Long Diagonally Poems

Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.

I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...

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Courtesy severely receding hair line..., 
yours truly enveloped within morose mood

I (Samson incarnate) 
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.

Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...

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Pawn
You've been a peon, lowly pawn your whole life
Never amounted to much,
nothing much ever went right
Grew up dirt piss poor,
never knew the reason why
you were put on this earth for
So you start cyber chasing every...

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If I was a fool 
I'd love as many times as I wanted

If I was a millionaire 
I'd beg to be a poor man wishing for more
because I believe my dreams should stay in my...

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I cherish every precious lock of my hair as a keepsake

Twas partly on account
of yours truly being incarnation of Samson;
spouse and I wed
please fate, don't say alopecia didst tread;
though atheist to higher power
yours truly pled
heart...

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The rivers are racing with a glee of free morning stampede today
carrying the currency of silted centuries and the cool silk of the wind's summer saga,
within my heart I feel the rambunctious rush of wanderlust
this...

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After the storm, my brother
(all gangly knees and elbows)
bore the brunt of its ferocious aftermath.

Every day after school
I watched his wiry biceps bulge a little
as his handsaw scritched against the tree
which had fallen diagonally across...

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Quietly filling
 deep cups of the red blossoms.
 The morning sunrise.

 The rock bowl is full.
 Filled by the rain for the birds
 and for my quiet mind.

 Dried stalks of rhubarb
 turn brittle in...

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Oh, Marianna Grazia...
was my friendly neighbor,
a lovely lady in her eighties!
She became a widow when her
husband died of a brain tumor,
he was a sailor of many oceans;
how evident was the sadness
of Marianna Grazia!


She had a...

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behind the straight line joining the
numerous drawn curves of the sea
the golden glow of the rising
sun is pouring into the waves.
the most beautiful melody of this earth 
is heard all around, the arrival
of the rays...

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My name is Mathias Cruz
 no matter who you are,you obey the rules
 i always hope to see that day
with their hopes and lives they would pay
 regardless your momentum,bravery and even rank
 when you...

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If and when a boarding pass equals an educational equilibrium then equators could sing. But Tiburon turbulent tuning turrets can often be misplaced and therefore undetected by a radar which measures over the same distance...

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early this year
gentle as calm ocean waters
lapping along a weir
thumb and fore finger
of right hand would peal back,

(via diagonally flippant motion
asper calendar
representing progression of time)
gets flipped over to veer
in one direction (linear)

revealing the next month...

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(Even Poetry can recall the warm days of  summer.)

** In the August Heat  **

            ———————————————————————
August roasts the red pears
Sitting crowded on the...

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Three thousand ginger bread cookies 
On a purple path to shade 
Twisted Time Diagonally 
Elusively Disfiguring Reality 
Green was Blue 
Blue was Happy 
Happy was Sneezy 
And the other Six dwarves 
never showed 
They didn't...

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Morning stubles off in near slumber
as Afternoon finally comes over.
I am still sleepy.
My heart beats quickly
as I lose my balance halfway
down the stairs, catch myself
on the wooden rail,
and continue down to the couch.
Charlie Mingus is...

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Oh! for the wet warm South Westerly 

                     after the cold white North Easterly leaving...

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Walking along a road, diagonally, 
through someone's house briefly 
and back out where there isn't a door
across their vegetable patch and
eventually over the bones of some buried
unknowns.
Cows are currently grazing in someone's
hallway, while a tree...

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Loves lost anatomy
It’s heart resides in each body
To each there is autonomy
Some loves comes freely 
For others the headlines are gloomy
You could search there necrology 
Heartbreakers live in infamy
Wandering forever endlessly
Are the victims searching for...

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T' night after a peaceful bubbly sunset
And a well painted aftermath.
We 're about to stroll down 
Alongside the Alawai Canal 
Beneath aloha waving palm fronds
Carefully stepping around the biggest frogs
We've ever seen
At least twice the...

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Criss-Cross Acrostic: Ai My Eye 

Criss-Cross Acrostic: 

Note: *Construe as “words” not as “letters”: Lines 1 and 3 read alike reversed; Lines 2 and 4 read alike reversed; likewise vertically and diagonally from up-down or...

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Slashed and burnt to golden brown
Frowned upside down, prithee now
Come diagonally to get here clown
Romp in delight as you were never found
Wanting, were you?

Wanton greedy bastard, turn back now
Carry on then in your mortal sin,...

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7/28/15

Actually
It's not the way it has to be

Another casualty
Inside the galaxy
While the wind blew diagonally
Offsetting several strategies
And physicalities


Across any region
Things will happen without a reason
During every season
Regardless of if many terms were ever even
Or there...

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tracing lines on the syntax of multiple personalities
          grammar cascades down resonant folds
 and drops to its knees in silent rage

hand over hand over hand over...

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Man you a wizard warlocking written to spellbinding spoken word.
Jargoning prolific prophetic like the bible real truth.
I'm xeroxing you so x-ray this diagonally
Awe inspired me like Edgar Allan Poetically
Your magic wand sleight of hand transform...

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