Long Belled Poems

Sponsor : Robert James Ligouri 

IRON MAIDEN 

Iron maiden was she 
fathered from loins of 
Zeus flow free ~
surrounded by swords 
steely three, icicle aura 
bounded hounded 
innocence thorned 
crowned exiled
white mane this maiden 
iron...

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--Before meeting with her father & sisters, Cordelia is dealt a card depicting Woodwose by
Mor-Ríoghain, in the guise of a gypsy hag.

i.

As my sister's once-beautiful gray cat looks at me
She wasted now by a thyroid...

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Disclaimer 

poems are weaved as of impressions received 
reflections portraying the truth as perceived
perhaps we turn to scriptures to validate 
uniqueness of our path, as our ordained fate

be wary then oh reader of words we...

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as things speed up 
at an ever faster clip
they're ready to interrupt
my mind's day nondescript
to mark my thoughts - every tiny blip

and keep them cross-indexed
in a clouded database
kept in the current context
never to be erased
their...

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TWINFLAMES 

Obsidian oscillated into lava
     slid across syntactic streams
        tumbled thick greenwood thickets 
          ...

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When the mighty wind comes to a quench
And the heavy rain comes to a halt
Would your household boast of a bountiful harvest?
Plentiful enough into your very own hut

Today a new man taken over your spirit
Trampling...

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I lay in your arms on a
Vacant bed of Poppies                         ...

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The Alcoholic
Parley poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Dirty dufflecoat wino
Zigzag up the street
Wobble wobble..
Topsy-turvey on the one side
And half past puzzled
His body form
Is out of order
His odour sour
Orphaned at eight 
He explained
Never had a chance
Of a lifetime
I am just...

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I was a potato type of guy, forget the cookies and carrots, 
didn't believe in Santa nor Cinderellas with golden chariots .
Twas' late at night as I crunched my chips I watched  TV ...

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My point of view has always held
To standard lines, defined by fear.
Defensive words, their anger belled 
By peals of knowledge: Danger near. 

This way of life does not adhere 
To happiness: A life befelled. 
Hope...

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Away on a desert
No one in close sight 
Trudging miles on bare foot,
We reached our planned site.

Sand dunes peeked here and there.
Camels with belled neck
Were seen slowly moving,
With their humpy back

Sky turned black and inky.
But...

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My soul’s confession knows no ordinary
penance—nor knows, nor feels, another mind
the nebulating sorrows therein maligned—.
I doubt my own can judge the cemetery

of bygone thoughts, dead dreams, and funerary 
pathways—twisted in patterns twice entwined
through one and...

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Idyllic nightmare 

I know they are good people who want us to leave 
they don't know it is their time, what's up because
our time is fine, but they fail to grasp that they
are past the clock, it...

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Sitting alone, iPad in hand,
to pen a poem on demand,
attempting to translate bliss beats,
the rapture refrain that repeats,
feeling within joy germinate,
we write because we cannot wait,
for once symbols in rhythm are belled,
with our creative tempests...

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