Long Derecho Poems

Schvitzing for more'n sixty hours without electricity
(visit https://www.aol.com/?ncid=
crosssellusaolc00000003 - for further details)

Courtesy rare derecho
killed four people
nearly forty eight hours ago
power outage affected more than
half a million people
in mid-Atlantic states.

Residents in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
(the poet's hometown)
smack dab...

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Spanish verse

DERECHO DE VENIR A TU CORAZÓN

Estoy viniendo, viniendo de la mujer de Dios;
Vengo para usted con todo el poder de que Dios puede reunir;
Viniendo de usted y no otra;
Vengo justo en su corazón;
Y cuando...

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Enveloped in the essence of twilight's hue,
Where dreams collide and realities seem askew.
Let me take you on a flight,
where words dance and emotions ignite.
In the machinations of current climate, 
of decency in sunset's deplete.
Scoffers of...

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It started with a news report,
where a well-dressed man did exhort
that everyone should stay inside,
big thunderstorms were on the fly.
A curving arc across the map,
and the danger that comes with that,
not whirling clouds that rip...

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The first text warning that the approaching storm
Is nothing like we’ve ever experienced before
Is dismissed as it will surely lose steam
Before it reaches us, 
Two hundred miles to the east.

Soon more texts, closer to home,...

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You were essential to all those creatures
Who relied on you

You provided a stable home in the cold months
And a warm refuge during the rainy season

Many looked over you but you never looked down on them
Many...

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Let me rest, 
For now I am tired of these quests.

What prize for me awaits?
Those hollow salutes and opened gates?

Or those meretricious praise that would echo,
When all I remember is catastrophic derecho?

Or the Olympus you...

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HE SAID...USSO VOKO BELTO BRAWL!

TRANSLATED...LEY DE RECLAMO DE CHAMPIONSHIP REGLAS DE
LA INVOKING!

THEY SAY..... EL DERECHO DE LOS GERENTES A PEDIR A UN CONTENDIINTE QUE MUESTRE LA HABILIDAD DE CAMPEON !

TRANSLATED...THE PUNKS OWE ME THE TITLE,...

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regalos los regalos eran para distraer de la falta. proporcionados y apilados.
quieres mostrar cómo carecer.
sal en la herida y eso es todo.
cuestión de hecho.

actuar era un derecho.
por lo que se negó.
disciplinado y llorado.
los roles se...

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Había cometido un error
Yo tambien tengo el castigo
Pero estas acusado
No me gusta esto
el corazón lo hace,
Te viviré con toda felicidad ...
Oh vida, no hay culpa en esto ...

como decirte
lo especial que eres para mi
Como si...

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Four faces
ten cows
40 people
a river runs through it
Aberdeen Rapid City Sioux Falls
crops of corn soybeans 
hog factory ethanol highway interstate 
flat plains shadow of Rockies
sparse vast country music cowboy hats
pickups tractors American flag whackos
jacks coyotes
buffalo...

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Let's kick it to the wind
I know it's no sin, me loving you
But, an Act of God
Yeah, me and you, whoo hoo
Are there storms ahead
Yeah, there are
But, it's not between me and you
I know I'm...

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