Long Deluges Poems

Once upon successive times of
economic and political revolutions
slow-grown bionic ecosystemic balance
suddenly emerged
where form with functional health potential 
had been submerged.

When Earth
was Yang gusting wind
and surging surfing yin waters,
light's emergence each Yang sunrise
was daily revolution news
for...

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(Manifesto) 

VIII … stop! - Skid! - Shift knobs, slide gears, vomit numbness, fondle!… the music of 
guillotines!… 

VII … unmannered retching! since everything is a percentage of death in motel prayer-nights 
separated from unholy...

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Where once verdant rolling highlands...

Spanned into infinite vista
far as these myopic eyes can see
now yellowing Whitmanesque
leaves of grass encompass field of vision.

Nary a dark dreadnaught cloud in sight,
nor unbeknownst if/when threatening storm
looms on horizon slaking...

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An unfamiliar voice received his miss dialed call,                           ...

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Though amply rested, I still yawn

And feel energized after
light exercise doth spawn
break through viz mental impasse,
where endeavor to coax 
germinating ideas to sprout
about as successful as 
buzzfeeding, jump/kick starting 
rooting brown lawn
to whether drought.

Long fostering...

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Two kings, one queen looked upon my quiet self as I sat.
Asked I was to appear before them one quiet spring day.
They sat there for moments which seemed like hours.
The first king spoke and said...

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This is why I keep to myself
Cause if I didn’t
Life would be finished
And all would see and be all up in it

So at times I do regret it
But don’t ban me ‘cause you can’t stand...

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With flashing eyes she did enthral
as to the beat of drums she danced
a wild flamingo with clacking castanets
her wide hooped skirt was all a-swirl

Golden earrings sparkling and flashing
heels looking impossibly high as she twirls
her eyes...

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An appeal of poetry
is its lack of rules...

though not to be loose
as a plucked goose – 

without bare essentials
for flight

struts of logic,
living words
that excite with lift
long after the reading
and initial gliding

a pleasant aftertaste
not necessarily sweet

often...

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White flashes of lightning announce wild
                             ...

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There’s a nip in the wind,
so into warmer clothes, I’ll change
the coming storm, they say, is a beast,
but rain won’t start, till after light;
all night, the rain will pour;
I must bring in the cat.

Storms terrorize...

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Pondering love’s inquisitions hitherto thine perplexities
as thou should knowest its tenderness requite.  
Whilst thy deliberate forthright such iniquitous fortitude of beguiling amorous utterances. 
Thine onliest causality lay boisterous extemporizations whereupon the chorus of crescendoing...

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beauty, blessing, January, magic, moon, sunset, winter

A SEASON’S GLOW ©

‘Bastille’ winter-lodes wait anticipating the reserved and affected invasions of the sun’s setting rays, to lay its' mark upon her surrounding ice-capped winter hood--- 
Fortifying ‘arms’...

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Screams, Screeches, groans and wails
Let me tell you Agonies’ tales

And of bullets, bombs and pellet guns
For a person with Heart must know these pains 

Here somewhere, kids are blinded; men are jailed
Women are molested; the...

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cover me as i go downtown
where we used to go and 
play pinball

so many lifetimes have past 
since those magical moments
of feeling older in my era of 
childhood youth

if i was a painter with a...

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Screams, Screeches, groans and wails
Let me tell you Agonies’ tales

And of bullets, bombs and pellet guns
For a person with Heart must know these pains 

kids are blinded; men are jailed.. 
Women are molested; the old...

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Zounds!
longing for a 
merciful descent into 
the terminal ground 
where smoky eyes
semi-watch
streams of
semi-(dis)information
exhaled from
smoking brains
on a mission
to search &
deconstruct

ticking clocks
taunt
timely bombs
lost in 
purple blobs
of
orange haze
awaiting
purging deluges
sprinkled with
white bolts of
blinding hell

the raving
raven's
feathers flicker 
while 
flippant tentacles
grope...

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O God!
by Qateel Shifai
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Torture my heart, O God!
If you so desire, leave me a madman, O God!

Have I asked for the moon and stars?
Enlighten my heart and give my eyes...

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The delight of him is not denied.
That's why I'm clinging to his side.
I feel his touch-a burning fire
which feeds my lust and wanton desire.

He bends me down to watch me shine.
I know of his ultimate...

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Here I lost in a midst Of darkest sky;
          the plane I rested therein carry
      me into the dark cloudiness, where
...

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There are feelings so deep they defy expression
There is ecstasy so profound it obliterates all else
There is love so strong it renders the lover invincible
There is contentment so sweet it deluges the soul
There is passion...

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It’s an almighty responsibility to irrigate the land. 
Sending April showers when torrents are in demand.
To control cloud bursts with symphonic precision.
It takes all my skill and planning to make a decision.
I rain for children...

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Banks did not burst,
just a dribbling bladder of river
leaked into our back yards.

It drooled over damp roots,
seeped into groundhog holes,
into ditches, where winter debris
had already washed-up.

The water rose in some places,
to at least half an...

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Banks did not burst, 
just a full bladder of river leaking
into our back yards.

It drooled over 
the low steps of high roots,
into groundhog holes,
into the ditches where winter debris
had already washed-up.

As the water inched
we made...

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She's all alone, 
having left her parent's home;
a free bird,  a truant, a hobo she's,
 who couldn't stand discipline anymore!

She loves aho to rock, rollick, gyrate 
and ball to thy rhythm and rhyme O'...

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