Long Altho Poems

those early attempts at a Mexican food
no store bought cardboard taco shells
she had to prepare her own
the appearance of the tortilla press
the arrival of the tortilla holder
became a beginning to a menagerie of new tools...

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The third surgery didn’t work
He tells her there can be another one. 
He lies. Struggles to look in her eyes

She apologizes from a restless state
"I Won’t be here to see them graduate.
I won’t live to...

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It seems like just the other day
Our pup, Shadrack, did pass away;
And altho’ they never seemed like friends,
My old cat, Jorg, knew Shad had met
   his untimely end.

He mourned his loss every day
And...

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A wail echos into the night.
The sound of pure agony inbedded fright
Stumbling from tears that block sight
The wind stirs nothing feels quite right.

You become dead still and listen intensely
Who is this whats the cause of...

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On the warm wet day in december
I look back at my life and remember
How it was in days gone by
Everyone i loved taken and still i know not why
Years that cant be lived again
Moments gone...

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On the warm wet day in december
I look back at my life and remember
How it was in days gone by
Everyone i loved taken and still i know not why
Years that cant be lived again
Moments gone...

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Forecast aplenties with no degradations announced vertically, religiously or otherwise could have englanced my intuities to a mind over marketed by nomin al periods of intellectual cell growth, idea by idea. Brain overextended as to...

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it is one of those dinners
leaning in the doorway, she is working
to her, this is a simple one
spaghetti ala Carbonara
she explains it to me as she processes
pancetta is meat from pork belly 
salt-cured in black...

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You notice her there in the darkened shadows.
You'd like to approach her but unsure how to.
She gives off the air of someone withdrawn even untouchable.
Little do people know that she is in fact delightful and...

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Sally, with her warm pink tongue of love
Save from excruciating pain by God above
Expressed doggie love the only way she could
Her fireman savior received her love as he should

God’s love pours out even in Sally’s...

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Today was day two
One of those days I'd rather be you
Today I woke up and as if on cue
Withdrawals and facing the truth

I hate these moments where quitting becomes so extreme
Where it isn't even safe...

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Strolling thro' the zoo today, gazing at the various creatures,
I marveled at their shapes, colors and other distinctive features.
Some were graceful and sweet, others were cute and cuddly;
Others were grumpy and clumsy - some were...

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As I lay listening to the steady thumping of his heart,
I can't even begin to explain how much he has become a part
Of me of my life of my heart
It began at the very start
My...

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She come in ter the world as Mary Anne walker, 
But Polly Anne Nichols she took as 'er name.
Frough cicumstance she were a mistress of the night,
And pleasuring the feller's was 'er game.

This pertic'lar evenin'...

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I didn't know the blithe Flower Child.
Whose singing, dancing others said wild
One with flowers and love in her song.
She was a wildflower all along.

Wildflowers bloomed for miles and miles.
We looked at them and broke out...

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A Willowy wisp of nights dark scent
My Rose colored glasses have loss their tint
Love came and I wish I could say has went
But loves not like that no matter it's intent

It came and brought me...

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you took my soul in arkansas
but i ran with my spirit to phoenix
you took the challenge to the chase
and followed me there

i fought it out with you for three
years never indicatiing that 
my soul was...

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When men were kings with steeds
women were handmaids to their needs.
repositories for their seed to grow
                   ...

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Altho I'm highly criticized for the mistakes I've made.
I hope I never go unloved for the mistakes I've made.
To the ordinary man my "blessings" are catastrophies.
No one loves a loser, who waddles in his losses.
Yet...

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i am watching a mother sparrow
feed her offspring, we are blessed
by this innate ubiquitous nature 
it is by the mother's breast 
comes the promise
God still believes in us
it is that time of year
i scatter seeds...

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Who is this person who can coax
the ordinary into magical so easily?
A grey, depressing winter's sky becomes
"a coverlet of lilac gossamer."

Are poets born with exotic words already
whispered in their ears? Are these words
their native language?...

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Bent fingers trace embroidered leaves
on satin and long lacy sleeves.
Blush roses, twenty-six she counts--
A French word she can't now pronounce.

She blows dust from old envelopes
tied with blue ribbons and her hopes.
The letters penned by her...

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When women get into relationships they sometimes think after few months they have found the ONE. THats how I felt when I was in a relationship with my ex we were together 6 years and...

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"When thoughts cease to flow,
where does ego go" Unseeking Seeker

Can Ego escape its demise if it hides?
In mind's chimeric forest it abides.
It can wear a transparent look at times,
to entice Mind's oft-changing designs.

It might think...

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Love isn't constant--its wings poised for flight;
altho sometimes climbs clouds on a dare.
Oft softly trembles with unmatched delight;
elusive as catching handfuls of air.

Romantic love exists, proper and tame.
Hidden love, oft times returned from the past.
Love...

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