Long Closings Poems

“Tessellate” 

on the surface
it’s easy to see
we tessellate

inadvertent 
decorative ostentatious
flirtatious lives taking risks 

with the other sides
planned strategic functional 
quantity rich quality lacking

Human

our words our ways
opposites 
like magnets attract, it all fits 

we think it...

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For the realistic and the optimistic

Been watching the news, it gives me nothing but the blues and it's the politicians who's turning the screws, we have a situation witch needs to be defused or everybody's...

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Snowflakes adorn blurry morn, gently, gently trickling down 
As salted streets are turning brown across this weary town
While tilting trees blow wheeze of breeze in throe of snow
In aerial dance of wintry woe, as tips...

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                       Wispy, you stop it, stop being so cute, 
   ...

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how …

how many odes have been composed
for the sake of the human eye?
since humans first etched papyrus
or chiseled stone
or painted cavern facades by firelight
the magnificence of the visual organ
has been given its due reward
for what...

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Trying to recapture the joy of those winter days is difficult. School cancelled: sun shining through the sheer, white, curtains into an all too girlie room, the sound of a tea kettle's whistle,  the...

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Oh my im so tired, frustraed, confuse
drained of all energy heart frozen,but
my mind still amused.

It's been so long since i felt a heavyness on my body
holding me still while my blood rushes warmly inside me.

Who...

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It happened quickly, not three full days
after the last sturdy leaf of the
flowering linden tree surrendered to
late fall winds.

Snowfall, lots of it. Over a foot
the first time. Shoveling, digging out,
slow traffic, and all those school...

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I won't say goodbye, it's a word that implies, something now is ending,
And I'm too full of endings, to want that extra load.
Instead, I'll think evening has come, a night must now pass.
Yet with the...

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Through Covid-19, school closings and quarantines
Online learning, Google Hangouts, Shelter in place
Missing our students and friends from our work place.
Wondering what will happen next- It’s all so complex.
Tears cried, Lives lost, Birthday drive bys, Virtual...

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An elevator;
takes you up and down 
frequently;day and night;
either  to  heaven; or to  hell;
It depends how you behave;
Sometimes upward;
other times  downward;
or even to underground !
It looks like  God’s own iron...

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The sun is shining bright, but the world is dark
This pandemic has swept the world and every park
I saw it coming a couple months ago
But the preparations were lacking, and scared me so
Now, some places...

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From an old wooden shack 
Beside a long dusty road 
In the county ten miles from town 
Their bare feet did stroll 
In the thirties eating dust 
Following the slogan California or bust 
As jobs...

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Fairies still hover around your house
Years of great pain seems to never take away your smile
We're two little souls fighting our way far from the sword 
Like soldiers we must look onto our steps and...

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This dreary day, cold winter brings a storm;  
the snowflakes densely falling, fine and fast,     
with frenzied pace and not a single pause.   

Most all who could, stayed...

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