Long Contorts Poems

As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and...

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She stirs first..restless..looking longingly over..senses awakened.
Their feet shuffle slowly under warm covers. The moonlight shines thru the window catching her face. .illuminating it…her tousled hair frames her face.
She looks up, hopefully for his eyes to...

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Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it corrodes your soul
To see how the stench that follows your...

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I know of a river of more than average 
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours 
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily sought -
Pursuing about his passions
In the traditional methods 
By which...

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Ton nom - New English Translation of Amel Bent's song "Your Name" by T. Wignesan

Je me raccroche aux détails du passé
Details of our past I cannot unclasp 
?Nos souvenirs le sourire aux lèvres
A smile steals...

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A drag of another cigarette the nicotine courses through my veins, 
It's not dope but it'll have to do, it's true the effects are not the same, 
It distinctively lacks the same power, same danger,...

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Early morning, slightly subdued, a drawn out yawn reflecting my mood, 

slope to the kettle, body distorted by its metallic curves, amuse myself for a 
while, infusing with herbs, 

while my head changes shapes, prepare...

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A TWICE REFORMED CLOWN
There is an eerie silence,
 In the Big Top,
Not a sound is heard,
A heart beat could stop,
A hush envelops one,
And all,
Only the Ringmaster,
Whistles a call.
Suddenly with splendor,
And gust,
In burst the entertainers,
With such...

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A tradesman’s son and temple secrets die
in sixty nine years, never knowing why.

Contempt delivered their first child perfect,
your childhood gauntlet galvanized neglect.

A mother’s son and her abuse still lie
in sixty nine years, never knowing why.

Too...

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They don’t care about you and me 
They don’t feel the need to offer courtesy
They upset everybody

Our interaction with bureaucracy of any kind
Is often a stumbling block
In having our needs fulfilled

Nothing riles us as bad...

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This is PG-13! While googling, I accidentally bumped into something I wrote seven years ago. Only vaguely remember it. No one on the site where I posted it commented. Expect nothing less here. :)

School-Daze Dreaming

From...

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sitting in the waiting room
during the designated “visiting hours”
means nothing to the loved one in 
turmoil---
for while the reality of the person on the 
bed in the cutting room
is more than enough to break down...

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As she stands there looking at you
she remembers when your eyes
Were bright and filled with life
Filled with a qiuet strength
The heart of a warrior who yeilded to no man
She remembers a solider ready to brave...

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Fade-in to darkness
   Blink slow, quicker ... eyes open
      Still dark, but I can't go back to sleep again
         I...

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Fall into me like I am blurry and let me 
catch you like you are drowning.
Drowning in me, drowning in you, 
the love of my all sits cross legged, drawing 
the children we will not...

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Villain Unmasked


In odd places the Villain appears,
In the right places he disappears-
On merry moments then re-appears.

For, such is the habit of a Villain
Who enjoys to inflict carnal pain
Yet, scarce and elusive to be slain.

He contorts...

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Down deep with
   is where it lies,
burning and churning
in the purple blackness.
Until it hears the latch click,
      then the world
   finds out
what's in store.
With its release
the...

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Your face contorts in a twisted effort
Plaintive in non-decorous reverberation
A terrain around a pair of distant orbs 
Lost in extemporaneous consternation
To ward off the fear of unwanted evanescence
Upon the wanton revelation
Of a day you wish...

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like poetry in motion she's getting to me
like prophecy unfolding her notion is a beast
i'm rising like yeast and falling like angels
blocked off and blacked out she cuts off every avenue and angle
i struggle and...

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An orange cat slithers into
the middle of her empty lap
out of thin air, like orange juice
poured into a little tumbler out of
an enormous jug, holding more, 
more, more of the same. 

Cats have scared her...

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All across the nation

such a celebration

people in motion…

 

The radio station 

in my head

plays on

with Scott McKenzie this time:

 

Are you going to San Francisco?

Be sure to wear flowers in your hair…

 

I can hear...

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MUSE ON THE LOOSE

“What’s that?” – a symphony moving,
A photograph snapped – a muse on the loose.

I must go hunting, set a trap…
Many are running, attacking, tracking -

So I look in the shadowy bushes,
Behind schools...

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Disciplined organised and full of stout,
Marching in formation to the General's shout,
Holding their swords and weapons at the ready,
An elite told to stand steady,
For little be known for the evil this legion die to protect
A...

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ALONG FOR THE RIDE

We race through streams of mud, looking like bank bandits,
our bandanas fastened around mouth and nose. Open-air
vehicles, look like skeletons, and the roar of its engine leaves
no room for conversation. But I...

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I am very pleased to be able to present
a sixth collaboration with great friend and poet,
Robert Lindley, who is well known to you all
for his magnificent epic masterpieces.
Our latest collaboration is marked by
an unexpected brevity...

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