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Renato N. Mascardo, 13 october 2019

and so it goes

muscae volitantes

floating
pieces of my
memories just beyond
the pale of the eyesight of my
dim mind

in the
morass of my
past the flotsam of what
I thought I knew flit by out of
my reach

still in
blind hope I wait
unwittingly for thoughts
long gone for wit long lost to me
I wait//

renato
13 october 2019

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Renato N. Mascardo, 3 august 2018

Poem of Being

habagat

ah the
southwest wind brings
thunderclaps and raindrops
playing staccato notes keenly
upon

the roof
it's been awhile
since i have savored the
vapors of alimuom before
the rain//

renato
3 august 2018

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Renato N. Mascardo, 29 july 2018

just being

po

strange it
sounds at first to
the ears after all the
years away back home again this
stranger

in a
strange land where age
at long last bestows a
monosyllabled title on
the old

when prose
is riddled with
honorific after
honorific it takes some getting
used to//

renato
sunday 29 july 2018

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Renato N. Mascardo, 30 may 2018

alternate landing

linguae ignes

legions
upon legions
of tongues of fire flew out
from the spirit in search of the
chosen

on that
Pentecost day
most found their marks in the
city of david except for
a squad

that lost
its bearings and
entered a roomful of
cooks in caesarea perching
on the

crowns of
bewildered men
these fiery tongues flamed
out and so the shish kebab
was born//

renato
tuesday 29 may 2018

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Renato N. Mascardo, 23 september 2017

love is

love is

between
two hearts love is
like learning to drive there
shall be scrapes dents and near misses
before

now and
along the way
but newness never ends
each find a wonder a skill
to love

the other
more//

renato
saturday 23 september 2017
(based on the movie learning to drive c2014)

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Renato N. Mascardo, 24 september 2017

in names we trust

in names we trust

there's a street in new jersey named after
her you know/ lara looked it up googled
it really/ a pusill piece of unimagined
fact/ keilana drive in wayne new jersey
it's hawaiian for adored one

I wonder what nickname nitoy would
have thought of/ his first apo/ he loved names
ending in oy and ay/ I came to be forever an atoy
he was always nitoy far back as I know/will number one
granddaughter be kay/ short a long y I wonder

it would have been nice if he thought of a pet
name it would have been fun//

renato
sunday 24 september 2017

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Renato N. Mascardo, 25 september 2017

lacrimae rerum

lacrimae rerum

let it
peep between the
lashes of your lid for
the briefest of moments but don't
hold it

back but
let it let it
brim over the edge down
the precipice that is your now
pale cheek

taste it
as it slides through
your trembling parted lips taste
the bitter saltiness of your
deep loss

let it
herald the start
the endless cascade of
grief after the numb denial
has gone

he was
you are
let what you shed
link you//

renato
monday 25 september 2017

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Renato N. Mascardo, 26 september 2017

a parthian shot at an ex

non sequitur

please do
not when we kiss
my lips against your lips
sweet dreams call the act our late night
suction

just 'cause
you're ticklish it
still sucks//

renato
tuesday 26 september 2017

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Renato N. Mascardo, 2 october 2017

carnage field

carnage field

the hate
paddocked in your
deranged mind you let loose
dead dying maimed lay on the ground
but why//

renato
monday 2 october 2017

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Renato N. Mascardo, 21 october 2017

trickster time has the last laugh

in time

has it
been that long since
our minds touched

has it
been ages since
we spoke in whispers

has it
been such a long
while since we looked at each other
and smiled

like oil
time smoothens the
the jagged edges of
the memories that we shared in
the past

but now
that you are no
longer here i wait for
memories of life without you
to smoothen
in time//

renato
friday 20 october 2017

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Other poems: Stemming the Flow, TO A FRIEND, OF SATELLITES, TRAVELS, & FRIENDS, PARAPHRASING ADELE, Dumpster Blues, unreeling a tangled skein, if love were a multiple-choice exam, awakening, each little loss, falling leaves, partying in pestilence, in the absence of light, reparations to a bounteous mother, cinquain, seclusion, A Beautiful Day, quantum physics of feelings, lemon = lemonade, Poems on Virtues 2, Poems on Virtues 1, Loneliness of Being One (To Will Liao), remembering the missing & missing the remembered, under siege, A Hymn to Him, and so it goes, departures, recension, heartstrings, The Choices We Make, Tongue in Cheek, Elijah's Lament, exodus and le boulanger, Poem of Being, just being, alternate landing, Schroedinger's Cat, Asymmetry, lure of the dance, holy haptics, trickster time has the last laugh, carnage field, a parthian shot at an ex, lacrimae rerum, in names we trust, love is, first twilight, coywolf, katie's birthday, Sliver, Nuthatch, new day, sunny breezy day, left overs, oscine cantata, gone, backyard feeding time, payola, spring, a passerine sacrifice, cinquain, crepusculum, vegetarian festivity, esmeralda, birdseeds on the grass, bits and pieces, life of quiet desperation, After the Wane, on goings and comings, a tedious turn of a loved one's mind, just before you extend your claws, Exodus V, dwindles, lines written on her birth date, remembering, autumn, skirting isolation, missing a muse, Complexities and complications, another of life's little ironies, Image, Autumn, seasons, paradox, thumb-nail sketch, assuaging a craving, degrees of solitude, disremembering, particle physics of the heart, marking time mutually, the reason for writing, in the company of aloneness, valentine, sounds of silent ironies,

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Poetry

and so it goes

Poem of Being

just being

alternate landing

love is

in names we trust

lacrimae rerum

a parthian shot at an ex

carnage field

trickster time has the last laugh

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