Best Tamped Poems

I know you're out there
    I can hear you ... typing, rat-a-tat-tat
      I echo it, but place...

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"To hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. "
William Shakespeare," Hamlet 1601."


Long ago another planted you,	
My cherished Ginkgo tree.
She tamped you in so carefully
And...

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…the seeds of neo-Nazism are germinating  
Markus Nierth, former mayor of Tröglitz, Germany 2015

Germany’s rock candy windows and cookie like shingles make seeing the...

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final dismount, final ride
pasture waits for dappled roan
girth mark of the lonely byways
lather from the battles flown
dew eyed weary, spinal backed
stumble step'd and nostril blown...

stirrup...

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Here we hid when we heard
A knock strongly---a sudden clattered upon the ground
Everyone indoor shrieked, trembled
Out...     out.....    ...

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                 Ashamed
   I see what you have...

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What later will be filled with squeals
And peals of childish laughter,
In desolation thus reveals
What comes before and after.

The vacant swings, with chains unclasped,
Hang waiting, so...

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Seeds of remembrance.
Bulbs and tubers
tamped under soil,
a burial that isn’t death. 
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They say that any dream is organised around a wish.
That a dream can often be the fulfilment of a wish.
Last night I dreamt.  I...

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""Ricky Don't Lose-That Number, circumstantial-possibly."

""Cause and-effect; all-them-offered written around the rules of the Bible... all-of it
now-ruling.

Yes written around-walked on trampled upon tamped-down-deep in-within melded into...

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Between your fingers slip the diamonds of each day;
Seconds, minutes, hours as well
Are strewn like cinders in the muddy mire away,
Tamped and trampled where they...

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How do we continue? 

When etched indelibly upon our being, 

are the scars  from love that has been abandoned. 

When the loss chafes the...

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It was unseasonably
warm for Winter
sun shone bright
cool breeze blowing
but not even cold
and I was
just walking
along, not knowing
the world, as we knew it
was about to come...

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ODE TO MY PIPE

Whomsoever doth smoke this pipe,
Should be prepared for an easier life,
For the stress and strain of the troubled soul
Are as but vapour...

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~ Yes-Lord glean- ~
 ~~~ the fields. For- ~~~
 ~ Your benignity...

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Translated by Przemyslaw Musialowski 2/24/2019

this
went around to the outskirts of the country
and it smells of babyhood
a reminiscence of poems
about the stream and with Konopnicka*
from the...

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This is a rubbish poem!
Since I was old enough to know better,
I was taught not to throw litter.
To scatter rubbish when out and about,
From our...

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Beautiful! Sparkly winter magic. Icy crystals smiled at us. A cheer went up.
Children who refused to wake up for school arrived on Deadman’s Hill by...

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Free association comprises ratiocination...

Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewed den - brought about divine visit
analogously...

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Aloof brother concedes duty evaded...

Foremost gratitude heavenly indebted,
jumbling kindling, linkedin mourning
numbness overlaid, pervaded, quashed,
routed thoroughly undermined vibrant
warbling, when xing yesterday's youth

zigzagging, accompanying blitzkrieg
cleaving deafeningly exploding,
formative...

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Punkisimo
My own nonsense word
Laughter with my muse
Delightedly figuring out meaning
Enthusiastic gang singing on American Idol

Relaxdressica
Created on site, here and now folks
Misunderstood emotions
Tamped down into a...

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Secrets well hidden in the forest floor
Tamped way down deep in a garden snake’s tail
Beyond anything beauty had in store
Campfire fires brought on by dark...

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