Long Clinked Poems

A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a 
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The road was long, the night was cold,
A stranger walked into the town.
His coat was torn, his hat pulled low,
His weary eyes fixed on the ground.

The streets lay still, the lamps burned low,
Behind locked doors,...

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She’d not heard the horses approach her village in the plains,
had known nothing or war of death until their arrows rained,
fiery streak against the night, set flame to thatch and straw,
scrambling from her father’s hut,...

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Duellem (The Duel)
by Charles Baudelaire
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Two combatants charged! Their fearsome swords
brightened the air with fiery sparks and blood.
Their clashing blades clinked odd serenades,
reminding us: youth's inspired by overloud love.
But now their...

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He stood in front of the open door pacing upon down the fifth floor with hands rubbing into each other and eyes penetrating the hill. He was sending a silent message to universe to reverse...

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They looked forward to spend the weekend
 in this haunted aged castle
 Who believes in haunted stories?

 It was evening when they arrived
 the table was set for twelve guests
 even if there were only...

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In Saki’s story, the story teller tells the story
Of a virtuous school girl, 
Who lost her life— 
Precisely because of her virtues, as it were. 
The medals she was wearing, 
Which she had won for...

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They dreamt at midnight of the 31st, that life,
Would somehow magically transform?
That somehow, beautiful fairies on gilded unicorns, 
Could bring them back to days of bubbles, joy and laughter.

Ah, but money and power had instituted a...

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THE DREAM OF THE QUAKER’S SON
 
A Quaker preacher had a son
Who loved the banker's child
Impertinence and religious talk
Made the banker wild

Tenacious Hayes still loved Elaine
Politely asked her hand
Her father said that he’d agree
If Hayes...

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A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a 
daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist 
ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn of spring ...

'Tis the volley of calendrical crasis 
poised to a youthful Einstein...

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The neon hum, a gentle gleam,
Reflecting chrome, a waking dream.
A dusty box, a treasure chest,
Where vinyl spun and found its rest.

Ten cents clinked, a hopeful plea,
To summon forth a melody.
A finger danced, a slow select,
Anticipation,...

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All I Know about Hinduism

Squealing,
I adorned myself 
with bangles
which followed my suit 
as they clinked.
Combing my hair 
and placing flowers
they contained the same level of energy 
as I did.
Running around 
thinking I was a princess
reality:...

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Swiftly she started the flashing rain
and called to the kids to enjoy the pain
The melt off the trees in the summer’s breeze
as the hail tore the clouds and began to freeze
The asphalt clinging to heated...

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We took a vacation way up North in the dead of winter
“You’re going the wrong way”, all would say thinking our minds must have splintered.
It was hard to find a room to rent within the...

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The 10 th legion of the Roman Empire
Wondered why no matter what
The other side knew they were somewhere
Took them forever to figure out that

They marched in silence, along the way
nothing clinked  not a word...

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Don’t just raise your glass, stand up to cheers
Until each and every one gets audibly clinked
Repeating Ike-ism’s stretching memories years
Keeps the good ones up front and spirits linked

Not so subtly cheat (just a little) in...

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The temple resembled a market place. They bought and sold.
By the rich even the Sanctum Sanctorum was controlled.
Communion of the humans with the divine seemed delinked.
From the lost tongues of hypocrites, like sounds of cracked...

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They boarded the mighty ship on a fateful trip
 And waved to those ashore who craved a last goodbye,
 The ship set sail without fail as champagne they did sip
 The vessel's might was their...

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Miles below the surface rage she rests,
Her broken body caged by sand and rock,
Innards spilled across the ocean floor,
A hundred years since she escaped the dock.
Her crew no more than skeletons bleached white,
Scavenged by the...

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For generations raps, taps and table turnings were
the signs of a spirit calling; the ghoul of you trying to 
deliver a message - to finish unfinished business and 
sleep an everlasting slumber in the clouds...

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the yellow slant of the squinting sun
silently swallowed the black of green
red roads ascended to the pretty sky
n sorrow spilled down the stream quietly
streames giggled
bangles clinked
my soul rocketed 
to the realms unknowned
haunting the conscience,deep within
hymning...

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the yellow slant of the squinting sun
silently swallowed the black of green
red roads ascended to the pretty sky
n sorrow spilled down the stream quietly
streames giggled
bangles clinked
my soul rocketed 
to the realms unknown
haunting the conscience,deep within
hymning...

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The day was warm for winter;
The sun was shining bright.
The skaters circled on the ice
And held each other tight.

The booths were filled with shoppers
In search of stocking fare.
The carousel spun ‘round, its music
Wafting in the...

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Sitting in front of the fire place with similar souls 
             Logs burning,
          ...

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When you were born
The king boys were in the hospital
trying to sell
dodgy perfumes 
All three of them
Some bastard up in the hills 
had a torch on the whole night
St Ables accident and emergency
No rooms available...

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