Long Bustled Poems

They were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...

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YOU ARRIVED ON CUE I SUPPOSE RIGHT AFTER THE CHRISTMAS DAY ARSONS MURDERS PROCLAIMING MY LIFE WAS IN GRAVE DANGER WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ARSON MURDER 8 ELDERLY PERSONS PARISHES PROCLAIMED MY EX HUSBAND...

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I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden flooring.
     "I thought I'd find you...

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The sixty-year reunion
of the class of '55
was quite a celebration
for the ones who had survived...

First came prissy Pomeroy-
then Milford, Meeks, and Moody
who like old crows, perched and cawed
at busty old Miss Trudy

While Trudy curled her...

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Inside The Mysterious Enigmatic Fragmentary...
Mortal Mind Of Matthew Scott Harris
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Seedy gobbledygook ergot
visibly argot bubbled, burbled, bustled...forth 
yea...give garbled, jangled, warbled shoutout
if ye doth render
mug gadabout totally confounding,

this unfettered voluminous confection
ruff lee...

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Alone, there I stood by the bench in the park.
On a leash by my side, my protective young hound.
In the distance I heard the echo of whispers;
As a dark hooded figure approached in a cloak.
She...

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Motor is nudged to life in an arcing motion, arm pulling 
cord. Vein-furrowed hands grasp the fishing pole, 
slinging bait and tackle beneath one arm. Another 
arcing motion, arm casting pole. Bobber spins 
a helicopter...

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while soaring the heavenly heights
     many hours ago
every major metropolis appeared
     about a million miles below

the rarefied atmosphere
     ideal composition beckoned angels,
 ...

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A gauzy haze rises from the flickering gas light, 
                      revealing the face of...

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The last time I had seen this particular cousin of mine, I was still in college and he had a head full of hair. In between, there had been three funerals, two weddings and four...

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We went back to my house,
our hands not holding
but lively nerves under our clothes
still slow groping the unseen.
The moon raced ahead of us
like a thirsty dog.

Mama wet her knickers earlier today
and she yelled at everyone...

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we walked  three miles in the country  
in the dark 
down the lonely roads 
and past the deep swamp
too far away from home to be intimate with, 

to the nearly deserted farmhouse whose...

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The moon raced ahead of us,
like a thirsty dog.

Mama wet her knickers earlier that day,
she yelled at everyone,
for she didn't see it coming.

Later, we teenagers latch-keyed in,
the empty house begged us to come together,
passion leached...

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I was hurried for days,
may be it was weeks and may be months,
I am not so sure when I last rested,
perhaps it was years before,
hustled and bustled thus,
my nerves were racking and ripe with stress...

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As his car entered the station he made his way up to the street
An important meeting was this occasion with some of the elite 
Crowds bustled up on the street everybody heading somewhere
There was one...

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Hush now three days yet to past.
My grandmother joy was fulfilled with laughter.
The Christmas spirit was upon us once again.
The tree is surrounded with presents and chorales sing door-to-door.
The occurrence of Christmas would be wonderful.

The...

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expecta O' Greta great dep·re·depta
snitchie fumes crud 

Senate weaselin' words

mosaic-speak fungals thrall-truth up your nostrils
unmasked civil·a·tons 

square crotch per smile

poeta decepta leaks India unda bear
panda wear 

fund a hole: Pandora Pumps!

child wonda nuf crumbles Vatican...

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Behold the bounty
Of berserking bugs,
Whilst Barely not blinded
By the their bustled busts.
I, Bringer of Beatles,
Biting abroad,
Burrowing deep,
Biting a broad,
Bolder than brave,
But braver than most,
Have been this way long,
But no need to boast,
I am the scurrying,...

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>>>
cavorted about as elfin brides
under a saffron maple tree^^^^
Dressed in prism-hued layers
of chiffon in ethereal shimmers
and delicate silken gossamers
They having their group wedding in the fall
And fairy folk...

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A dense dusk slots
in-between two tall buildings.
Just moments ago
the busy road was in full flight
now it growls low like a wounded beast
we hardly can hear it.

When dark descends like this
dragging an intangible gravity of loss
down...

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It was decades ago,
When my two eyes were young,
That they savored the Tiergarten
And Kurfurstendamm—
That avenue, tree-lined,
With Berliners, it bustled—
And Tempelhof airport,
Where pilots, undaunted,
Overflew the blockade;

And the river Spree flowed
Through the heart of the city
And, there,...

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Often times I dream of days gone past -
Although, I've not lived then -
Neither saddle or horse shoe cast:

Where was he when I first envisioned the outline of his long, hatted figure?
Atop a horse named,...

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It was kind of late,
the town had gone to sleep
while some had woke up real early.

Nothing bustled, nothing moved quickly,
the moon had faded into a dark graveyard.
Micky's was open,
blue and yellow neon
fizzed static in the...

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My dream included a solidified me.
I was hard like an oak from stern to stem.
My favorite tall tree had nothing on me.
Immobile, I felt the wind in my hair.
My limbs were lithe, light, and bare.
A...

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And what if
on that long walk
you had said of me
this in-between day
Is yours.

Would the dry earth open?
Would we burn  bridges
to Consume all?
In the sureness of mind
that our words will repeat.

A thousand islands
bustled along,
streets of dead...

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