Long Chiro Poems

My body’s friend, the Chiropractor
gives me exactly what I’m after.
A reduction of serious pain 
in my skeletal frame is my aim.
To be enabled to be able
keeps me mentally stable.
For years in my pain, Doctors said...

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TRUE GRIT
He like a drink
did granpa  Shreeve
Sergeant stripes stayed on
his sleeve- Victorian born with
buckled belt ,boots,trousers braced;
strong silent,with twirled of moustache;
rigid of back,upright no ceremony allowed-
a legacy faded sepia grey in memory
	GRANPA
He loves action,with...

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY PHRASIS 3
Blossom of baby's breath,soft white
gorse,crusted yellow, weeping willow
rush patterned lace pastures a pastel green.
Buttercup,daisy&comely cowslip mingle
&mix in fellowship swaying pelts of grass
with purple vetch & ribwort plantain,clover
in English rain.Scabious,burnets butteflies
and bees...

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Saw chiro ‘bout a kink in the neck,
saw the x-ray and said, “WHAT THE HECK?!?”
Pinched nerve to my elbow,
doc was a nice fellow,
but he WOULDN'T take my credit or check!

I run to the ATM for...

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CHRISTIAN PHRASIS 5-theological
To discern & receive God’s grace
in our lives,following His footsteps,
God made visible,the man Jesus
His complete expression.Unconditional
love to receive unconditionally.An 
antidote to anxiety,the agape of the
will that turns us away from sin and
back to...

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COMMONPLACE VI
Off beam,along the circles rim then
a creative impulse on the spur of
the moment drops of poetic essence
spontaneous and prolific from the
workings of the heart to distil into
another’s mind.A painting with
words uttered one by one...

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY PHRASIS 1
The soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation as the fallow flaxen,
rustic rubrical rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine;unseen
the...

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY PHRASIS 2
Lady’s mantle with butcher’s broom
dwarf cornel cotton grass so thin,
yellow travellers joy,with buttercup
on sunspurged ,petty whin.
Creeping jenny over silverweed
groundsel& cudweed,balm,rockrose 
and agromony with thistle prickly green.
Good King Henry,goose fat red and...

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LANTERNE PHRASIS 2
Coloured filled swathes,bands of
blocks,circles,squares&oblongs
attached yet apart in migrainous
views,grating abstract shapes
triggering stark sensations.A 
painted mist,emblems of the mind
introspectives that hover between
the abnormal & true.A light-dark unity of
pervading symbols in perspectives,
simple yet meticulous,weaved into
themes& threads...

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PHRASIS STREAMS part 5
Inwardly afraid,perfunctory &peripheral
the how&what of our choosing,these
whispered sounds of tender lasting
moments,ever seeking a rationale.
Waiting&wondering to pursue that
inner voice or proven better way.
Such a blinkered view so innocently 
implored,innate but creative,these sounds
of words...

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PHRASIS STREAMS part 4
Sighs ,with a warm welcome with
eyes that chaperone & guard
emotional honesty of our lives then
bring personal pleasure within,not all
about.Such emphemeral delight every
moment of the day.Pleasure without 
measure if truth & honesty flow...

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COMMONPLACE PHRASIS XII
Reality dawns in my mind,a trhread that
runs through reason,a repository and
reference point in imagination’s flight.
Seeing what’s there to see,that single tree
in the forest of my mind’s eye.This
defining moment where inner
feelings fly free.Seeing things...

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COMMONPLACE PHRASIS IX
Everything in its season,concentrated
and alive stray objects ripple across
the view and solitary imagination
is its scale.Recollections of things
past,so apposite for self-expression
sieved to retain the essentials.
Exaggeration modified,ignorance
contemplated and constrained.
Atmospheres of yesterday translated
loom & sound so,...

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COMMONPLACE PHRASIS  part 2
Humble stirrings in our own sphere,
a diary of retrospective truths,of passing
fads of intervening years,a reasonance of
lyrical feelings,hand-penned.These mysterious
centres of thought formed into poetry
pictures,intangible ,but to feel& see,
a speechlessness,a fascination of agreeable
word...

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SEQUENCE PHRASIS 1
Remember ,momento mori,always 
ever present in life,where,the rain
falls on both the good&bad.Words
so often dissimulate & dissemble,
alter the envisioned state of the
moment,& become convention.
Nostalgia slowly secretes into memory
bewilderment conceives a new
understanding on the shifting...

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COMMONPLACE PHRASIS  part 1
Doubt is our passion,passion our task,
erupts from inside made from whom
we are.Dark&passionate filled
with drama.this artistic volcano
from which poetic lava flows.All truth
&heartache,filled with stirrings of
imagination,a kaleidosdcope of
eloquent reason,deeply held.An
essence of aspiration yet...

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LANTERNE PHRASIS 3
Tedium ends with the setting sun,an
angled view that reaches into life.
Loud sighs,piercing eyes that erupt
from unconscious minds.A lyrical dream
abstract fantasy of multiple emotions
that leap out in varied shapes,
an angst of moody blues in...

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COMMONPLACE PHRASIS X
No holding back,keep on keeping on
before the well runs dry.a persistence
yo say something I feel is right.
Inclinations and ideals that meet in perfect
harmony,form 7 inner sound.Pulled up from
what is above and contemplate the
landscape...

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CHRISTIAN PHRASIS 1-pastoral
To see the kingdom grow with
peopled pews, so often a frustrated
desire sans practical love in action.
A love for people and growth of
the rule of God,so fundamental
and crucial. God’s attributes
brings wholeness,completeness
and peace, by its...

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COMMONPLACE V
A feeling od desperation,fleeting impressions
a never ending quest susceptible to misfortune
sounds hanging in the air akin to a
tempest conspire to frustrate.The ignited
by the most mundanr,ideas appear in
the mind,intangible,seemingly from 
nowhere.A phoenix risen from the
ashes...

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COMMONPLACE PHRASIS 111
See behind this curtain,glimpses 
into the soul,to reveal within the
heart,innermost thoughts,living
truths become the now from then.
Hidden allusions,enigmatic yet
proven by time,pared down succinct,
derivated but different,live and 
breathing empirical minimalist moments
of inspiration.Everything flows so smooth
in...

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PHRASIS STREAMS part 2
The torment,the trespass of transient notions
through a glass smoked ,lightly lie.A
symmetrical haze impromptu &unbidden 
provide instinctive insights to the eyes
of ignorance.Thoughts untangle&unravel through
an aspect of my sensory eye a fresh of vision
and...

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PHRASIS STREAMS part 3
Vapid smiles accepted with a sigh
radiate,diffused smiles say it as
it says,nature’s way,wisdom without
wonder,nothing left to mar.Whereas
scandal stains&shames as ambition
dwindles&dies.Seemingly at a loss,
trouble torments,standards sink&subside
disregarding the invaluable observation
that change cannot hurry.Such unreal
perspectives,never ending...

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CHRISTIAN PHRASIS 2-spiritual
In the mirror before us,so dimly
we see,for now we know in part,
each stone of the other,a part.Gifts
functions and manifestations.Diversities
and charismata as God desires and
ordains,some upfront,some hidden
away,oil to lubricate,variable and
seemingly random,distributed as
He wills.This upside...

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LANTERNE PHRASIS 4
Art without a title,an ego
in relief of studied arrogance
in a broken mosaic ,awash
in blue&orange partitions,
dripping wet into wet,A
vision coveying joy,the sacred
blending with the secular,a
swirling forest of dreams of
shadowed illusions.This insight
through the looking glas,of...

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