Long Directness Poems

The Edges of Rhyme 

I wrote the playbook, watching what they took 
While the earth shook I could not look 
In the direction of the Big Book 
Like a fish caught on a nasty hook...

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I loved you.

Quite simply put, I loved you.

If you were blind to the weight and need of it,
that simply put, was your willingness 
to ignore the inconvenient.

You were honest in your expectations,
as honest to yourself
as...

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When Miss Lily Jane Bobbit arrived in that Alabama town,
jaws dropped; all eyes were riveted on her.
The ordinary street on which she lived would be no longer common,
for Lily Jane now graced it with her...

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Her chin was resting between her knees
Her fingers were running smoothly through the sand
She didn’t notice my arrival
She just sat, staring out at the ocean

I could hear the drop of the hallowed cave
It echoed and...

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Those years were freshened years but the sea
Was filled with stomach cramps, and with burning tips
	Against the psychosis on essential truthful belly
Vibrating of dying fishes
As they were jumping angry over the sun's rim
as if they...

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What rare heart you have that puts upon my own 
salvations touch.
At first too much 
to bear. And now here, in this hallowed place, 
at last comes understanding I may share, 
at last comes grace.
This...

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I know exactly what you're saying..."It ain't right!"
But how many do you know as sincere? One who will put up a fight!
One as determine...Knowing despite,
Despite such obstacles we'll face, i'll California Roll right through that...

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Sitting at a table I met a woman of ethical means

Surrounded by trees, warm, green, contrast

Arrives this woman, vibrant, driven, the silence broken a little

Jousting through early minutes of introduction

We drink coffee, pass small talk...

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Like a mystical wight,
Ain't in a trance,
Nor experiencing delusions and phantasmagoria.
I live. I fight,
Fighting
Because the decision to be free
Is that which I took freely,
Yet, criticized with unsparing vigor,
Cruel and baseless calumnies.

The past is gone,
The future...

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The irony of dissension
that failing path's ingress
that module with its faction
that moment of duress.

That falling out of practice
that holiness to test
is subsequent by number
a follow up's digest!

The blessing of my venture
the years of common stress
are...

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Night trains

People in the night and the daytime, just traveling, silent lives
No one talks, someone is reading a book, and others are playing on phones
Still others are engrossed in the daily news. Interesting community. Friendship

Every...

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A Dual Aspect of Life
“Son do you remember your dreams…”
The old man said, 
Soft spoken sullen,
Reminiscence hard on his tongue,
A man whom few have seen...

“Some have sold their dreams
For the riches of this world it...

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the best part of any day for me is watching you undress
your body is like the relief of deep exhalation after a hard day's work
admiring your beauty has a deeper meaning than the directness of...

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Anonymous whispers, blowing secrets,
softly blown air through lips, syllables 
like sidelong glances down cafeteria tables, 
avoid directness, avoid contact, see, 
girls nearly women don’t speak of love in the same sentence as sex, 
girls in...

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You sought me out
And overwhelmed me
Your directness was disarming
You were seductive and charming
But the want of you made me ache
And soon you took me to bed
Made me sweat and made me shake
As you soothed my...

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MEDITATIVE MOMENT
objective stillness
   an appreciated
moment
 pictuesque
a
    delicacy
slight sparingly
         curious
   simplified
 unseeing uneasy
a disparate  gesture
 an economy directness
   in an absence
of fuss

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two...

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