Long Aficionados Poems

As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heavy with the miasma of malignant...

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It stands on the edge of civilization,
fed by a ghost town road
A starving artery leading into the desert
Only desperadoes and Death Valley aficionados
pass through this lonely stretch of land
But there's a diner sitting at this...

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STROKIN’ – A QUARTET ABOUT AGING GRACEFULLY(?)
Strokin’: Hauling ass and working at it!

STROKIN’: PART ONE
THE SPRINTER

The aging Olympian ran a swift anchor leg
burning the first turn, striding the backstretch
like a big cat on the chase,...

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JOE HENDERSON’S PROLIFIC OUTPUT AS EITHER A SIDEMAN OR LEADER/

IS SHEAR SONIC VELOCITY OF MUSIC COMING FROM HIS TENOR THINKIN' MIND/

NO HALF-STEPPIN HERE BRO/JOE’S INSIDE-OUTSIDE APPROACH GOT YOUR BACK TO EVERY SIDE HE PLAYED ON/
TO...

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Reverence affects yours
     truly with unmeasurable
     infinite jubilant zeal,
sans unbeknownst world wide
     (web stirred) fans enamored
     with me poetry...

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Let’s take a ride, how about traveling, to outer space, 
Just accept anything’s possible, it’s our cosmic chase,
Moving faster than light speed, in the blink of an eye,
Unleash your imagination, laws of physics, don’t apply,

Maybe...

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Captain America
is looking flagpole beautiful
in his wavy red, white and blue 
body-fitting uniform
But, Manifest Destiny hero worship
don’t even come close
to his citizens A-love for the gun ...
Trigger huggable sidearms
Hot steel aficionados
got a love that’s real
Giving...

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When I was young I cleaned my socks
One got knocked off while making merry
One got lost at the Happy laundry or mat 
Somewhere between the bleach and spin recycling 
It went missing between innocence and...

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A GEM THAT TRICKS

A   Aficionados of gems find this gem emerald by day,ruby by night

G   Gem so rare and ravishing turns trickster in the light 
E   Embellishment in gold...

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Glorious creed love eternal be upon 
your saccharine spirit...

Nothing ever shadowed your memoirs-
consumed me whole,
No ballad sweetest fictions worthy capturing- 
blink of diamond eyes.
Hallowed spirit profound frame, 
views portraits-
heavenly prospects.
Stories my million aficionados haven't 
rusted...

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Blank
                      plain white
           ...

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if i read you my poem
silently

will you hear all the
dumb dumb

in between the spaces
where the divine

touchés
amusing you, telling you

to share
what you saw in the dark

believe me
there is always more

and those aficionados
who believe

blindly
that their words belong...

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If you are reading my poem
For rhyme and meter, you
May turn the page for my age
Wants to tell you a tale of
Raising children, falling on toys,
Diseases and broken bones,
Nights of fear and
Days of joy.
Of loss...

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When home computers made their way
Into our homes, things changed
And desks in dens or bedrooms
Were cleared off and rearranged.

The typewriter was certainly 
The first thing taken out,
Tossed or shelved inside a closet
By all those but...

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O dear lord! You are found guilty of unjust,
It is not only his kin, whose heart is heavy with pain , but his whole family of aficionados,
What made him famous, took his life,
What he loved...

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O dear lord! You are found guilty of unjust,
It is not only his kin, whose heart is heavy with pain , but his whole family of aficionados,
What made him famous, took his life,
What he loved...

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Nothing is lovelier than the perfect rose
Exploding with color from a single bud
A vivid red nothing surpasses, I suppose
Favorite of lovers and vain bluebloods,
Aficionados excitedly await the bloom
Master gardeners eagerly show them, 
Camera at ready...

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Dipping into Beowulf with Grendel,
  and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales;
  Wading into Paradise with Milton,
  then submerging with the Bard:
  Sinking deep into Lear and Othello 
  Hamlet and Macbeth, trying...

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