Long Curios Poems

"Call it curiosity"
Does anyone on this app really believe
That somehow or another every one of us
Truly think that one side is meant to deceive 
Or that one side is the one that is only one...

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Myrtle Parker

Myrtle Parker lived on the Riviera,
That’s the English one not the French.
Her favourite tipple is Red Currant Cider,
Only beverage her thirst would quench.

Never did she marry no husband,
Preference for life single and free,
Though kept...

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I see three doors before me.
The one to the left is blue, a beautiful lupis blue
with ornate lacework in its center.
Parisian-esque, it looks likes an entrance to adventure
and inspires me with its sophistication.
I imagine inside...

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Once upon a time when I was just but a little a boy
My grandmother of illustrious memory – told me many a story
A lot of them funny but some scary 
But her favourite tale which...

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It is me looking at my old self, laughing, mocking the weakness within
the bad memories of yesterday seem absurd today
I know and so should You there are many storms ahead
no matter how hard they hit...

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In a farm in the country
There was born one day
A kitten named curious
With a love to explore and play

While sitting by the pond one day
Curious saw another
A kitten just like himself
Perhaps it was a brother?

You...

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(Thy lovely lasses unwittingly 
unstintingly unexpectedly 
taught me selflessness)

Every Holiday time each year, 
a rocketing increase asper
doling out Uriah Heap ping 
largesse imposed upon each
citizen banker (coerced, forced, 

induced to buy baubles,
bibelot, curios, et cetera...

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Antiques and Curios

A collection of Antiques and curios,
Covered in dust on a cellar floor.
Things once made for a purpose,
No longer of use anymore.
 
Record Player with wind-up handle,
Once sung out the old Seventy-eights.
A music box...

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IN OUR AVENUE
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On sandy beaches and along fertile riverbanks,
In fecund soil and in lush green plantations,
Coconut trees stand tall towering into the sky.
They are benevolent palms at the service of generations.

A coconut tree is a marvel of...

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How does it feel?


So how does it feel that now you are with Jesus?

So how does if feels that now you’re days are gone?

So how does it feel now that you no longer will experience...

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Annotated Achilles amends fallen frame amputees

Bulimic Barbies browse media monkey banalities

Cameo clouds cling to beaded breath curios

Dopamine dreams delineate check cash desires

Echo endophfins eulogize bullet brain excrement

Fecal folly fantasies reveal relevant frivolities

Gonadal grownups gulp secret...

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I saw the scar down his calf
long smooth and white
standing out against his tan
in the bright summer light;
whisky surgery he told me,
seeing my curios glance
and I got him talking
while I had the chance.

We both settled...

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Waiting in line until it is my time.
      I wondered what I will say,
      What did I do, what is my excused?

   ...

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then we came
like others who visited before us
beside that palace
a host of songsters
competing like diplomats at lobby
for the ear of an idle king;

some came to sing
some came to ravish their eyes
on the beauty rusting with...

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Ocean mind

Consider the mind like an ocean kind,
the depth and other side are invisible to the lights of mind.
The ocean creates, sustains and recycles,
accumulates and provides fresh water as natural miracles.
Thoughts are like this water,...

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Tunes of happiness and joy 
Laughter heard from not so far away
I saw a glimmer at the end of the road
I thought it was something fraud
Curios, I wanted to observe 
 Curios, I wanted to...

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One lopes through 
his dense tree occupied domain,
  thinly dappled,dispersed stripes 
                     gleaming,
 ...

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AHA HAIKU 13


Songbird psalm
Balcony duet;
Cheery cold morning

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Squirrel escapades
Up and down and up;
Curious zigzag

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Quick footsteps surge
By parkway bench;
Eyes far away

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Old man sits
Stares at people;
Solitary wonder

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Chocolate ganache cake
Half for my neighbour;
Gratitude smiles

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Silent distress stings
Lift breakdown;
Sultry faces

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Rainy blessing
On...

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“Ethereal Virtuoso”



keys passed
from tongue to tongue
strange kisses dealt
token time turning 

gone

useless words written
below whispers 
backward facing
closed minds

gone

feathers without quills
dance in silence
fall on breath
beating life 

evanescence
drawn up 
into unseen arms
you are worn 

as gossamer silk
they speak...

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Her mind accumulates oddments and curios,
contrivances with strange linkages,
attachments that bolt unlikely parts together;
the mechanics of metaphysics.

Pieces of something she is sculpting or
assembling, or just waiting for,
a glimpse of a word-picture
too intricate to be entirely...

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Such a curios thing this life can be
this life evolves around me
so individual
so piquant defined as personal
but still so very much like you

Still so much of you
in me

Apart from name and place
and the characters of...

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I woke up but I was afraid to open my eyes,
The furniture was whispering at me to rise,
I felt uneasy in this cold gray room,
The branches swayed in the wind with force, 
I heard footsteps...

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I want a freshly baked kaiser roll 
Sliced in two with nice lean roast beef
Laid between so I can call it sandwich
Swiss cheese, tomato, Vidalia onion
(Sliced not chopped) with a dab of mayo
And horseradish sauce...

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A time to rake; to search embers,
to pore over resurrected,
fire-damaged relics.

On an ancient shore
driftwood, fagots, and reeds
are heaped up onto a pyre of time.

After the fire there is a sorting.
a probing for talismans and trinkets.
Before...

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