Long Bilk Poems

Love is so overrated
But, my love towards you, in which I prize,
Is, to you, overrated

Melt away my heart of ice
I'll be your living sacrifice
Roll the dice, play the piano
Pay the price, te amo...te amo…
I watch...

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Many British thermal units* later

Vice linkedin to carnal flesh this writer, 
(a married heterosexual doofus, – 
whose alter egos 
named and highlighted courtesy 
Gallant and Goofus) attones
to heat these lovely bag of bones
amazingly graceful human...

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I'm independent
I'm inappropriate 
Eating potaters...
Eatin' its fiber flavors
I made a difference in someone's life...
I'm like a Cub - I can get you out and about - 
I'm like a bat - so mysterious and discreet
I'm...

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Many British Thermal Units needed...

To heat these lovely bag of bones
more so than required to generate clones
aging musculoskeletal physique groans
kvetching synonymous nsync with exactly
indistinguishable among where generic
garden variety alter kocker and/or like
mummified Pharaoh moans.

Hence, I...

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I knew it was coming up to Christmas when Mom started to stress
About the lack of money and if she could get us all a new dress
I knew it was Christmas Eve when we left...

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This is a collaboration I had been working on with a friend a while back. We might change the title. Her name is Rebecca Larkin. She started the poem with the first line and from...

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46.
             At Peace

I care not a fig for untold riches
Or the tainted pearls of the sea.
I will pursue no golden treasure
Lest its tentacles...

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My girlfriend has a potty mouth, (in part she learned from me),
It's freed her to express herself, and that's a victory!
But Truth can be a two-edged sword, some days I have regrets.
Oh Lord, the things...

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A true story:

Boarded our boat, four of us — one was Gilligan. Map in hand, did we understand?  Enough to sail to the jewelry store! Ahh...a ceramic necklace and matching earrings ~ black and...

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Truth be told said topic minimally embellished
rather, prattling youthful looking
baby booming geezer
precious time (yours), he doth bilk
(cue sinister mock-up halloween voice)

moost valuable intangible
outstripping fine spun golden silk,
yet coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine
drives dingbat to whole new level
wits...

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And we are left here
Like maggots—dirty, parentless…devastated
Always feeding on the gruel…the cruel
Fattening our lives in the moneyless bilk
Shocking like a bee sting, yet soft as silk
We are the forgotten
I am watching the others grow rotten
But...

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Give me your subliminal messages
Take my hand
Time is against us…
Speechless as hell
XO is sent your way
OX is sent your way
Time and miles between us
I Got Hooked On You Like Unspoken Silence
Driven in your lane of...

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Holy Cow!

How?  Now?  Holy cow!
Tell me.  How sacred art thou?
Do the gods dwell in you?
Or have they all said adieu?
Angel wings might bring prestige.
But money does upon greed besiege.
In India cows walk...

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The corporation hatched a plan
To hack away the code of life
Arrogance and greed then began
Plotting to profit from our strife
This nation's lost attention span
Grants dull stone to sharpen their knife

Cloaked under the guise of science
Shilling...

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One man, one vote
Listen to the double zero 
poll echo

One man, one vote
is power transition farcical
A national joke

One man, one vote
is very unpopular electoral
Lever pull okey-doke

One man, one vote
was a woman suffrage hoax
A muzzle masterstroke

One...

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A dog that is feeding on milk
Won't go all days been fed by an ilk
When situation makes him bilk
Then the dog won't be as fine as a silk

A ball at the back of the net...

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Do not cry more my child
No more thoughts of bilk
Betrayal is this world’s rites``
Bewitching smile is its dress

Somewhere in this world of perfidy 
I kept forgetting my songs of lullaby   
Even the breast...

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Tea with Gran,her muffins supreme,
Bath and change and hair brylcreamed.
into town to the pub in the square, 
our gang always met there.
Checking the football scores 
in the Oxford 'green un'.

Trad jazz with Donegan,Bilk or Collier...

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Tea with Gran,her muffins supreme,
Bath and change and hair brylcreamed.
into town to the pub in the square, 
our gang always met there.
Checking the football scores 
in the Oxford 'green un'.

Trad jazz with Donegan,Bilk or Collier...

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Today is the day of the earth
And I am glad
That all my days
Are only todays
And what I call my yesterdays
Is just another name
For the memory of a today,
And what I call my tomorrows
Is just another...

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The Great Conductor Takes a Bow

By Elton Camp

Some people get far more credit than due
And, to them, unmerited honors accrue

An orchestra conductor is one of this ilk
Those who actually perform he does bilk

Really, about the...

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Joy is what I had since a boy
Cheer is what I have ear to ear
Hope is what I need right now
Doubt is not the way out somehow

I suffocated myself with the silk of bilk
I was...

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Little known virus billed with hype
is much like the elusive snipe 
look for clues and bilk mysteria.

COVID-19 is a blight
take your temperature, dispel fright
combat the urge of hysteria.

Cancellations? don't groan and gripe
take wise advice to...

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There is a fake cripple named Mary.
She is scheming to bilk an insurance company.
Three saps live in the flat just below.
Mary's plan is something they don't know.
The three are willing to vouch in her behalf.
How...

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Walk with me, hand in hand.
Welk up the tears, O my friend!
Wack! Don’t shy away, one day your foes too will commend.
Don’t Balk to share your pain, give yourself a chance to amend.
Bilk the defeat!...

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