds were cast from
fallen cones that did unwind in...

by Ronald Tirino

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Of ancient shrines

Of Ancient shrines rise Prometheus
where buttressed walls crumble in the minds eye
we take our dance of cosmic chance

Colder shades then open seas in praise of life we seek
we leave it to microbial dust and enrich the mind
in symbolic rhyme
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The gentle light

The gentle light that sings and heals
in the midday sun
when angle rays dance
amidst the winded trees

The orchestra awakes
to a chorus of voices
within the silent sounds

The dancing of whispering leaves
that crackle in the wind
the...

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Between the labyrinths of time and space

Between labyrinths of time and space
There is a place
Past the dialectics of absurdity reflect the being of nothingness
There is a dream
Where orbs of Chrystal spheres dance to symphonies of pure delight
There is a sound
Echoed through canyon...

by Ronald Tirino

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Journey to ourselves

Journey to ourselves

Like a journey to find ourselves and inner source
finding friends along the way
to find the selfless courage and strength to be
in this light of day

Between the worlds of good and bad
beyond what was and is to be
to...

by Ronald Tirino

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Upon the turning wheel

Upon the turning wheel

Silken white and wet with clay
Delicate fingers cover the softened form of day
Like a whisper it molds the breath of life

With sculptures hands on a turning wheel it brings a form to life
Passing through the gardens...

by Ronald Tirino

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To a guilded age

To a guilded age

Within the gilded age
spirit of men oppressed and dead
compelled to order that which is not

Tyrannical power and wars that never end
defeat corrupting souls grow out
of treasured lust entrenched in rust
in end will be all...

by Ronald Tirino

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Ode to whats been lost

Ode to what’s been lost

Discarded Protocols and broken treaties
that were of our past
what things we’ve lost and might not gain again
why no one spoke or took refrain

We had come so far to keep us sane
we had a compass to keep us steady
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by Ronald Tirino

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Drawn into the maze

Drawn into the maze
days persued its chases
in labyrinths ways
chart less paths emeshed with
darkened strain within
the living life you’ve entered

multiplicity of moving days
footsteps tred in thresholds nearing
silent hues left standing
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Looking deep

Looking deep

Deep looking
Past broken images of broken
Mirrors within the changing change
Of here and now

Quiet resistance without
Conditioned response
Distills the mind from wondering
Expressions experienced
Knowledge of knowing
We...

by Ronald Tirino

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Thoughts arise

Thoughts arise

Thoughts arise thoughts descend
Bridges made reaching
Clarity of open doors

Universal dynamics leave
Sensations of aliveness
In its unfolding presence of being
Within the formations of defining
Within the pathless lands
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Zest for life

Zest for life

Zest of living one discovers
Inspired by life’s demonstrations

Beyond the desolated wastelands
within wintered caverns frozen
oppressed body of its mind
outside visions
where gleams of hope are found

thresholds on new...

by Ronald Tirino

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Open hearts

Open hearts

Hearts are opened
Within ones heart
Constellations boundless
with vast radiance's binding
formless forms evolve in changing change

through lucid haze
delicate light transcends
as solemn clouds descend
amidst the blue lit...

by Ronald Tirino

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Trust

Trust
Within the sensed visions
Which the universe is dreamed

Into yourself now entered
Within it finds its center
Truth when found shall last forever

Minds together and unfettered
Unite to make things whole

Life’s perpetual hold on...

by Ronald Tirino

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Light of hope

Light of hope

Light of our hope
Which dreams today
Within these days of future past

Outstretched knots unwind
Misty shrouds unveil
As sunbeams break the silver clouds

Place of searching hearts once found
Remains the day forever
In the...

by Ronald Tirino

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The rocking waves past golden dreams

The rocking waves
Past golden dreams
Stars in thousands dreaming

Morning winds sway
Gently on mirrored wings
Endows moments within its presence

Restores for wonderer's within the herd
Wasted away within our empty dreams
We our future...

by Ronald Tirino

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Within the aspects of our being

Within the aspects of our being
Thirsty in the desert
Alone within our aloneness
For seeing eyes veiled within
The darkened rain
Ravaged in its restoration

Memories bound
Conditions turn
Existing open hearts
With our open minds
To...

