Long Bleated Poems

Once upon an evolving time
we were a great first nation,
or second nation,
depending on your historical perspective,
but definitely not a third nation
although some cooperative economists
thought we might be competing ourselves
in that over-invested and ego-inflationary direction.

This first...

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You're the flame around my heart,
am I still your smile
when we're apart?

As you leave your flame flares up,
but when I look into your face,
I miss your lack of smiling place.

If you're my fire
where were you...

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"50 Words for Poe: Keys"

He threw the car keys over to her
“Freedom keys babe”, he purred
“Silver Lady’s my girl” she said,

This he understood.

“Freedom keys babe, let’s blow this joint, make a getaway out of this...

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A spider spun a silver web 
in a mound of golden straw, 
Then he hid himself inside the stack, 
away from the wind so raw. 

He yelled down to the sheep below 
Who were trying...

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who knew?

firstoff, i wish to say, but not overdo,
that i never knew, what the new gnu knew
he never really said very much, and i knew
he wouldn't as such, since, being a new gnu
he hadn't much...

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The farm was nestled deep in the country,
down a dusty road was a lovely house and barn;
where horses ran and jumped in a meadow beyond,
and fat cows mooed and chickens clucked, and
a rooster welcomed each...

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May succulent grass upon buds in June
I walked alongside you September, arrived in you October,
it began in December and ended in January
I slept in February woke up in March and danced in April
July lingered in...

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An occasional gust of wind will lift the translucent white voile curtains and then drop them like a child losing interest. The effect is like flash photography, a burst of sudden sunlight that paints our...

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I had known you for many years
Yet never really knew you at all
We talked for hours 
An attraction between us
Was the one thing we both knew
You made me laugh
I made you smile
We laid on the...

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Winter's white coverlet has finally melted away
from over my garden's sleeping botanical beds. 
Babes from crocus bulbs peek above the ground
on this sun filled morn, warmly greeted by golden rays.
Zinnias of every color sway upon...

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That day we followed the ancient byway                          
that wound round...

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Living is just like a seesaw game
                   For him living was making gain
    ...

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The silence of the ewes


He helped run them up seven sheep for the slaughter
got them into the truck, taking them to the abattoir
in a pen outside, they waited and bleated nonstop
Dim-witted perhaps, they didn’t expect...

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"A straight!  Two-three, five-six and eight,"
but Mildred bleated, "Ain't no straight;
you, Alice-ewe, are one dumb rump."
Bright chortles burbled round the stump
till Jingles raised, "Two straws of hay,"
too rich for Fay-Fay: "I can't play,
though, know...

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Did anyone see millions of rainbows fill up the skies?
Did anyone see the heavens bloom and a child appear?
Flying, floating, and fluttering to a numb-filled surprise
Rested between Joseph and Mary, filled with divine cheer

The racks...

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Beneath a dark and grumpy cloud
I stood naked in a field and sung aloud
In broken chokey nouns and vowels
About my love, My only pal
I dripped with rain
I needed a towel
But these words I had to...

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She  needed you,
Now you decide to come back?
how conceded
you just took her heart and bleated
If you think you can just come back
ha(laughs)
your senses are just lacked
When she needed you the most,
you hid far away...

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Love songs and empty words curled
Around ideas of what love
Should be, like horns that ram the unsuspecting,
Shaking and shattering bones
And all expectation of the
Normalcy in past, weak coals that don’t smolder.
Life as it should be...

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She gave me soup-less soup
In it I found her loaded smile
She smiled to me magnets
In her smiles rested all smiles
And greetings she did to me
In it I found her glowing smiles 
I tried to run...

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