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2011/2012

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Charles Frederickson, Poet - Bangkok Thailand


       Charles Frederickson is a fiercely independent unbridled maverick, No Holds Bard. He bucks mundane routine with ticklish fancy gusto, feisty vagabond moxie and feigned hyperbolic flair.
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        Editor's Choice

THIRD ROCK OF AGES

Imploding lonesome planet soiled earthlings
Perverse intolerant misunderstandings amongst Christians
Jews Muslims Buddhists Hindus Sikhs
Decidedly None of the Above

No Deposit No Return Recycled
Bad faith unseasonable changing climate
Anti-clockwise East <->West rotation Winter Solstice
Tilted Whirled farthest from Sun

12 days of Christmas solemn
Ramadan 28 Kwanzaa lasting 7
Hanukkah Menorah aglow 8 eventides
Overstuffed feasts celebratory tummy aches

Kwanzaa Swahili meaning harvest bounty
7 guiding Nguzo Saba principles
Umoja (unity) Ujima (responsibility) Imani
(faith) Kuumba (creativity) unmitigated joy

Hanukkah from Hebrew connoting dedication
Honors victorious revolt entering Jerusalem
Holy temple sanctified eternal flame
Oil lamp kindling black light

Ramadan most intensely worshipful time
Profoundly serious compassion giving charity
More about dependence than abstinence
Fasting from sunrise to sunset

Christmas Lord Jesus’ birthday bash
Upstaged by Un-saintly Nick commercialism
New Year’s evermore devout skeptics
Praying to whatever deity listens

Dr. Charles Frederickson
Bangkok, Thailand
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AVANT-GARDEN


PRICKLY THORN BUSH BLOOMING ROSEBUDS
TRAPPED FRAGRANT ESSENCE OOZING OUT
SHY PURPLE-PINK CHEEKY ROUGE BLUSH
RELUCTANTLY UNFOLDING CONFIDED ARBOREAL SECRETS

QUENCHED THIRST LAPPING UP MORNING
GLORY DEWDROPS BLEEDING RAINBOW TEARS
CLINGINGING SHADY COMPOUND SERRATE LEAVES
NIPPED FULLBLOWN MATURITY FORCED OPEN

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DAY IS NIGHT


AWESOME SUNRISE
SKYWARD GLANCES
INHALING DAWN
SHUTEYE FOCUSED

OVERLOOKING INFINITY
EMERGENT DREAMSCAPE
FALLEN STARS
PSYCHEDELIC HORIZON

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!Yes, it isn’t?

^     ^     ^     ^     ^

Relatively safe boundaries were once

     Uncharted frontiers intrepid fearless voyager

          Exploring remote vistas unknown spectrums

               Daredevil venturing alone without maps

                        >     >     >     >     >

               Drawing curtains back on ageless

          Life and lives he never

     Bothered caring enough about to

Touch or be touched by

<     <     <     <     <

Far removed world less distant

     After having moved there been

          Moved by constantly moving rarely

               Standing still getting caught up

                        >     >     >     >     >

               Unaware he was ever lost

          Though admittedly never saying so

     Navigating history not yet recorded

Searching for buried secret trust

<     <     <     <     <

Digging up bygone fragments of

     Eugenic legacy reduced to rubble

          What never really was has

               Been exiled to mere oblivion

                        >     >     >     >     >

               In limbo between rebirth <-> death

          Reprised beginnings featuring never-ending surprise

     Unforgiving past exultant revelatory future

Passage to next life booked

^     ^     ^     ^     ^

 

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CLING FREE


DELVING WITHIN
HOLDING ON
REACHING OUT
GRASP RELEASED
LETTING GO
 
 
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