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Robert Leutwiler

Member since May 19, 2019

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The Cloud

Posted May 25, 2019 · 28 lines · 1 critiques

cowards have used the cloud for acquisition
to hide lies about friends and foes alike

as the misty mountain top flees from
inquisitions and cries out loud

so may your eyes open wide
as the mists of liars collides

with the reality that most of us
want peace and heavenly sunrise

which chases the lying clouds away
leaving the pine green freshness over daisies

to wake us to higher aspirations
to clean the air and leave us breathless

after waiting in line to reach the top
of Mt. Everest, now too common

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like the storm clouds of confusion
misapprehension, willful bending of the facts

to pull the wool over our eyes as
far as we can't see while asleep..

wake up to the song of the nightingale
who knows how to divide the chaff from the ray

if you trip over the edge (rye for night)
through phantom emotions awry and fallen to the depths,

take a hike up Smokey Mountain
to open your eyes wide and

screw your head back on straight:
the gate to healthy living!

trace the water falls of El Yunque
'midst smiles of universal hiking....

Robert Leutwiler’s timeline

May 2024
19 Sun

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5 years of membership
May 2020
19 Tue

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One year of membership
May 2019
26 Sun

Received a critique
on The Cloud from @paul
"on telling the reader how we all must have our heads on straight. I like your use of metaphors and imagery. I will be reading more of your work keep on bettering your craft. There is a potential of the reader getting a…"
25 Sat

Received a critique
on The Cloud from @tyro
"I can understand the title, The Cloud, but to me the poem was about the beauties beyond the ego. Your word uses and metaphorical allusions were marvelous. At one point I felt it was getting too long... I reread it and n…"
25 Sat

Posted a poem
The Cloud
"cowards have used the cloud for acquisition"
Open thread 28 lines
25 Sat

Posted a poem
The Cloud
"cowards have used the cloud for acquisition"
Open thread 28 lines
24 Fri

Posted a poem
untitled
"we invited"
Open thread 11 lines
22 Wed

Received a critique
on sun doh yan from @Eumolpus
"feeling I am reading a poet who has read a lot of poetry and understands poetry. I basically like the same poets as you, I did a masters in Rimbaud. I don't have a clue where the poem is coming from, what is the intent…"
21 Tue

First critique offered
on "Soliloquy of A Demented Mind (Epilogue Side B) " by @Zeussirius
19 Sun

First publication
Ideology of the Cranes
19 Sun

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 1 days later.
15 Wed

Highest posting month
May 2019 — 6 poems

About Me

About me

I am neither a zombie nor a traitor!

Location: USA-- Connecticut and Puerto Rico

Favorite Poets

Essama Chiba

RImbaud

Nerval

Mallarme

Valerie

Pales Matos

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Tacey M. Atsitty

Roethke

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

Rilike

Agrippa d'Aubigne

(not bothering with accents) LeAnne Howe

Sy Hoahwah

Elizabeth Bishop

Anne Sexton

Vallejo

Emily Dickinson

Urayoán Noel

Trevino L. Brings Plenty............

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The Cloud

Posted: 25 May, 2019

The Cloud

Posted: 25 May, 2019

untitled

Posted: 24 May, 2019

Love (Recon 31)

Posted: 22 May, 2019

sun doh yan

Posted: 20 May, 2019

Ideology of the Cranes

Posted: 19 May, 2019

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