Long Bendable Poems

(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).

Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous to an outsize pipe cleaner)
until she became a tweener
my Matty...

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Written: April 26, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand

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It comes in sizes
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Bond between us

I wish i could explain it
But everytime i try to i just go blank
Its not that i cant but everytime I try to explain I run out of words
Its a connection if you...

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I woke up forlorn and hollow inside of me
oh yes I was pretty darn melancholy
I was funky blue and my glass was totally empty
wanted to curl up into nothingness . . . 

I took my...

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If I was part machine, a steampunk woman, or a steampunk dog, or a steampunk cat,
I would choose to have a machine heart, so I could be less soft. 
So my feelings would not get...

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Harvest of Mind
               by Odin Roark

Acres of mirrors
Reflecting yesterdays upon today
Refracting wisdom’s tundra of experience
Into regret's abstract lessons.

How flexible
This mind of...

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Democrats like Damocles Sword's imminent jeopardized positions of power hail her rise,
Decades of teamsters support, NO, Harris-Demos few endorsed her in the public's eyes,
Democrats today are like the Dixiecrats of Dewey's days are playing old-school,...

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As I flash through the books and screens,
The plots take me to new terrains.
I experience a world beyond the reality,
where every image might as well be a fantasy.

I see visuals within my peripherals.
Can it be...

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Strength of a Queen

As Queen Ann’s Lace sets in the field, 
It reigns with great power among other florals
Wearing a crown centered and pronged 
Beautiful lace falls all around.

It graces the others in a bouquet
And...

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Lies & Fantasies fill my head
All racing through while laying in bed
Sleep should be on my mind
But no peace of mind can I find
My life is not what I wanted it to be
The world is...

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Botticelli takes a warm bath.
Springtime in arcadia,
The Grace chicks are a threesome.

I tend to ignore the other stuff that's going on.

For triplets
they each have their subtle differences
The girls are demure,
yet they seem to be hoofing...

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My flexibility has been recorded by practically no one
Yet it is my greatest, most brilliant, terrific superpower.
I have moved thirty-seven times, and have had twenty-eight jobs.
Along for the ride were three daughters and a zoo...

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Hope resounds through my soul pockets as I hear Stairway to Heaven
There is more than one road to get there, the paths pliable like a willow
It is okay to reach for all that glitters, but...

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In a world of opinions and plastic,
answers to questions become bendable ..
Stretching every which way, when elastic
We have Barbie and Ken, that are able

In a world of, all for me, some for you
Stretching in all...

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One of the resourceful books unbeatable;
Children’s love, care and comfort biddable
Is none better than Reader’s Digest – capable.
Articles, reports, jokes and anecdotes audible;
All are present in it; all are undoubtable.
Changing the mindset of students capable
Is...

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Remember the days of Barbie Dolls that didn’t have bendable legs?  Remember the high bouncing, “Superballs”?  The small ones were the best for playing jacks; boy could I scoop them up before that...

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My product's diurnal, nocturnal,
       Forever and aye, Eternal.

     Rarer than a diamond coin,
       Yet impossible to purloin.

  ...

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It is my mother’s birthday today.
She is 87.
87 and weighs 121 pounds.
121 pounds of ridiculous energy
She holds exercise classes
For the 90 year olds in her
Apartment buildings
Her students are 91 and 97
They are probably lying on...

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