Long Discounts Poems

LEONARDO DA VINCI POEMS, EPIGRAMS AND QUOTES

These are my modern English translations of the poems, epigrams and quotes of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the first six epigrams pertain to the current American election crisis...

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A Statue Speaks

The morning takes it's first breath of daylight
Exhaling the sunrise that fills the sky with colored 
brilliance.                ...

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When I was a child, I wondered

Was deep sleep, death?

Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation?

Waking up, I found the people around me were the same

I was the same too, nothing changed

This cannot...

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One generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)...
offers his interpretation of critical race theory

I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated, 
erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, intelligent,
kind, learned, male, albeit modest – married) 
with freshly clipped formerly gnarly toenails
discounts...

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Treat me 
Like a king
I need me
to a fin
I am so dreadful sometimes I am a handful
I think that you think that I think you are dreamy
I think that you know that I think that...

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Ed was born forty-two years back,
and even since the age of ten
he’d looked with enrapt eyes upon
the heroics of firemen.
He wanted to join their number,
to rescue folks when in danger,
he’d go to their open houses,
to...

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The house was full
Of Gods and deities
The curtain call was soon
The water vasos were poured
And became the finest of wines
The bread multiplied
The baker you see
Was a part time magician
The fishermen all relaxed
As I saw fish...

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Gerry Coombes and April Showers have their families in a spin,
being ninety-two and eighty-nine; planned their new life to begin.
They’ve announced they’re getting married before they get too old,
and of course there is resistance, but...

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The Old Lady In The Shoe
November 22, 2013 at 5:57pm
Dedicated to all my children around the world;
 
The big and small of it.
Some appreciate the little
things that encourages
them to do big stuff.
 
Some  won't...

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Being Black is a race. 
A race against time
A race from the police 
A race from racism
A race from ourselves
A race from poverty, drugs and abuse
A race within our race against our own kind, to...

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…thirteen miners…
…only one survived… 
…still clinging to life...  
...with a history of violations...
It wasn’t West Virginia. 
It was I.
And I’m taking the day off. 
I know it won’t rhyme, 
But I’ve been pummeled.
Run through...

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Sometimes it's not for me to always speak
Things that have pressed and pressured me
I believe
By gracefully spilling this rhyme
In time this time a creatively piece
Will form and grant me what is needed
Like cop with no...

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A new year and an old mirror
Who is this aging face it reflects to me
Surely I have not become old
What curse is time to rob your youth
To drain you of vitality and vigor
Yet leave you...

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He is legend, folklore and for some reality,
an ape-hominid-like creature of many names;
he is Big Foot, Sasquatch, Yeti or wild man,
science discounts his existence, many believe,
    six to ten feet tall,
 ...

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How to Find the Shop
A whispered map for the bold, the broken, and the slightly curious.

--A cryptic guide for those who seek the odd, the magical, and the mildly cursed.
Read at your own risk.
Side effects...

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each year 
goes by faster than the last
i have a greater sense 
of urgency
to see, hear, touch, feel
what i’m passing through
i want to
pump the brakes, 
slow down
but do i want to
let all i sped 
through
and...

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There was a great businessman from Kyrgyzstan 
that earned money extremely fast,
gone far ahead from  Bill Gates, Donald Trumps and Lee Hant,
from Arabian sheikhs and Russian oligarchs,
sucked money from oil and gas tubes, 
even...

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I buy the Hanes three in a pack 
I have a house, not big, but not a shack 
I drink my juice sitting on the couch 
I have no ambition, I am referred to as...

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I want to mingle
with the people of Walmart 
as they regally push 
their shopping carts
Eclectically dressed perfection
each a work of art
Camouflaged chic
or an old guy 
dressed like a tart
Back and forth my eyes dart
Over there
a...

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PART ONE - DIAMOND AND HER KITTENS

She was a proud mother 
Of four little kitties, 
She told us thereafter
Of her maternal bliss.

Two days later, two died, 
She looked and was frantic-
She thought we tried to...

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Eight former champions.
Eight uncrowned atheles
Four officials.
Two championships
One purpose.

When the guy losses the title
A group of wrestlers used the
Alumni clause in there contract
To reinstate a former championship
They were to present it as there
Worlds champion.
A group of...

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Written By:  D. Collins 10/3/24



Drop your pup off somewhere around eight.
By the time you get off, they'll sit, stay, and lay.
Come out to my office, out there on the beach.
"Sunbrellas" all around connected to...

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“Not many fake things are so nice for me, but I sure love an artificial tree.” quote by poem's author

We had to ditch last year our Christmas tree.
Worn out it was! We needed something new.
Big...

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This side of town lives in evening darkness
The people care not for courtesy, just the green
Any fold of cash would prompt sullen eyes to awaken
As in this case, on that fateful night in late November

He...

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Cable 
The electronic pipe 
Flowing with bits and bytes
To keep the media ripe 

Got to keep the masses 
Enjoying the show
Keep them blind 
With the digital flow 

That delicious little wire 
That poisonous snake 
Whatever...

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