Long Covets Poems

Continues the translation of the great Dante's poem written 700 years ago,
 probably the most important poetry ever written in the human story

When my mind returned back, after the stop
Due to pity for two brothers...

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China Tour Diary Moment #1
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KUNMING THOUGHTS


Sunday morning flight to Kunming city;
East bound to explore vignettes of China;
New vistas to sight, postcard memories;
Feast visual galore on tour agenda.

Yunnan province greets our earthly landing;
Brisk clearance and we...

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needs no introduction
nor permission  
to be anything.  
He does not request  
to spread his arms wide  
and reach the heavens.  
His words are unmoored.  
They flow and change, ...

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She is the one to have had no choices at all
Maybe to marry was her will, hers solely
Or maybe it was that of her family
In all, she did choose to bear it all 
For the...

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Don’t blue eyed people have more fun?
When others walk, don’t they run?
Don’t they live life full until life is done?

Don’t tow-haired people have more zest?
Aren’t they dancing still, when others rest?
In everything, don’t they do...

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The Red Chinese Communist Red Devil's army is currently invading the peaceful Buddhist Island nation of Tali pa.  An island nation off of the coast of India.  Indian is also on the raider...

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Written: April 10, 2025, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand

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dawn and sunset
             on moor & windy hills
...

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crushing defeat
   in 
     abyss 
         of 
          nostalgia
   ...

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Before the whirlwind steam blurred into scoping.
Before scarcely the morning smooth gathering.
We were nervous until trustworthiness was revealed.
Amidst the adjunct's misfortune by blaze wield.
They were heedless to our flaws due to their sway.
As we overruled,...

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What’s the Hue of Your Heart?

Does ‘claim’ to be ‘___’ (1) not suggest one’s more Racist?
The Truth’s we’re all mongrels (and born of one mother!),
whatever our ‘Color.’ ‘Eve’ might have been monkey!
Best Science won’t lie...

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Hello any one on the other side, 
A sweet voice full of ringing emotions,
Chimed in as I picked up the land line phone,
Making me tingle with yearning desire.

Before I could say a word it went...

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In a winter chorus, autumn’s rouge and sallow shed.
Their shuffle settles loamy dregs of timber lords.
As they await the hurling puff to haply brush the forest floor,
of what to grace their lot, they’ve lack. No...

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Walking alone in the woods, thinking of yesterday,
listening to the wind comb the trees 
The shuffle is slight and the time not hurried,
I’ll crack a smile or sigh as a moment of memory 
might I...

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Young Billy was a soldier in the War Between the States; 
And scars of war made Billy feel a victim of the fates. 
He fought for Mr. Lincoln and the preservation creed 
Yet saw too...

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Marking time in pencil life is not a pair of pants or shirts worn out on elbows 
when the chance comes to dance under the shorter rung of limbo peculiar to the 
nocturne creature...

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Clique ... clique
Peer pressure is a gun
Low self-esteem wanting popularity,
gather together in small clusters
Grapes of wrath ... attack anybody 
who try to break the bind
Verbal popping every moving target
in the movie theater line 
Estrogen cries...

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Note chaos that swirls in empty shades;
Observe and see the rowdy waves;
Infux of twirls of muddles made;
Sense faint beauty that comes dares to brave;
Empty this whirl that shouts to trade.


Charm feels a sway as passion...

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Allow no sleep to your eyes and no slumber to your eyelids, for a little 
sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come on 
you like a...

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They practise their guns on the land of the innocence, 
these loathsome creatures wipe out the lines of our army,
now we are what left to secure this homeland, 
"Come forth my soldiers" the cry of...

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I remember you
When you were a child,
Like the sun – your light shined,
Revealing a love – a love that I desired
The way the cold craves a fire,
The way the moon wants the stars,
The way the...

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Dear Addiction
As my heart covets the great pleasure and satisfaction
You bring to me I say no to you.
You brought me love when the world rejected me,
Food when I was hungry
Smiles when I was sad
Laughter when...

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It is not the music,
for one knows it in the heat
that rises from a cool miasma,
sardonic, self-igniting--
the one that ravages and never warms,
consumes, and cannot care.

Cold flame is of another art, and passionless.
It is the...

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Can blood ever be cooled to its level
Or hormones tamed in its reality?
Can body receptors bow to its requests
and human feelings subjected to its command?

"Thank You"-its usual response to scorn
and forgiveness, its default reaction to...

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From predawn birth, you dwell alone,
Preferring deep shadowland over light.
So much easier to conceal what is shown,
Nascent ember forelimbs that daunt your sight.

With growth in undying murk, and wings in flames
In brilliant reds, yellows, golds...

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She covets luxury so unprecedented
especially a lingerie made by a thousand hands
with sparkling diamonds out of bounds to human sight
and covers made out of a century of crafting.

He wants a green eyed Caucasian female
with typical...

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