Long Cleverer Poems

MY GRAND  AUNT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


She is still as elegant as I dare remember
Those early springs: its now late december
She is sitting  with her back perfectly straight
I’m afraid she’ll chastise me for being late
She...

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A magical chemical infatuation
to disregard the tradition
of natures connectivity and diversity
dragged to the will of its subjugation
to dig into the complex cells intimacy
its mass increments of the yields
killing off the birds and the insects
for the...

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> I do not know if this qualifies as poetry.  I take my ideas from the news, or what happens in life around me.  I hope you don't mind.  My good news...

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As a young man I was not very smart,
for brain cells they were never my game,
but I did what I could for without any doubt
through hard work I had ample to gain.

The cleverer folk seemed...

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B.T.S
Before
Turning
Seventeen
Thought that being a teenager was the life
On top of the freakin world
Nothin can stop me
The seat of the throne
Social hierarchy is the one and only rule
All of us collecting friends like Infinity Stones
Is the...

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They said that it could not be done
They warned it would go wrong
Debates were held across the globe
Discussions tough and long

Science won with madcap plans
To change the world forever
They cloned a bunch of dinosaurs
And made...

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Once upon a time my eye fell on some videos and pictures,
On the Net I saw a lovely, such a young and beauteous creature...
But, of course, it's not her stature, and it's not her noble...

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Was it a sheer accident that I became a poet?
Poetry, I didn’t pursue, rather it cropped up
As a late-night guest, quite unexpected.
A teacher’s career, I have been bent upon
And prefer to be known more as...

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A box of pins,
such tiny things,
That join two parts 	
Together.

They tinkle when shook,
I open and look
To see how many
Are there.

Too many to count,
such a large amount, 										        ...

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Tired of explaining      (a twist from ND. poem)

Ignoring the presence of my stillness==
As you walk with bitterness== 
Your radiance is no longer true== 
A melody with seduction over due== 
The...

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This world is ours
If we put our heads together thats cleverer
The Media pins the masses down like wrestlers
Biased to the westerner
Showing of the worst of Africa
Reporting Ebola to Malaria
But missing out the beauty
with intentional duty
Recording...

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-I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being-forgive me- rather cleverer than most 
men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.-
 
I've done a lot of bad things in my life, many I...

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[Please note: while the tone is light and tongue-in-cheek, its import is 180* opposite-- the estrangement of the human from the divine.]

' I SHALL HIDE MY FACE FROM THEM. I SHALL SEE WHAT THEIR END...

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Fired Up

Suddenly slow, then frozen up…My heart began to pound.
My computer means so much to me. It’s my touch to the outside world.
Then my knight came in the door… determined my dragon to slay. 
And...

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-I think of the enemy as many, varied, ever-changing and eternal. Fighting them is like 
fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even 
fiercer and cleverer than before.You...

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Why fear death?
With my last breath,
I will be gone forever.
Before my birth,
my only appearance on Earth,
I did not exist, no never!
And so when I die,
there'll be nowhere to fly,
no me left to go,
this I do...

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my life is useful,not a joke,
i'm a plastic bottle,no not just for coke,
everyday i'm important to you,
without me you wouldn't get through.
think,how would you get your squeezy sauce?
or the washing up liquid of course,
cleaners for...

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Love…Such Long Time Ago 
Summers I dream of you and I say to myself if I had 
played my cards right my life would have taken another,
 path, only I don´t play cards and love...

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I spent my adolescence writing lots of teenage angst
through poetry, and stuck with it, despite it being pants.
I’ve been to Open Mic nights, and risen through the ranks.
I don’t get heckled quite so much, and...

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Who is happy in this year?
Aries, take a rest timely and you'll get better result easily.
Taurus, listening to cleverer sayings helps you from the worst calamity.
Gemini, control everything precisely to advance without fear.

Cancer, deep consideration...

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We make motions, to fight lack of resistance,
That are recognized by only ourselves.
- Motion noticed - We're still certain of our stance
So to the depths of emotion our fight delves.

Forever and a day, plus an...

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A poem written on the spur of a moment taken furtively
from another busy day slipped into a secret pocket of 
a too over voluminous jacket slipped on to cover a
favorite silk shirt. A mixing of...

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Okay, maybe “despair” isn’t the word I’m looking for.
Maybe it’s just “desperation.”
Maybe it’s impatience and anxiousness, hoping to find my unique voice, but I feel I’m shouting in a vacuum, broadcasting loud and clear when...

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Halloween night, when the ghouls come alive
For these few hours above, they seek and strive
Their grim looks and spooky presence
The mist they drift in, their ghostly luminescence  

As the dawn breaks, they are gone...

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