Long Blusters Poems

I fight 
a battle   against tempestuous   wind    
fury              the earth’s ablaze in feverish sky

and I...

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I'm all swirled up whilst sat so still
Bothered by blusters of half formed thoughts
Tumultuous and treading carefully
With myself
Who I vowed to be kind to

Maybe adrenaline courses about
Attacking little hillocks
Of troubles with 
Highway Man demands of
Flight,...

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Explosions rock the boat;
Ocean gushes inside.
The battered stern won't float,
All controls lock their slide.

Listing fifteen degrees,
The lifeboats fail to launch.
Swift decent lugs a squeeze
Impossible to staunch.

After mounting seconds
The vessel starts to slow,
While the stark deep...

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It's Christmas Eve at the North Pole,
But everybody is resting,
And Santa's sleigh's not been loaded
Because the elves are protesting.
They're demanding better wages,
A four-day work week, more vacations,
Stock options, and health care,
And union representation.
The toy factory...

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Why do you never come to us
Have we no voice
What is the engine of your distrust
It was not our vice
That ran this country to the ground
And we are only energy left around
Since our interest is...

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Thankless job, I think watching
as Thurman tries to teach the young man

The lad sitting up
on the tractor
like a proud young pup
is full of piss and vinegar
half the time not listening
and half the time telling Thurman
how...

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The awaited bedimmed evening
Was foretold by the clouds rolling in,
We pelted along the herded streets
Fending the storm that was coming.
One perceived the aftermath peace
I queried the realism that was bracing,
One assured the isolated inconsequence 
None...

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Anger always ask against antidote
Billowing blusters break, blindly break
Callous conversations cannot connote
Diligent discourses dilated dispeak
Emeralds emitting energy enthused
Forces fabled fragility fusing
Gravity's greed governless galloping
Homeward, haunted hillsides horrid hues.
Infernal interest in imaginary incidents
Juxtapose jeopardies jostling jeers
Kindred...

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Written: Apri 26, 2024 For Joseph May Contest

2. Tangerine sunsets composing chrysanthemum hymns

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White foam chuckling through green hills 
 reddish glow of sun in transient blue sky.     
 as hourglass sand drips grain by grain
 churning the beach, a wind blusters by.
 
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I told you, you would miss me
The minute I was gone
Tough to swallow, hard to see
The extent of Joe's real con.

First he promised, some believed
His sole aim a power grab,
Many listened quite relieved
For his special...

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In deep crenelated crimson,
Autumn arrives in regal robes.
Her boisterous blue burgundy
surging with violent carmine.

Autumn arrives in regal robes
carpeting the earth with fractured
parquet of mismatched, misshaped shards-
a luscious ramollescence.

Her boisterous blue burgundy
cape blusters with bolstered boldness
as...

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unfettered Winter bomb…k’boom,
the flurries driven up the coast.
ferocious and furious gloom.
clinks bride and groom, the whiteout toast.

violence of blistering snow.
killer bees of vanilla sting.
in ev’ry direction it blows -
so merrily drunk, blusters, sings,

staggering into banks...

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Spirit rallies and musters energy to continue
Further tallies and blusters ensue to end you
Fear it, cause clusters of evil pretend to
Suck the life out of you, journey on and take his hand
Go through hell and...

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Act 1

Lights dim, a pregnant pause for silence to bedim.
A nod, then curtain rises, lights and eyes pries
Scene 1 to open with actors all set in pose enfrozen.
Called to action by director's wink, blink, nod...

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first days of summer

first days of summer
 solstice heat shimmers and sweats ~
  cool blue seaside waves

sun yawns in azure skies
 wakes up sleepy bumblebees ~
  orchard fruit grows large

summer wind swirls up
...

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too much rain and
too much sunshine today

puddles dry-up upon windy licks
then shake like wet dogs.

rainstorms sweep the sky away
to make room for the returning glare
of a pissed-of sun

mercury Thermometers are frustratingly fickle
but we all know...

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Golden light appears in tier after tier
As if Mother Nature were on a spree
Fall's magical splendor each passing year
Transforming the colors of every tree

Colors she chooses are all warmer hues
Flaxen yellow, marmalades and pure reds
Old...

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Busty shaped and large of hip
the busy winds of October
buffet my brain
within its whistling cave.

Around the shoulders
of every lumpy molehill
taverns and tankards
bloom in a russet corner of light.

September leaves
leave, shaking their brittle cuffs
and frills,
they fly...

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Farcical characters of ill gestures,
they be no friends of mime

Mute clown suits
wearing viol marionette smiles
all of the puppet string time

I tell you, of a silent truth,
those pretzel-tongue jester troupes
are theatrical buffoons 
spoofing on a global...

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I've imagined it a thousand times 
all the things that go with 'us'
loving him is truly sublime,
but I'm thinking so much it'll drive me nuts
he's constantly filling my head
his laugh, his voice
all other thoughts promptly...

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The setting sun releases its gentle grasp
As the moon resumes her vigil in the sky
The exploding vibrance of sunset melts away
Replaced by the cold darkness
The refreshing warmth of daylight's 
swirling breeze
Fades into the chilling gale...

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