Best Atavistic Poems

Dog Days Endure

Sirius, rising with late summer sun,
Dog star, your timeless tour has just begun. 
Sweet sultry lazy days beside the lake,
These precious waning days...

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Burn the bush and eat the fruit.
Take everything you can from this life.
It’s not meant to last
And you came first
Rules of the desert 
Leave the...

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A horrendous act
that could only be imagined
as Insidious and contemptuous
Many were massacred
Thousands displaced
The Hausa Militias took over
Zaria was in their palm
A horrendous act
That could only...

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Some dude from
     vinyl city revs engine
     of his dirt bike to the max
   ...

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A hiding place, a warm and darkened room,
A lit doorway, bright against the dark,
Cold against the warmth, a frame for odd
Assorted stranger-forms whose faces loom

As...

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Look for this tragic dilemma: 
either people have reached the real powers
and  handled  the weal of engine 
or government  done  the...

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Late at night I hear the monkey’s laughing in the jungle
They are burning an effigy 
And they find it more than amusing
They find it comforting.
They...

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Volition, orientation familiarization aahing
and oohing within restrictive paradigm molding
inviolable honorable gentility -
flagrantly, desirously, clearly boyz abandoning
willfully skirting, panting (heavily)
forfeiting abominably, (no Joe King) abiding

chomping at...

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Thus upon a strategic seat we hoped for,
or politely sought from manager of the house
ah, our luck to be situated in close proximity,
where impossibility to...

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(A recent virtual chat with thine youngest daughter
awakened poignant memories adjusting to 
fatherhood for first time).
     
December 22nd 1996 Bundle of...

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This doodling Yankee (boot noah dandy) 
doth newt lack chutzpah, 
tries to finagle Fitbit fitting figurative footwear, 
that ideally Fitzhugh 
like custom made glove snugly,...

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A kiss on the forehead
Is a gesture of betrayal
It's not a kiss of love
Filled with joy and humor.

It would be better to kiss a dog
Which...

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Twittered Via Chilled Wren
At Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Prior carte blanche to confessing illicit
     extra-marital affair
I embolden tomb ache
    ...

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They killed him
And dug a pit to bury the body
Unaware of a pack of wolves waiting
In the cavity of woods; their eyes burning
In passion for...

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Wrestle with me; the small voice weighs
as does your brother when he prays.
There's much so wrong, but also right
I can council if you invite;
Shepherd your...

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