Long Bubble up Poems

Song lyrics with Poem pieced in. © Artimus The Poet Susan Manley 11-24-2024 All Rights Reserved #Sunomusic #ArtimusThePoet

[Musical Introduction]

[Verse]
It came to me in waves...
and over the days...
to join in this song...
the sway of the sea...

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Sometimes I feel I know nothing about life

But I do know something about Kenya

I come from the gustily, hilly terrains of rural Ingavira

Where huts form bungalow sorts of flawless beauty

An ambiance of warm soothing atmosphere

And...

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These are my modern English translations of ancient Greek epigrams by Anacreon from the Anacreontea. 

Here he lies in state tonight: great is his Monument!
Yet Ares cares not, neither does War relent.
—Anacreon, loose translation/interpretation by...

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De love inna mi heart, it a bubble. It a bubble (3*)
Mi say the love inna mi heart it a bubble. “  “  ”
Mi get beaten from parents
Mi get beaten from strangers
Mi get...

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MOTIVATION

He smacked the desk in despair
Writer’s block a permanent feature in his limited world
Just the first sentence, not even a title yet
Words elusive, as if scared to appear on the page
And his own brain befuddled...

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  As heartrose epitaphs
swathe earthly echoes
   with swelled up  w a v e s
  of spiritual sirens,
sea-fairies collide
  with honeysuckle footprints,
traced by mint-green manta rays
  along aquatic vessel...

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My lungs burned as I tried to run from whatever was chasing me. I didn’t ask for any of this pain. I felt like my air way was bring crushed in my throat. I didn’t...

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Oh petals of the night,
your fragrance seeps through the clouds of love
and soak the heart with the aroma from above

Oh Petal of the night your balminess
Spread its perfume in the atmosphere
And filter the remnant ...

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What to do with the remains of a man carved hollow?
After years of war and struggle and hardship, 
when his love is stripped away, 
his morals stolen by the thief of time.
The people tear him...

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310+ & 71.1 billion dollars

if you live in the US,
the belly of the world’s policeman,
you live with over 
310 tax exempted religions---
that’s over 310 groups of 
idiots, who get to practice their idiocy
without paying taxes---
it’s...

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Almost four years now since you left us, wringing our hearts.
Beginning your new chapter, you slipped away in the night,
Connecting with an expanse of new and perhaps, old, companions.
Doing everything we could, we struggled with...

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Yes, you're one sexy witch, dear love, but now it's Halloween,
    And I've a witchy tale to share, so keep your broom between ...

Five decades hence I knew the thrills of flesh,...

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It is a horizon of dreams aloft in hope.
It is love, stirred with hate that drips need
to bleed us, heal us and force our tired cope.
It is a circle never ending, a line never bending,
and...

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I had occasion to move this day 
from the house I love for which I pay
to the Shambles Motel I now called home 
on Third near State between Fourth and Roam

in the travelers presidential suite...

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What can you pay, to kill a duck
a pheasant, for the moment's blind
this archetype of sport confirm
my inner being to remind!

The song "somebody's mother" sign
the docket, yet the pride's incline
to jackets, road gear, orange hats
and...

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happy are those who walk 
with respect, who know their
place in the world &
they do so, being propped up &
nourished by support groups,
from the family to the work place,
from a circle of friends to
the decency...

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The physicality of you
watching me rattle my keys
in your dream watching you,
in a fever, the feels bubble up 

inside the mourning zombie 
summons an evening ghost

which keys to be 
singled out
to open 
which cavity 

slid...

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THE CREATION OF POETRY
 
From deep inside simmering and covered 
with fragrant sauce, an imaginative dish will 
sometimes bubble up. 

I cover it with clever condiments, taste for flavor 
and serve it with anticipatory delight.
Afterwards,...

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I've always kept my composure
Being kind and a pushover
Never fighting back when I
Am about to snap and cry
It was never in my nature
To be a cruel and mean creature
Doing for others before me
Was my life's...

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Love is a breath of fresh air in the park, a sapling inhaling sunshine 
Open your heart to it and it will surely make you feel wonderful    
Veer towards it and it...

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The emotions that bubble up,
Fizzing from your finger tips,
staining the already worn carpet
as it licks its lips across the floor.
 
Passion doesn’t spit both ways.
 
Would it feel like dancing?
Eyes holding onto another
with hands discovering
new...

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The world spins on and on. 
Whether I want it to or not.  
I can cry for the earth to stop, but it wont.  
It doesn't care if I want to die or...

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REFLECTIONS AND VISIONS

I had laughter and occasional tears
As memories bubble up, unbidden
And thinking back to my early years
Times were quite different back then
The basics were dominant in my life
And luxuries were rare, as I recall
Yet,...

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After a hard day's work,
these weary feet drag me home,
with the urge of pulling the cork
from the red wine chilling in the cooler;
and smell steaming pasta primavera into a large bowl...
before I am tempted by...

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So just what does one do with oneself
When your life knocks you down more than once? 
Do you just plant your ‘tush’ on a shelf, 
Or frame your act and pass as a dunce.

You hurt...

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