Long Charmers Poems

The world is a clown looking at you up and down
The world is a clown; the plane is about to touchdown
Madness in the East, madness in the west
And the north and the south are gallivanting...

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of terminally opinionated snake charmers
for art's sake of course
well what else could define our course of action
when the end of unknowing
is only a mouse click away
when we'd still rather quack like a sinking duck
and bark...

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 Part 2
4th Delirium: Lost Souls
Sunken cities , pilgrims peering.. gawking,
squinting eyeballs, blazing sun
Janus facing, shepherds chasing.. stalking,
friends embrace before they shun
Tearooms steaming, tumult teeming.. talking,
lovers listen, poets pun
Broken stones unanchored, quaking.. rocking,
slipping, falling, one...

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hereunder is served some poetry pouches full of love, 
dear reader, stir them as you like, 
if you wish you may crack them to pour into mouth, 
you may smear them on your body 
or...

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Two way street 
a common road
so much esteemed on the way one go's
Those who build a world with hands
and the bodies beaten to build those plans
Others figure with minds of brilliance 
while charmers amass financial...

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Let me set something straight -
Right here, right now!
Let me put India in the right perspective,
Let me banish some myths,
Some gross misconceptions,
And take you beyond elephants,
Sacred cows, snake charmers and yoga,
Beyond Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Taj...

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hold still, eventide ...
   I am a capricious cad among wraiths,
     waltzing with a mop in
      a Marrakesh courtyard - catching stars
  ...

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Tobruk  Siege

Rommel of the Blitzkrieg 
had Europe overcome
With the Stukas and dive bombing
And the Tanks that overrun

North Africka would see his tanks
il Duce’s troops were beat
Aussies took 20,000 Italians
At Tobruk in stinking heat

In Europe...

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She (For Whom the Snake Coils)

Does danger dance to flutes played by your breath, 
emerge from basket’s depths to haunting tunes? 
It’s superstitious myth that weaving snake
can hypnotize and freezes victim’s feet
when cobra rises writhing...

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I have seen them stand outside my door,
pleading mother to help stage their show,
on our verandah with stony floor,
tattered clothes, hungry child, wife on tow!
 
dusty robes speak of miles he walked,
two woven baskets on...

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Like me, you surely know about the history of our island
You surely know of the time when it was being colonized
When it was still a dark and green forest
With dodos making everywhere their careless nests

If...

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Listen to what the snake charmers say:
We be sulfuric scaly bellies,
flicking poisonous tongues on the telly
Idoly speak pure Orwellie — 
Down is up   ...  famine be a feast sup
Tell money hungry fools...

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Look at the politrick pretty boys
painting the green
on their flypaper sticky lips

Making plenty cold eureka noise
Pluto eyes winking barren Mars tomorrows
Uranus pocketbook sorrow withdrawals

Saturn smiles  ...  Jupiter dead ringers
Little green men talepipe spinning...

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Just who dreamed up
these chubby little charmers
with no clothes on?
Their wings seem so inadequate
for flying.  Certainly
their full-grown angels must despair
that they will ever be of use to them.

So there they are, the lighter touch
to...

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Ah, to this land of the monsoons
or should it have been the sunsoons? 
Yet for frozen land tourists, a tropical hot boon.

Where bullock carts, stray dogs, horse carriages and cows
pedestrians, goats, bikes and rickshaws
scooters, trucks,...

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Ars Poetica


Poetry should woo you with the subtlety of a snake charmers flute
sway you side to side, captive, held in its sensuous grasp.
The words should lead you blindfolded through a myriad of meaning
allowing you to...

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You're bored, you say? Let's bring on the bears
and dance them around the ring.
You should learn how to juggle or fly a trapeze
'cause I'm sure bored by YOU, ding-a-ling.

You've nothing to do? Let's bring on...

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The flame of the forests blushing
In the dewy cool of the morning air.
Peach blossoms hearken  spring’s arrival.
Comes summer, Amaltas golden bells ringing.  

Forget me not, Magnolia’s  lover.
Yesterday today tomorrow’s, bloom.
Together with the...

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Accident-prone

Waitress work is interesting and busy
It’s not fancy and puts you in a tizzy
On my feet all day long working 
Carrying trays to customers that can be  entertaining
No time for errors on full course...

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I wished to find the words for you - so beautiful and dear,
The pretty ones that you would be so happy just to hear - 
And when I found the very bestest, selected just for...

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When the snake charmers walk along the lanes,
The excited kids follow them in chains.
Holding their snakes in round baskets and pots,
The charmers search for the suitable spots.

Wear specific attire for they have flair, 
Grow handlebar...

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Man isn't this scary?
"No" answered Larry, "Fee-fi-fo-fum"
Let the story begin,
how it has been carried out!
By men tied up in trees and cuff-links-
for those charmers in boxed formats,
the irony behind black cats and crawls,

Dogs chasing mice:
Cops...

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When you hear a voice in the wilderness
That's tempting you in hours of loneliness 
Remember the strength that was shown by Christ
In the desert those forty days and nights.

Demons are alert when you're at your...

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Every evening, I could witness, in my childhood, 
Beggars, going from home to home, for daily food;
Fear filtered into my heart, as though from fountains,
I could see, within me, many terror mountains...!

Visits of soothsayers, snake...

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My garden is dressed in lavender lace.
Fragrant flowers blooming in sweet array.
Sprays of lilacs bring a smile to my face.

Delicate charmers, swaying with such grace,
lure hummingbirds and bees with their display.
My garden is dressed in...

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