Long Darndest Poems

Circa February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM

Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...

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Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer
sizzles Delaware Valley today July 16th, 2024

Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware, and
Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Sweltering temperatures
figuratively grip human zoo
bipedal hominids (yours truly,
an olive...

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Future time traveler looks back one century ago

The following poem tweaked 
courtesy original author who crafted
literary endeavor some couple years ago.

Now circa August 20th, 2122, 
or 1930 military time,
yours truly attempted 
drafting id est feeble...

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Similar if not identical to last year...   
umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer...
sizzles Delaware Valley today August 26th, 2022

Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware, and
Eastern Shore of...

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Future time traveler looks back one century ago

I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and 
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
one century – which elapsed in...

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I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks...,

(a poor excuse for legs),
and get me the latest
sophisticated prosthetics advancements,
whereat integration of cultured stem cells
into custom made appendages
allows, enables, and provides
unfortunate recipients of amputations
to experience sensations.

No more will...

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Struggle to write

Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webbed wide world
subsequently where black tentacles alight.

This poetic prologue feeble exercise to...

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HERO

“As a boy you’ll go away to that far off distant war
 And you’ll come back a man
 Of which my son I’m so proud.”
 
So off to this war I went
To a place that...

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Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020

Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or

art appreciation...

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2/10/21
"Never Mattered"

Folks so hesitant and others far too eager
You either do or don't got a fever
Non or a true believer
In the ever after
Worlds being forever shattered
I always had to be a clever bastard
Got to get...

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Bajillion years after proto humans experienced woe
countless figurative early Brady bunched bro doggie
dimples encountered necessity to escape cohabitation
(marital covenant alien), yet quasi marital brouhaha
ofttimes witnessed altercation begetting re: thorough

out baby with bath water phenomena, which...

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What I'd like to give you is an ounce of my cologne.
It promises not to turn heads, but to keep level heads.

Trust me when I say, "I've been around the bin a few times".
Word to...

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5/19/21
"Darkness"


Often looking for targets
Thinking they're the smartest
And sharpest
So quick to start it
This world can be heartless
What the f*** is wrong with people
Why do they got to be so evil
Constant carnage
This planet and animals getting treated...

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Like sitting upon a sail at the storm’s peak,
riding its mastery, and black and blue artistry.
Underneath the vessel’s feet, it’s troubled us
to flip us end to end, to break its back. Pale
is the moon under...

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                            We settled down in a little town

...

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My dearest Mrs., Ms., Mystic, or Miss, 
this morning Venus had a special "ask". 
She said to make you fall in loving bliss,
for Cupid's ill and not up to the task.
I'm nervous as I'm kind...

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Would you love to read the joy in poetry?
Would you pass poetry to the pit?
Or would you grant me the grace to write in defense of poetry?

If  you picked “yes” on the second and...

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Seasons

                                  ...

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Once I ran after a robber
Who snatched a lady’s purse, 
Then after a few short strides
My lungs seemed to burst

     —yet I kept on.

Then faced with a hundred steps
Upon a flight...

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The 16 hour days are full;
Of  judging every gain, 
And every misspent penny
It is the darndest pain.'
Our working lives are greased
By debt
That gathers its weight and 
to our loss
I hit the bed at ten...

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what am I looking for on Match? you ask

and I'll tell you want I've felt

when typing to a picture - mask

attempting to make hearts melt...

Too impersonal to be personable

this game of word and wit,

when sent...

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There are certain subjects that are taboo

When it comes to writing poetry

But I try my darndest to ignore them all

I guess I really didn't need to tell you that

It's fairly obvious I would imagine

Writing about...

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Haste
     Makes waste
           So they say
               ...

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