Long Deadens Poems

VIII

In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,              
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate";   ...

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Everyone, from children to grownups, 
carry the world in their hands, they see the past 
and the future simply by the move of their thumbs and fingers; 
from their very spot they fly in the...

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Driving down the highway
In the pitch black dead of night
The hairs on the back of my neck
Indications, not all is right

A long meandering bend
In the distance reveals a glow
Has captured my curiosity
My driving runs to...

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Others, and my children, wanted to understand the meaning of life.
As I’d recently had surgery number 7, yes, gone under the knife.
It’s simple, you see… And it’s not so very hard to believe… 
I once...

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Light as air, glowing
In a sincere prayer
Whispering inspiration
Flavored with imagination
Vibrant hues of wonder
Silent, like a soft wind,
Breathless with emotion
Feelings poured out
Like a summer rain
Falling down all around
Pelting the heart
Warm and wet and honest
Like a promise

His...

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Slow drawn, steeping tea bags, in an etched glass pitcher,
Lazily infuse its Oriental musk into the sun warmed brew.
 My ice crackles along with the thunder over the great Mississippi
As the ewers’ spout releases the...

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Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before
—Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven

Just a Minute Too Late

Those inky shadows, follow me,
cleverly devised in the corners
of my inhabitation, without
an invitation. They invest their
horrorfest, sinking into the...

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I guess I’m cowboy with cowboying ways. 
            born a century too late so it seems.
	   This city style living is just...

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I.

What a darkness it is,
that as the planets rotate miracles
with cosmic power bestowed,
The Fall of Lightbringer
deadens the bleeding branches in Spring
as a requiem masked by your skin
paints onto the sun in a cloudless sky
The Stranger.

II.

What...

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I awaken well before dawn has thought of yawns
It is quiet then, and quite eerie in a way.
The peace deadens distractions, death-hour mourns.
The mind awakens refreshed, sparked by noir cafe.
Contemplation peaks then, and declines throughout...

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To be. To feel.
To feel, to love,
To love. To rage,
To rage, to die
Like a good Romantic, or to sleep like this,
Ghosting about
Like a loose plastic bag
That flaps on a windy night
Under a sodium street lamp’s
Eerie...

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Grey clouds the innocent sky ambushing light turns dark 
stumbling over a tombstone opening up cold graves

When eyes become frozen behind scenes in hidden truth  
as a weight deadens upon the shoulders without hope...

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Grey clouds the innocent sky ambushing light turns dark 
stumbling over a tombstone opening up cold graves

When eyes become frozen behind scenes in hidden truth  
as a weight deadens upon the shoulders without hope...

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there is a place that we each withdraw,
a place which protects, delights and always adores.

this place is not real although we sometimes wish it were.
a warm place where negativity is always deterred.

the place is called...

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Coloured Dogs

Grey is the dog that haunts and whines;
Whose boredom curls, whose mist entwines;
Whose ennui dulls a lively mind,
Whom inspiration deadens.

Blue is the dog that grips the heart -
Turns melancholia into art,
Who tears the light...

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Childhood memories bring warm thoughts to mind, 
Old friends, family, and innocent times.
Merry-go-rounds and childhoods left behind, 
Illusions, mimicking magic sometimes.
Nothing feels as comfortable as home,
Going back only strengthens that feeling.

But returning deadens desires to...

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On the morning after, from a stormy rainy night 
I sit on my stoop watching the sun grow bright
 
Stillness and silence deaf my ear 
Silenced sounds are everywhere
 
Chicks peek from a hole in...

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Listen to my nursery rhyme
A tale so regaling, yet sublime
Sated with jester, clown and mime
Riddler along to sanction every, literary crime

Mime to mimic my contorted form
Jester to scuttle every, accepted norm
Clown to mock all that...

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Did you think you had control
Did you think you had control,
Ha, ha!
Did ya think you had control?
Did you think you had control
Ha, Ha!

You cast yourself a god
In a solo one-act play
You wrote the narrative
To play...

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Hidden in the lies the preachers tell
Gagging on the brimstone stench of hell

The words He spoke back then
Have different meanings now
The idols now  - kids drawings
A purple, haloed cow.

The repetition of the mantra
Deadens mind...

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A cautionary tale of nocturnal abduction
Of trickery born of unearthly corruption
Heed these my words, I state categorical
Of evil so foul, in a world diabolical
No humour here that might ever be satirised 
No wit in a...

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profanity profanity 
                           banned banned band.

?whyyyyyyyyyyyy?


curse this fragile world...

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17.	PRAYER FROM WITHIN
Touch my heart where it hurts,
Heal all my emotional wounds and cuts.
Grease my heart with ointment of joy
So potent that no circumstance can destroy.

Touch my soul where it sickens
And my heart where it...

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In between abandoned shapes, an
evocation deadens the tongues. A bitch in you
drives you to wilderness. Oversexed, the paws
strike savagely on the necks of lambs. The
candlesticks revert back to acid bombs scorching
the tender hugs.

Fences are irretrievable....

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