Long Diagonal Poems

'BRRRING BRRRING' said the telephone

“Oh hello” said the wide viewfinder to the telephone. “How are you today?” The telephone fell silent. Very silent. It had no battery with which to call, speak, shout or do...

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Your contingency plan is dead from the minute it rolls off the bed. Your contingency plan is dead and it is not going to spread; it is packed with corruption and it is as heavy...

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I was a renowned, NASA scientist, with my face always turned to blue stars,
As eyes are ever drawn to a flaming sunset, as to colorful, outdoor bazaars.

And stargazing brought big excitement, and chills during many...

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8/9/22

What good if they judge by the color of skin
Got to do better instead of teaching that to kids
Still telling fibs
On either side of the ridge
Yet again another burned bridge
Soul cold like the temperature of...

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It was just an ordinary maze of a day unlike so many others

An array of multitude hanging from intersections of fortune

Aberrations cul-de-sacs opposites shadows cautious anticipation

Tentative expectations inspiration expiration holding their breath

Tim was aware that...

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I’m with you,
I’m without when not.

That’s how much you’ve become.
Plastered fabric enmeshed into me.
Like drywall, yet to crack, but firm and white.

Bare bones make us who we are.
I can feel yours now, I think.

The way...

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If I knew what it was all about, I would not have to shout. If I knew what it was all about, I wouldn’t have taken that boat. If I knew what it was all...

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Edith had been suffering from shoulder pain
She'd developed a stoop and only her left shoulder would sag
When she went to see her doctor
He put all the blame on her weighty handbag

One afternoon she had time...

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I dedicate my 2012 to the one I love most...

Ouch! I shake my hand and stare at the door knob in disbelief. 
I open the front door and wince as the scorching late morning sun...

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I wanted to pen this verse from yesterday but the temperature kept rising all day; I wanted to pen this verse from yesterday but the traffic kept flowing my way. Hundreds of cars flooded the...

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Last call for alcohol, embargo 
              on the cargo headed for Fargo? 
         ...

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Jealous, Jealous, Jealous

The swiftness of the Vessa just killed me, 
That speed and the grandeur of the seat, 
The frame’s shine and the four wheels free, 
The maroon leather upholstery neat. 

The diagonal pattern on...

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I have this strange feelings twirling in my stomach since yesterday and it will not go away, it is not a feeling of pain, it’s not a feeling of shame or guilt, it is the...

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Holograms and hieroglyphs

The whole weighs heavily
touched caressed lightly 
brushed on feather canvass
granite marble marvellous papyrus 
innocence rejuvenated
partial and impartial

Chiselled in and out
of comprehension angled
layered facets facts
subjective trueness 
ciphered and deciphered

Snow flakes teardrops
ink on paper hailing...

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Another White Christmas
coming down
hard ...
Asphalt bitter cold
Danny Boy blues ain’t o-Kaye-o     
Broken glass Dean-o voice
Martini sing in absinthe stinging
d minor   ~   Road to Hope got
Crossed 'B' out...

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why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them?

Arthur Findlay



The black king and the white king, well they didn't...

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TITLE- LIVING LIFE LIKE CHESS

One Monday I got bored by life’s sameness.
To have some fun I decided to do ‘LIVING LIFE LIKE CHESS’.

I spent the Tuesday like a Thorne.
He has death as his destiny from...

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FUGITIVE

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12/16/21


Still regarded mysteriously
A lot of conspiracy
In the sky, on land and near the sea
Eventually I could clearly see

Thought it'd help, but wasn't what I really need
Silly me
Can't do it foolishly
Has to be done skillfully
If I...

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I begin my descent on earth in the vertical
charmed to spin Chantal in the horizontal
100 times I could feel beating at the sleep his liver 
then to take the tangent when she awakes just after
there...

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Two Dimensional Love and Life

Some lines move horizontally
Others go diagonal
There are lines that travel up and down
They all make love within their set parameters
As is their culture and tradition there
Always within the lines, as is...

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Frog playing violin
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I.

I’ve lost my sense of silence…

I’ve lost my self
So now I hate everything
I want nothing to do with anything
Does this make you sad?

It makes me sad, sure,
And even as I curse even that sadness
I cant...

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“Moves are slower, concentration intense, as style and wits are pitted.
Finally, the remaining white knight makes a brilliant challenge admitted.
The black king weak from the affray, a pawn keeps danger at bay.
With its faithful pawn...

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Breakfast is the most important meal and it’s the one that I like the most,
So you can imagine my disappointment when the chef makes us eat dry toast.

I went down to breakfast today expecting something...

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