Long Damming Poems

(A call for the lights to dim as a single spotlight illuminates the legend Judy Garland, who is center stage. She wears a faded housecoat as her beautiful, brandy brown eyes hold a lifetime of...

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[Note: You will see in the work below connections to other poems I have posted here.  Those poems are tangents to this poem that more completely tell the tale of rise, pride, hubris, fall,...

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Q:  Why is that Satan would not care if cursing people used: his own name, Allah or
      Mohammad or Buddha as curse words.

A:   Nobody uses any of...

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Jacobean style commentary from a callous calling card is a hazardous form in patterned growth fallout. When economically developing a cheesecake upon vast factory floors always be alert to the mindsets of machinery as it...

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 Bang! Bang! Who shot and killed
   Jeanette and Harvey Crewe?
 By whose hand was their blood spilled?
   The cops they surely knew.
 Two fatal shots rang out that day
 ...

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The universal worm has got some competition now,
since ‘Sandy’ took me out to Bateson’s dam.
This don’t include the ‘whitchys’ we get in a broken bough,
nor ‘scrubbies’ on the hooks we have to cram
to hide the...

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Remember when you told me to sleep?
It was dark and stormy, and darkness was deep.
Embracing arms around my suffering shoulders, you listened.
Artificial safety surrounding, my tears glistened.

Those dreams haunted my every thought, mocked my sanity.
It...

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Today a white dove flew across a dimming sun.
As it gently descends below the horizon
I gazed down below from my Apartment.
And I see people up and about their businesses.
Only a few months earlier, 
The space...

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The echoing actuality. The pondering sea. The spheres of bouncy 
As the protecting shells burst, the inceptions of desire begin fruition by disbursing their energies beyond their boundaries. Passionately exploring, this young fragile seedling crawls...

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I found a photograph today. 
Its discovery agitated my emotions 
and I caught my breath. 
There you were - suspended - 
like some ancient fly held 
eternally in amber. 
Pose, expression, frozen - always. 

I...

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Christs' Passion
Hoping above all that I am that I will be heard.
Yet I know my words shall wilt and fall back into the ground
Screaming forth once again I urge
Though truth springs forth, gushing out from...

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Wisdom so rare but fluid perched on African man
damming the waterfalls of a rapid river he did
his choice of materials was not cement and wires
iron bars and ridges he did not want to use
engineers and...

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Garden Of Delights 

In wondrous dreams 
     I walk
Where nightmares 
     flank each side, 
Where demons 
     laugh and talk 
With echoes 
...

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prose and poem

Sitting quietly on a rock along my neighbor's forest trail, I studied countless creatures darting about.  Were they aware of my presence?   I listened to primitive sounds, clear messages I...

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MAY OUR WATER FOREVER BREAK AND FLOW

As like the water, we were created;
In the breaking of the water we came—
And it is said that we did not come here
To be sitting or standing around for...

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A child of dreams withdrawn in a state of seclusion
Trudging through with the reliance upon a hand designed delusion
Manufactured emotions man-made potions
Enclosed shores searching for an escape a trap-door
Terrifying inverted confidence in the impurity
Tainted eyes...

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Constipation of the Mind 
no words coming out
blah blah blah 
blank page
whiten sepulcher
ink run dry 
damming up the stream 
the Beavers run and hide 
Zombie effect is me 
craving for brains, the life 
source to...

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A state of mindless exhaustion overwhelms me
I feel wrung out
Over-wrought
Strained to the very limits of endurance
I’m at the end of my tether
And the rope is strangling me
It’s choking off my mournful breaths
Damming my lifeblood
An icy...

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To the cameraman who through your distant lense 
sees one man with another's wife,
and clicks and silently uploads, to expose, 
and so to make those lives implode.

Who do you see behind your shuttered home?
With wife...

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Today, churches are held in disdain;
sullied by scandal and outright crime.
The foundation of faith is aging,
undermined by cracks exposed to time.

Salvation awaits those who believe,
so says scripture, to appease the crowd.
Yet, everyone is born a...

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sitting there watching the microwave and myself in it 
looking from time to time 
at the time
with music vibrating the computer behind me 
making the world shake
this room and this time which is full to...

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Here it sits
Squarely in my heart
Enfolded in the petals of a coronary black rose
Withered and piteous
A cloying weight
Heavy
 Grief-sodden
Perforated with bewilderment
It rests below my collarbones
Stifling each beleaguered breath
Damming my apprehensive blood
It clings
Battening down the hatches
An...

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On twilight's sinking bridge, Nyx's waves swell
With an ethereal wand casts, dark, bewitching spell
O'er deep crevasse, spreads her enchanting veil
A glittering panorama of lights ballasts infinity
Moonbeams, star streams, and planet gleams form trinity
With blipping dots,...

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Confessional Truth
Starting with guilty admission
A body laying there innocent, unprotected
Morality conspires
To seek its agenda
Blackmail and blueprint the truth
In description and doubt
With promises for the future

Armed with truth
The body becomes an example
An illustration
Knotted in its slavery
Personal...

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Encroaching night's slumber christened by shadowy blight
An endless fringe of melancholy shutters availing light
A cloudy fondue spills over the eery slight
A cold, transient wind doth the conscious plateau spite
Sliding from the precipice of awareness on...

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