Long Boogeyman Poems

I saw a cat quartet within my dodgy dream,
Sorta started worryin' that I'd gone off the beam,
Really began to wonder if my mind was gettin' weak,
They had their own language that only they could speak.

While...

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Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

October seventeenth
nineteen hundred sixty one 
and October seventeenth
two thousand twenty four
represents, signals,
and traces sixty three orbitz
completed round the sun.
by one cherished,
(despite lapse of calling,
emailing, or texting),
nevertheless loved,
and prized...

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I was searching for something the other day.  
I can’t at this time recall what it was; Feeling lost knowing that it’s important and I just let it slip away.   I’m bothered,...

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I still blame myself because I was the one to walk away from the accident.  I stare at our 
pictures on the book shelf and think about that argument.  I should have been...

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I’d never ask you to walk in my shoes.
But rather see the world through my eyes.
Take a journey within the mind of the lost, and perhaps you’ll realize 

That my complexity has a depth that...

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uncle sam took a moment to sit down
at the diner counter & shove a couple more
doughnuts down his gullet,
but don’t you worry,
now that Kofi Annan has thrown in the towel,
the big ****ing bully of the...

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WWII has been over for 66 years & 
for some reason those responsible for the production of captain america: the first avenger
 think that now is a good time to bring back a douche bag...

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The Boogeyman



"Lay your head down child I won't let the Boogeyman come"
another infamous Tool ballad blares out of the speakers.
"Go back to sleep, go back to sleep..."
James (now 14) hits the power button and says...

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Time bracketed between

December first nineteen fifty nine and
December first two thousand twenty three
represents sixty six orbitz
one prized Earthling
named Amélie Beth Harris-McGeehan
completed round the sun.

About half her life linkedin
with spousal enrichment,
(while hunkered down livingsocial
in Woodbury, New...

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Bed time story

  Night sky stood still inky dark and gloomy
  There came a light that flickered zigzagging behind the clouds
  a sudden resounding loud sound of cymbals
  Heavy pouring rain...

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I used to read my poetry to my husband, oh, it was lovely to sit with him,
his arms wrapped around me and reading my poems.  He loved my voice.
Now, I have to travel a...

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"It’s Raining, It’s Pouring"
It’s raining, it’s pouring
The old man is snoring
He bumped his head
And went to bed
And didn’t get up till morning.

Shivers 'me Timbers
truth be told tune's like old
day had grew night he knew
possibles here...

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the man lay dying &
like many men before 
he was suddenly surrounded by an
intervening troupe 
whose mission it was to make him
like them
“before it was too late”---
now, 
whether or not “too late,”
is a measurable amount...

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The dream illusionist, nightmares grand master,
For fantasy and horror.
Terror's unholiest jack of all murderers, a beast unleashed
From the nether worlds darkest depths,
Beyond the gates of hell itself!
A twisted slasher, whom lightly taps, taps at realities
Window...

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The boogeyman has never bothered me.
I shut my eyes at night to go to sleep..
If he should be about, he’s let me be!
No monsters in my closet do I keep!

I know some witches, but they...

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     When I was about eight years old we lived in an old  house.  It had three stories
 
plus an attic and like any old house it had creaks...

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This is the land I imagine.
The land I dream of.
The trees can talk.
The leaves dance and jump on each tree, they won't go away, they stay.
The sun always has a smile on it's big orange...

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"10:00 P.M."

I creep to a nearby house to ask for food. Three weeks
back I met Buddha in a morgue. He told me to detach
myself from eating human flesh. So hard I resisted,
but managed. Now I'm...

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The Boogeyman
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron

He’s a creepy and crawly shadow from the light,
     squeamy and haughty who awakes in the night.

Screams from the child who becomes afraid,
    ...

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No world class historic buildings 
will you find here.
No historic Trevi Fountain.
No Arch de Triumph, no!
No famous bus lines either.
No major parades seen on TV.
No zany activists with signs nor
drums or harming others will you...

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II.
Then there are all the attitudes
you see taken up against men,
how the professors always seem
to do nothing but demonize them,
that we’ve done nothing for centuries
but scheme to ‘keep the women down!’
The great boogeyman ‘patriarchy’
must always...

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THE BOOGEYMAN WILL GET YOU-LOOK OUT!!
They have said that to me ever since I was a wee boy
Lurking under the sheets,in the closet,behind one's back
Especially at night when we are susceptible to  the vivid
imaginations...

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PLEASE SAY THAT AGAIN MR. BURGESS (JUST A LITTLE BIT LOUDER)

Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess
(Director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency)
sat there in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday &
asserted to the world...

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Our Boogeyman


There is a boogeyman within
this home of ours, we swear he's here!
He comes and goes to mess with us
and bring about a silly fear.

It happens if we're here or not; 
he seems to go...

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They Said

Don’t talk when big people are talking
Leave their presence now, start walking
Be a good boy don’t ever backchat
Greet a big person, take off your hat

You got bushman blood, hair’s not straight
To be dark of...

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