Long Anticlimax Poems

What might be your perfect way
to awake with joy and gratitude each morning
within this new day
old way
of opportunity and mourning?

This morning's epic re-awakening
into Beloved Paradise
opens health humored eyes 
to see a full bright winter moon
shining...

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What might be your perfect way
to awake with joy and gratitude each morning
within this new day
old way
of opportunity and mourning?

This morning's epiphonic awakening
into Beloved Paradise
opens humor eyes to a full bright winter moon
shining through my...

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Running cracks of lead flaked paint, spiders across the front door like a grandfather's
forehead. 
Its hinges squeal from years of inattention and forgotten maintenance
Floor boards moan a song of dismemberment and forgotten age
While musty gloom...

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Poetic Form: Rhyme/Footle/Shape or Concrete

Inspired: 2024 January 09. As per sample supplied by sponsor.

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A cold berating 
light-erasing rope
survives
relentless
entropy
(another year ends
 another variant contends)

Desolate debris in 
empty
erroneous caves
swallow 
blank pages
    submerged in 
mind-warping seas
where flying memes
  wait for normalcy
where words freeze
    &...

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researching, watch the trailer, work in progress...

Screwtape Letters
31 Letters

Just notes
Consider this...
If you cannot yield to text and scripture
He cannot bare score
C L takes us where?
Two years. studies of Greek and Latin classics


What we cannot see...

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Two Dogs at the Gateway
By Sy Roth


They slurped their saliva, 
huge globs,
big, barking mouthfuls 
dripping from their jowls like milky icicles 

Teeth-bared lips,
They guarded the gateway.
Pleased by their vacated spittle,
their noses now sniffed the air,...

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The employee took out these pizzas and put them on desks at the hall. No sooner had the pizzas popped into the gofers' eyesights than seething salivas (imaginary or real) bursted out of their mouths,...

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Dawn hurls
Wet dark clouds;
Hidden sun beams

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Rain pours
Wetness paints well;
Greenery revives

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Umbrellas open
Random feet rush;
Rain escalates

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Dreary weather
Coldness wets;
Watery puddles everywhere

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Drenching aqua
Windy wild wetness;
Stormy morning

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Bus-stop shelter
People cluster;
Cold humanity

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Happy faces
Cold morning rain;
Childish frolic

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Old newspaper vendor
Walkway corner;
Makeshift stand

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Bearish feelings loiter
Talk...

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Edna Purcell
1912-1930

Dying a virgin was the least of my regrets.
Dying a chaste woman at 18 seemed a moot point.
I remember watching my momma die.
It was in summer, and I was 16.
Hopelessly disconsolate, that’s how I...

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Tarts 
Chorus
You are not the tart, but I am 
For am sweet and exciting 
I am indeed the tart, for am exciting and sweeteee

Sweetness of bitter-leaf is the antithesis of nature,
Lacks the wherewithal to counsel...

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My door is decked with holly and pine,
The larder’s stocked with fancy food and wine.
Tiny lights twinkle on bannister and tree,
Dozens of cookies to bake, if there’s time free.

Knitting needles flash for each gift,
Presents need...

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Mechanically inquisitive 
Draped on neon tape
Absent mentality shadowing
Of ill-mannered wonder
Faceless stammering fallacies
Covering all in suffusion
Supposition oppressing 
The veracity of facts
Bogus conclusions drawn 
Upon a cracking rudimentary
Deriding night crawlers 
Mocking the anguish
In hollering vestige 
A feint...

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Adoration and the forbidden fruits are deceiving,
anticipations of whishing fields delusion.
Knowing that the anticlimax comes with a frost,
above the wisdom of true believes just tossed.
Purgatory is that state of mental expiating,
when that ideal holds the...

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The cat is staring at something behind my back,
his pupils so large, his eyes seem black,
I see his muscles twitch and tense,
his skinny tail becomes immense.

We've played this game, the cat and I,
(although all logic...

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Goodbye then. 

We have closed the book and 
replaced it on the shelf. 
Dog eared pages straightened. 
Tens of thousands of words 
read, spoken, stored for posterity. 

Goodbye then. 

No longer a working title, 
but...

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At cultural opening of thin
layers of faith & consciousness,
a new breed of angels was 
romping on our souls. 
I suffered again for tiny spaces
between the thoughts. 
Death cannot be intrusive. 
It waits at the door...

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I lay down to sleep
with the lovely lilts of rain
and the soft whisper of wind in my ears
At some unearthly hour
wakened up from sleep
by howls and shrieks

I don’t know when the rain and wind
turned into...

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If only the sun is forever blue and bright
I will have the perfect tan I ever wanted
And the heart will glow as shiny as the face

If only the rain drops on the driest soil
resurrect the...

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