Best Interloper Poems

Crows sound the alarm

                           Blue jays confirm the report...

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There is a small eternity
'Twixt my coming and my going.
Though it be filled with riddles
And words crawling in the mud,
Time is no interloper, and I freeze.

Up from the shale and storm,
Up from the majesty crawling forth to mate,
Life shouts like a thunder shock.
The earth retches,
And...

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Look to the outside, look within,
The penciling trees, the straw of the sun,
Skin white as milk, cheeks turn to cherries,
The gaze falls deeper within.

No more shall this stranger taunt me,
Its eyes glistening with the deep bordeaux of blood,
In which moment the heart begins to bleed,
Consciousness...

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Exorcist -
i need an exorcist...
for Lord, i am possessed - 
there are two souls trapped inside my chest, 
entwined like duelling snakes...
their conjoined clamor drums in my ears, 
shaking me from the pit of my
belly to my aching skull,
they struggle against each other 
like squabbling...

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His hands are worn smooth
they work in the soft ether of his thoughts,
only two fingertips
plunge to earth and peck
at a world he hardly knows.

His poetry is sea soaked and spattered
with English fishing villages
where he first learned
to interpret waves and the collected works
of kelp and rockpools.

As...

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“I suggest we break the ice”, the interloper said.
I began chopping with a snow axe, and she laughed.

You must have been born with a silver spoon, she threw out.
I threw the snow axe at her; irritated she had called it a spoon.

She ducked, as cool...

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Arlis and Grunt  left shortly after breakfast for all humans dog and pups.Otherwise the young man could not have slipped up unaware.In the day to day security
Of uneventfulness and the nipping yipping of the half wolf pups claiming
hierchical place he walked right into the...

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A fierce eagle in mid-flight
Was overcome with fearful fright.
He could not believe his eyes,
“What’s this doing in my skies?
First, there was Ben Franklin’s kite.
Now, I deal with Wilbur Wright.”...

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They fortified themselves into an Alamo of their own making
Walled themselves to keep the weird one out –namely me. 
I thought it was brilliant, and it was totally unexpected. 
I knew them, and had no idea they were this creative
I had grown up with them,...

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I'm a tangling weed, always have been.
I am the blot on a fine painting,
Beautiful people stampede when I blow my nose.
I mess up the too tidy,
stick out like a crow in a cage for a cannery,

My Adams Apple can be seen from space. -
okay slight...

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lovely scene defaced
prima facie photobomb
interloper me...

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I was cautioned, he is a master chessman, so if we go ….
We have to not even whisper, and we have to tiptoe
I was expecting an owl, for I had heard he was a fowl.
I was shocked to see it was a parakeet and uttered...

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Hika Bay

Silent hawks appear
outside our window
two,then four,now six
form a floating dimond 

A kettle of hawks roam high
on ancient air
sent by first peoples
to remind us

We dont own these wonders
they belong to Hika Bay
we are just the latest 
interlopers

Frozen in place
in the sky
the gray sky
before the rain...

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A bully is a criminal caught red-handed in Japan,*
Vietnam,† Afghanistan, Iraq; a culprit or a marked man
Who entitles only himself to missiles, putting a ban
On possessing them by others; and try as much as you can
To put into his empty skull with your best-laid scheme...

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