Long Closures Poems

The past was locked in with very little 'right of passage'.                        ...

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Global pride! Greatest story-theme worldwide! Oceanic!
Voyage liner - Atlantic! British cruise ship! Titanic!
Born in the yard of Harland and Wolf! Floated to venture!
Who did ever dream of a deadliest wreck- adventure?

Christened after Titans of the...

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conspiracy theories usually hide ...
       in the shadows .. but as Covid spreads
         across the globe baseless opinions and 
 ...

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Ocean girdled nation had prospect for absolute containment
Overseas observers, in distant comfort, complacent 
Wuhan origin arrivals sparked a catastrophic failure
Leaving lock down 25th January, flying into Australia 
Similar instances followed, action came agonisingly belated

Contamination suppression...

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And when it ends suddenly, unexpectedly,
You start to count.
First on the days, then the hours - then
Just counting until 100
Then
Beginning            again.

The dead find their...

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No one is watching on but you,
Arrested in the familiar and unfamiliar images,
Getting to know the stranger you have been avoiding…
The one that no one understands but yourself…
Who knows how they appear to you?
But they...

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I had hoped there would be a 50th class reunion for my class of 67.
Instead, I got word the other day that Aggie High is closing its doors.

For four years, I was taught by some...

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Partnering with hotels all across the planet.
Cendyn helps so trip organizers can plan it.
Managing data and guest information.
So travelers can plan their best vacation.
 
Aiding resorts in dozens of nations.
Boosting their online reputations.
Creating great proposals...

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Heat creeps across unsuspecting December 
Screech of insects' pitch is matched to previous years 
Mirror humidity shimmer doesn't remember 
Last Summer a virus spread, inducing freshened fears
Wuhan's worst nightmare went worldwide, disease severe


Several thousand consecutive...

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by Mark Miller © 06/15/2014

Signs stained white written by twilight's blacken Knight,
Raining silent sights depressants drown the conscience might-
Feeling venereal waves sullen air on standing skin shivers 
Ridding stallions frailty of fear scorn folly appears,
Warning...

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Thoughts of my abuse courageously spirals out of control

No drug in this world can conquer this raw resilience…..

Its ability to conivingly creep up with silence leaves the deepest wounds
The pain is unbearable I have yet...

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The clown

Circuit circuits
moving round in circles
swings and roundabouts
junctions dead ends
living closures and 
beginnings

The fool wise man
woman child in all
posits mocks
understands the world
beauty horror
misgivings paths
ahead and gone
retrieved adventoured
learned felt inspected
long gone present 

Re-chisseles
comprehends in 
jest and...

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Four Cafés
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Four cafés were at the extreme left of what I could see from my apartment window.  There they were, sparkling in the cold night, trying to stand in for stars in the cloudy...

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It was my first time back since covid
to my home town Kilmarnock by name
over recent years there's been changes
few for the better but what's to blame?

The town has deteriorated, so many closures
it's so sad to...

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Once time's second hand 
did slip into mine
…delicate enough
Even as all of me, he grasped 
for-ever the paradox

Then tiny fingers, swiftly probed
Experiencing me?
Crossing unhindered
o'er palms, crevices and closures
Then deeper, delving
into my many
…lifelines entwined

So swiftly seconds...

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COVID-19

Disaster, devastation, death and destiny
Headlines, slay us every day
Not since some time-past history
Were people stricken - this terrible way

Self-isolate and stay indoors
Restrictions with fines or time away
No longer can we feed our mores
But food and...

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SUTAIH

H	*	H
I	*	I
A	*	A
T	*	T
U	*	U
S	*	S

And then it unfolded like a zipper that opened
teeth gaping through hollows worse for wear
top stop loosened dichotomy schisms exposed
slider with no way to go crying out for the past
time for perspective and to turn...

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Disaster, devastation, death and destiny
Headlines, slay us every day
Not since some time-past history
Were people stricken - this terrible way

Self-isolate and stay indoors
Restrictions with fines or time away
No longer can we feed our mores
But food and...

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Without Swimming
A COVID19 lament by Sara L. Russell 
25/9/20 at 14:01

Half a summer gone by; seamless tropical heat,
birds singing, bees pollinating, flowers blooming
and no swimming. 
All of the pools closed 
for almost four months.

What is...

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Covid Isolation

The great unraveling of all that seems to matter
Like a giant ball of yarn
Knit together into something new.
Systems put in place
Lay broken at our feet.
Idols come crashing down from their high and mighty place
Isolation,...

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Nothing annoying is going to bother me today.
It is the perfect weather, the sun is shining.
The cardinals are trilling, the violets are waving. 
I'm ready to embark on my four hour trip.
Uh-oh. Three lines of...

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A cognitive creature 
With the mind of a preacher 
Trying to understand 
Life’s latest feature 
Slammed daily 
With glitz and glam 
All pretty boring 
And all a huge scam 
Everything is designed to fail 
From...

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Earthquakes, mudslides, and floods.
The flood came with mudslides and road
closures, causing a major bridge closure.

She brought death and destruction.
She went, but not before changing
the landscape of Northern California.
She altered lives, but I was fortunate.

Once caught...

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Pools of Longing
Sara L Russell, July 9th, 03:11am

That it might come back to me, that sweet sensation,
When i would reach out my arms across the cool light blue ripples
and push off from the side.

Then would...

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All of my texts go unanswered
My anxious calls slither to voicemail
I glance at the huge grandfather clock
My hands distractedly sorting the mail

I then check my trusted wristwatch
Its hands surely creeping beyond six
Reprimanding my heartbeats to...

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