Long Asides Poems

An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...

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The greatest performance of my life.  
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award  on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...

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The Sandless Sand Castle

Let me tell you about my eldest brother.

I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...

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No more faxes, no more phones                             ...

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No more faxes, no more phones                             ...

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Or the fate that awaits one at journey’s  end. 
Like all distances I suppose.
My destination if you can call it that  is another world altogether." 
A lady who could structure her sentences with...

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With Crystal Ball I might have found 
Some way to weave my way through time
Instead I played without the rules
Did it my way throughout the schools

Meandered free from guides or maps
Ate my meals from plates...

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If You Think...

If you think a love like a mother will exist, there and then  
You must have been building castles in the air and thus 
 Need a medic or an injection to...

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Three lying deacons 
swim in a handbag -
and a lone, celibate pastor 
paces longingly bemused.
Michael, the Arc Angel, 
poses silently,
in dusty Gabbana drag,
cursing the lipstick-painted laymen
writhing in rancid attar -
naked 
and intentionally 
unused.

Four wide-eyed boys...

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Tonight i come i write as not me
but for thee

With fashioned , gifted , borrowed , 
lender pen

On behalf of or partial to other's 
those who no longer , longer nigh

As raven , ashen ,...

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'Tis well known that mules are a very stubborn breed,
So 'tis well to keep that point in mind ere you proceed!
They've been known to bite and they have a mighty hefty kick.
(So, how to harness...

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Pondering the thoughts of nameless enemies
dying to show their face
yet too afraid to be revealed
I forgive & heal from all rocks thrown with ill intent
for I know their time is at hand
Absorbing all the pain...

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I am in pursuit, of a box
That I will find later or sooner
Based on the rumor of rumors
I follow the not so yellow brick road
To pursue this beautiful box that over flowed
With ever thing I...

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If great minds are discovered
And stolen destinies recovered
If mysteries are uncovered
And shady deals neatly covered
Then, it must be in the night

Yes, in the night, when man sleeps
The enemy comes and peeps
He lays problems in heaps
And...

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GALLERY
a
splash
 of colour
&
 joy
brought
exhilaration
  a repurposed
compulsive
fascination
with
 intensity


an affectionate
 motifs
so
graphic
in
a light
hearted
 brief
of
accessibility



a lifetime
opportunity
in
 nuanced
space
a
conceit
 of
created
vanity

 original
entire
a
 sound
 comparative
so
 self-effacing
& dismissive
accolades
of
asides
 out loud
of
inspiration
 stretches
so
far back


an obvious
connection
between
vision
&that
of
colour
to draw
attention
to a show
 of
the
scale
&survey
the
gaiety
  so
playfully
ornamental
topped
with shards
 of turquoise
 like
 delight

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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Bill beat them to death. Verbose and belligerent, banal and brilliant, Hicks would beat
you with a joke until you weren’t sure it was funny any more. But you’d still laugh.
Advertising advocates he indicated, would be...

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Rumours spreading ink 
          Blots on a character,
Insidiously virus like, 
          Duplicating cells,
Touching and impregnating 
 ...

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If I can just borrow one of your pens
So my own lines, would, at least, make some sense
To create rhythms that are clear, and not dense
Be able to inspire with no offense
I shall be proud...

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Froggy is croaking
Somewhere where it’s boggy
He’s steering them clearly
A lighthouse, that froggy

Yearlings are frisky
Delightful, these dear things
But dawn is right risky
So fly, flee, you yearlings!

Morning is breaking
It’s sounding a warning
An astounding sunrise
A marvelous morning

Dillo is...

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Though it seems
that somehow
things are not
quite right now,

When the end
is in sight,
He will put
all things right.

Is life fair?
Thank God, not.
We misjudge
our dire lot.

Standards used:
others’ wrong;
shadows cast:
dark and long.

Gravity:
where begin?
Misperceive
weight of sin.

Cast our cares
upon him;
comes the...

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The man of just enough words is a pleasure,
The man of just the right words is a treasure,
The man of great words is a man to inspire,
The man of no words from the heart is...

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A thousand words later
we’re still talking.
I know I’m being reflexive,
this banter a transparent way
to paint clowns on speech bubbles;
ripostes that ricochet off any real wit.

Later still, alone in my head - the replay,
the should have...

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I have no food.
My stomach rumbles from hunger.
My body reacts in weakness,
Sending the message of pain to my brain.
My heart beats in rhythms,
Making me aware of being alive

I have no shelter.
My body constantly gets 
Drenched...

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