by Ronald Tirino

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Open roads

Open roads

Where broken paths seemed closed
Open roads spring anew

Crystal castles vibrate
World as stage
Within the hero’s rage

Anvils sparks engaged
Where steel is forged
Within the alchemy of
Burning flames

Tormented on threads
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Earth within its seeds

Earth within its seed
Blooming buds respond
Between morning dawns of
The rising suns

Eternal warmth within
The living womb
Speaks for us today

Infinite grasping reach
Languished lives put on hold
Flowers amidst the grasses green
And...

by Ronald Tirino

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Talents hidden

Talents hidden

Reflected on ones talents hidden
Yearns to find ones way to go
Within the worlds we know
Between objective unknowns
of subjective known’s
Perceptive to its elements
mastered needful inclinations
through journeys deep and...

by Ronald Tirino

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The skies unfolded

The skies unfolded

Mist that clouds the air we breathe
within the skies withholding
and myriads folds enfolding

Endeavors reached for
light within forever now’s
quiet stillness accepts anew
truths unwoven through veils unsealing

Breath...

by Ronald Tirino

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morning wakes the day

Morning wakes the day

Morning comes and wakes the day
to new beginnings coming
refreshed enraptured in its way
we rise to face today

Receding changing flow
over head within the sky
through soaring joys in play

Sea clouds converging
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Whispering voices

Whispering voices

Whispering voices withheld
Treasured time through
Threads we weave
Within the tapestry of life

World within the talking streets
Dark hills shadows cast
Beyond the trees

Arrows passions
Within fire of its blood
Seen...

by Ronald Tirino

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Natures way

Natures way

Pains relieved through
Nature’s ways
morning wake’s to flowers blooming
Spirits wane as waters flow
Hearts desires restored

Through the surging crowds
Its fears tormented fade away
Light of day pierce the skies
Seekers...

by Ronald Tirino

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Modes of a thousand minglings

Modes of a thousand mingling
Distilled within itself
All forms within their structure
None equates without the other

All is one and of the other
Within it’s every things of nothings
Through progression evolved its being
Forms its flower in...

by Ronald Tirino

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The universe extended

The universe extended

Universe in exultation's
Extending elation's within its past
Distances beyond our reach today
We dream the dream of dreamers
Within the stars of seeds and light
Animated colors energized
Between labyrinths of time and...

by Ronald Tirino

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Within the here of now

Within the here of now

Within this life of here and now
The trumpet sounds do call
To all which must be rendered
When deeds of action speaks

Within these words composed
Engendered where there found
Words found them in their grounding
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Invited light

Invited light

Invited light I bequeath you
To light our darkened paths today
Lightly traces of moving hands entranced
Within its loving stands

Impelling grasps its whispers sound
Struggles free its bounded chains
To live the life that’s...

by Ronald Tirino

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In the waving of the corn

In the waving of the corn

In waves of corn maturing
Within the fields of wheat

Anguished crosses
of which we bare
to truth needs telling
before life’s alters comming

Silence broken before its dawn
freed its travelers in
well of...

by Ronald Tirino

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Shores where life is thriving

Shores where life is thriving
Refresh us once again
Dunes where winds are blowing
That cleans its sands away
Grows eternal within its lines
Above the stars still shine

Where active minds do dwell
And rest when need to rest

From the self...

by Ronald Tirino

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Twilights dawn

Twilights dawn

Twilight dawn drifted
Past our wandering shores
What’s near is far
What’s far is near
Within our reaching grasps

Impressions verge
To heights unknown
Dark of black
Where mirrored light emerges

Reflected within its...

by Ronald Tirino

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In the light of day

In the light of day

Ventured in the light of day
Flowered meadows in still lit beauty
Shrink away our torrent rains

Lived as in its starting
Its fate within life’s closing
With ourselves and all around us
Light within its dark without

...

by Ronald Tirino

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Within the sleeping gates

Within the sleeping gates

Darkness pierced past sleeping gates
In light its shinning light awakens
Thought of sense it’s willing needed
Leaped transformed transcending’s
Past its future callings

We tread a thousand threads responding
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Footprints left behind

Footprints left behind

The soul of which
within its nature lends
lets its force remake us
from what’s here rekindled
through the rights of man

Eternal living action
breathed from living breath
becomes that which never rests

Constant...

by Ronald Tirino

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City scapes

City scapes
Street lamps awake slowly to its rhythm’s
Silver neon’s reflecting electric cold heat
Phosphorescent shadows echo from
The still night off the black streets of tomorrow

