Long Blued Poems

we saw nothing
but elbows
and heard the fist pounding 
the skin.
their long black and brown
leather coats hide what they
were doing
the cries of the men
on the ground
could be heard all the way
at my room
when I got their
the...

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The Search to Find the Edge of the Ice

They say moss doesn't gather on a stone rolling, in motion,
And even wise algae gets left in the wake,
Of a proud ship, foresail dipped, rising upon an...

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Losing the Light
	by Cheryl Higgins
 UNSUPPORTED CODE  - with a quote
from J.D.
McClatchy's
three-part poem
"Three Dreams of
Elizabeth
Bishop" UNSUPPORTED CODE 

What sold me on the
architect's clever
evening tour
besides designer
lighting and too
many vodka bitters
wasn't this
relentless dawn
scraping every
skylight in 
every...

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You know not why you're now here, 
just that you are bound by fear- 
(and a couple incised wires) 
watching me, enticed with pliers. 
Naked, cold, taught, and crying, 
you can't move, although you're trying. 
All stretched out, upon your stomach, 
odors...

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A fair and frail lady, still childish in thought
Was in love with a guy she thought was so awesome
So awesome as to be allowed to see her bared heart
So awesome that her eyes sparkled whenever...

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I see that you have been in a coma for two days and I hope you can hear me,Johnson, I'm going to check your vital every two hours just to see if there ant changes,Johnson,my...

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VIDEO/AUDIO-MUSIC on YouTube above. NOTE: On the video; double-click to enlarge, and/or, right-click for the drop-down menu and click on 'Loop' for auto-repeat, click settings and pick the highest level for quality viewing.

AUDIO: Song was...

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Don't ! Ask the sun, where we were
hidden, perhaps, in that caffeine moment.
And, pondering on the empty space ! 
Don't ever say, the visual became clear
as the silver dropped, to the deep floor
like that broken...

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Tonight we sit ‘round ye ol’ Christmas tree,
But not the tree of yesterday or yester year you see.
Lights shine from the bole and tips so free.
We do not sit on stools or bended knee,
Nay, we...

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I scream, at the top of my lungs
No sound, comes out
Silent, curdling screams
Is, all I have left, now
I wrestle; I fight, with all, my physical might
While, being forced down 
By the mighty strength, of many...

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My blued -eyed angel.
Our little girl.
Whose innocence the world raped.
Stealing her laughter and hope.
Her brightness fades as her dolls to leave behind a desolated hope.
A undaunted faith  in  the healing  of ...

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Jude's
                          no prude, but
      ...

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The drovers' hearts were beating fast
When our grueling drive was done.
They'd had their fill of dust and beans,
And the only thing they wanted now,
Was a long, hot bath, and some cow town fun.
  ...

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outside
inventoried oval-stoned
cathedrals appealing
chiming crimes of passion
woke citronella
fog
hung in cement-hamocked snowdrifts
cloaked slow on slick-stained windowsides
tenement sheets
with the pomegranate notes
of rhythms unrhymed
   while all the uptown laundromarts
rising up
from insomniac-scrambled sidewalks
corked-copper moon tumbling earthward
like a sweet
sweatshredded...

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All alone, 

In this world;

Is there no one here,

for me Lord;

ls there anyone?

Who can show me love?

Sitting here in a hue?
Pictured blued;
Sadden, and broken
Hearten-departed
My bitter mouth
Speaks tarts
of...
My body maybe just one physically alone
Yet my spirit...

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Hers, indeed, was the one missing face in his heart's gallery of intimate portraits 
                    ...

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A life with you, lived in the blossoms
Showered together by rain, greener in the autumn
Close to your heart, a place with immense beauty
Where we lived together, loving being our duty.

Your look exhibits smiles, of infinite...

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I love the cold realities of this world, 
Watching all the faces as their lies spiral.

When you shiver, just a sliver of yourself will show, 
And I'll be watching while your white skin  is blued...

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Learn not too late to halt the hate,
Bound to be ground in the dust of disgust
We're pierced and fierce, fulla rings and things
We're blued and tatooed and God is booed.

Crude dudes are misconstrued
with actions vulgar,vile...

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I'm madly in love with a version of you that used to exist.
You leave my heart brusied, blackened and blued, with violent twists.
I dream of things that make me scream
out of sheer denial,
like sometimes being...

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By your ink on this parchment, my thoughts tattooed
I'm drawn to this bouquet; I am left so madly.
Fields of blazing stars, lying randomly, strewed

Happiest are these thoughts deliberately construed.
Winter taking them from my core destroys...

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Burst out the dark wood
tearing laughter through the sunned blued sky
cartwheeled I spin
breath sucks in between grinned teeth
I pause
slammed by beauty
green gives way to a burst of wild flowers
swaying giggling naked across a field
overwhelmed I...

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Saving the world
I drifted out too far, turquoise water, tried to swim on my back, 
water in my mouth, agonizing panic. 
That’s how they torture prisoners in Guantanamo, only it isn’t called 
it tortures, but...

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VALENTINES DAY IN AUSSIE BUSH

Awakening with a romantic itch,
Then a scratch where I had burst a stitch,
looking at my beaut shagger named sheila,
as a randy ram, try to hug her,
tis Valentines Day in Whattabugga.

Love is...

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Silence crashed gray ‘round me in jarring strikes.
		news glued me undone ~ chilled shade blued my sun
Mere seconds flogged me numb with scarring spikes.
           ...

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