Long Conflates Poems

A little smile delights my soul
A little money appreciates my life
A little love achieves my goal
A little care flatters my wife 

Strengthening my resolve to perform better
Duties and responsibilities I bear
In my role as family...

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I’m a racist, you’re a racist, life looks racist too
and one more proof that all are sinners (tainted through and through).
Even babies fear a stranger (cling to mama’s skirt);
inborn, we’re trained, or raised by parents...

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He said he’d watched a tutorial.
He said symmetry was a myth
fueled by Big Geometry.

I laughed. That was my first mistake.

My second was passing him the scissors
without asking him about his dominant hand.
(It was vibes. His...

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Music is such a beautiful thing, picturesque for the ears
A dance, a perfect sunrise, a dalliance that never ends
Sounds twined together in a lush, sexy, eternal trance
The melodious sound cascades through the senses

An idyllic sound,...

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Written: June 02, 2024 For Regina McIntoch Contest

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Discovering God doesn't bear broad browsing 
He's all over...

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In youth's frantic clutches
Addicted to vapid touches
Love children spawned in shaded hutches
Existing on euphoric highs, painless crutches

In middle age, lust morphed into longing
Spent body in static sphere now belonging
Neglected prodigy seeking shelter in availing arms
Licentious,...

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The art was most masterful on the dark canvas.

It seemed as though done by a gigantic genius
Colours clashed, popped, hopped, splashed, and slashed like soap bubbles.
Shades, strips, and spots with secret sacred stateliness
Hidden puddles-puffed puzzles,...

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Our minds have grown,
into edifices of slips that turn to 
pride...
and eject a lifelong withering pulse,
to reveal you.

The grueling drips have dragged,
a common understanding of 
our enduring limits
into empty nights,
and inside a creeping smile...
that again...

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