Long Contraptions Poems

I awake in the early morning darkness
frozen, motionless, immobilized,
my eyes straining to see into the black void
looking for any sign of my keepers,
listening for any kind of movement
Phantom-like images dart around me slowly,
multiple images spring...

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weird as it sounds when my thoughts wield their all mighty hold

cast inflictions twist meaning and imply the truth of whats told


I resorted to reason which seems to be a contradiction of terms

of engagement with...

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I walk along the old familiar path in the wood of my childhood -
the place that I willingly abandoned  
for the lure of new friends and activities 
that carried me ever farther from my...

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Upon exiting side door nearest
to our single bedroom
(few dozen strides to access way
out apartment - complex edifice),
I unexpectedly encountered
(on August 30th, 2021 ~10:15 pm -
née namely heard but did not see),
a small screeching creature
whose anatomical...

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Triumphant milestones rocked and rolled thru this (viz – modern) age  
     began in the dawn of Homo Sapiens early evolutionary light
     when those prime ape...

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The cold wind of the Antarctic
Cut any warmth from the sun
We have come to measure the world warming 
That has been melting the ice away 

A satellite had mapped the whole of the continent
And had...

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Exercising belief about unknowns.
Makes sense to take your best guess.
Using history, numbers, extrapolation.
Getting the trajectory right for re-entry.
Few dissenters left for climate change, evolution.
Nuclear power brings a process to earth
that occurs only in space. Dangerous
but...

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notification of fire evacuation 
     slated to occur 
April 12th, 2018 (between the hours 
     of 9:00 am and 12 pm) did spur
me to validate Google asper,
 
that direct object heave ving, 
     pro noun sub bull,...

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One Night In A Haunted Manor-

Mohonk Mountain House is a rapturous place
where we love to visit and walk the long trails;
partake in its charming Victorian grace.
A mystical ambiance- there still prevails.

A manor-like hotel for overnight...

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Teacher tried to teach his class that Christmas isn’t boring
Half the kids weren’t listening and one or two were snoring
He picked out little Lucy, she seemed the one most liable
He made her prove she’d listened...

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I waited too long
to mow my lawn
biopsy my lung
yet lived long enough, anon,
however long is long.
Whatever. It's not wrong
to count along
while busy living. Sing
and stay strong
absorb the sun's photons
and store them in your bones.

Those bones
outlast...

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My Response To Rumi

A composite man was this Rumi Mystic who penned ‘Spiritual Couplets’ thousands
                    ...

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When you sort decades of electric cables from that box hidden away

It reminds of disentangling neurons haphazardly fired at random

	It’s a beautiful day and you’re in it among sea saw and hammer


Hundreds of screws in...

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Trial and Terror

Tim had tried most everything else

	waiting hoping procrastinating

		meditation introspection ‘extro-neglection’

defence contraptions of all sorts and the 

	whole self-help spirit enclave palaver and yet 

		he still felt like a cadaver a rotting ‘thing’ of...

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A world was created where every individual believed that being represented
was essential as religions require symbols 
to be interpreted by the ordained,
meaning of things provided for us like fertilizer on furrowed fields,
law & tax codes,...

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Hendecasyllabic Alliterative Pseudo-rhyming Abecedarian


Artfully arranging all attestations
Breathlessly bringing bright beautifications
Carefully constructing clever contraptions
Daringly, dauntingly delving deductions
Eagerly, easily ending extractions
Fancifully forming flirtatious factions
Gustily grasping gigantic gradations
Hazily having harsh hallucinations
Instantly inking imagined infractions
Jarringly journaling jacked judications
Kindly knuckling...

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In times of joy and in times of pain 
words are the only elusive attempt at portrayal 
Daunting Contraptions Contracted in a few fleshy pounds 
hidden in a bloody swirling cesspool hiding in our skulls...

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If I was meant to fly 
I'd have feathers and wings.
For being naked, no lift-off brings.
Instead I try to use sticks, feathers, paper and strings,
like Icarus, and the Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville,
to soar aloft...

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New leafs when talking leaves

She leaves talking her words are full of razor sharp vitriol
                    ...

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Now I'm not the kind of guy
used to luxury or wealth
fancy "cribs" as they now
call them (ain't that ridiculous?)
the only luxury I've tasted
is on TV with Robin Bleach...
or in brief stays on vacation
where I liveed...

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When our granddaughter asked us to help her with a project…something about an egg
she didn’t need to ask us twice…she didn’t have to beg.

because we know that time is fleeting…and as our grandchildren grow
the more...

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Do you want to know What goes on inside my head…
It is a busy place and can be rather haunting at times.
No one understands, they think I am out of my mind.
They have no idea...

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Science fiction writers formulate countless stories of trips to the stars.
Telling us about adventures to planets like Venus and Mars.
All their tales take us into a future time and place.
In each of them, courageous pioneers...

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He saw it in my eye's,

a little sprinkle
from the pines-

little crinkles in the vines, 

what a pencil
drawing up signs,

nobody else could see have seen me at that time.


It was time for revolution,

people acting so fine,

but...

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The soul’s quest is long and reaches deep 
into the etheric abyss.  
One cannot find God with machines; 
God is within.

In the soul of the universe, 
in planets; all life contains a piece of...

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