Long Converses Poems

“Upon Waking”


Slumber has its upsides 
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard, 
cacophonous 
pecking at each other 
and at the ground…

Elsewhere, 

like dull background noise
through the fog of dream 
the sound of the gamble...

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ANIMOSITY VESSEL :
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
VERSE 1:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
Here she sit at her thresholds corner;
Looks pity but craving to blow a vandal,
Crazely permitting no one to untie her shameful sandal,
Eagerly wish people...

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"Motherland"

The “Removed”,
Charlestons across the keyboard,

fingers have a personality and a mind 
of their own, don’t you agree?

the stalwart mind converses with the frivolous fingers 
its stark increduality, considers All above All

they’re incorrigible, those lithe fingers,
like...

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She kept laughing but more small and appropriate, and Jake just stood there, haunting at
the thought of speaking to her, grimacing at the idea of her realization that it wasn't
the scare that made him stutter,...

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Written: April 5th, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori

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Crimson blood-colored sunlight 
seeps upon the pyramids —  
Shadows cast...

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My healthiest ego-loving master plan
converses in truth and beauty communions
with my wealthiest imagined eco-habitat
mistressingly designed

For co-invested
cooperative master planned
in win/win work distressing play,
mysteriously
mighty curious
BiNomials,
all double-capital eccentric

UnCentric
neither positive
or negative
bipolar
yet both positive
and negative dipolar
to become regeneratively healthy
enlivened
enspirited
enlightened

BiNomial awareness
means...

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I know six languages, 
The one I write in
The one I speak in,
My mother’s words,
My father's verse,
And those of my brothers.

My mother speaks quickly 
In baking terms and 80’s slang
She speaks in sewing materials,
Starbucks orders,
And...

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Standing across the road from the church where I was confirmed; a teen

Blue jean jacket and jeans, Converses, I felt pretty cool with a pack of 
Marlboro reds in my pocket, blue tip matches..

It was...

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Blues in the Night.

A malignant moon
shines his metallic claws -
combs my hair and brushes me forward.
I am alone in the shadowy crooks 
of a poisoned metropolis.

A clandestine garbage chute -
where waifs and strays burn
within the...

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I live my life in moderation
so I can afford the extravagance 
of dawdling in dreams.

The price of creativity is idle time spent
longing for depth, 
with words in my hand
and though there's nothing crucial to say...

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Her face launched a thousand verses, into the worshipful waves she immerses
With the mermaids, she converses adorned by many in the ultramarine universes
A star child of the celestial seas her warmth blowing benevolently in the...

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Shy of condition

Shyness afflicted

Shy opaque canvas butterfly

Who only speaks when addressed

Oh shy , Oh shy
Opaque butterfly
Who only speaks when addressed

Converses only in chilling whispers
shyness permitting

Corner to corner when in a room searching camouflage in which
to...

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the highest peak for me is the element of praise 

every disappointment is a gentle kiss from the most incandescent star 

my forward motion stays inspired by the truth within the divine uplifting 

to be...

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(To be sung to the tune of the Christmas Carol - “Away in a Manger”)
Nature’s Language of Love
The landscapes are glowing when the world awakes 
And earth smells aromatic as the dawn breaks
Then when day...

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Play the game of Life in your red Converses.
Try to spit it out, only get these blank verses.
Nothing does it justice and I can’t find the words
To tell you that I’m sorry that your voice...

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C A U S A T I O N       vs.        D E T E R M I N I S M


Choices form...

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In the playground of imagination,  
She converses with the elements,  
They obey her commands,  
The sun opens a door for her,  
And she steps into a world filled with daylight and...

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In lands where words like rivers flow, beneath the moon's serene, soft glow,
A scribe with pen in steady grasp, captures life's essence, breath in clasp.
Each line breathes life, each word a beat, where hearts and...

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Birds twitter, birds croon to each other,
I watch life moving at a lulling slower pace,
Rose bushes leisurely sway, breeze converses
With the rustling leaves, clouds float languidly
In endless azure, 
Sailboats sailing in emerald ocean, 
Picturesque, perpetual,...

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I am on my bed, pen in hand,
but, oh, your shadow across this window.

My eyes stare out as blank paper,
my hair converses, leisurely, from my shoulders,
but, oh, your shadow across this window.

My forehead stands defiant,...

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What can we expect from a government denying God's plan 
that which speaks in parseltongue the language of snakes 
this which is a skill that converses through black magic 
Pretending to care it focuses on...

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What can we expect from a government denying God's plan 
that speaks in parseltongue the language of snakes 
this which is a skill that converses through black magic 
pretending to care it focuses on taboo...

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Pisces pretends to not be listening
Yet misses nothing
Picking up nuances and secretly laughing
Knowing she is the brightest in the room
And maybe the neighborhood

Pays attention to every lip movement
Not pouncing or fixing, but listening.
She looks at...

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Do you perceive love the same way I do
in your heart, where only you get to go?
Can you tell me what it's like to be you,
are you more like me than I'll ever know?

All that...

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It was the rhythm of the fingers
Running through the black and white keys,
The feathery strum of the hollow guitar and
The beat of the arms that converses with the melodies.

The voice of the soul is not...

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