Long Cityscapes Poems

A pulsing motive met them in the sky
to paint his birds before they flew your way,
then talons reared, determined to deny
the devil’s flying wolves a win this day.
Your heaven’s filled relentlessly with fire
as deficit engulfed...

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a flustered tango of Gypsy moths 
drumming the porchlight; chalk artists; 
the endemic disappearance of farms—silos lost 
in unkempt fields;  space stations; the sunlit-scent of lemon 
oil on cherry wood; birth; the chasm between...

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Today there's a War of the Words going on
  Today there's a War of the Words.

It's taking place all over this beautiful land of ours
 Polluting our precious air and clear-blue streams
  Muddying...

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“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on pause

though we’re gentle, not hostile
we diminished her soul’s smile
since our aura as...

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Is the show over yet cause I’m barely alive
seemingly upset but overjoyed with a new sense of accomplishment
Has rushed
Over me
Over you
Over anyone within a ten block radius

An orchestrated string of events being pulled in by...

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We the People
Will disagree
On taxation and prosperity
On liberty and duty

We the People
Are every color of Christianity
Every Jewish prayer, every song of Islam
The puritans, the atheists and the Amish
Are neighbors here

We the People
Are Jamaican and Japanese
Swedish...

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*** Devoted - A Love’s Anatomy ***
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It's getting harder to pick out the right words
When these new emotions are too strong to comprehend
I thought I'd fought a thousand wars
And lived as an unlikely veteran

And so I did
Peacetime paradise is a stranger...

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Run faster—looking back will be your downfall.
The screeching of the infected gains intensity.
Drag the razor wire barricade across blistering concrete—
scraping rusted metal, shards splintering into scorched oblivion.

Enter the valley of death, shadows playing tricks on...

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June conspires
Sun and rain and wind;
Equatorial somnolence


Ways and means
Cluster of conflicts;
Confront life's business


Down winding roads
Cityscapes retreat;
Highrise dwellings clutter


Bus ride to nowhere
New estates emerge;
Road map carbon copy


News flash and highlights
Routine monotony presides;
Celebrate gratitude then


Order in sure...

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Early morning agenda
Buzz of Monday surprise;
Ordinary work day styles

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Crowds congregate
Train station congestion;
Sea of mobile handsets

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Heartland playground
Toddlers re-invent playtime;
Happy commotions

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Sea of blank faces
Each a fine story;
Checkmate situation

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Odd one out
Smiling old uncle;
Good morning sunshine

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Muted cacophony
Three old ladies...

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Deserted financial centre
Ghost town after dark;
Weekend constellations

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Blank myth created
To express a fond wish;
Merlion antiquity

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Old neighbour nods
Smiles in recognition;
Civilised exchange

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Sing-song Good Morning
Little boy entertains;
Proud parent smiles approval

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New journal pages
Awaiting sanguine soliloquy;
Expansive permutations

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Words on a page
Taut revelations;
Insider...

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And there will be no candled moon, 
No bones picked clean by virtue's rage 
Against all sins left un-forgiven. 
Lovers left in limbo-light at dawn 
Shall stand as statues stand, 
Alone, as broken martyrs 
Cast...

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I kissed my little rainbow goodbye today
yet I could not hide my tears
for in my heart I begged her to stay 
but she just had to go away 
so very far away, across the countryside.

Her...

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A myriad verse upon love there be
And this is one in an endeavor
To be written more
And forever free

For in intimate moments
My mind wonders to compare
Those things which are 
Like myself without you, unsure
That I might...

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into the wilderness haunted by ghost-towns 
And ancient bloodstains 
and lost history of scars 
we wander the borderlands 
between the weakening dreams 
and cities a neon seams
Burning into the American night like lanterns 
An empire...

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The sundown shroud of evening fell
To settle on the city's wreck
Of buildings broke by wicked spell
Called by fate's destructive beck.

And from afar they saw the shapes
Stark, bleak against the red sunset
The ruined outlined cityscapes
Unknown misfortune...

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Outside drives of dude ranches or of hobby farms
Cast statues of horses bred from Cortez' runaways.
They stand in basket planted ferns to camouflage their hooves,
Or rear atop a barn as though to jump into a...

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A semi baked semi colon is neither a seminar nor a seminary session. It is in fact the whirr of wheels from the large overweight apostrophe on a bike. Uphill downhill and all around the...

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Enter Bare

Nocturnal screams of voices beamed
Through sacrificial sacred skies
Insanity on a killing spree
With tears crusted crucified cries

On Angels wings flying thin
As the multitudes will divinely divide
Enter bare as we watch and stare
For the world has...

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A nameless longing calls me,
Awakened in my youth,
To witness all my eyes can see,
And listen for the tune,

That comes from open spaces,
Winding rivers flowing free,
Out of unexpected places,
And precious memories,

Seemingly a waking dream,
Twisting shadows on...

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In a world of chaos cascading, calamitous and crude,
Two birds in flight, amongst the vultures breeding brood...
They fly above majestic mountains and seductive cityscapes,
As they avoid predators with elusive elaborate escapes.

They then settle a while...

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Though hope retreats, a master seized the reins
to steer his legions straight into the storm.
He stands as stone while motivation wanes 
and cityscapes recede beneath the swarm.

For steel, like rain, continues to descend
to test the...

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Impressive 
behemoths
iconic eyefuls 
clutter its
cortex that
is of the 
manmade
plateau as
it rises from
end to end
sloping in 
its outstretched 
suburbia that
is hunkered
down as its 
supportive 
role model
surrounding 
the panoramic 
scope of its 
hub, the 
lifeline both as...

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In the days of mystic Merlin and captivating Celtic lore
The Ancient Druids danced and exuberantly did explore
The Celtic Circles of cityscapes and festive furthermore

They gathered ritually round their sacred scenic stones
Like super Stonehenge sites of...

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