Long Curbing Poems

Do you share my concern 
that your happiness and healthy life 
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?

No! Why? Do you know something I should know?

Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive 
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the...

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A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
(route 76) both heading into
(and a small number of hours later
exiting) center city Philadelphia
to Schwenksville on May 19th, 2024.

Yours truly (a doodling Yankee), and the missus
went to town, NOT...

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Mine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...

As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a 
psychologically checkered  past
loom large recalling  
tragic storied days of mein kampf.

Circa early nineteen seventies:
As a mere slip of a...

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Mine courtship with deadly obsession(s)
still indelibly scored within 
windmills of my mind
this July 22nd, 2020.

Imagine yours truly post pubescence
(no matter ye never met me)
all that life in front of me
argh... precious time squandered
abustle with rattle...

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No Lossers Are Left

No losers are left;
Seems like Trump has found them all;
Exist on his staff.

Jim Horn

How is that for a Horn Haiku for you
to read through like all poets would
want to do?


President was not...

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At nights we’d sit out on the balcony drinkin
Breathin
That thick mug air
Of a New Orleans summer evening.
Livin as easy
As they’d let us
In the bowels of the Irish Channel
Where magnolias bloom all year long
Amidst the cracked...

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When alive and livingsocial
within webbed wide world
analogous to an emotional hell
I never experienced pomp and circumstances,
and quavers with inconsolable tears
graduation theme song
popularized courtesy Sir Edward Elgar,
thus suicidal ideations no longer relevant
yours truly need not quell
he...

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In a world where dreams are rakish and quixotic,
Where quiddity seems extravagantly chaotic,
A chivalrous soul dares to be different.
With a heart that beats fervently, so magnificent.

Romantic notions dance in their minds.
A visionary quintessence they find,
Chimerical...

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Peace is though difficult 
Yet not impossible to uphold,
All the kings of the states 
Must remain self-concerned,
Without poking noses 
Into the affairs of others,
Curbing cupidity 
To expand the territories,
Subjugate the nations of the world,
Enforce the...

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Tears are not just drops
That fall from the eyes 
Tears are messages
Were written with an encrypted language 
And need deciphering

Tears are not just drops
That fall from the eyes 
Tears are words
Were written with all languages
And...

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August 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 37-40

Key Verse – Ezekiel 37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land:...

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12/13/23



Secrets still buried
Stories in the wind got carried
Historical accounts occasionally varied
The truth can be sad and scary
We've barely
Discovered much so spare me
The same can be said for things happening fairly
Since the dawn of time it...

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Awesomely sweet is God’s Word* to my soul
Benefiting beyond Milky Way’s role
Curbing cravings for Charleston Chew pleasure
Delightful dainty more than Dove for sure
Enriched with wisdom, not of Smarties load
Fortified to triumph along Rocky Road.
Glazed by...

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May 18 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 36-38

Key Verse – Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind…

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY QUESTIONS’ ANSWER
     ...

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“Slips the Blue Satine”



Desire bites 
a sonnet ripped 
where the voice projects
through glossy cherry bit lips
down a telephone line
wrapped around long legs

speaking soft words
welcoming you in like a quilled whip

Freedom bites
a too serious sonnet smiles
then...

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June 28 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 25-28

Key Verse – Proverbs 25:10 The great God  that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. 

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY...

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When the earth in me scorched with heat, 
leaving it arid and banal.
Long strenuous trail crammed me, 
choking me to death. 
Thrusting the life in me to an impregnable battle -array, 
I lay there in...

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E Pluribis and Unum Haiku

Pluribus Unum
Did look lost without the E
So what should we do?

Henry Mancini
Drove a long Lamborghini
Both made sweet music.

Did you see docile?
Guy who was an apostle
Sleeping on the job.

Let the bed bugs...

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THE THREE STOOGES

With their lunatic style of slapstick
These old favourites made their mark
Bangs on head, eye pokes and arse kicks
Were transformed to works of art

But it's not of this trio I speak
Three more egregious, my...

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A winter school yard deserted, a 

piece of paper littered , a leaf left 

over from the fall and the swing 

slowly and cautiously swaying, 

empty of the child,who waits for 

the Sun to bring...

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In opposition they criticize all that is wrong
and all that is good, according to their agenda.
They put clogs in wheels, aided by defiant unions
and often bringing the country to a standstill
with senseless strikes and organized...

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As the pensive endure chaotic variance
Hope rules supreme toward Heaven's ambiance
awaiting the crumbling of darkened towers
...even they must face the final hour

Pathway of the chosen purposivly gleaned
glory to be crowned by the highest esteemed
laid out...

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In the Nativity, Jesus was not given space, room,
For a kingly birth with velvet and silk to concord;
Rejection stood aloof at the inn curbing the bloom,
Holding and seeing the babe fight a harsh board. ...

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July 27 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Song of Solomon 5-8

Key Verse – Song of Solomon 5:16 … Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O...

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- a solo nijuin renku -

English version by Liviu Martinescu

entrance to an underground
crowds in winter's clouds
and an atomic clock to boot

          the first snowflakes on
 ...

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