Long Cubit Poems

So it was that the night transcended peacefully over my head
Taking me through thick clouds,landing me upon parched land
Spilling  tranquil moments into daylight complexity.
So it was that I found myself among a crowd of...

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Past unconcerned hens that distractedly 
Scratch
Under frowning protestations from the
Sheltered Lee;
Into the cloaked shadows lain across the 
Cobbled courtyard,
Behind which squats the twisted form of
The old brooding, arthritic apple tree.
Past the neat little cow-byre 
Hosed...

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(Part One) The first few hours.
I was just a ordinary man
caught up in the unruly throng,
The mob jeering and ranting
insults on the road along,
I pushed and shoved my way
through all the furore
to see what all...

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" ... full blast ...."

357 is a great tale to tell...
Tesla saw the steps
so invented his call

And then in the silence 
of Olympian ground

"...I heard you rang?..."
Said d;Meter to them all....

"A cosmic gun" was just...

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Great stature, 
enormous strength; 
huge, colossal
the way my heart exploded 
so many different ways to express it
Does anyone hear the sound a heart 
Makes when it breaks
Even continents away
Did she hear it?
The only one that...

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Nile spreads through the valley like a snake
Pyramids look awesome in rays of sun about to wake
Pyramids are strong constructions can even take small earthquake
They are made of limestone granite or bricks that in sun...

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Celebrate humility with the agility and amiability
Ensconced in the sublime civility facility in salvation city
As God grants you nobility, versatility and mobility

To scale hallowed heights
To absorb the simplicity and centrality of sumptuous sights
Devoid of pesky...

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Today:
" I am the MOAT - Mother of all tribes
and the GOAT - Greatest of all time
... the Mature Nature of Another Mother
and I guide the file on rhyme... "

I am
Mother Of The
tribe
MOT
and I am
as...

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In his private parlor the king of Moab rests,
Having just retired from his more spacious quarters,
Where King Eglon had received the Israelite guests,
Bearing tribute, not a gift, but by the king’s orders.

Israel’s cries to God,...

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Dew upon my flower garden like a shawl
Fog rising from the creek
Spreading over daylilies tall
Doves nibble with their beaks  
Living upon the abundance
Not made by human hands

God help me today to live in peace.
Feel...

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I am stuck in this zombie’s land
Where bubbles squirt out of plastic ships
Depressed fish swirling around themselves
Opening their mouths so they can breathe

I am stuck in this void grave yard
Where the pink sea shell opens...

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there's more hear

than an eye can see

" Dear God, it's talking IT! "

Nine tail feathers

I found in a comb...

so I added them back

to my wings of gold

and then Dear God,

" what a story THAT told!"

Midway...

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Noah you must build a vessel 300 cubits long, 50 wide, 30 high and it must be strong
It must carry a roof three stories high, finished to a cubit upward with entrance on the long....

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For some, this two-letter word
is as ponderous as a sixty-cubit chain.
It rattles around in their hearts
like a lightning-and-thunder storm.
Uttering it is as impossible as
eating blazing coals or rusty nails:
both burn the tongue as mercilessly.

Two simple...

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Many a pompous decide
Many an empire of pride
Aplenty of craniums be high
And beheld among the sky
What a cubit lengthen tall!
What a tremor will pride fall!
Fall and fall to rise no more.

Many a pillar is built
Beholding...

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Voltaire just Kant angle cut it
Beauvoir broad side view
abut the narrow Rousseau 
gender Thoreau thought causeway
As Sarte Marx the entrance unlit — 
Avicena chapiters atop da Vinci pillars,
Stuart Mill sturdily sit
Arendt spiral steps turn Spinoza
down...

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Behold the birds of the air,
they do not sow nor reap yet,
they feed freely and unhindered,
Are you not better than them?
Who by thought can add one cubit to his size?

You think of clothe and luxury,
Look...

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