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Vast sky may have overrun with grey shrewd clouds,
Brewing a luminous lightening veiled in diaphanous mist,
Rancorous drum rolling and roaring.
Mercurial ocean waves forms a precipitous rampart,
a façade to a bereaved cause.
Once remembered, once sought after again, nobility shall return.
10.3.2019
Grenade balloons won’t do it
Serenade by millions of clowns won’t do it
Cascades of golden milk won’t do it
Perhaps the dance of last summer is what counts.
But poems soak and bleed their ink
Heated strokes of heart cool down
Flesh so tender will wither
Well then.
I hope my probated story will last,
And that my eyes now are clear
10.1.2019
After a shower of sweats,
Cold tears in a dark room,
Dawn breaks beyond the horizon.
“You took the shot”—
Yes, this morning glow is what I’ve been waiting for.
All the swords that dug deep within my flesh dissolves into a shadow.
“You took the shot”
Yes, I did. And I’ll take more shot,
Until I hit a star.
9.30.2019
perhaps the ice cream is where it all starts
perhaps people will notice how fast it melts,
and talk about how to slow cooling of the earth,
so that future generations can have this joy of birth.
Icecream seems to unite people somehow,
I’ve seen infants on the carrier to elderlies with bingo,
teenager girls proudly complaining their fathers
ten minutes ago they had already told their flavors,
solemn couples taking the ritual of sampling spoons,
to youthful professionals flirting like goons.
Perhaps ice cream is where it all starts,
from the birth to redemption, and an awakening.
9.28.2019
I can’t forget her.
I can’t forget the way she shyly lowers her head as she said she memorized a beautiful Arab song a week before,
in front of a crowd full of confused Americans
and she said she was happy she did it.
I can’t forget her petite black bicycle she told me
she pulled apart, into her luggage,
through the airport security check,
so that she can fly,
and then land in a new place where she can ride her black bicycle.
I can’t forget her white teeth
that innocently gleamed,
as her pride glowed in halo
against the sun that left her home.
I can’t forget the picture in her smartphone background,
an impromptu portrait of a woman elegantly poised with a scarf wrapped around,
and her bitter lips spreading over her teeth,
smiling against a shadow so thick.
9.27.2019
clicks of your shoes on a dark asphalt
echoes through an empty road under the night sky
fireflies flicker about the light post,
chilly winter breeze hurriedly pass us by,
Perhaps a bundle of fiddles, we are
dancing on a gentle breeze, harsh breeze, tornado,
earthly bound, soaking underly redoubtably grand sunlight,
perhaps we grow a little,
perhaps we spread out a little,
perhaps we laugh a little.
clicky-clack, dancing through this infinite night.
9.26.2019
We fought a good fight.
Although dreams were sacrificed,
Moral values had to be changed,
we fought a good fight.
It is time to build again.
Back-stabbed by colleagues,
Humiliated by subordinates,
But it is time to build again.
Slowly, an earthworm digs its hole.
Quietly, a baobab tree grew an inch.
Our hearts will not stop.
Our hearts will grow.
9.18.2019
Once, I have known you.
through flesh and bones,
I’ve grown familiar with
your ever present smell.
Now my soul awaits
For space to creek open,
For time to zoom in,
To reach out to your hand.
9.17.2019
Stumbled upon a two mirrors,
and I found myself in between a thousand doors.
It took a thousand of years to go through the gates.
Stubbornly, I got out.
I asked for a rewards, but it was deadly quiet.
All I could do was to walk a little bit more.
Then I realized the doors were the prize.
I then hoped.
I hoped to see your smile and my smile to last just a bit longer.
9.7.2019
Dark grey waves are crashing,
No exit nor a lighthouse seen nearby
Floating on body of water, nothing’s
Permanent. Drifting on a planet.
But anchor is down there in abyss
Under pressure, alone in darkness
A time capsule of resolution made in past
Solemnly tugging the boat above.
4.2.2019
Ralph with Coffee 
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