Long Convulses Poems

I. The Pastor’s Hand

At dawn’s brittle cusp—
  he climbs, each step
    a nail in time’s coffin
  breath ragged
    a Psalm torn mid-hymn.

The rope tastes of incense and...

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They’re drawing the curtains in Dorking,
Lighting the candles and pouring the lotions.
Switching off TV’s and shelving resentments,
Checking on children asleep in the darkness,
Creeping   up hallways   like teenage lovers.
Stairs and hopes creaking...

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The moon, a golden doubloon buried in the midnight sky, amongst a billion diamond 
speckles, shimmers in the warm summer night’s air, as it slowly climbs to its zenith. The 
lake reflects the scene back...

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Deep breath
Then a shallow one
What's that now?
Another shallow one?
And another
OK, there is a deep one now
And now a shallow

And there is no rhythm to it
There is no fixed interval
The breathing is like a ship in...

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My God!My God!
Why have you forsaken us?
Even now the whisper of wheels
On the track
Convulses me with tears.
What more could I have done?
Where did I fail?

You, the least selfish of men,
Dedicated to your students and staff,
Devoted...

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Moon Spoons

We dive into each other with love from highest peaks of the mountain
               quench our thirst with no parachute needed...

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A dopamine-drenched frontal lobe drowns in an amphetamine's amine receptors,
Exciting the neurotransmission of the cognitive euphoria in its grandiose risen scepter. 

Motivation awakens alongside focus and patience in the stimulated ADHD brain,
Which, without a pill,...

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I nestle a tab under my tongue
At just twenty eight, I’m still quite young

Before too long
I feel it coming on strong

Dreamily, lazily
I see my past with new clarity
Every question now answered amply

I see nearly three...

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Lest I halt this pervasive thought that’s wiggling in to perform something indescribably ineffable. As repose in this boudoir, my ossuary exudes a graveolent aura, a baleful lust for the necromantic. Ink on this tapestry...

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Break.
My nail hanging on the splintered door frame,
The rusty friction of my poisoned blood
Seeping through the contaminated cracks
Of the tormented nightmare I am in.

Rip.
My flesh from my hands,
Clawing at the jagged walls,
Cutting into my delicate...

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As she lay quivering in anticipation, uncertain and dismayed, 

As her experienced lover prepares to mount his prey, 

Her mind says "Yes"... Her heart says "Wait"... 

As she lie in her innocence and tries to...

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        Glide of Falcon broken, channel smoothed 
        Transmission snap equals idle start
        Dysfunctional...

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you tell me i am precious to you.
i am not your currency.
you tell me the circumstances are beyond our control.
but i control everything,
every breath,
every word that leaks from my mouth.
you made me this way,
shaped me...

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How easily you return,
Within this mind's hindsight,
Never knowing how the swelling,
Gaping hole of your absence,
Weighs me down heavily,
With the confusion of your presence
In my dreams...

I crave substance,
Though well be my visions and tastes,
Vibrant...real be this...

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Image of Diablo giphy by Blizzard Entertainment.

Dante's Inferno

An overcast sky blotches a caring Sun's sympathetic warmness, diffusing confidences of a blissful morn, 
Consolidates a desolate soul, filled only in despair of inflated apprehensive pupils, 
Notwithstanding,...

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I am sitting on my couch 
actually reclining on it
after a sip of red vintage wine
I hear the sweet sounds of children playing
And the occasional hoot of a car passing.
The one warms my heart
The other...

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Chattering teeth but not from the cold
Heart trip hammering out a beat  
Head spinning thoughts swirling never 

settled  
Hairs rising over the scalp standing on 

end
Veins prickle as needles send 

pulsations from restricted...

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war between nations
                                ...

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Sadically gleeful 
She watches , by and by
As the shredded form
Convulses , bleeds , nearly dying

Humour arises 
Cheerfulness gleaming
As the blood spurts like a stream 
It flows freely from every wound
Gathered round the victim
In a...

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I murmur like a rivulet through the 
hitch of your hands, where the canyons 
carve their parched longing into your fingers—
where silences sublimate like cera,
pooling beneath your glissando touch.

Your tremolo breath convulses rough and low
like...

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A relay of moods dribbles on and on
when euphoric tunes kick in:
Jazz, R& B, slow funk, wild pop
igniting primal ecstasy, in the flesh...raw!

Live music leaves me breathless
as thuds of a drum, the intricate fondling
from saxophones...

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Coldness


I


these winter nights undertake my body 
usurps my reserved warmth with a strangle hold
scraping my nape with night fissures
of black bleeding

my body shrieks to the jerking marrow
and denudes the caverns through my nose
as my breath...

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Love silences fear,
Uniting hope, joy, peace,
Mingling lights, grace
Joining hearts in faith, together,
Stirring prayers, gentle psalms –
Harmonized when souls believe,
Jesus, inspiration for giving,
Meaningful beyond imagery.
Adoration lasting forever,
Resembling souls understanding…
Love like this convulses calm,
Lulling twilight, 
Breathing shadows,...

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if my release surprises you, it shouldn't
if the way you feel makes you feel alive, then just let show
in euphoria's eyes, we are the same age in depths of dynamic discoveries
the beauty in the air...

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Flesh fuels fire. Spirit yields. There's body-soul fusion.
Springs up, will to power, and power to will illusion
Narcissistic senses and sensations amalgamated
Moral fibre, like worn-out dental roots, is deflated.
 
Selfishness, like the greed of predators, murders...

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