Long Cloy Poems

THE LONGEST DAWN PART 3 H.C.SONNETS

There is nothing, everything, pain and joy
We can’t go back, struggle on for their sakes 
A blank sheet to fill, take heed of the ploy
Think twice move once keep an...

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Grow old along with me:
The best is yet to be!

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See! Ben Ezra stares Rubaiyat in the eye,
	In a debate so hot and ever fresh;
Their porters seem in the semels to lie!
	Are they also gone or...

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A REQUIEM TO MY PRECIOUS LEGS: ELEGY TO MY PARENTS

FREE VERSE FOR MUM
My birth remark reads:
                   ...

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THE STRANGER MAN (2)

They who posses tire
out and loose more
in keeping.
As homeowner never
have I felt at home
But closer home as
squatter and
settler.
The crop man crops
his way through
life,
The dry cleaner
cannot subdue the
muck;
The well heeled
can’t afford inner
balm with...

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Author's suggestion - goes best with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfKA4b5SFq4 as you read.  Don't forget to continue to "Götterdämmerung Part 2"



He sees her in his thoughts his dreams
Haunting long after he wakes, writes reams
Yes, she's always there,...

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Love isn’t amorousness,
Nor is it hunger nor thirst,
With vehemence, I insist:  Love is a perpetual motion machine
O!  Break!  Break!  Break!  My Hardened Heart!
Be shattered by Love,
And let all your disquietude...

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This poetic blurb not meant to annoy
divulging, when just a whippersnapper boy
me late mum and octogenarian pop agreed 
   without questioning why doctor best remove adenoid
pat response told less to prevent sole son...

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The breaking,
 the shaking;apace
  my king's fall is rise
   my land is anon taken.
                  ...

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This erstwhile avid poet stir "boy"
prone to hyperbole in a "man" newer
(manure) of writing about his foie
gras bulls, (which matter of fact
happen tubby Ruby red)

redirects his gripe, how
he no longer doth enjoy
sharing his rhymes without
(poems),...

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Whether virtual or actual paths cross,
     aye great thee ahoy
no fear Mademoiselle or Monsieur,
     thy harried style haint cloy

rather, when embarking
     on introductory...

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By Humber in a drowsy afternoon,
When for my love long lost alone I pin’d,
My heart itself did sing a saddest tune
For woeful swain I was to be destin’d.
And I in pain then lov’d this timid...

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What kind of heaven do you shadow
there beyond your gathering cloud of mist and haze?
Just how do you define a paradise of yesterday
(and dare I toy with it and say)
when luxury begins to seem passê,
and...

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THE DEEP OCEAN OF THE MIND


The warm pebbles touch  my foot,  my sole,
In the turbulent shallows of tide  and wave.
My waking  self feels the  moon and sun pull.

And  hidden...

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Let your remaining joy locate you now without any further delay,
Even if more success and more prosperity have to join in a fast relay,
The goal is that all the best things of life should find...

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Written: June 26, 2023
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The sun is alive, and all creatures are awake.
Even the green leaves seem to be breathing.
And the air is crisp, cool, and pure for our sake.
Little black and gray birds sit on...

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Rays of golden sun, at orange dawn, I enjoy...!
I wake up, hearing chirps of birds at four O’ clock;
At fifties! Yet, I feel, as though a little boy...!

The earth and the heavens celebrate springtime-joy, 
Timely...

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I visited the shadow world,
preoccupied with shadowed thoughts
that smoke across the page, 
and vanish in the light of reason.

That is to say, it is the proper way
to deal with thoughts like these,
the ones with worrisome...

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A child`s smile is an innoxious pleasure and joy,
Cure and never wear, Cloudless Sans Cloy. 
 It's never too early to start your day with a smile, 
 "Glow in the Sky" is a logo...

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I had to write a helpless poem
that others couldn't stand
I had to write about their fear
that kept them running grand

I had to tell them that their fun
was coward to enjoy
I had to tell them that...

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No bitter cove, so atrophy's employ
I wrestle with content, complexion's cloy,
the general indication to destroy
combat with trials ending ~ in convoy!

Ne'er the edge of space that would deploy
my sentiment, accepting this feigned rule
to kill or...

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petrichor sillage
lustmord miasma iron cloy
a clot of steel to sever
scarlet necklace gargle silence
cell phone text ‘she is gone, hurry’
metal carriage in driveway
front door opens, beloved eyes close
cafuné at the burial site
saudade lace iktsuarpok
without you —...

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Sixty Years Wed

Sixty years since the magnificent day
In many precious moments along the way
Xanadu in impeccable joy
That no one in the world could ever cloy
You were joined in married bliss to enjoy.

You are together where...

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Daily, the sun sets
And the set, the ambiance
Dimmer and darker gets
Losing all its radiance

Every so often too
Our lives’ suns set
In a season undue
Our hopes, with gloom beset

To this, we are helpless
This’ nature’s ordinance
The roster for...

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My neighbors pot smells good
A herbal sweetness that lingers in the air
And then cloy the tongue 
With hunger deeper than love's desire
I smell the thyme, parsley, pepper
The onions and basil in coming supper
Wher
e children will...

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It is true that bears love honey
Because sight can tell such plain desire
But the solution is not money
For every need. Some things are finer
Deeper, sweeter, or more gold
The lyre's song flooding flesh and soul.
Seems bears...

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