Warren Falcon Poems

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11.
How It Was I Came To Be What I Am - A Fable

[from early poems,1970's, youthful attempts at voice]

For 'Spider' Bottas
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12.
Because They Rhyme They Live, Not I

'O Poesy! for thee I grasp my pen
That am not yet a glorious denizen
Of thy wide heaven; yet, to my ardent prayer,
Yield from thy sanctuary some clear air,
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13.
Surrealistic Sutures For The Acetylene Virgin

I think that poetry should stay
awake all night drinking in dark cellars.' - Thomas Merton
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'The bells, I say, the bells outbreak their towers...
- Hart Crane, from 'The Broken Tower'
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These three
being of stone
or steel...
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Hair of soap
and head of tears
Rinse mine eyes
of Christmas stars
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17.
The Icarus Of Housewives, Circa 1981

From ashtrays he rises
when birds in backyards
have been fed their seed,
a dove amid the starlings.
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Who To Blame - On The Ocassion Of The Deaths Of Robin Williams And Michael Brown

'My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.'
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19.
Not The Moon But The Poem

Seeing the moon whole could mean
madness, now or overdue, for the supreme
vanity of daring to eye-gulp the whole swiss cheese.
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[NOTE: this is a revised version of an earlier beginning of it posted some years ago]

" everything is descending,
even the scholarship of the
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