Blighted tenements amidst the
Bleak gardens of despair
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Epitaphs on floating winds

Epitaphs cling on floating winds
Etched along footprints in entangled seas
Vanishing ironies of Geothean dreams
within the cultured civil silence of men
condemned within the raging times
between the relative of absolutes
Contingent within its...

by Ronald Tirino

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Within these meadows

Within these meadows
bathed in living light
Swarming pollen carried along
Waves of air descend in dance
Within the silent winds

Dissolved in breaths behind us
Temple ruins left to past
Behind the burning skies
Empty cities where clouds...

by Ronald Tirino

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Fertile seas

Fertile seas of formless forms
Through the tides and current breeze
Within the bleached
Opaque sterility of the day

existential paradoxes of cultured states
beyond the walls we build today
will turn to dust within their play

disconnected...

by Ronald Tirino

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Interior Gardens

gardens within our minds
in the epoch of our existence
trembling grasses beneath our feet
to that which dies before its living

nurtured soil left to dry
within the everywhere of nowhere
outside the inside of our humanity
survived...

by Ronald Tirino

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Within the times of hopes and fears

Within the times of hopes and fears
Struggling suns yet to rise
Amidst the curdling waxen light
From the golden dawns we stand
In the distance future fades on
The setting silver of its moons
We rise to face another day

From the systems we...

by Ronald Tirino

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Summets peak

Summets peak

Here we are and here we stand
Let’s look around and make our plans
And hope our deeds are met

City that teaches within its
Trenches of how it is
Cosmic worlds that hinder
Truths
Memories forged within its roots
We discover...

by Ronald Tirino

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Within the artists hands

Within the artists
Gentle hands
Palate held of cosmic light
Within the mantle of
Burning ambers
Sensual perceptions
in the ever now
within the worlds we dream

sitting quiet under tree
moon rise behind the night lit sky
on balded...

by Ronald Tirino

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Exile of an independent mind

Exile of an independent mind

From the solitude of silenced voices
Rising springs arise anew
Roots run deep
Within the sanctuary of our lives

 
Arriving without its coming
Beyond the dark and light
Emerge through earth and rock

 
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Detroit Flint Michigan

DETROIT
Flint Michigan

Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid neon city lights

Highways...

by Ronald Tirino

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Prisoners of the matrix loaded

Prisoners of the matrix loaded

Cattle within the herd
cages within the slaughter
Profiteers prey upon the wounded
Branded comodified beings consumed
In consumption
Led to the plunder of themselves
Within the plotted grids of bondaged earth
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Within these times of wars

Within these times of war

Silence of its terrors calling
Children play within their laughter
Now recedes in cries of torture
Screeching whistles scrap metal clusters
In murderous heat of summers day
rage of violence within helpless calls

...

by Ronald Tirino

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Patient as the quiet light

Patient as the quiet light

Passing through the seasons of our lives
Stories from the ground which
Has yet to turn to dust

 
Morning comes and shapes the day
Silent as the stones at bay
Speak through the passing of absent selves

 
Through...

by Ronald Tirino

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Solitude of passing time

Solitude of passing time

In the valley of its shadow
Trees sway Between
the clashing Branches in the wind

 
That which knows where time is going
In the solitude of passing lives
Between the shadows of our lives

 
clouds free amidst ...

by Ronald Tirino

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Clarity of mind

Clarity of mind

Mind regains its clarity
Trust reborn in the dignity of itself
Reflections through
Its unfinished finishing

 
Passages of time flow like water
in endless circles through
Eternal forms that it creates

 
invisable ...

by Ronald Tirino

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Through the empty blades of grass

Through the empty blades of grass

Through the wide emptiness of
cause in effect of its change
through the matter of reason
where nothing stays

 

 
the earth of the flower in the seed of all
unmade surfaces wild and free
in the stillness...

by Ronald Tirino

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In the wilderness of our hearts

Within the wilderness of our hearts

Returning ashes to the ground
of our beginnings
where weve plotted along the way
and its dust slips away
through our fingers in the wind

 
that which rises from the grasses
from those that are wild
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Songs of lifes creations

Songs of lifes creations

Unborn awareness
Moves and comes to fade
through Endless recognition
brings us here
where earth and mind are one

 
through song of lifes creation
in gift of giving into each
and every moment

 
travel toward...

