Long Blower Poems

My teacher died.
   
   His lungs failed him.

He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.

   His lungs are gone.
My grief has only just arrived.


   He used his lungs...

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Allen “Gene” Claibourn
08.12.1932-08.05.2013
 
Grandpa showed me the way to 
get things done and how to do 
them right,  he showed me how 
to make a knot but i could 
never get it quite as...

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Ever wonder, the sort of things that Dragon and Hubby do when together?
Well never fear, I’m here to explain a Spring Day routine in good weather.
Easter was upon us, as they worked out in the...

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Easter is past....I look out my window to the future: 
 
Tis a still Easter eve and all through my home
Not a creature is stirring; it’s just me . . . all alone.
I’ll be up...

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gardens are where we are:

  from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
  from mountain to coast, town to country
  from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
...

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Dragon wanted to go to the Fair, in the next town, as the bird flies.
Grandpa Troll, said we should take him, with a twinkle in his eyes.
Finally, we agreed, after many pleas and sighs, to...

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April 16 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 19-21

Key Verse –1Chronicles 19:13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and...

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I'm a Facebook rebel
An Internet introvert
More like the Anonymous hackers
Masked cowards who can't stage a 
coup like our ancestors
And change the course of our social 
discourse

I condemn all forms of atrocities
And all retrogressive political 
mechanisms
By...

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the year that was

January 

The world watches in amazement
Longest shut down in history
Watching it all in Korea
contemplating escaping the cold winter

February 

World watches as North Korea and the US
Walking back from the brink of war
escaping...

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this,
is all there is---
this page, this typeface, these words, 
shot out amongst the surface as a leaf blower might,
if that mechanism inside 
which is used to suck up a plethora of leaves,
malfunctioned &
all of the...

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My Friend Pine Tree 

Away, quite away from my nearby Allen Forest
One day I was moving on a hill top 
On a Himalayan mountain hill
I found myself standing 
Before a beautiful and majestic Pine tree

The...

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The dry thick clouds with  its mystified sound lies in the middle of the sky with a message that the heaven is pregnant with the clouds
And the city is spinning around in over beaten...

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July 22 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 7-10

Key Verse – Jeremiah 7:2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the...

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Thank you, for excavating from dead tongue
Under midden of lies
The archive of our own history
The outlines of identity
So we under obscurity white sheet
Could find resurrection of self
In another voice oppressed
But unconceding of its comeliness.

Before I...

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April 5 Scripture Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 26-29

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought...

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Educated she is, in one of the finest school abroad
Through the blood and sweat of my innocent people
Now she is here to pursue her life’s real ambition
Aided by the shadow of her dearest loving father

Waving...

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March 27 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 21-25

Key Verse – 1Chronicles 21:13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very...

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He made me float…he made me beam with glee
I was once so sturdy…so robust with reverie
but, now I’m a sunken ship…everything’s gone unfortunately
Sponging in misery that I thought has disappeared into the reckless sea
Oooh…I must...

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April 1 Scripture Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 12-15

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 12:1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself… 

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR STRENGTHENING ME

Thank You...

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I am in my school building, listening the blower of the furnace, there is no other sound.
Except the clicking of my typewriter keys ; for a second I am surprised I am the first person...

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Look to the ground, look to the sky
Ask why the devil seems so much closer
And I try to bring the clouds lower
Make time go slower
Because I'm more than just a rapper; an air-blower
Though these words...

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had Julian been even a sparkle in his 
mom’s eyes
when Ray put the pen to Fahrenheit 451,
one might have witness the light being 
passed
straight from one hand to the next---
from Zamyatin to 
Huxley & from...

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Who the hell rings bells anymore
whether in a Capitalist society, a Theocracy, an Oligarchy,
or a Dictatorship

	the DING has sure been taken out of the
	rama dama ding dong

No ones home, the juries out
	G-d is dead?
	Shell, Chevron...

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My garage is a snake-magnet.  We have lived in a variety of places, 
And I have never encountered any attracting dwelling like this before.
The garage we built eleven years ago has attracted too many...

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The whole path to home was filled with incense                          ...

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