Long Affiance Poems

Written: September 26, 2023
Pick-A-Title, Vol 39 Poetry Contest            Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh 

 “However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever...

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No Vanity Set For This Chap, No Way
(in praise of immortality)

Modesty an understatement,
when eyes chance
to look askew at looking glass,
mine reflection caught at a glance,
an old man's piercing dart

mirrors my blinkered acquaintance
faint recognition communicates 
immediate...

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And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.Judges 14:18b


They plowed with the heifer, 
A stranger of a day,
assigned from the pit,
to bring a...

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Absurdity walked this path of a whorish lane,
Dauntingly decked in a dark seductive  garb
Egregiously seeks the thrones by craftiness,  
Nebulous transverse for the wayfaring man. 
Illusions of a well worn thigh concealed with...

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Rhythmed ...
          Hearts thrum ...
               Some, far heavier than others
  ...

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      Pressed on perforated lines by a lonely playmate 
      Affiance instant, folding fingers christen simulate 
  ...

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He returned with peevish looks, 
a condescending demeanor, 
Vaunting as though his bones were made of rocks 
and his sinews of brass, 
bottled up acrimony burning from his bowels, 
A prideful face, and a visage...

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Fragments

Bewilderment to diminish from family
Is a Baroque distraught of your dexterity
The anguish of the fruits caused by your frailty
Divulge amnesia temperamental apathy

Perspicuous diminutive individuality 
Nocturnal love divisible by three
Your affiance and desire to sexuality
Are earnest...

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