Long Clamours Poems

Take me to the tombstone 
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened  to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...

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Darkness falls 
Here & everywhere –
Night falls 
Bats & owls rule in the darkness; 
When will dawn be born?
When will Soja-man count 
Counting the myriad of his booties 
On the wounds of my Africa?

When darkness...

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My life is a great peace apon me.                           ...

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That night amidst cries, clamours, din, 
When coffin scandal headlines claimed, 
We shuddered— such was stench of sin, 
Those in snow felt ash grey, ashamed, 

In sullied caskets feeling ill, 
But lay still, stunned, shocked...

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In the jungle of our collective heritage
In our wild teaming with endless species of flora and fauna
In the savannah, the tropics and the deserts of our kingdom
There is place for neither the honest nor the...

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Barefoot on the paving slab chill, concrete
feet feel frostbite emanations in their callused souls;
rooftop mystique clamours silent slate triangles,
perched the stray cat observers, red-eyes smoking coals.
Down to the river's edge where swaying reeds
feed mongrel contemplations...

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We speak peace' the world is sick..From war and lies this
Is lunatic.'
The end must come..His word fullfilled' with many condemned my marrow chills.'
Perhaps I should change the messages i write? More froth
And bubbles? of future...

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"You'll find more peace in your life if you refuse to listen to idle chatter."
                    ...

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The smell is a fine one;
The death of a traitor
is always sweet

I feel the pulse of the cheers
echo through the city
when the mighty fall
or the wretched scum meet their end

Then they send the heads to...

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Encased in form, soul clamours to be free
In every which way, we feel incomplete 
We are tethered to our mind-body tree
All we seem to do is think, sleep and eat
As we age, we feel energy...

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...inspired by the performance piece 
   'What's He Building In There?' by Tom Waits


A green glow dribbles 'neath his door,
and clamours of construction mutter,
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice
belies a whole man, straining...

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A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, 
and clamours of construction mutter, 
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice 
belies an old man struggling with a stutter. 
He comes and goes in dead of night, 
I...

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A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, 
and clamours of construction mutter, 
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice 
belies an old man struggling with a stutter. 
He comes and goes in dead of night, 
I...

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A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, 
and clamours of construction mutter, 
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice 
belies an old man struggling with a stutter. 
He comes and goes in dead of night, 
I...

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A green glow dribbles 'neath his door,
and clamours of construction mutter,
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice
belies a whole man struggling with a stutter.
He comes and goes in dead of night,
I mark his shuffling pace,
his wheezing...

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To the Tree, He was condemned,
like a callous kleptomaniac.
Castigated and scorned by
a cackle of cacophonic voices.
Clamours and clanging...
clanging of corrupt tongues.
Away, they led Him to
the welcoming Cursed Cross.

For ages, this Cross has borne criminals, 
The...

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Disrupted rough sea ripples shuffle
    audience anticipation
    Shift in seats, hammered hearts
    Pummel, fluffy microphone muffle
    confines communication
    To thespian...

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Blood Curdled at The Chilling Quill 3



The night is too quiet for breathing
The faces form
Swelling from the pitch oily; floats
Mouthless screaming 
Into monstrous caverns
Where fang-ed teeth stalactite
On slavering tongues

Cold suffocation jabs pillowed rocks
Deep into racing...

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The being of peace

Humanity has long lost me
but it’s in dire need of me

Humanity considers me trivial
but I’m the most important factor in its focal

Humanity desires the change time;
but I’m the very needed enzyme

Humanity seeks...

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Go gentle into life’s eve, death’s your friend,
Old age clamours to wear a new garment,
Rage not against death, death is not an end.

Should night be dark, dawn sure heralds light, and
Comes bright day, not so...

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It’s hazy… opaque… clamour… and frizzy
My mind froze and clamours
It’s intense, grumpy, and rampant
Yet an image skewed, freckled and afar
 
Ding...Ding...ding…
Musical but torrent my head is screwed
Knocked up and nuts became loose
Thunderous and thumping bolt...

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When facts loosen tight grip, truth its bond,
A peanut when struts like an almond,
Rigour loses its rage,
Precision its sharp edge,
Coal then clamours to be a diamond.
So, lose none your courage,
Persist, if on a ledge,
Precious stone...

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Stuck in purgatory behind a desk
Staring at this washed out screen
A keyboard jockey can’t be my best
Is this all that my life will mean

Tapping out such meaningless text
Like a modern zombie in a tie
Everyday I...

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Life's perceived inanity propels us ever forward 
Never content in our volcanity we strive toward the summit of enlightenment
 Failing to grasp the consequences of the mentality that drives us
Our quest to better humanity can...

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Rumbles of a mad man

Can only be understood by another

Crumbs of a loaf

The world is tearing apart

Humans killing humans

Humans are now carnivores

Chewing off each other's flesh as a meal

Homosexuals on rampage

Men sleeping with men

Female superiority...

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