Long Curdles Poems

WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS


In the delicious womb of all beginnings 
we learnt to giggle electrons
to bear all things 
without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts 
warm gurglings of God’s dream for us

Morning glories were waiting 
deep...

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realising the world is built on dreams
everything that has been written
and dreampt up eventually gets a chance to exist
in some way or another
even if it only dwells in our souls

Realising that not everyone is going...

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A Rant – The Quiet Hypocrisy


it seeps in through gradual osmosis

and soon is ingrained in pliant minds

it mutates and thrives in tunnels of vision

and then is fused into the fiber of unreason

the quiet hypocrisy that...

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No wonder snail keeps to its shell
And tortoise prefers its crap
Ocean homes fish exclusively
Balance diet makes no cage home for bird 
Nest is a chosen home for its kind

My bed
So spacious so comfortable
Spring-less but wood-strong-prove...

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Can’t keep my mind steady
Paranoid about where I’m headed
Asking me why I changed 
I tried not to
But at the time
It seemed inevitable
Leaving spectators  to judge my heart
Tell me was it credible
Rumors become curtesy of...

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I.

I don't observe
the day between 
the summer solstice 
and a midsummer's eve

anymore

I've abandoned the rituals
that commemorate
a shift in season,
my over-ripening years

and celebrate
my sickening sense 
of hope.


II.

By day, I could apply 
a defensive membrane,
an anti-cancer cocoon
to...

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The dark perils of this expectant city
Through the eyes of a man lost in transit
Complete the fall, expel the pity.
Tattered shoes lead the man through the smoke
Even the stars look on with interest now
The silhouette...

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It's that time of year again
Festivities, curling pumpkin vines
Oily green witch faces 
And cinnamon apples
Delighted screams ebbing
Into the distance, away from here

Here is a place that's no good 
Here the cobwebs are real
There are never...

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Strange colored skies climb northernly this night
Calling our future with wild deamons eyes
Abscure as the creatures who answer the call
Wild are the answers of the reasons and the faults
Certain as the well swept winds
Alluring in...

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In the dim, dank night, looming high on the hill
By a slow, somber river, deep and still
Black scribbled tree branches, beckon the stars
with bent, riddled,  knuckles, arthritic and scarred…
Here hides a mansion, imposing and...

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I can’t breathe.
It isn’t because I’m upset, 
Because I’m not.
Not upset.
I rarely am anymore.
No, that’s wrong.
I am,
Sometimes,
But it’s not painful
Like it used to be
Back when I had real emotions;
Back when I knew what it meant
To...

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probing rays of light
spill through
my window pain

my mind wanders
between shadow and fray

I exhale a faint whisper
into the stagnant
life hovering around me

energy awakens and begins 
a dizzy stumbling dance

the sun searches for my presence
in this otherwise...

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Villanelle : The Smell of Woman the Whiff of Chaste Nutmeg Cinnamon

The smell of woman the whiff of chaste nutmeg cinnamon
The lone mythic bird gone to sing in other dulcet climes
She bathes in cloistered mountain...

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Crawl up inside of me like you’re an infection inside of my skin, don’t you want to feel ecstasy like you did back then?
Don’t you wish to feel my breathing on your neck? Right before...

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quick! grab the soft rose
your hand now aching, bloodied
thorns unconsidered

life's dream isn't always what it suddenly seems in ice cream's melted hope
not when a yearning man is twisted; turning, churning curdles sweet milk sour
carnal captivity,...

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I should never have given me the doubt
or you the benefit,
I should never have given you that,
Black cat
Who stalk’s about my path,
Should never have trusted 
Taken in by that deceptive purr
But I knew what you...

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i dip my pen into the ocean of helpless
fluids searching for hopeful cravings
and my blood has rippled in a thousand torrents of expectations...

but do you know that my lungs has torn,shattered and broken on pieced...

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If music be my insight
Bearing down on this universe
Singing out the oldest song
Making light as it goes along
Feeling through my heartbeat
Cerebral joys that I greet
Savouring delicious
Laying waste to insidious

Long may we honour
Everything that surrounds a...

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I stare - a sightless man - into space.
Some time ago, the fire quietly failed in my eyes.
I draw dead breath through weary lungs.
My blood curdles in my veins.
And I am cold.
And alone.
And it is...

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Dunk in dyes, tainted, nor tinted,
In world, not by its ways weathered;

Come, put a patch of love ‘pon me
That we get not ever severed;
 
Death, only your shelter is such, 
Op-eyed can one sleep undeterred;

Roads...

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Standing 'neath rocky vestige on Hatteras Cape
Overhead, sky's billowy caverns offer cerebral escape
Proffering delusions of grandeur in every size, shape
A ventilated ocean of blue; visions of bliss at which to 
gape
Yet mind firmly planted in...

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All day again 
Down the road from Albion school 
The child shivered in the sun in pain. 
Somebody broke the rule 
They said, the blackheart man 
Drove a white van 
As we suspected all along....

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Mary's fork is flat and harnessed.
Ageless her husband had witnessed
Amusing. She downs spaghetti
Noodles with a glass of ice-tea.

Kneading though air perfect noodles,
Take care if thickens it curdles.
Water is flavored with pork grease,
Bit of salt, makes...

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Whence passed the verse of bitter love
The words of birds and trees that sing
To what age belongs the voice of muses sweet
How long since poet parsed a thing
A man could understand? a line that
Speaks emotions,...

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As dusk their line visibly bows
Cropped heads beneath mounds fold
Glum shadows through addle fields row

Listless turrets sprout o'er demarcated woe
Sallowed eyes in bleary sockets rolled
As dusk their line visibly bows

Shocked ears to concussive barrage close
As...

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