Long Bantam Poems

“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s dreams 
rust crumbles to dust

Virulent apathy spreads 
Betrayal’s destruction 
hand...

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Ghostly spirits from deadly arsenal spell haunting annihilation

With mighty mouse and Hercules height 
tried to retrieve sanity spread loose;
a faded unpleasant memory - even enlisting
decades old cartoon characters: 
Natasha squirrel and Bullwinkle moose
flow of electrons...

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I did not know about the world, I grew up on a farm
Into the city I was hurled, it was cause for alarm 
I found my solace and retreat, with tenants of the zoo
The animals...

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Percy would stand up and sidestep and tap dance while the bullets bounced around him....
Percy laughed at death
and the Grim Reapers sickle missed him..
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           ...

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There are not enough words to describe
The devotion and compassion this poet's eyes beheld.

It was a plain room arranged for safety, 
comfort, and care.
A fine bantam table re-purposed with medical supplies 
for any emergent unplanned...

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Mister Government Taxman,
IRe See
you’re reaching into the citizens’
		              pockets again

Mister Caesar Palace Chamberlain,
your adept eyes
	       ...

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Bertie Brown the Bantam weight was training for the fight
The tickets sold the seats laid out all ready for the night
‘Buster Brown can knock ‘em down’ the posters all agreed
But this one worried Buster sending...

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The serpentine and ageless liquid
   mercurial possessed snake
eternally swallowed 
   since the beginning of time
   one unquenchable thirst to gorge and slake
slurping up an icy cold mountainous pebbly shake
...

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Rocky was a Bantam of infinite style
He knew how to drive all the chicks wild
Then one hapless day he fell in the pond
Farmer Cherie was there, first to respond
Hauling Rocky out, wrung him like a...

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At cockcrow, I head down to the river, forsaking my little log cabin situated in the dense forest till dusk, which was strongly built by my endemic hands. I have no compulsion for rods and...

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A notable writer in the literary Norwegian firmament was Jens Bjornebo who was the leading radical star 
outspoken and a perfect spokesman for modern times in
the sixties and seventies.
Jens, let's call him Jens came from...

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BOLD
So what now you were told
That you were to be bold
courageous, confident
courageous, confident, and fearless; ready to take risks.
To show- showing or requiring courage some bold plans.
	Adventurous. Are those the thoughts of man
	Audacious. I never...

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Creationist scientists who dig
with astro-paleontologists
As they seek the bones
Of australepithecus

Foretold in the Book of Leviticus
& the Dead Sea Scrolls
Sounded by the deadly tolls
From the bells

Harbored in the Vatican,
Those who mistake the accidents
For the sake of...

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Scruffy the Bantam
by Robert (Bob) Moore © 2015

Grey Mare Lane Markets, was a place I used to like
I used to go there Saturdays, riding on my bike
Down Mount Road, then Hyde Road, then down Pottery...

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I looked out my back yard window today.
whilst taking my small white pill,
  a little green man came walking my way

His dreadful face was missing some features—
the nose, a neck, an ear,  no...

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When daddy brought the sweet corn in for dinner
Mama already had water boiling in the pot.
I could hardly wait to taste those buttered kernels
From the Golden Bantam ears that Daddy brought.

Much later in my life,...

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menthol cigarettes / messy journals / propane torches / unfinished poems / 
                 broken promises / black bandana /...

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A determined chicken collector and her obliging spouse
Reside in a small town, inside a quaint sort-of HEN house
High upon a mountain top covered with melting snow
Displays of ceramic chickens, last count was ninety or so

A...

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If you are cathedral of consecration
I'm the voluminous chime summoning souls 

If you are the moonglade mountain peak 
I'm the fedora of snow atop you

If you are the bantam flame of hope 
I'm the mammoth...

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In this wonky day and time,
this favored temperate clime
dares suggest wisdom's course
espouse prevalent societal force.*

Family tree boundaries,
stretched by current modes
like an old elastic band,
accept new branches
hung precariously 
on the old sturdy trunk.

Old Limbs are newly...

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In our hearts of hearts
Seldom does the mind thinks
Grandeur particulates healing for ourselves
Materialistic beliefs placed in spiritual sheets
Cover me, console me in my anguish and grief
Must I ask up in my chest for kindness?
Must I...

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Little Leprechaun 
Abab Iambic T

a mischief, laden Irish elf
of Irish men quite bold
one collects, inspects, golden gifts
the  bantam weight of gold

a legend bold of many told
the phantom thrills of chase
the race in sight of...

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My bantam cabin door scuttles
Light streaming ,trying to Breach in
Keeping my hand in its boulevard
Cutting up the gush of light
I came outside astound I am
Flying aloft the ground Rakishely
Maybe some vehicle
A new world an advanced...

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The Underchook

no escape for the momma chile,
of cuddles no directions,
but you bring a healthy smile,
no seduction no erection ....ooops

the mind of foolish Doves ,
expound the myth of sin,
how n when n  get sweet ...

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A blur of fur, it scurries quickly but
I hear a meeo-ow, tender, loving, warm.
Only, yesterday her eyes, they shimmered sapphire.
Now flecks of gold in pools of jade, they glint.

To touch her is to feel velour...

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