Long Dinned Poems

Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met...

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Self help addict needles unsuspecting reader 

Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow 
scouting about for carrion 
scavenging for dead animals 
and rooting about...

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February 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch

Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
would make laughingstock of forecasting
how Jack Frost...

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Voting without aggravation...

Otherwise known as
absentee ballot/ mail-in ballot
if ye read no further... please exercise
opportunity to cast ballot
obviously freedom to choose,
but take serious stock of human bondage
(desperately calling out
for their Maugham me)
regarding: economy, integrity, monetary, xyz...

Anyway,...

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Ten: A New Global Health Scare, 2003
After accumulating reports 
of a mysterious respiratory disease 
afflicting patients and healthcare workers 
in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, 
Singapore and Canada, 
the World Health Organization 
issues a heightened global...

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Thru an opened bedroom (albeit screened) window...

Accessible twenty four hours a day
seven days a week,
fifty two weeks a year.

Spring 2022 Curtain call at
Highland Manor Apartments unit b44
framing Mother Nature nook
ever changing scene unfolds
analogous to storybook.

I...

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ever since Homo Sapiens didst
   insinuate, elbow and barge
humanity at the mercy sans, small, medium
   (Strunk and White) elemental forces at large

which indiscriminate merciless whims extant
ask Homer Simpson or Marge
g'head and...

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overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
     would make laughingstock of forecasting
     how Jack Frost...

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Helianthus annuus, heliotropic slow son dance

Stream of photons bathe
top heavy fountainhead of sunflower.

Analogous to Atlas
shrugging, hoisting, grappling...
with planet Earth, the heavyweight
discobolus buoyantly held aloft
upon robust stem
tracks the heavenly orientation
of said hypothetical nearest star.

This immense distance,
nonetheless...

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The day you were born you are mother and father's miracle,
You were a very calm baby boy.

Walter brought baby Erik and mom home from the hospital,
Mom could stay at home with you for a few...

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The one who came and dwelt among His creation.
Embodied Himself with the same nature as his brothers.
Born of a virgin,raised by a carpenter
Grew in wisdom of God.
Who came by the water,the testimony concerning Him made...

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Moss Cowed Covenant I Keep Putin Off...

For preservation, salvation,
and veneration, though with hold
ding temptation two mike
pence sieve lee clear,
to immoral majority mold
toot hoods, (those bajillion
Americans unanimously polled)
did want me to broadcast, communicate,

and declare, sans mock...

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The sandy beach, castles in the sand, high and low tides.                        ...

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The world of survival 
Created by dark magicians 
That hide in the shadows,
Controlling us in the light
Sectioning and ravaging us at night,
Dreams, the portal formed by the mind
The unconscious side, 
Waking up in this fantasy...

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The weird wild world I wrote the world, 
Formed mountains Recruited girls: 
They be my daughters And they cried rivers, 
Boys came from words and fought in numbers; 
I Inhaled carbon dioxide and exhaled oxygen-...

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The silver bird took us off,                             ...

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The serpent called her

And as if swans carried her light airy behind
She ran through the cooling blue vines of the garden

Into a jungle that puffed magenta steam clouds 
Circumventing cawing crowds of warning green fowl

She...

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I think of the beautiful reunions we have had through the years,
Mom and I would reserve the craft kitchen.

Each of my relatives would bring a delicious dish of food,
Our mother would insist that we make...

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Cry red tears 
Cry girl; cry mom
Cry G; cry you...

An ocean flow
A river flows...
Water falls and streams
Lakes and valleys,
Blue and we all too...
From the sky to the bottomless pit
Seas so blue...
I can't see anything else!
Cry...

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We were young, we were young
 Forgiving and forgetting
 Through all the worst circumstances
 The purity of our hearts
 Sparked the union of beings
 But we were young
 We watched ignited flumes die
 A flume...

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You so completely enthralled me 
You have struck my fate in
Every minute of all of those days 
In every single loving way I love
You beyond love only you
Create Cardiac domination you
Baby are the explanation Of...

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What is despair if not for love, what is this air if not her scent.
What crimes we commit for such an affair, what dangers we live to find someone so rare.
I speak a prayer but...

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The place where they lived was a storybook palace,
Friends came and went each day.

They dinned with excellence, a handsome chef guided,
The friendly waitresses hosted the breakfast abd dinners.

There was a lovely cafe with delicious foods,
Where...

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He was a knight in shinning armor,
Rescuing her from dragons.

She was a damsel  in distress,
Wore a long gown of white lace.

He was invited to her palace,
They sat at the beautiful table and dinned.

They had...

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