Long Diffident Poems

I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...

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Jack and his friends, impressed by personalities
wanted to get there and enjoy name and fame
They stood gaping at their accolades and victories
And made gross assumptions about what it took to succeed
They tried to attempt the...

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By a mysterious twinkle in an all perceiving eye
A form energetic gentle breathing
The grand consummation of design
Ignited by universal dreaming
	
Enchanted stars into their life giving
The dance conceptual
The ballet between
Principals masculine and feminine

These consorts of the...

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Write !


Some madness banter of insanity
is pulling at my thoughts
spilling effulgent
in giant verbs and huge marching nouns
collecting snippets as it walks
stomping on flowers
and mushing liquid the paints of images
swirls captivated
with great toed boots

I can hear...

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Oh my love! I think of you who to my heart is so fondly dear,
3 million tons of affection, warmth and love you added to me when you were near.

You have been my joyous, affable...

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For Janet, now and forever...

Once there was a girl who loved a boy so much,
But she was diffident to tell the boy her love,
For the people might think that it is not right,
She must wait...

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We walk the earth as lords of all
only judeo-christian types of course
We crush the weak and heed no call
history is written by the winners
We think ourselves the smartest race
anthills never knew Oppenheimer 
We show no...

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TODAY’S WOMAN

A column can scaffold a back that is enervated.
We as women will burden ourselves with hate.
That is we will take on another’s disintegration.
All in that business is a mess.
It becomes our plight to fix.
We...

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If you want to extract the best out of life,
Do the level best that you can with hope,
Exhaust all the possibilities by toiling,
Trust that the law of Justice will prevail

Gather each and every fact to...

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after the sky drops. 
The walking corpses come out 
the veil of night masks 
the decay 
the rot 
of humanity 
Plague of the earth. 

Found from the ashes 
My phoenix we bled 

Has she ever...

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When up I was growing, awed and confused,
sure was not I of which road to choose.
For binary my soul and dellusioned my mind,
I dallied at crossroads and worried not time.
Advised by my parents, mentors and...

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The Almighty King

God in disguise, a pure soul of divinity,
No wonder the bona fide progeny of God you’re,
The great one highly esteemed for visionary you’re,
So genial and benign, no man as you exists so munificent;
The...

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Her hobby is collecting men
And most of them will do
The half-wit wonders out again
Who take the scenic view

Her beauty is expendable
Her feelings even more
Her duty is dependable
To those who run the store

She knows what lies...

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Sleep, Think, and Dream myself to you, 
is what I do out of devotion. 
Long lingers of school buses and 
library books that took us and taught us "home". 
A word which became more for...

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I hold myself a prisoner 
A captive taciturn 
Unspeakable enticement still yearning
Since coming of age to discern

Yet never knowing 
Except in part 
The fullness to overflowing
In the cerebral cortex of my heart

The heart knows reason
Which...

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PEACE

Shy, quietly spoken, always in the background,
Never one for thrusting ideas 
Into people's minds,

Diffident, listens intently 
To her surroundings, often hiding
Behind certainty, wearing it 
Like a wickerwork shield 
For protection, but she won't go
Away or...

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Hi !
You are my amigo. I knew you were amorous with me .Your not a spartan but you preach me to be so. I like your preaching as it all worked with me .I would...

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I dubbed a first year my room mate
Upon arrival into our teacher training college
To baptize him. His pride in quick order I did decimate
Taking him at high celerity on a binge

Initiating him into traditional beer
In...

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Cautious spirits test the waters of my world
and call to me....then go away.
Perhaps they are perfecting 
inter-mind devices, just like
psychic Edisons, Marconi's revenant
in breakthrough  just for me, or else perhaps
celestial wallflowers, much too diffident...

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"I wandered lonely as cloud."  William Wordsworth


I Wandered Lonely as a Teardrop 

I wandered lonely as a teardrop
In a sea of sand,
A tempest in one glistening drop,
Ruthless riptides of demands
Rush through a narrow neck...

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Have I been procrastinating a lot by staring at the slowest clock,
not getting up early and be in the happy mood to write?
Poetic words have been flying away from my sight! Hark!
I have put my...

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In the 80’s I first learned of Assertive Training
My husband thought it would do me some good.
I laughed myself silly 
 As the teacher explained things.
If someone tries to put you down, you say this.
If...

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The altar showed anomaly,
an orb of light, 
a foil for small realities 
that I could easily forget 
but for that twilight cast, 
to things I touch or dream--
that spirit song sequestered
where I cannot go.
 
Thoughts...

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One’s Androgynous Shadow
                       by Odin Roark

If only…

If only we thought more kindly,
Allowed the...

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Stand Alone

It stands alone all day long, diffident and so cold
Its shadow bares nothing, but a dark haze on the ground
At night it freezes 
Nothing gives it warmth
It begs, it cries for some new rebirth;
Nothing...

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