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Always Deep Blue (written 7/3-7/6/2022)

THE GLASS BETWEEN MY SELVES

A Poem From The Dark

AND THE NIGHT SKY WOULD BECOME BLUE AGAIN

I Woke Up /// re-edited 2/2/2022 12:31PM



Granddad John James re-edited 10:05Pm 1/31/22

The Grapes (Lucious Grape/ August 31, 2005

TAKE YOUR PEN NOW AND SEE WHAT YOU WILL WRITE

You Taught Me...

Thank You For Being Your Own Treasure

How Hounds-tooth Became Her Friend

A Language You Can't Ignore.... re-edited 1/12/2022

They Say The Preying Mantis Is No Lady

You Can Oh Yes You Can (RE-EDITED 1/9/2021 12:07AM PST time and date stamped.)

HERSTORY...NOT A POEM BUT EXPERIENCE #ONE

I Saw A Star And Dared to Reach For It

The Invitation..( the message of .come as you are>>)

The Nature Of Water

THIS IS MY CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE, ENTER WITHIN

the wonder that always shall be...

Do You Gather Up Your Days The Way Others Collect Wild Butterflies?

The Man On The Red Bicycle (an ode) RE-EDITED 12/4/2021

Stray Cats and I have an understanding... 11/23/2021 copyright

If It Does Them Any Good At All 11/16/2021 date/time stamped

OUTSIDE-THE CROWS 11/14/2021

Still, More Time NOV 6 2021

The Wonder Cat

Little Bundle I Call Joy

AUGUST 1977 (IN THE REMEMBERING)

Wishing Them Onto Better Days

Seize This Day, The One You're With

Only Grief....

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A Man Of The Clouds


this morning the fog
closed in
and ate up the world

looking down
to the ground
I found
it was gone

it felt like clouds
surrounded me
and I was
like the man from Swift's epic tale
who lived up in the sky
and only used a ladder to climb down
when he chose to
get a closer view

he took all of his showers
up there
in mostly peaceful clouds
and slept on a wind-swept bed of air
( except for an occasional thunder storm...)

his perspective and perch
were so unobstructed
he may have thought that surely
he had seen it all...

high altitude and
lofty heights can change
a person's perceptions
and also your ideas about
what and who are small

I think audience...
its important to notice this...)

the man's only problems were
his mostly his loneliness
and a propensity
towards being perpetually wet
behind the ears

his Mother too
lived up there with him
at the opposite end of the cloud
for all of her years
but when she died
all of her came tumbling down

its so true
we all must someday
hit the ground

some of us do this running
some of us
don't know how to get up
some simply fall

it makes me wonder
how
life among clouds
would be

maybe simpler
but lonely
and stormy
from being too
far far away

all of these thoughts
I pondered
this morning
as the fog
slowly ate up the world.

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LEGAL COPYRIGHT FOR THIS POEM 8;52 PM PST NOVEMBER 23 2019
stream of consciousness poem directly to the page
AND ALSO FOR THIS WRITER/POET MELISSA A. HOWELLS AND ALSO
FOR THIS LEGALLY COPYRIGHTED SITE TITLE
MELOO STRAIGHT FROM HER TILT-A-WORLD










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