by Ronald Tirino

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Beneath the opening skies

Beneath the opening of the sky
Lightness of being of unending light
Lost in the history of minds long gone

In the stillness of dawning night
Trembling leaves over time
Fleeting as tattered lights
Through the confines of what we knew

 
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Within the country of our dreams

Within the country of our dreams
Moved by what moves us
to that which we thought it was

 
We dream of a country of our dreams
Opening around the aura of seeds weve sown

 
Lost between the woods of fears
In the silence rose like roots to...

by Ronald Tirino

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Scent of tea in the morning

Scent of tea in morning light
Among the leaves of grass
Sway as birds in flight
On the tapestry of our dreams
Walking paths amid the golden rod

 
Delicate as a feather or living eye
Articulated assembledges
Beyond the speechless shores
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Landscapes of filtered lights

Through landscapes of filtered light
diffused colors in warming tones
rise to crest of hill
along lines of foregrounds yet defined

 
Shaping circles on mounds
of earth and fields
paths open on horizons

 
From its center
fog and clouds...

by Ronald Tirino

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Through the elements of matter

Within the elements of matter
Reintegration within its nature
Beyond the death instincts of our day
Nature speaks to us once more

 
We see ourselves reflected in
Our aliveness
In all its wonders and forms

 
Where essence of creative forces
...

by Ronald Tirino

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City Squares

Claustrophobic city squares

Shadows through lanes
illuminated by cold filtered light
Antique like heads of marbled stone
Conjure up the past

Dreadful voids transformed
in warm lit beauty of the day
caught between the surreal
and...

by Ronald Tirino

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Morning rains

Within the early morning rains
Where Children play
on fresh washed streets
while doves flitter away
slowly in the sun of day

 
along the river’s edge
in the stillness of its tides
paths lead the eye
to thick grain lines
of an old grey oak
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Wild parts within the shadows

Within the wild parts
where we awake
and instinctual self resides

 
Compass points within the circle
of asymmetrical planes
lotus petals rise from earth
in triangles between its opposites

 
Which link in thought of feelings
which drift...

by Ronald Tirino

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Lady of the moon

Lady of the moon

Father Daughter Mother Son
Lady of the moon above
The old man of sea below
Within the things that hold their meanings
Father Son Mother Daughter

 
Flowers in the fields
Where lilies of the valley grow
On rolling green...

by Ronald Tirino

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Gather strength

Gather strength
the journey begins
through milestones
of horizons unknown
on the rising wind

those who fall along the way
to the bitter taste left behind
and the scorching earth
yet we rise to face the day
to go where we need to go

...

by Ronald Tirino

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Day after tomorrow

Day after tomorrow

In the ghostly silence of its deadly quiet
I roamed its empty streets
Through its soft grey carpets of dust
In its depths of still like streets

 
Dream like déjà vu feelings
Surreal unlike what is known
All in its muted...

by Ronald Tirino

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Spirit of the hive

Spirit of the hive

Translucent golden elixir
Held up to flaming sun of day
Nectar of the gods within
The spirit of the hive comes to be

 
Old wooden cases
Through filtered morning light
Peeling paint floats away
slowly in the wind

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by Ronald Tirino

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Into the wild

Recollected memories take us
Again to the origins of our minds

 
Journey into the wilderness
In mechanical denomination
Of nature through efficiency
Of its extinction

 
Illusions of reason ruled
Through the dogma of our times

 
We journey...

by Ronald Tirino

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Asymmetrical circles

From asymmetrical circles
of here and now

 
A white rose left
By the thundering sea
On the sanded shore
Initiates the warming heart
in the navel of our lives

Within the egg of womb
in its original wholeness
Form communities
Built on...

by Ronald Tirino

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Of simple things

Of simple things

Of the simple and ordinary
and objects of our living life
where eagle ox and lion sleep

 
The split within begins to heal
the opposites unite to form its whole
that which is contained within
compartments begin to form as...

by Ronald Tirino

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Dream time

Dream time

The night passes slowly
into the morning of the day
soft body turns to meet the sun

Colors fade bleached by work and rain
worn by age and time
leave temped expressions
through seasons colors
that fly by like breath of angels...

