Long Coasters Poems

“22½ euros for a Martini,” Peter remarked, when he first scanned the menu.
“It’s not like we aren’t going to get them,” I said, “we’re not going to cheap our way to abstinence." The waiter came...

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Version 1: 

Some writhe in fear before a roller coaster ride, 
You would think they just wouldn’t get on it.
I think I’ve felt worse just standing by a girl’s side
Let’s forget throwing brains at a...

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“Gerellenpoe’s Department Store” - Cincinnatti’s largest and most prestigious ‘five-n-dime’ in 1883 - 
Carried almost everything a human being could want - and if you’d spend a buck or more...they’d give you something FREE!

Mom was...

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I don’t know if there’s a God,
But I still prayed we’d not be seen,
That night we scaled your neighbour’s fence,
To steal their trampoline,

In the halflight the elastic,
Shone like a lacquered animal skin,
Stretched taut across the...

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Sleepy eyes awake to crashing sounds on window panes
                 Creeping animals scramble around bristling forests nesting for a spot
...

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Once upon a happening
there was a family of four
all had different ideas
on spending vacation and more.

Dad thought it best
if they camped in the woods
to go hiking in the mountains
on a trail where they could.

Mom wanted...

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Spring

A refresh of rain, falling down on them all
Un-quenching each leaf with tilt refrain
Linden shaped blossoms in spring do install
Such beautiful heaven that no one can maim
 The burst of an orange, a tulip in...

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(or)  Those Summer Days With Danny

Those Sun-Filled Days With Danny
Where We Walked Along The Shore
Beside Star-Fish Strewn On The Beach
Tossed Above The Ocean's Floor ...

Where Danny Surfed The Waves
and Raced The Crested Curls
& Showed...

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I love being young, getting to ride the roller coasters.
The sound, tick, tick, tick, tick-like a heartbeat racing to the top.
Then, surprised even when you know it’s coming, dropped into the abyss.
Something always pulls it...

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The theme park was crowded. Elephants on roller coasters, mosquitos bracing the water slide, ferrets enjoying the ferris wheel and leopards shooting crack in the gallery. A myriad of personification and abundance of fairy tailed...

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A SONG THAT WILL ONLY MAKE SENSE 
                    TO EAST COASTERS!  (CANADA)

A heritage that we...

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Please stop this roller coaster because I do not see the thrill, my heart it feel’s so cold that it’s past the point of chill. Up and down and left to right holding on with...

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Inspired by Opeth – The Drapery Falls and this entire year…

I sip on Super Mario Brothers hot cocoa cup
Filled with convictions’ drop
From streams of consciousness

Ready to skinny dip into a new plateau 

No
Holds
Barred

Ferocity’s grip
Looking upon...

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The timeless mystery of Zanadeu lingers in my mind’s eye only in my dreams.
I have a bare whisper of confidence that I remember much of it now, however,
Once upon a dreamland state, it was my...

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Love is Bold
Love is Strong
Love is Wise 
Love is Pure
Love is Crazy

but do we truly mean the definition of I LOVE YOU?.. 

Love is Powerful
Love is Sacred 
Love is Simple
Love is Complex
Love is Joyful 
Love...

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We all have our stressors
We all have things that make us want to break
We have felt as though we give
Much more than we take

We have all wondering what was God doing and why
We have had...

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Musing on The Muse of Your Words

All the flowers of Epiphany
I have designed and collected
The flowing words through ink 
Came to me
Unbidden and as yet unwritten or encapsulated

They lay sanguine indistinct 
And are birthed in...

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Continuation of Brodsky’s History of the Twentieth Century 

1918.  A flu pandemic in Spain takes hold, 
From Kansas over the seas in America bold, 
Women’s suffrage win the vote, 
Their opinion is not remote,...

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“Dear Lord and Savior, hear my plea.
I've one request - wait, two or three....
This time though, I'm in a fix,
so maybe there'll be five or six....

Please answer quickly, hear me now
and I'll pray daily -...

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I’m on the verge of being left alone because understanding never understood what I was going through. Love never said I care so much; ohhhh let me kiss you because I missed the strength in...

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She sneaks into town
In the middle of the night;
Sets up before daybreak.
Her colors blind the town square.

Her barkers have games set up before the crowd arrives.
Her fantastic rides take two tickets;
Most kids lament they only...

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I remember our first state fairs
As a young family we could usually be found…
beginning where most families begin…riding the merry-go-round.

Together as a family…sharing smiles and laughter…
occasionally a frown….
standing next to our children…ready to catch them
as...

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The sun makes me feel warm.
Twirling flags makes me feel dedicated.
Writing makes my mind wonder.
Drawing makes me feel free.
Getting a good grade makes me feel accomplished.
Being a mentor makes me feel important. 
Spinning sabres makes...

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THE FLYING NUN

Disposed to high speed,
   the rushing air through her covering —
      to the police, known as “The Flying Nun”
       ...

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I sold the oven and bought a microwave
I can't even make a pot roast
(You took the cookbook with you)

It's like my torture chamber for refrigerated food
Zapping all the nutrition like a superpower
I make that nerdy...

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