Long Begrimed Poems

A whirl, a gust, and a thunderous boom commenced,
Heartened by the latter soreness of silent night,
Shackled through the chill blows above,
A tempest, a storm,
Threshing the world,
Shaking the Prison of Plot,

The waters of the Holy Spirit...

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A pony pulled his two-wheel cart past guards and through the gate. 
It carried his supplies of art with which he would create. 
He heads for misty ocean cliffs, those rugged, ragged rocks; 
Then, breathing...

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Two faithful souls stand listless in the great big tower 
overlooking the stranded city that once stood tall
yearning for a quiet place to lay their heads 
while far beyond the deserted land 
a soft blue...

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Once upon a time...

Once upon a time, in France, a storyteller fella
Wrote of a girl named Cinderella,
Meant as a fairy tale romance.
Her daddy died when she was young, and she was forced to share his...

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(Response to Mr. Lamoureux "Tell Me")

You say "Tell Me" "I really want to know"
Tell you what Richard? Really?
About a God sitting on a throne in high heaven
And you down below whining and fretting?

So...I thought, well...why...

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rootless on sapphire seas
tides dishonored then begrimed
a keel eroded, relentlessly thinned 
barnacles disguised with time

drifting toward dark horizons 
battered and barely alive 
distant isles beg an appearance
pleading I arrive

beyond the rotting corpses 
mired and run...

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rootless on sapphire seas
tides dishonored then begrimed
a keel eroded, relentlessly thinned 
barnacles disguised with time

drifting toward dark horizons 
battered and barely alive 
distant isles beg an appearance
pleading I arrive

beyond the rotting corpses 
mired and run...

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One flight of steps down 
                    you can smell it
      ...

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I sit brooding on my doorstep, begrimed,
Loneliness, like a ghost, within, settled;
Sunbeams, outside, spread lavishly sublimed, 
The current of existence-whirls nettled...!

My little daughter, as though bored, sits near,
Her head on my chest; hands on my...

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Forbears,Edie,Kate and Ann furnished apiece with brush and pan.Each 
Victorian 'Miss' tied in service's  abyss.Far off days,now long gone,their toil each 
day was lengthy and long.With fires to light,floors to scrub,and carpets to brush...

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Forbears,Edie,Kate and Ann furnished apiece with brush and pan.Each 
Victorian 'Miss' tied in service's  abyss.Far off days,now long gone,their toil each 
day was lengthy and long.With fires to light,floors to scrub,and carpets to brush...

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In summer we shatter into pieces of grief 
          In autumn we decay as a fallen leaf

Mizzling rain that dribbles down begrimed window pane
  ...

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FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

Whitened collar, fixedly starched 
To the ultimate limits of self-perfection, 
Points righteous, crooked finger 
At an open-mouthed assembly, 
Crouching beneath thick-
Eyebrowed gaze of a dark
Frock-coated scarecrow.

His cackling voice emits 
Hollowed-out squawks,
Casting lines of...

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In deep,drenched trenches did they wait 
To confront the foe
Mud-infested and rat-swarmed.
Lit fags,shielded by begrimed and cupped hands,
Passing from mate to mate
Against the booming background 
Of the heavy guns.
Some shells bursting overhead
Others throwing up clumps...

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Five and a Toad 

They marched in ragged order
under the brilliant, hot,
drenching sunshine,
with thin cotton clouds overhead.

Motley assorted clothes,
sweating, begrimed, sunburned, but eager faces.
One with a cast, blue
with purple stars and glitter,
a residual from a...

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This is what awaits at home -
(I'll try explaining in a poem).
Taxi line or Uber call.
Heat I cannot take at all.

Mail piled up and plants a'droop.
Empty fridge or fruit-turned goop.
Messages on the machine.
Headlines that I...

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