Long Dead ahead Poems

Was it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?

It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.

The...

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One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.

'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep

(So farmers left...

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High School ~

Being asked to search my memory of school 'daze' gone by
is asking quite a lot of me but I promise to give it a try.
A country high school can't compare to a fancy...

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Whore  Edwin Hofert

Sure I'm on the right track both eyes set dead ahead.
The big threat to my future came from back behind instead.
Many of the ones I loved had launched their own attack.
You see...

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These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller...

These are selected XENIA epigrams with...

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While walking I saw 
something move in the corner of my eye.
When I gazed straight at it,
it was gone.
But, on second glance, askance,
there it was, again.
To and fro, direct and peripheral,
it appeared and disappeared on...

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(Inveniam viam)

Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails 
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the humpback whales 
Ships piggyback them, harpoons syphon wind from their...

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'Twas a dark and stormy night on that dark and stormy night!
HMS Blunderbuss plied the billowing seas just off the Isle of Wight!
Able Seaman Steer manned the helm when dead ahead he saw the light!
He...

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Collisions avalanche, beneath the icy
Waves, of the North Atlantic.
Birthed in the cradled of Belfast,
A maritime giant, became crimsoned,
By champions shattered tradition,
An ironic omen presence to come.
For she bares tragedy’s mark, the name
Given to this colossus,...

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Driving home one afternoon from school,
It was raining and the air was nice and cool.

Less than a mile from home in my little S-10,
Traveling the same road again and again.

It was a freshly paved road...

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Many immortal words have been spoken in the heat of the moment,
During romantic settings, wars and other distressful foment!
Damsels have said, "I wouldn't be caught dead with that guy!"
Decades later she celebrates their fiftieth with...

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CRACK  HOUSE?

They come most ofen two at a time
Dressed all in black, with hoods
I call ‘em black knights
With hoods?    Fer crap, it’s summer time!
In-‘n-out o’ this house next door

House went vacant,...

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Admiral John Smith sat stark and semidark at the crossroads among the war torn.
With no urgency for liturgy, he wrapped his men tightly with tattered blankets around 
likewise mortalities.

Nearby, in an irreverent attempt for a...

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The old steam engine chugged trying to reach the top,
Slowly it inched as the pressure valves were about to pop.
Just a few more feet and it would start its journey down,
And it would then be...

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open up your heart as well as your soul 
a winged figure about to answer your call 
a wish is a wish no matter how big or how small 
some things are so wrong yet...

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Science promises golden laws,
Which cannot be altered.
Like The Physics of Superman, Knuckled in the jaw,
And Jesus Christ with all his followers, and they suffer, scream, and holler

Nothing will change, but according to Newton's Laws...
If Nothing...

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It came to me easy but flew away fast trying to grasp it, no handle to grip.
My feelings so charged that confusion sets in .Why have I not noticed or seen all the signs. Returning...

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you never have to chop me open
      my mind/thoughts splay out readily
some version of knowing me, gifted
   then on and off go gloves/mask
     ...

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Better days, dead ahead
Don't let these things slow you down
Pick yourself up again and again
Because you'll fall overboard and possibly drown

Better days, dead ahead
Fighting with all your power and might
Never to see the sun setting...

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Point of No Return
The point of no return,
is a place where people burn.
I do not mean physically,
but mentally.
I have been there.

It is not a place that you can see with your naked eye.
It is a...

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Like a weeping willow, I cry out in pain.
Moaning in agony, glass from window pane.
In Spain on the plain, there is thorny rain.

When I don't understand, please explain.
Simple words for a simpleton. Straining
To hear, with...

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The kamikaze martyr steels his nerves
To seal the sacred mission of his life.
He loves the all-important cause he serves,
Yet dreams about his mother and his wife.
Though long endured, the loving pain they’ll feel
Will be surpassed...

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Experience has taught
Lessons been learned
Turned off that part
That bad love had burned

A strange attraction
And unexpected call
A spark of affection
Won't make me fall

It hurts too much
Love is too cruel
My soul is just kindling
And hope is the...

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Curves and corners
where the mysterious life awaits
oh yes, the appealing curves and corners
that lures you forward, expectant
unlike the hooks and snags and
stubbed toe that keeps you right here
in the moment, the lull, in the pit
awaiting...

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