Long Arcadia Poems

Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated

Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary 
after Grahame Wood 
determined to meet 
the evolving needs of the community 
opened the first Wawa Food Market 
in Folsom,...

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VIII

In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,              
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate";   ...

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Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again

Even when iron not red hot, 
I implement non customary quarks 
regarding foreigner rather cold as ice
namely delinquent outsize credit card debt 
mandates yours truly, 
a cheesy survivor who rem: members...

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Just a small village girl in such a big world
Feeding the animals in the quite fields
Smiling and singing, laughing too
Joan of Arcadia sang songs for you
A Leader, a Martyr, a Warrior and Saint
No military background...

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"Hear your fate, O high-dwellers of the airy, wide open            
Spaces and fertile plain, your rugged and enclosed      ...

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Man those problems seem so petty compared to what I've been dealing with lately,
I wake up from an apocalyptic nightmare to find out I can reverse time,
No biggie, I can just reach out my hand...

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III

But, of course, I had no dizzying towers                  
To burn...only bridges; and they were torched   ...

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I.

O Bacchanalia! O wild Mania,                              
...

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Is it a reverie or a true slice of life?
Have I landed in Arcadia or an earthly paradise?
All seems so magical, eyes refusing to believe.
Am I dreaming or do I simply fantasize?

I see everything clothed...

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Never say what you will never do. 
I said I would never date anyone from off line. 
And I would never date anyone from Arcadia. 
Now I have a man who I found online and...

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I stood in awe as she alighted like a bird upon some branch,
Belisha beacon to the abyss bound  clochard.
Bonfire for uncanny scion  adrift,
 ignited by her
incandescent eyes.
Chanteuse  of Arcadia  on song...

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~ Placed First in Constance's 'D' quote Contest~

" (Two roads) diverged in a yellow wood and I choose the
            the one less traveled by...

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In a place, In another time was where it all initiated
A bombed out place with mixed climatic systems, Reinstated
But moving on in this place gave me a cerebral pulsation
For within and outside these boundaries, I...

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Crystal clear do I see that sunlit glade
Wherein our first act of love was made
Your quick,panting breaths heightened my ardour
As we embraced in our cosy,clinging arbour
When your soft lips melted into mine
As strong and ...

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West Side Poetry Writing Workshop
Thursday, May 27
6:30pm - 8:30pm
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Virtual
This event will be held virtually on Zoom.

Share your poetry with amateur and seasoned poets alike in 
a comfortable setting. Join us to engage in...

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Where is this peaceful utopia of infinite wonder
 I've heard much about? I've followed the call of echoes,
and I've searched far and long into the wilderness
I've looked through the haze of morning mist
and peeked through...

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Oh, eternal empyrean thy thunder rumbles thru the hallucinogenic hells,
Where demons disseminate decadent deeds arising from lament…
As Angels plummet within their pandemonium’s pleasurable thirst,
The battles that lead to wars amidst a miasmatic malignant landscape…

Faithful firmament...

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Oh, that's it, Keko. Pass through. Go ahead. 
Just walk across my books without a glance, 
with all that arrogant insousiance 
of yours, encoded in that languid tread. 

No, never mind that I've been up...

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Trudging on a lonely road
In somewhat desolated and dreary mode
Stumbled upon someone ineffably enchanting
And felt the desire to espouse her, augmenting.
Ah! Her dulcet voice and ravishing charm
That pierced my heart without harm.

I told myself “Yes,...

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blatantly passionate
           perfected bodily beauty
           attractiveness overcharged
        ...

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You leave the car at what was once, 
in old reality, a farm and where the
National Trust democratise so now not cows 
but parking motorists feel alarm.

Across a road are loos, ex milking parlours 
still...

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Strange signpost of circling destiny - an Exxon station,
perched at the crossroads of State Highway 95
and Farm to Market Road 1331.
Almost certainly without its own knowledge
serving as the gateway to Arcadia.

Where life may be older...

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woke up to a full day but i can tell the sun's only come half bright
on the cemented pavements and shameless statements of the
buildings towering high.
lately pacing shadows of motion
with squeezing tight objectives
lay themselves amaze...

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Let go my ash on a windy day,
From a cliff near the edge of the sea.
Mingled forever with the friends I have loved,
For all time, now together . . now free.
 
And I promise we'll...

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In those far days, stars had stilts, shafts
that pierced every eye with a legendary knowledge.
There were celestial dragons 
that roamed the daylight clouds,
actual myths glittered in the sunlight
as they shape-shifted through a gleaming creation.

Olympus could...

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