Best Improbabilities Poems

“Holmes, what is the secret of your glory, 
What keeps us thrilled and rapt right to the end?”

“The hook of a swell detective story -
Quite...

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I stumbled over Paul Tillich's translation
of the MessiahMentor's Other Great Commission.

The Great Commission we learned in Sunday School
was to go out and convert the barbarians
and...

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O my life! Change thy colour not
O my life! Escort me just as I walk
Why do you abandon me every day?
Why my eyes don’t stop...

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Unfettered flying floats free of restraint,
free from radical or erratic containment
or even perceptual direction,
free of focus,
free to become most any conjecture of mind,
disembodied.

Yet also trapped...

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The
girl
borrowed
trouble from 
future world full of 
improbabilities that meant
the cat she brought to us and we gave her milk and soup
must be a fizzy ,fuzzy,...

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Two years after the birth of my daughter a son was born to me. Three years had also gone 
since my daughter's warts had vanished...

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the heavens had fallen 
woe coiled about the earth
excuse my very own tangent world of merriment
you never know what you're going to dream about
one foot...

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THE STRANGER MAN (2)

They who posses tire
out and loose more
in keeping.
As homeowner never
have I felt at home
But closer home as
squatter and
settler.
The crop man crops
his way...

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Could I just have this moment with you – the one that doesn’t come by often
I just want to soak it all in and remember...

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That day, the sky delineates the beauty of a golden dusk,
The dusk which shed the azure of a day,
The dusk which seduce the earth to...

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she left me defenseless again
for reasons that cannot be spoken
but that can be further diagrammed
worthy of forensic dissection
deep into the cauliflower folds
branching like rivers of...

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You’d like to be the President of the U.S. of A.?
The job would have to be cut down to your size,
From your criticisms, would you...

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... pffft... blows long hair away...
from the eyes as she gently, ever so
moving slow, inserts home grown,
self sewn, Text.mex.i.flux.... there.
... pffft... damn hair, needs a...

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We were at first hopeful in finding a logical solution. 

By blazing through all the impossibilities. 

So that all that are left are the improbabilities.

But...

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