Long Dabbles Poems

I was strolling to the entrance of the Barley Tavern,
when I was passed at quite a rate by angry Billy Brown.
He’s mumbling and cursing before he kicked the Tavern cat,
and blamed it as the reason...

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The force of my thoughts is a force to report,
Attention, no Deficit, Hyperactive, no Disorder, call it slaughter
when Hyperfocus onslaughts play hocus pocus with my thoughts,
a tornado, a hurricane a monsoon loom and taunt
a brainstorm...

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it's kind of funny 
how time walks away
i don't feel like 
saying grace today
everything hurts 
much more then they say
tuesdays no longer 
remember your smile
scars are the souvenirs 
of the loneliest child
the memory itself 
writes...

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Written: September 26, 2023
Pick-A-Title, Vol 39 Poetry Contest            Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh 

 “However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever...

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Upon reflecting with misty eyes
childhood days of yore
the mantle of anticipatory
excitement mantle I wore
upon advent of December
twenty fifth not quite threescore

years ago knew nothing
about being dirt poor
yours truly doggedly felt sense
of belonging among k9 korp
versus...

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MIRAGE

Life is such stuff as dreams are made of.
Living the Oliver Twist is never enough
And will forever play the gluttony
Even in the midst of it tempest or harmony
It will always tower above the cloud-capped towers,
Under...

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Testing The Sun



Its about to happen
You can feel it

There’s a bursting scented vibrancy
Lingering
Happening
Almost
Ready

A slow stretching yawn reverberates
It dissipates and grows
Permeates 
Percolates
Rushes outward
But
Waits

Sleepily cracking an eye
It peers around
Secretly shaking off blankets
Dabbles a toe in the air
Testing...

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So, what is a poem, anyway?
  Should it have a fixed number of lines?
    Should it rhyme all the time?  

Should it be passionately romantic?
...As my lissome Latina lover
 ...

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ETERNAL SLUMBER
I'm Serving Savory Sacrifices of Soulful Songs,
Soundly Singing psalms so Sonorously:
So-fa-mi-ra-do,
Sweet Songs on my lips Staples,
So far my radio
Shook so many Tables
Souls Scintillatingly Trembles
As feets, mouths and hands Dabbles
Soul-prayerfully we stand so strong like...

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*Image of Hope Member Feeling by Pixabay
AUDIO: Nuthin But A G Thang by Dr Dre & Snoop Dog

Hope

It begins
from depths within
unmeasurable plunging phantoms down
festerin' the grounds

Lingerin' up sounds 
trace 
sin
space 
sing

Astir the Astros 
call on...

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Spring has earned a special place in my heart;
a season so fair,
She dispels despair.
I anxiously await for Spring to start;
I miss Her so much,
that I crave her touch
and long for the sensual perfume she'll wear;
a...

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As Japanese cherry blossoms bloom pink,
Spring dabbles in assorted pastel shades.
When April rains offer the soil a drink,
water trickles as it flows and cascades.

Spring dabbles in assorted pastel shades,
purple crocus, and yellow daffodils.
Water trickles as...

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SHATTERED SCREAMS

ECHOES OF OUR SILENT SCREAM,
TORTURE FROM A LEADER'S STEAM,
DWINDLING OF OUR NATIONS DREAM.
WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT AS A TEAM,
OR WATCH THEIR THEATRICS LIKE A FILM.
IF WE FIGHT, OUR VOCIFEROUS WEAPON IS HUSHED,
IF SILENT, OUR...

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The holidays come round again,
 distant and far off at first, this trend,
 plenty of time to prepare, cards to send.

Hurried shopping travels
 eased by the buyer's experiment with internet dabbles
 from Amazon or e...

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November Night

the day is shrouded in grey
monotone, without visible life
my eye wanders bleakness
searching.

sea is dark all foreboding
even as it lays like glass, seeming quiet, 
beguiles the fisher beckoning him 
to see what hides beneath?

the willow...

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Light of our lives
Kicking, he came
And then our world
Was not the same

Joy of our hearts
He's innocence
Making us laugh
With his presence

Love of us all
Childish babbles
Stolen our hearts
With his dabbles

Heaven's li'l child
Active and smart
How blessed we’re
To be...

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Litter on my mind

When I walk into the garden of my mind
I sometimes pick up weeds that must be rid of in the cold light of sanity.
A person, from the past, sent me a rancid...

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This woodland stream could be a small English river,
it dibbles and dabbles, it meanders, and has the air
of an old water way, one that never saw the need
to rush or gush.

The small ripples pace themselves;...

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CONTENTMENT IN FAMILY CONCERTO

Dabbles in music, tooting on clarinet.
His pipe medley alongside a wicker chair.
Dynamically plays broadway tunes,

As
  We
     Kids
         Lean
 ...

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THEORIES OF LOVE
WORDS SPOKEN BY LOVERS
AGREEMENTS AND FAITHS
LOVERS PARTAKE IN
WHILE AND APRT
STILL, THAT THESE WORDS
HOLD EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE
TO CERTAIN PRIVILEGES AND UNDERSTANDINGS
CERTAIN THINGS TO BRING ABOUT SEPARATION
THAT THEY SEE FIT TO CERTAIN RIGHTS
THAT THESE PRIVILEGES
ARE...

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A harsh mistress to face each night,
reality dabbles in pain.
                 And at the very edge of fright,
you enter the...

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Listen as brisk breezes begin
whistling, tickling the rustling leaves.
And hear children laugh as they play 
amidst falling leaves; in the fall.

Autumn dabbles in abstract art; 
tapping its palette's deepest depths. 
And blending amber with scarlet;
captures...

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I have a little paintbrush
that dabbles in my mind
creating its own versions
of what my eyeballs find.

Soft chill of mist on swaying frond
challenging a sun warm dawn
grey ghosts dancing on the pond
rippling dance of bass in...

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HOURGLASS NEBULA

A masterpiece — the Creator dabbles in time
with windblown hues of crimson bands, narrow
neck like the green eye of a nebula monster.

Painted in amazing red shifts,
scurrying away from the earth,
as the hubble chases it.

The...

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All About Japan

A feather plummets slacks downwards,
a sparrowhawk caught prey soars upwards,

bonsai trees grow its shadow midst sunrise,
cherry blossoms shade a path,
sugis eclipse a shrine,

maguro (tuna) swims the deep ocean,
unagi (eel) curves nearby Mount Fuji,
tako...

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