by Ronald Tirino

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Color

Color

Indigo blues
cut out shapes
dance behind mattise like waves
In the light of chagals stained glass
mosaics of light and shade
Reflect impressions of meadows
behind pale blue skies

greening lemons
on glazed white plate
set...

by Ronald Tirino

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Black jaguar

Black jaguar
Solitary loner sleek stealth
and glossy black

Behind its velvet vemeer
against the fading moon
silver yellow glowing eyes
reflect its inner soul

slowing stillness of wispering breaths
in the distance moves like shadows
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Earth Shepherds

Earth shepherds amidst
the amber skies of lifting fog
that shed no tears in lighted day
regains the dignity born
within the dying flames

Bridges crossed to find us here
wandering footsteps on open roads
finding paths lightly tred
we make...

by Ronald Tirino

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Earth is the church

Earth is the drum that sings its song
Through the song of living life
A celebration of presence
In unison of vibrating
harmony to life’s creation

 
its melodies form
deep within the cosmic core
its forces tune its cosmic strings
on lucid...

by Ronald Tirino

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Ghost dance of the white buffalo

Ghost dance of the white buffalo

 
Traditions holding deep
roots to an earthen flesh
ripped out from under bleeding soil

Indigenous aliens exiled to urban schemes
wondering strangers in endangered lands
observe the passing of withered earth...

by Ronald Tirino

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The Fulton fish market

The Fulton fish market

 

 
Day breaks early on the misty water front
the streets wake outside South Street
to sounds of fog horns fading in the distance

Morning comes alive to the music of work
sounds of carts moving opening of gates
...

by Ronald Tirino

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Cezzane

Cezzane

 
In the wakeness of their times
Through evolution of man and art
Paris 1800’s old ways changing fast
To redefine and readapt
And learn to think anew

 
Through the life force of the times
Energetic vigor of lifes debates
To break...

by Ronald Tirino

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Metaphores of pomegranetes

Metaphores of pomegranetes

where the scents of seaweed and periwinkle
amidst the pebble coves
awake life's senses

Wooden boats barnacle crusted
withered in blue grey mist
bathed in a soft morning light
and half sunk into an ancient sea

...

by Ronald Tirino

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Morning at the Met

Morning at the Met

Beyond the stillness and shadows of wooden frames
sat upon the grassy fields looking homeward bound
Christina dreams of worlds to come

Still silent open space
mute soft pastel color and sensitive line
between delicate...

by Ronald Tirino

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NYC noir in black and white

NYC nior in black and white

Dark landscapes 1957 NYC
of automats radio city and hotdog stands
memories of things past

Take us back to lucid dreams of light and shadows cast
set the stage late night dark wet NY detectives on the beat
slow...

by Ronald Tirino

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The magicians flute

The magicians flute
the stage is set
high up above Homeric gods
sit amongst the clouds
like Blake’s image
of a greybeard elder
holding a compass open
and looking down On mortals below

Now are you sitting comfortably
the ceremony of...

by Ronald Tirino

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Children of Guernica

Children of Guernica .

 
In deserts of no mans land
children play among the dead
killer themes from killer kings
what is the song they sing
comes raining down in
shrews of blood

Bombs burst through silent
air beyond the red glare
where...

by Ronald Tirino

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Childhood in New York

Childhood in New York

 
Pocket change dangling from open pockets
candy stores soda fountains five and dimes
root beer floats licorice sticks baseball cards
and chewing gum
stick ball bats against dark black streets
and smells of pink rubber...

by Ronald Tirino

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Sea Otters of the pacific coast

Sea otters

Of the dark green seas
In the kelp forests of fisco bay

On cold pacific shores
Sea otters come alive
Frolic play with jested vigor

Spontaneous games throughout the day
Rhapsodies of symphonic joy
Diving swirling swimming
...

by Ronald Tirino

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In the red desert of the rising sun

through normalities
of their routines
the walking sleepers
make their way

 
metaphors morph
Into urban landscapes
From nightmares of the
Unconscious

 
serene skies
of glittering moons within its
shifting...

by Ronald Tirino

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Dark brown bread bathed in light

Loaf of darkened bread
bathed in soft vameer light
behind trembling shadows

A still life portrait
of loaf of dark brown bread
sits on old wooden
table lined with age


 crust roughly crisp
hardened to the touch
crumbs scattered to its...

by Ronald Tirino

 5 Views
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