Long Attains Poems

I.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift

( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)

For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...

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Sunset

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Vexation at self - regarding avoidable altercation...

Today May 12th, 2021
at Royersford (Pennsylvania) LIDL,
when spouse stepped into checkout line
(minus her horse drawn grocery cart -
pushed courtesy yours truly).

While passively standing stock still
I (think Stonewall Jackson)
let scenario...

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My Heart's Desire Comes to My Lips as a Prayer: 
O Allah! My Heart's Desire comes to my lips as supplication (Prayer)of mine.
God make my life as one of a candle,a kind of guiding light....

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My Heart's Desire Comes to My Lips as a Prayer: 
O Allah! My Heart's Desire comes to my lips as supplication (Prayer)of mine.
God make my life as one of a candle,a kind of guiding light....

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Montgomery County Pennsylvania housing choice voucher...
eligibility predicated upon mandatory fingerprinting

Courtesy anticipatory anxiety
breeds palmar hyperhidrosis
(i.e. hands adrip
with profuse perspiration)
honest to dog truthfully
most inconvenient malady

holds Earthling (yours truly)
in precarious emotional balance
me silently screaming
against ill fated physiological disorder
also...

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Original poem:  

"a million fairytales tremble at us,
   they know how our love does outshine with flickering light-
sounds of swift ivory doves cry out,
   fleeting into the ebon night; for...

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Oft Bold The Thoughts, When Pen Strikes Paper

Oft bold the thoughts, when pen strikes paper
even should ones shovel meet dark coals.
Shrouds removed, to smell new rising vapors
or challenge poets tired and resting souls!

Sought, shimmering pools...

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Create in  me a pure heart O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of...

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(When I am due)

As the clock pulses impulsively to tag time along,
All day long I load up the mounting hums like a banquet song,
My head stuffed still, thronged nuisance teeming long,
Like the tolerance of an...

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You're an individual.
 You're unique. 
And it's important that you 
create the space to 
express your uniqueness, 
and become the fully expressed, 
fully unleashed, 
fully unlimited vibrancy that you are.
There's a stage in a mans...

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Management here at
Highland Manor Apartments sent out word
that tomorrow, January twenty third,
two thousand and twenty one,
we (all residents) will receive the first (of two)
inoculations to stave off getting COVID-19,
hence mine poetic title might seem absurd.

Aforementioned...

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Relief courtesy dreaded (re:) inspection not revisited until May 2022

Anticipatory anxiety put on high alert
when the warden gave less than a week
courtesy spluttering tone of voice
she did angrily blurt
nsync with her usual persona
being wickedly curt
treating...

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Cage of compulsive personality we live in
Machine of love ensnare us
Desires become restless to mingle
With the spring grass there in the field
Leading me to feel I am green grass too
My wife asks me to switch...

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See the sea 
Fading away from her lover and
Coming back with all her might
Just to kiss her lover 
The stronger she came 
The more stronger they pull her back;
The heaven knows no gender 
The heaven...

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Methinks resurgence of wakefulness
after bewitching hour i.e. midnight
quickly dissipating before dawn
quasi baptism regarding
preternatural soulful immersion
amidst spiritus mundi

foretaste awaiting expiration
regarding corporeal being
yours truly approaching mortality,
despite atheistic predilections
mine consciousness anointed
amist pantheon renown authors

analogous to dead poet society
ephemerally,...

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“Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar.” Owens, Delia. 

Its solemn swaying into this world isn't a fall,
From the ever-season-shifting earth, it's a...

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Him fountain of eternal joy from 
Where life is renewed, 
Ageing and life to be drained out, exit 
From the world is nigh, 
When suddenly comes a call from him 
Above, who regulates 
The flow...

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"The Creepers", first part

She has humiliating lives have been exhausted in repenting
countless of her contribution is of no value , even sacrificing
humiliation hurting her heart as like as knife again and again
she is deadly silent...

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In a small town twenty minutes North of where you live
an alien looks in a mirror and studies your face.
You don’t know it, but he has taken over the life
that you no longer use.
While you...

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In a small town twenty minutes North of where you live
an alien looks in a mirror and studies your face.
You don’t know it, but he has taken over the life
that you no longer use.
While you...

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The Creepers second part

Her mind ached at the thought of having to fight with her own man
the trumpet blows in the blink of her eye to destroy then.
She is not able to win his heart...

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I embrace you … you hold me tight,
   sounds of swift ivory doves cry out- 
fleeting into the ebon night; for our love loses not insight,
   never cursed or full of...

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Living the most complete life--
 No man deserves less or more from living than another
 From a tiny drop of nectar, a flower blooms
 One blossom though different invites the same appraisal
 Such is the...

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To some it is overrated
To others it is never done

A lie is but the underside of truth
To spin a web of deceit is only
The stretching of the facts for greater appeal

Lies will be facts if...

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