Long Clean cut Poems

I was reading Rev. Julian Clifford Jaynes' homily,
delivered May of 1919
to the First Unitarian Society in West Newton, Massachusetts,
commenting on the 100 years since Channing's Baltimore Sermon.

Rev. Jaynes had a son, 
a second generation Julian...

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Born to different fathers they were never that close
But their mother insisted they keep in touch
They never had much in common apart from the love for their Mum
One was drawn by the magnetism of corporate...

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Clean cut; people clean cut.! Well styled suits, groomed to impress we gel well 
in success, success reads so well.. Glitz is the goal WOW  the 'surface' the substance.' 

Cut so clean.' free standing...

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Earth
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Coying the myth .. 

Earth.. birth brings you here
Your status qou will unfold
On adventure either as king or queen,  mr president, bishop or cardinal.
A branded tennis player, a balanced balarina, thief or theatrical...

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It's been monthes since my lips tasted the bitterness of alcohol
I found myself craving the excitement, the taste within my memory
and for a moment when he had asked if I wanted to go out for...

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Phantom feelings...
stinging prickly reminders
that missing attachments
were parts of real healing.

Painful loss replays
trauma bond tricks and treats. 
Days of death danced a two-step
with hot held hope
Two faced masking for supply. 

Divine love's inculcation
Came from a different...

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Good Examples Made My Life…

WHEN I WAS A CHILD…
Father made a living providing a nice life.
Mother, was homemaker, caregiver, and wife.
Throughout the years, I watched those two.
Trying to find a pleasant life’s view.
I went to...

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Your promises don’t inspire me,
they seem insincere
Always floating, shifting commitments,
the details are artfully dodgy
Arranged in such a way,
they might as well be confirmed by a ghost
And those serpentine friends of yours
are snake whisperers 
Subtle and...

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She who rest me
Might I labor
To understand
Her evilness
That she mocks
My beliefs

 66 burgers grilled rare ( mixture of chuck and brisket)
66 fried fish fillets battered and fried

Onion and currant spread for burger
Cucumber and relish tater...

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"Heeling Mephistopheles" 

murdering crows
flies in on the bow 
of a Stradivarius 

strange webs cleared
from the mind of 
Machiavellian insolence 

insisting life written 
by dancing fingers
pressing monochrome

due diligence for justice
wrapped in blankets of 
cloudy deliverance

tack a...

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Does nothing really matter or does everything serve a purpose, 
is a dream just to be shattered or something beneath the surface. 
So many lives that clatter surely we can't be surplus. 
When it comes...

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You know the Old Lady who lived in a shoe,
She led the Autumn Jive with Little Boy Blue,
DJ Peter Piper looked suave and dapper,
The Old Grand Duke of York, *MC and rapper

The Trees of the...

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My eyelid clings to a nebulous newspaper.
The breakfast table, like a silent stranger.

in black and white ink
on which page i’ll never know
the drowning ink speaks

I’m a cashier, my first real job, and
a high school student....

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If i could summon you to my perception
Or host you whole to my being 
Only then 
Only then would you fathom the wreckage 
And take a dip in my alcohol thoughts
Or come watch me redeem...

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The Young Republican


He searches through the morning news reading papers nothing new
 Out of his sadness springs a mere madness
 Shattered dream flaunt the scene shallow promises some make believe
 Yet out of his silence...

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What happened to
What we were?
Why did it happen?
I don't know
But I know that
We had a good time
So don't even worry
I don't blame you
I blame them

Well, I'm the scapegoat
But I don't care
It's ok
I don't mind, I'll...

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"Each day we assess,
What we will do best

Even if not a direct decision,
We are guided by our inner vision

Sculpted by time and events,
And our desire for happiness

To chose that which feels right,
And I’m not meaning...

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A cake
Lighted candles
Cheering friends around
they laugh and you join them
Flashing cameras
Glistening, beautiful gifts...
It's full
Your world...
I should stop wondering
why I couldn't find space there
It's your B'day
It's wonderful time
A happy moment,
when you blow the candles..
No hesitation, no...

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in diagnosis of psychosis, his pincer glasses reddening his nose,
the professor’s leverage - his certificate upon his office wall - the know-it-all.

a fragment of his time spent examining inky blots - the bevel of distortions...

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Look underneath the skin first and for most please? Try it just once,.just to pounce before you judge, we all are here to one dam reason, to live in the country of the free, ...

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Alone in the storm she wept
The trees around her swayed
As The frost in her soul crept
Closer until at last she was stayed

The rain drenching her heart
Till her last breath did she take
Only to cry out...

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            one hemisphere lit
         of split   
personality;
Jack O’Lantern rides,
spurring the midnight stallion.
Ichabod’s head spins...

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RED fire ball submerging,
we slip from the light
watching our shadows bloom.

A smoldering sphere,
not clean-cut, but badly drawn,
its REDNESS wobbles and fumes.
as it downs itself
still smoking a last shred of day.

For a few long moments Banshees
go...

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.
The Second Plane Has Hit
It’s a confirming statement 
Nobody saw the first plane
There is a puncture in wall 
A visible cut out of a plane 
But where is that  plane ?
Did it penetrate ...

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A blind date
sprung on two unwary victims.
He turned up early in suit and tie
obviously uncomfortable with
a situation beyond his comfort zone.

She showed up on time
dressed in an elegant clean cut dress
wearing high heels and
a subtle...

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