Long Distemper Poems

In our Sharing Circles
we have a ground rule
to share a one speaker at a time floor
and unitarian silent listening support

And rules to not share uninvited commentary
suggestions
verbal agreements or disagreements
during, and after,
this formalized Circle.

Speakers are invited...

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One day as our little Dragon passed by a house, he heard someone in distress.
He shouldn’t have left his window open, for he’s now in store, for a big mess.
Dragon ran quickly up to the...

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dogs that left faux paw prints extant within me life 

lids black out and allow me to write
about a petty issue ye aye in vite
while eyes shut tight
bring back four legged friends sprite
and though many...

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"Every day is a page to write a new story". 
And I have rewritten us every day for the last 20 years
We break up…but we were never really together
We make up…how sweet it is ...but...

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The Dogs we called Family

Tara came first and then there was Ben,
When both of them died we said never again.
Then Sam the runner, got killed in the street,
Prince came and went quick, we didn't know...

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lids black out and allow me to write
while eyes shut tight
bring back four legged friends sprite
and though many years passed quite

I can remember those precious creatures 
   who barked at night
howling at inaudible...

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She speaks in lingo
Like foreigners speak gringo
In all forks of the great America
Around and out of this awesome Africa

She comes online
Doing this shows she recline
On the dawn and night of her words
Designed to have faith...

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When nylon nights
trade crystal colours 
in the stalls of nimble 
butterfly wings, 
I blossom as an 
irenic origami 
fervently fabricated 
with snowflakes of 
greedy gloom, 
stealing royal violets 
from the smokey estuaries 
flowing beneath the...

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In a world brimming with danger
where tragedy is no longer a stranger.
with many voices that can lead us astray
They open new doors with the dawn of each day
terror saunter out unabated waiting for death,
To call...

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There once was a skinny horse name George.
Poor ole soul lived alone in a gorge.
Three fit sheep came his way.
They were traded that day.
Matted, bony, his belly engorged.  

Onward He forged, living on the...

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Thine world is cancer'

A call from mom,
In aching voice, she said,
"Not seen you for months,
Come and see me,
Know, you are busy in life";
In next flight I reached home,
But found her in hospital bed;
Dry like withered...

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~ONE TWO THREE IT’S NOT EASY~
One, two, three it’s supposed to be easy…
But watching you makes me queasy
Four, five, six, don’t even go there
I refuse doing it standing on a chair…
Seven, eight, nine - no...

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Inspired by Syed Wakil Ahmed

by Michaelw1two

 Blissful peace; verses instability, violence, and disorder,
 harmonious relations intervene, wicked minded interloper;
 world's jactation spreads, amidst deflexion by war's aper,
 segmentation of life hosts, exemplifies mind's distemper.

 Grant...

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When Shep died I was heartbroken and sick,

how could any dog ever replace shep?

I didn't want a dog, but after a while I knew

that a dog is just what I wanted.

Found this little black ...

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We are children of the central sun, 
secular seclusiveness becoming none…
Fallen angels in a spiritual spun,
pious partitions of a secretive stun.

Sceptical segregational spores, 
seductresses serving as hellion whores…
Innocence infuses pathosis pores, 
derelict distemper the syndrome...

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This ain't your depiction of forever
Actions confined by my feelings
Far from foreboding, distemper, fear, and double crossing you know all to well
Unsettled questions wielding a sword of ignorance
Lost dreams lifting your shield protecting
Me from me
You...

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Many years ago went to dog shelter,

brought home a wee little puppy.

So tiny and loveable, as most puppies

are.

Loved this little girl, sleeping with

this puppy each night as she cuddled up

to me was so sweet and...

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Leery, scintilla, wrap me in this enormousness. 
We've already undergone a mutual metamorphosis. 
A Holocene, a drum, and an endlessly greening. 
Ding, magnetic fields, the universe's blessing.

Smoke streams out of my smoldering core.
Dragonflies erupt from...

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Now if I shoot at you with live ammo that's personal,
Words just don't hack it, most thoughts too bizarre
To attribute to anything short of dementia,
With colors that dribble, fake tears! Spayed guitar!

Sounds so high strung...

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Unwellness in Railway View
(An Addingham poem)

It was not just the flickering ember
that lit the way to one’s damp musty bed
nor sash cord window panes I remember
stamped with willow patterns of frosty shred,
but the vile grotesque...

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Poltergeist was feeling frisky
New residents were in his house
Celebrating new home drinking whisky
His ghostly presence like silent mouse.

Happy pair were quietly fluted
Snoozing contentedly on comfy couch
Poltergeist decided to kick up rumpus
'twas definitely now haunted house.

Rage...

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The Bees knees.
Except when it freeze.
Screen blank.
Like, hit by a tank.
It has a mind of its own!

Delete, defrag, firewall and defender.
Virus, spyware and distemper.
Memory that does not remember.
I fight them every day.

For birthdays, appointments and...

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I squeezed and held her very tight.
To try and stop her trembling fright.
I massaged her as it seemed to help.
And in return, she didn't yelp.

We gave her treatment for the fleas.
And a distemper shot with...

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Shut Mind, Open Mouth



When he has a shut mind
When wisdom he cannot find
He then opens up his mouth
To prove himself uncouth.

The way he runs up his lip
When taken the frothy sip
It’ll throw him into the...

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Watching the wilting dividers,
wanted to declock the time
in timeless death:
though life must move on.
After amputation, body waits to be lifted,
negating the bed.
Now it was time, which would you like,
nouns that hurt ?
Or verbs that heal...

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