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Renato N. Mascardo, 25 january 2012

sounds of silent ironies

mishaps and misalliances

one

unburied
the hurt
must have been overmuch that
you had to hang yourself
fresheting
your pain
inundated with guilt the ones
you left behind

two

beyond the besotted
muddle of intimacies and ethanol
after the flaying Santa Ana winds
of your passion falter no
longer propelling the windmills
of your errant heart
when the slow grindstones
of your mind finally catch up
in the coldness and clarity
of the break of dawn
you find yourself alone
free
finally

renato
tuesday 24 january 2012

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Renato N. Mascardo, 18 march 2012

the reason for writing

postcard

i could have phoned i know but i did not
i could have skyped or texted but decided not
instead these lines in my slanting cursive
halter the skelter of this headlong day and
for a moment remind that i remember you
and will exist not between two hard covers
but just between me and you//

renato
sunday 18
march 2012

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Renato N. Mascardo, 26 april 2012

particle physics of the heart

in the act of choosing

like the cosmos above and around us
the past between us is studded with
memorables that sparkle so plain to see
luminous points separated by a vaster void
the cold dark matter of what could have been
but was not to be
the now is what we are left with
everlasting and finite
the past between us is done
never completely gone
in the act of choosing to remember
you and I have Hobson’s choice
to pick the cold quintessence of what was not
or the piercing feelings that we once shared//

renato
tuesday 24 april 2012

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Renato N. Mascardo, 14 february 2012

valentine

wearing off

no longer indelible
the ink stains of my present
still wet they start to fade
out of the tapestry
of my mind

grasping
at my lived particulars
shingles loosened by tau proteins
fragments of my recent past
sliding over the edge into oblivion
i watch them dwindle down
leaving me and my muddled smile

i see your face
my heart feels a passing warmth
my eyes view a stranger still
my lips decline to say goodbye as
you watch the slow unlinking of
my heart and mind//

renato
tuesday 14 february 2012

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Renato N. Mascardo, 25 october 2012

Autumn

the rains have finally stopped
their leafy casualties all strewn
down on the cold wet ground
yellowed crimsoned and browned
left abandoned and unburied
lanced by the blades of grass underneath
the fallen foliage lies cadaverized
casual victims of abscission and time//

renato
saturday 20 october 2012

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Renato N. Mascardo, 11 april 2012

marking time mutually

event horizon

in time
incompatibilities are dissolving
recasting into complementarities
we two
are learning to speak
the idiom of compromise
two sets
of cogs wheeling
rather than grating
anointed
by the yielding feelings between us
through the years
finally
we hold hands together
poised precariously in this
event horizon of our lives
facing the darkness of the unknown
holding fast unfazed by the tumult of the past
cherishing
this moment between us while
it lasts//

renato
sunday 08 april 2012

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Renato N. Mascardo, 18 may 2012

degrees of solitude

company

encaged by the glare of the late
afternoon sun on the windowpanes
of the reading-room you and i
sit intimately apart sharing in
the silence that surrounds
two communers enjoying
the clutter of common
memories feeling free
unconfined by the slowly
sinking sun//

renato
thursday 17 may 2012

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Renato N. Mascardo, 23 november 2014

Exodus V

haiku

at 2 in the morn
a thought: without you my words
mere bricks without straw.

renato
sunday 23 november 2014

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Renato N. Mascardo, 13 november 2013

autumn

like yellow butterflies
turning over tip to twig
leaves are cartwheeling down
towards winter //

renato
wednesday 14 november 2013

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Renato N. Mascardo, 22 december 2012

Complexities and complications

touches

they fondle
intermittently
so soft
so subtle
so sharp
like the palm of a babe
like an early prickly heat
seesawing
caressing
stinging
a pleasure
a hurt
a burn
your words//

renato
friday 21 december 2012

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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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sounds of silent ironies

the reason for writing

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Exodus V

autumn

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