Long Cusp Poems

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Making Curious Space For Love

It might take a more comprehensive review
to explain why I thought it would make sense
to read
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger:
Using DBT Mindfulness
and Emotion Regulation Skills to Manage Anger
(Chapman and Gratz)
AND
Evolutionary Enlightenment:
A New...

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Categories: cusp, anger, culture, fear, history, love, universe,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum


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Adam and Eve - Part One

Year One -

Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...

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Categories: cusp, art, creation, love,
Form: Epic

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii

Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Punishment meted...

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Categories: cusp, absence, adventure, africa, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Seven Kingdoms

			I

The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and we’re now, in these last days, living on the cusp

But...

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Categories: cusp, judgement, religious, spiritual, truth, , western,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
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Blue Tolerating Red Intolerance

To Ecological Greens
concerned about tolerating
evangelical 
monotheistic Red intolerance
of unstraight
unwhite
unmale
unhealthy
unsafe
panentheistic EarthDays
and dualdark wiki-nights
potentially bicameral
bipartisan
bisexual
binomial
neurosystemic cooperative regenerations
of win/win resonant
robust images

Any nonbinary person
all growed up
in a homophobic
straight
white
male anthrosupremacist monoculture
must not fail to see
to hear
to smell
to feel

Will have trouble...

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Categories: cusp, blue, earth day, green, health, peace, power,
Form: Political Verse


After Serving Six Long Hard Years At Methacton State Penitentiary

After serving six long hard years at Methacton State penitentiary...

as mini reunion number 
XLV fast approaches 
Saturday, April 30th, 7:00 pm 
until 10:00 pm
at The Trappe Tavern, 416 West 
Main Street, Trappe, PA 19426
regarding graduating...

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Categories: cusp, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse

Please come join me in spirit if not in body

Please come join me in spirit if not in body...
regarding my resumption 
of daily/mostly nightly constitutional

I accompany my dark shadow...
(small number of  hours 
before edge of night,
where twilight zone evokes night gallery - 
drawing...

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Categories: cusp, absence, animal, autumn, celebration, friendship, happiness, peace,
Form: Free verse

Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First Date

Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date

While yours truly sat here 
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous readers,
he unexpectedly, noisily and effectually
exploded out rear...

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Categories: cusp, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme

Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly Obsession

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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Categories: cusp, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse

Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika

Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely 
experience bitterness at the...

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Categories: cusp, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder

The monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder

As origin of Homo Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incremental fits and starts)
evolutionary forebears didst dread
Tom Tom Club former members
an American...

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Categories: cusp, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety, atheist, environment, history,
Form: Rhyme

At the Crux

4/8/24

Aww shucks
Still at the crux
In a state of flux
With reality still out of touch
I've been puzzled much
So I smoke a couple blunts
That's a double dutch
From dawn to dusk
I turned myself into a husk
Just so I...

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Categories: cusp, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, sad, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Reflections Upon Mine Gender Identity Redux

Reflections upon mine gender identity redux

Although heterosexual 
predilections punctuated
physiological pulsations 
about five inches below
innie belly button of mine 
showcasing undersize
male member, when fully erect 
not much to crow
about, contributed 
diminished masculinity within
body electric regarding 

wordsmith...

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Categories: cusp, age, analogy, anxiety, atheist, birth, boy, confidence,
Form: Free verse

Upon a dark and stormy night

Upon a dark and stormy night...

as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thunder crackled
testing the threshold of tolerance
zombies of Sugar...

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Categories: cusp, absence, america, animal, character, earth, january, parody,
Form: Free verse

Mine mean Lothario days left me in a confused daze

Mine mean Lothario days left me in a confused daze...

as if being a crash test dummy survivor
after a led zeppelin collided with yours truly,
a foo fighting beastie boy (George) talking head
found me in a comatose...

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Categories: cusp, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
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I, Zombie, Part Xii: the Remembering

It’s ten years later
I’ve finally hit paydirt
It’s the motherload

I didn’t strike gold
I struck a deal with myself
To help me grow old

Not act like a child
But first I had to grow up
And not act so wild

I’m...

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Categories: cusp, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental illness, metaphor, self,
Form: Haiku
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The Bell Tower That Leaned In

I. The Pastor’s Hand

At dawn’s brittle cusp—
  he climbs, each step
    a nail in time’s coffin
  breath ragged
    a Psalm torn mid-hymn.

The rope tastes of incense and...

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Categories: cusp, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery, memory, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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The Giveaway Song

As her EarthDay drum calls out
to inside outside severance

Amid EarthTribe's gathered laughter
and sorrow,
speaking
and listening,
singing
and silent witnessing,

Earth's wealth
leaks nutritional health 
gifts sharing value with every messiah
in sunshine circles
of care giving
and receiving
sacred shifts 
toward cherished bright esteem.

In...

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Categories: cusp, appreciation, caregiving, earth day, giving, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
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Raging Fire Hollow Hearts

Written: January 22, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann

Quote: “In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights" By Ralph Bunche,
...

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Categories: cusp, analogy, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika

Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely 
experience bitterness at the...

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Categories: cusp, adventure, appreciation, bullying, confidence, destiny, grave, integrity,
Form: Free verse

Auld Lang Syne the Most Sung New Years Eve Song

“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song

Courtesy Robert Burns
circa  (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the Ploughman Poet.

Two hundred sixty one orbitz elapsed
since brief existence of...

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Categories: cusp, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse

Mine Courtship With Deadly Obsessions

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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Categories: cusp, 6th grade, 7th grade, age, grave, grief,
Form: Free verse

Circa Sixty One Years Ago July 6th 2001

Circa sixty one years ago July 6th, 2001 -
birth of dear beloved wife

We now get along swimmingly
analogous to this bro and his older sis
on the cusp of our gifted silver married years
if her presence absent,...

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Categories: cusp, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, birthday, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Time

Time 

                                 ...

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© Steve Zak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cusp, time,
Form: Free verse
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Unfinished Exodus

As Exodus tells his story,
Moses was compelled by God
and then invited,
commissioned by inside/outside Voice,
and bv voices of Israel's extended EarthTribes
to lead them through forty desert years
of sometimes nomadic wins
and mostly immigrating losses
in a competitively shared...

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Categories: cusp, christian, health, islamic, jewish, mountains, patriotic, peace,
Form: Political Verse
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