Best Gremlin Poems

I am the ghost of heartaches past
  I'm love's dark contrast

          That empty seat
 ...

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There is an antique writing desk
in my little study
handed-me-down
from generations of would-be
writers in my family

And there are ancient creatures
from days gone by
living in this old...

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Brain is crackling, crisp, ivory bone dry
Gremlin stuffing cotton behind my eyes

Head begins to swell with torpidity
Vivid mind fading to transparency

Internal membranes breaking down
Thoughts run...

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Midnight  boom town  streets have this allure
imagining an uncanny venture
eavesdrop veil surround but dark as coal
how I love my after hours stroll

Secret worlds...

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One in a million, gazillion, bazillion
Worth more than gold dollars a trillion or a billion –
You are my beacon, a Christian, love driven.
No heathen, no...

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I've never seen a baby so merry as Martha...
They say March newborns are bellwethers for blissful Springs Mary...
Hannah, Haverhill has been a hard place to...

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I'm having trouble leaving comments that I find frustrating
Soup have kindly emailed me saying they are investigating
Yesterday I tried leaving comments and a couple did...

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Why is one sock missing when I open my washing machine?
I’m totally bewildered, it's the strangest thing I've ever seen!

I must have a gremlin that...

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…obliterated night of the seven seasons
tickets and thickets and trains collide
into the cliché of licking tongues 
wed to the bred moan of capitalism

(grinning gothic gremlin)...

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EXFOLIATION, I AM      
 
In my advanced age am I but 
       The castoff--remnants...

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Discard Flat Packs Have Faith

There is a God of the Universe parallel that is and I call 
her freedom ‘Come into my space’ she seems...

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Barbie, Atari, He-man 
Batman, She-Ra, Ronald Reagan
Indiana Jones, and landline phones
The Dark Crystal and around 5.2 billion people 
Andre the Giant’s Honeycomb commercial 
Rainbow Brite,...

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I am lucky, yes lucky and gay.
I am happy, yes happy all day.
Sunshine they call me.
That is my  name.
I shine, just the same.

Nothing can...

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A Monster in My Closet

There’s a monster in my closet
He’s looking right at me;
His eyes glow red – his teeth are green;
He’s as scary as...

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[Additional piece to a joint writing entitled LAND OF POETS A REALITY by Donald Kuutsi, Blessing Masora, Sithole Albert and Pardon Simango]

Like the deep I...

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