Best Nerved Poems

Un-nerved by formal sentencing assemblies,
Marks and Words, bound by conjunctive amenity.
The tried beliefs that short cuts speed words into action.
Made stuffy Old School feel out of fashion.
Punctuation board-slams her silver gavel;
“A shortened distance, yet far to travel.”
Marks are pushed into line to enter their plea.


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Original version:

Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.

Are the requisites all in the toilet?
The frills round the cutlets can wait
Till the girl has replenished the cruets
And switched on the logs...

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A poet  is often bombarded by the meaning of words
He got to have a physical relationship with language
With the structural elements like couplets and stanzas
Using imagery, rhymes of myriad emotions to manage.

Language and structure with imagination and expression
In my veins like an unfertilized egg...

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We plugged the jukebox nonstop,  
early 50's soft rock or jitterbug. 
That open-air dance floor shook
with a beat, steady and loud. 

My body rode the waves,
nerved through skin and bone,
blood pulsing hot with desire,
but too shy to try. 

Friends and cousins heated 
the floor...

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We give to life what it deserves,
Or less if we're nerved;
The despair of living, and with sunburnt toils,
Enticing weary hearts to bleed so.

And nights in heated bloom,
Or disturbing looms;
That which stains the sheets of slumber,
Dreaming of more tender moments.

Where death torments, set us free,
For it...

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You’re such a wonder
   On a pillar, oh dear

      A mystical fortress
         On a nerved tallness

         An aptly axle
   ...

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Smelly Stuff Absorbed 

There are many words for those excrements that appear on the fabric in
incremental solid and deliquescent motions because ingestion fulfils that
autonomous need to shed ablutions but here I declare ‘Waste not Want not’

Whatever notion ‘**** happens’ frivolously or weighing heavy on one’s...

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The face who has no place for worry,
And fear had he ignored.
Such a soldier deserves nothing,
But a Gallantry Award.

This award is for them who,
For their country, let their lives flow.
And look at death face-to-face,
And conquered it with a single blow.

This is the story of a...

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Feeling exhausted
by addiction to integrity.

But, prefer this sad loved addict
to being self-indicted
for lack of win/win integrity;
total investment 
in lose/lose nihilistic
fascistic disintegrity,
disintegration.

Addiction to dicked down
synergetic passion
seems a healthier prospect
than apartheid alienation,
chaotic degeneration

Rather than this more positive addiction
to EarthTribe's organic integrity,
resonant DNA harmony,
cooperative polyvagal resilience,
synergetic neuro-systemic balance

EarthMothers
at...

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you knew the feeling of weakness,
the tremble of your famished body,
the restless mope of a spirit,
groveling tired thoughts.
but then. . .

you laid eyes upon him,
you discovered another weakness,
fustigated with heart palpitations,
insides nerved with desire,
languid with infatuation.

a predilection of the soul,
your heart unwavering with love,
for he...

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The more whimsical the choices looked,
The less oriented were the aims so booked
The sepulchral outcry of my inner beast
Frothed a reaction, less violent, yet a feast
The unnerving soul, bounded by a totally nerved body
And the harmonic mind, giving help, thus remaining gaudy
Took no care, nor...

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A voice called so Hannah went.
She went for a higher call
It ended badly, but it was meant
She had to go, lest honor fall.

At the cross of the last road back
She nerved herself to go, attack
She blocked both ears with cold white frost
And cried for the...

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art we...
standing uneven

hollowed be this game...
a kink did come

so we won't have won...
but just be un-nerved

as this isn't even...
just give us this stay

for an hour's daily bread...
ants have forgave us

our trespasses...
so we forgive those

who poo against us...
just weed us not a time-stay shun

let us even...

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He deserved, but never served

As a squid just like his dad

Well preserved, but fragile nerved

All emotions were unclad

Anxiously, he set to sea

Needing moxy really bad

Waves of three, his soul set free

Now ever a salty lad...

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