Long Bestseller Poems

I was an artistic, floral designer, intoxicated by the sweet-smelling blooms,
Like magenta butterfly swarms, at a standstill, intoxicated by floral fumes.

Gold days were full of my bloom designs, each one so original and unique,
Just as...

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The NY Times BestSeller,
How To Change Your Mind,
is about
How to change your Left or Right
Or Left and Right
dominant default demand Consciousness,
therapeutically from LoseLose distrust
to WinLose mistrust
to WinWin bilateral
and even multi-lateral
Trust.

But to speak of changing Minds
when...

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Fall in love with a poet at your own risk.

She’ll woo your mind with serenading

notes and undress your defenses

behind metaphors and rhymes.

She’ll merge emotions with home-made

verses in a nectarous word play, opening

the mansion of your...

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Sebastian is gone
The spirit of Alexandra is still there
Her haunting aroma of lavender
Still lingers through the dark silent rooms

The couple did not know
what they were in for
when they rented 
the old apartment

Sharon noticed first
Shadows that...

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Multiplayer. that Model carries on the particular newsletter regarding works of fiction specialized in the particular Superstar Battles operation. Following your Strength regarding durability, amount a single and also a couple of, Sean Williams, creator...

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Before golden opportunity
(goes no argh hue mint 
the way of Long John Silver)
doth fade and dwindle
not necessarily cuz the missus
did (NOT) bribe and swindle
an ambition (for nor rhyme nor reason)
arose to kindle...

Affectionate communication
employing (figurative) gambol
probably...

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Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,

sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evoke outer limits
of twilight zone

prompting me constantly questioning
purposefulness, qua hair raising pursuit
embarking these modern roman...

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Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,

sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evoke outer limits
of twilight zone

prompting me constantly questioning
purposefulness, qua hair raising pursuit
embarking these modern roman...

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I go online so I can see my sales,
how many books did I move in the night?
These projects that I gave six whole months to,
the stories that give meaning to my life.
But the bar is...

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There was once a man.
He’d always wanted to write,
But his biggest failing was
That he wasn’t very bright.

Whenever he started 
On a story or a plot,
Before he could pen it
He simply forgot

What he had thought earlier
And...

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It’s easy for them not to try
when their love shines as bright as the Northern Star.
I’m thinking about you and I can’t stop
wishing you were right next to me all the time.
But you’re just too...

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Masticate this thought for me, reader.
Basic stories of characters with settings and plot.
Occasional works of obscure fiction written in flamboyant diction. 
Maybe television shows or whatever media your mind chose. 
Why does life and fiction...

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no shortage of familiar metier real
     (material) aye attest
welling up within thy breast
merely a predicament how to winnow

     junk bonded barnacled
     accretion encrusted
...

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Is she the one my heart belongs to
Is she one I can sing this song to
Is she the one that makes it worth it again.
To love again
How scary the thought of losing
Control again.
Is she the...

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EYES DON'T LIE...
I've always believed eyes tell a story.
 
From the moment I met you you've 
worn shades to protect the pages in 
your book. Day one I've asked you to
 
remove them. U told...

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"Spotlit center stage, today's modern physicist in the fashionable
Armani wardrobe incoherently presents his latest bestseller on 'bent space' 
to a packed auditorium of wildly adoring morons."

-- zero scientific proof
beyond all Rational doubt
coherently presented in the...

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time has told 
as days grow old 
either shy or bold 
people's hands unfold 

to show who they really are 
and some are left with scars 
some belong  behind prison bars 
others gaze and...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXVII

IF you pull a long repentant face
It avails you to pull it where no one sees you pray
For forgiveness though not after being caught outright losing face
A...

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Mythical Thinking

In the beginning there had been the word…
She had spoken wisely and made believe
had been a poet all her life creating fiction
scripted parables about a primordial bang

Now she encountered writer’s silent block
yet pondered about...

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by Michael J Falotico

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A Waste of Space

"For countless romantics, outer space is another of life's great mysteries --
each having flunked basic physics
(in addition to skipping each astronomy class)."
-- Reality
in need of a bit of breathing space from
the "multiverse"

*...

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Once Sariputra was attending a sort of book event: a dozen of young writers, men and women, met up on Wednesday of every week and read each other texts upon an actual literature. Sitting across...

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         "There are souls like stars that dwell apart."

                 ...

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the rain that drowned the sidewalks
dampened down the nighttime heat
creating steam through manholes
from the pipes beneath the street

and set against this backdrop
of a vibrant city beat
swarms of taxis stung the air
with horns stuck on repeat

as...

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You roll over my head and I rise from the dead
Buried in a blanket of cold sweat in a grave on my bed 
I’m a broken line of thought that remains wet to smear 
A...

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