Long Bedfellows Poems

"Here rise to life again, dead poetry!
Let it, O holy Muses, for I am yours,
And here Calliope, strike a higher key,
Accompanying my song with that sweet air
which made the wretched Magpies feel a blow
that turned...

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My wife woke me up last night and said that she had been bitten all over by something,
She said she was certain it had not been me...
Alarmed! I rolled off the bed and landed on...

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I am who I am, but some people call me black.
They don’t just call me black, they also say I’m dirty and dark
I do what others do; and I could even visit gutters in search...

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America the beautiful, where are your friends?
They have left you to find some other ends;
You who once stood for all that was right,
Are now only seen as a fading light.

You once were the head but...

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Just as in twilight –men’s eyes roam, unbidden, seek horizon’s golden light
Thus do men –roam with nature’s Sappho-rhythm--Yearning, yearning
into your indigo unceasing velvet night
Spiraling –throbbing--- perpetual sensations—Burning, burning
Hot despair-- escaped-- from siren-bred mad-delight
		Run did I...

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To Those That Don't Understand 

You won't, you simply can't and how could you, 
It is bigger than your comprehension, your ego 
- will allow.. 
For the sake of love of money, And for inane...

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The crucible savant..    by Steven Hudson
(Crucible: A place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence  change or development.
  Savant:  a person of learning…)

Through sleepless, hopeless...

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T'is politics where man excels, 
for it protects the lies they tell. 
Of pomp and ceremony he employs, 
voters manipulated like children's toys.

Wars are started, a game of chess 
and religion does so happily bless.
Sons...

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Dare to conquer the multitude
Dare to win the unforeseen battle.
Dare to sing among the victors
Dare to speak the unspeakable.
All is grist that comes to the mill
Actions speak louder than words.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows and
All is...

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Are they horned and screaming?
No, nothing that munches other meat eaters
could rupture light years.
Are they ethereal deities
that live on their own ever flowing nectar,
so far advanced
that we haven’t a chance?

In Ohio we are infused;
the sky...

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when you feel like pacing up and down
hitting yourself in the head
on that perimeter fence of enclosed emotion
bracing for an onslaught of pain
that won’t dissipate on the barbed wire fences

a watch tower is mocking and...

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I rose for the summer, but for autumn I fall
Head first into oranges, reds, and yellows
Warm days and cool nights brace for winters call
A season of strange hot and cold bedfellows

 Head first into oranges,...

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When you know you've been the fool...
    As if you're ready to re-enroll in school.

But then you realize, no matter the shame or burn,
    That all of us make...

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Divisive, abusive, hollow and torn,
Our politics broken through anger and scorn,
More pointing of fingers, of turning one's back,
Is this the new norm, our thorny new track?

What happened to thinking before all those tweets,
Like manicured gardens...

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Divine light, soft white
Accompanying bliss delight
Pulsating within through day and night

Prismatic refraction displays beauteous hues
Crown lavender, third eye lilac, throat azure blue
Even as heart aquamarine green bliss throb renews

Spleen chakra chartreuse, blend of green and...

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Polling day
Calmly on trek;
Popular mandate

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Above the noise
People cast votes;
Landslide win

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So many rallies
Mind reading stances;
Noisy opposition

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Incumbent party
Massive support;
New era begins

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The people's choice:
Savvy polling;
Status quo majority

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Helming the day
Familiar comfort;
Watershed moments

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Sweeping away
83 from 89;
Sweet victory won

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Consultative way
Better approach;
Empathy...

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a solider and a sailor
sing a lonesome song just for your entertainment
but in it you are betrayed by visions of heaven
shine with the late night ribald drinkers
after all after a few bottles even mortality seems...

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Many plan to live for ever
But can only try
Death always visits
No matter how hard we cry

Faith in longevity is ill-judged
Life spans vary
Time rolls by
One day we are welcomed 
Another we have to say goodbye

To be...

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Bedfellows

When love flows 
It is refreshing like a morning breeze
Looking at my lover, bows
And conform to what we feel for each other
It is so sweet like Marshmallows

As bedfellows
Let’s play a game unknown to foes
Count my...

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Global awakening came when sunrise met the sunset,
sparking a clash of conflicting cultures
Civilization came to the crossroads when east met west

Armageddon skies of doomsday vultures,
because humanity can't seem to overcome it's differences
Both sides rebuff any...

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I contemplate endings and beginnings, as the globe turns much more times than my 
Better chances have  burned,  I feel eternity's intent to smaller or larger affairs is
Almost democratic In it's indifference, also...

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I contemplate endings and beginnings, as the globe turns much more times than my 
Better chances have  burned,  I feel eternity's intent to smaller or larger affairs is
Almost democratic In it's indifference, also...

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I wonder into how many mirrors I will glance on my to hell.
This vain and vile image.
We made him together.
Their expectations and my vanity.
Their agitation and my insecurity.
This peripheral paranoia, checked only by the silent...

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I did not wish to sleep with old gods 
that stand trying to evoke the grey skyline of modernity

That preach on hummingbird wires 
that murmur telemetry through echoed iconoclasts.

And as the aging blue repetition spatters...

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Lenina, I cannot deny I was attracted to you.
Knowing you has brought me elation.
You appeared to have feelings for me that were true.
However, this relationship must have a cessation.
I do not understand the ways of...

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