Long Checkered past Poems

Mine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...

As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a 
psychologically checkered  past
loom large recalling  
tragic storied days of mein kampf.

Circa early nineteen seventies:
As a mere slip of a...

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Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes

Livingsocial at 324 Level Road
circa post high school graduation
found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of time
within familiar four walls of his bedroom.

He preferred solitude versus
interacting...

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For Years !!!

Four years have been on the run, on the wane
and yet, I still feel your beauty, still feel the pain
that came with – an end – the end you made me aware,
of, we,...

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I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise                       ...

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The World is a testing ground to burn out impurity, 
a forge of sorts, 
sorting out infermity. 
A Threshing floor 
of chaff and wheat. 
The bread of life consuming your choices as you eat. 
Of...

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You’ve met me,
but you just don’t know it yet
The dream house that you want,
I once polar bear hibernated there ...
two winter moons ago

The summer fruit of relaxation
that you’re tasting now,
I planted it 
two prior vineyard...

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 If things were different it wouldn't be the same; 
A rightous sense of peace and no place found for blame. 

It’s hard to imagine types of things could ever change; 
So many broken pieces...

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How strong is your love? 
          Should a rather cruel fate befall me; 
          a disfiguring accident...

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Jessie James was a fine young lad,
When he joined the Confederate troops.
He learned his craft as a shootist and spy,
While traveling with this group.

His commander was one Capt. William Quantrill,
A man with a checkered past;
And...

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I got to know her on Pacific Crest Trail's ridge
It was a water shed transition in my life.
With best friend Kim, my wife to be (or not to be) , 
Georgia and Kim already three...

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Checkered Past

I put out our checker board and pulled out your special chair
Imagined your delightful laughter, as if you were sitting there

That twinkle in your eye, that inspirational glee
Then before I knew it, you were...

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Defined By Idioms

Naked truth, bent nails
dead men tell no tales
bad Apple, broken mirrors
burnt out light bulbs, crocodile tears
spilt milk, goose chase
two cents worth, rat race
rotten egg, bad to the bone
eagle eye, no place like home.
bat...

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How then by trite opinion
should foul ink print its confusion
and in the guise of truth
and the flurry of news
be a rabble of hype
for its own concocted proof

Each lie spread gourmet upon the pallet
televised splattered kaleidoscopic
lays...

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I loved a suburban woman,
but she didn’t urban love me
as deeply as a brother needs

She said I was too ghetto
But my bank account said
I was qualified gated community

CitiBank gitti ghetto said it, not me

Me and...

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...early Spring walk around 3.2mi. Lake Calhoun...so named after controversial industrialist sotten with checkered past...movement underway to return name to Native American Dakota "Bde Maka Ska" White Earth Lake.


 Purple Finches trill their soothing song
to...

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Did you hear about the time the Doc was on the clock? 
Apparently an actor took a shot 
At the President who was enjoying the theater in a special spot 
Being popular knowing the right...

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If things were different it wouldn't be the same; 
A rightous sense of peace and no place found for blame. 

It’s hard to imagine types of things could ever change; 
So many broken pieces unable...

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If things were different it wouldn't be the same; 
A just sense of peace and no place just for blame. 

It’s hard to imagine that things could ever change; 
So many broken pieces unable to...

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I met a quirky bird the other day,
  Who has a checkered past, they say.
  Many a nest she left in shambles,
  As she continues her rambles.
  Takes what she needs,
...

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Journeys

My journeys, my adventures through time
have come to you on the wings of many a rhyme.

There are delightful blisses, heart breaking sorrows,
from the past, in the here and now, in my tomorrows.

Tomorrows, being the future...

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The many eyes of Qiniso’s love-life
There was the one with the soft eyes
Speaking to a peaceful existence
The one with the dark eyes
Which reflected her ill-treatment at the hands of the meanest of men
She had her...

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You got two friends,
and they’re both dear to your heart
But they don’t much care for each other
Before you met either of them,
	    they already knew one another
Their checkered past had a dark...

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~~A chess match is an opaque mirror into societal clash
slippery rules and taboos playing upon a checkered past
balcony kings and queens glaring down on the lower caste.
Ramparts buttressing crooked flanks, serfs in the murky front
devouring...

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