Long Advisedly Poems

"Contrary to Imagination, Fancy ignores logic."
-- a logical lyricist of an eye discerning

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Now, once upon a summer dusk a lyric verse sublime
an airy nothing fancied forth toot sweet...

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After July abdicates, august August arrives,
and the year advances, as annually agreed. 
After assessing alternative alternatives and accords,
as anticipated, no other affirmative alternative is advanced. 
Actually August is always an annual actuality, affably accepted
as amicable...

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LAVENDER LADY
She was my lavender lady;
Standing by the lake,
Gazing across the sky-blue water
At who-knows what in the distance.
She was the very essence of elegance.
Spurning the mini-skirted fashion of the age,
Her flowing summer dress
Modestly reached mid-calf.
I...

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So let us have our laugh;
it is enough for just a moment
sacrificed to force belief
that somewhere an intangible
divinely-ordered plan exists, 
to which we must conform.
Dear God, give mercy to my plea
that that may not be...

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The cards will fall how they must
and the world will turn again just
as it did the day before.
And somewhere there's peace,
and somewhere there's war.
Life's not a given so spend it wisely,
don't take a gamble, use...

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A band of showy daffodils
Sway and 
Their yellow trumpets
Blown by a bellowing wind
The Bluebells ring their dainty chiming bells
Songsters sing a sweet melodic lullaby
Painted Ladies clap their wings
Crickets mark out a Ruthmic beat

Woodpeckers do paradiddles
Bullfrogs...

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