Long Casualness Poems

In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is -- is over, in the stormy, swarming...

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Well now this is sad and tragic 
For both of us to hear 
You and I at cross purposes 
Ever our fate, my Dear

I just found your correspondence
Last letter that you sent 
It was, I...

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What Is Love 
   by Edmund Siejka

My parents argued frequently
So love was an elusive something 
Usually found in someone’s else’s home
In high school 
A little more sure of myself
I dated my first girlfriend
In...

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...She was actually taken aback by that,
by the casualness of the whole thing,
was this the man who had snarled at her?
The brute with such simple understanding?

“Well you can go on, if you have questions,
I was...

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And I lay myself down upon the lifeless patch to somehow contemplate
Looking at the darken Heaven before me… my darkness awaits
My personality has redefine me in an unrecognised absolution
Of my world, of The Ancients… who...

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These old bodies,
Clutched
Like paper bags
Full of food,
Soaking wet
In a steady rain,
The bottom falling out,

Sent
Into the parking lot
Leaning
On
The wobbling heels,
The wheels of shopping carts.

You see,
The doctor’s office had been moved
To the shopping center
Next to Kroger
For optimal...

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When we find a friend,
               we greet each other with joy ...
         ...

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Dear Lord,
I know the end is soon to come
My frightened heart beats like a drum

Past events in visual recall
In rapid succession I appraise them all

WAS this my life after three score and ten
The avariciousness of...

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the soft easy moments of summer
resplendent with deliciously idle moments
have crept away
in the night
like a cat burglar
with all four paws
scratching at the skin
of an early fall
thought’s of favourite ice creams
overrun by leather bound day-timers

rich warm...

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A poem comes in disguise
like a beggar in the mall.
Some sit and look pitiful
and can not meet your eyes.
Others have a story,
"My sister's fatally sick in Ukiah,
please help us we've run out of gas."
Some poems...

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There has never been a moment
when the magic of you 
that changed my life
has not been part of 
my every breath

Even now as we encircle each other
within each day
I am amazed…still
at the wonder of you...

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Tell me what you see when you're looking at me,
probably nothing in real or something green,
I' am looking and searching for a probable to work through,
you the righteous one I warn and wicked repent I...

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Ballerina firefly,
Your beauty,
 Is that of enchanted vineyards,
In the sighs,
 of the Summer wine,

Enchantress,
Down to earth,
As spring lillies,
Your beauty,.
Is scintillating,
And kind,
with its modest stars,

Even in autumns undressing,
And shedding of leaves,
The way you change dresses,
In evenings,
elegant...

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I know you;
A fool could not know someone of such casualness.

Paints will not conceal what meets the eye,
As I intently stare into yours.
So you fret, exposed.

Black and white, no shades in between do I often...

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