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Dekove Poetry
May 6, 20211 min read
I want love
Love. I've always wanted love. But a special kind of love. Not that lovey dovey, kiss kiss, let me talk to you every second of the day -...
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Dekove Poetry
Apr 29, 20212 min read
On Beauty
And a poet said, Speak to us of Beauty. And he answered: Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be...
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Dekove Poetry
Apr 22, 20211 min read
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight...
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Dekove Poetry
Apr 15, 20211 min read
When you come
When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an attic, Gatherings of...
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Dekove Poetry
Apr 8, 20211 min read
A Poisoned Tree
I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I waterd it...
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Dekove Poetry
Mar 25, 20211 min read
Persian Love Poem: 1
At last I was recaptured by his love Resisting had no effect Love is like an ocean without a shore How can one swim there, oh wise one?...
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Dekove Poetry
Mar 18, 20212 min read
Adrenaline Rush
Volcano surfing is a sport in which a person rides down an active volcano at speeds up to 50 miles per hour using nothing but a wooden...
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Dekove Poetry
Mar 11, 20211 min read
The giver (for Berdis)
If the hope of giving is to love the living, the giver risks madness in the act of giving. Some such lesson I seemed to see in the faces...
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Dekove Poetry
Mar 4, 20211 min read
The Riddle
We do not recognize the body Of Emmett Till. We do not know The boy’s name nor the sound Of his mother wailing. We have Never heard a...
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Dekove Poetry
Feb 25, 20211 min read
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain...
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Dekove Poetry
Feb 18, 20211 min read
Crossroads
My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar,...
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Dekove Poetry
Feb 11, 20211 min read
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does...
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Dekove Poetry
Feb 4, 20211 min read
Trojan
When a hurricane sends Winds far enough north To put our power out, We only think of winning The war bodies wage To prove the border...
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Dekove Poetry
Jan 28, 20211 min read
This Morning I Pray For My Enemies
And whom do I call my enemy? An enemy must be worthy of engagement. I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking. It’s the heart...
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Dekove Poetry
Jan 21, 20211 min read
Another Vagabond Lost To Love
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it is now. Blurred out lines from hangovers to...
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Dekove Poetry
Jan 14, 20211 min read
"Thank-You Note"
I owe so much to those I don't love. The relief as I agree that someone else needs them more. The happiness that I'm not the wolf to...
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Dekove Poetry
Jan 7, 20211 min read
Duplex
A poem is a gesture toward home. It makes dark demands I call my own. Memory makes demands darker than my own: My last love drove a...
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Dekove Poetry
Dec 31, 20201 min read
Love After Love
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the...
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Dekove Poetry
Dec 24, 20201 min read
Love Letter (Clouds)
I didn’t fall in love. I fell through it: Came out the other side moments later, hands full of matter, waking up from the dream of a...
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