Long Calculates Poems

“The Splice of Life”



When colour 
was to be 
washed out
of the world 

the evil ones 
didn’t care

the Actor led 
with his 
Dementors 
either side of him

Laundry, 

they resolved 
to be the best 
pristine method 
for...

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" Value of A Last Chance ... "

(or Value of A Last Choice)


( Matt. 16: 26, 27 / Matt. 6: 12, 19-21, 24 / Prov. 3: 5, 6
1 Pet. 1: 7 / Rom. 12: 19...

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This is what the soul wants, newness:
these sacrifices, this dedication, this patience,
the sound of children laughing in the bedroom,
my own voice like a new and unheard melody,
my own strength like the dreams I used to...

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‘Get the motor running head out on the highway looking for adventure’

Well it is only the council road with potholes but Oliver races his pushbike

Walkman headphones sound ‘Born to be wild’ or Attention Deficit Disorder

But...

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Sarah Johnson is, and will always be a cold, heartless murderer. She has no empathy for what she did to both of her own parents, Diane and Alan Johnson. Her friends and family can't even...

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He's in self-isolation keeping company
a rooftop crow reminding him
a wiser authority is still at work!
No sense of distance within four walls
sickroom alien, where dawn comes early
and long night falls.
He's lost track of time, the pilgrim...

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Please bring back paper bags,
I cry in genuine pain.
Those tight wrapped plastic covers
are driving me insane.

With scissors, knives and razor blades,
I hack and cut and snip,
trying to get the product out
from its clinging, shroud like...

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How could he be so cold with the raging lightning striking through his aluminum lines? 

His synthetic skin made of wax, glass, and fibrous mass has more than an eternity brushed abrasively against my own....

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With clicks and tweets, the bright world at his feet,
Dressed with glimmer, he dances to the beat.
His tweets fly fast, in hope they trend and hatch,
Likes or swipes, trying to find a match.

Living the sad,...

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One of my grandsons, name of Benjamin
He likes eating toast made with cinnamon
But uses his wits
To not eat his grits
Then excuses himself like a gentleman

Charlie thrives on competition
Out smarting you is his mission
Bear hugs
Tiny bugs,...

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Argentina's son, a lineage to immigrants
shaped by boyhood aspirations 
diminutive left foot striker
taunted "dwarf" in childhood 
his growth hormone deficiency 
              ...

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BUT WHAT TYPE OF CHANGE
change
Alteration
Subjugation
Observation 
A constant conflagration
Yet change be triumphant over stagnant stems and stalks of winter wheat made 
rancid
The sacrifice of death is but a fire fueled nightmare hurling spittle at it’s spite
A...

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Acute power or a mystical virtue? 
Not daring to venture further
Became superstitious by token and sign,
Leaving the most positive meanings behind

Ends with a 3 that reminds me of the trinity
A belief that kept within
All good...

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A CHANGE OF FIND
change
Alteration
Subjugation
Observation 
A constant conflagration
Yet change be triumphant over stagnant stems and stalks of winter wheat made rancid
The sacrifice of death is but a fire fueled nightmare hurling spittle at it’s spite
A man...

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A CHANGE OF FIND
change
Alteration
Subjugation
Observation 
A constant conflagration
Yet change be triumphant over stagnant stems and stalks of winter wheat made rancid
The sacrifice of death is but a fire fueled nightmare hurling spittle at it’s spite
A man...

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A CHANGE OF FIND
change
Alteration
Subjugation
Observation 
A constant conflagration
Yet change be triumphant over stagnant stems and stalks of winter wheat made rancid
The sacrifice of death is but a fire fueled nightmare hurling spittle at it’s spite
A man...

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One auspicious morning warned me of nakedness

I felt, what actually is ‘bareness’!

Our bodies are all covered

But mind? It is blocked, corrupted ever,

Nude, selfish, artificial, ruler!



Since we grasp a flower,

We smell it, also we do admire,

She...

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Fear is created common sense is familiar
Both interacting through Thought’s
One gives peace the other causes confusion
When confusion appears the mind loses peace

While focusing on a solution to solve a problem
If the fear makes sense then...

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I pray today brings me wealth.
   Not monetarily but spiritual health.
You see I’ve been backsliding some.
   And I don’t like the feelings that have come.
I took my eyes off the Lord...

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My soulmate is a pilgrim, 
He explores the zodiac’s constellations
Not always in our own Milky Way, he treks
His journeys enlighten mankind
Because he aims his bow hunting faith in Sagittarius
And swims with emotional artistry in Pisces
He...

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In the bleakness of disparity, the opaque of the darkness shrouds the frailty of life, however the power of a stealth heart and a nimble mind now commands the preverbial stage 

As this grotesque form...

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"Gutter Hearts"



He’s got a gutter Heart
bleeds words that birth
diamonds sharp on his tongue

They hit her like 
bullets from an Uzi gun
Silent, her heart implodes like molten marshmallow

She’s standing in the cafeteria 
moving grease with a...

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Are your eyes the green of a shamrock's leaf,
or your nose the tide that comes and runs? 
Is your skin the plains of pearls and perplexities,
your hair the curtain to a rainforest peace?

Could be your...

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A hummingbird, with a body so frail,
With electric blues, darting from its tail.
An emerald green head, and majestic small wings,
A bold punch of colour, and happiness it brings.

She hovers through wind, A flower she’s found,
A...

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In the middle of the first date,
a troubling thought progression occurs:
The computer in me
calculates
success probability
of insertion of
tongue in cheek
at point zero three
Something in the conversation
has gotta change
this imminent failure trajectory
Input date gradient variable:
Nerd ... inverse...

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