Long Dowsed Poems

Along a quiet river to nowhere were styx lean like broken crosses. The wind is gentle with a sent of quite decay or is that brimstone in these sinister currents, that spin! A black river...

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In recent years I had grown so forgetful, like noon without memory of night.
I forgot special events and sundry items, like books, my phone, or flashlight.

It was turning into a frightful nuisance, like long shadows...

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"discarding narrow thought flow crutch
we learn directly by soft touch
and what we garner we relay
to the vast void in childlike play
entwined thus with the universe
we dance without need to rehearse"
~ line of inquiry by Unseeking...

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Where would I live if I were richest, and had all the money in the world?
Outside the square box, where no doors exist, and locks will never block
My entrance or exit, without four walls or...

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Fumbling through a sheen of yellow
the land and sky merge as one.
and earthly song goes silent.
The stage is set for death to breed,
tendered by phantoms, catching the unwary 
these purveyors of men’s souls 

The rats...

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You plague me with your sweltering disease 
My heart throbs in unease
You carry me off to a far-off island
Your breeze keeps me flowin’…scraping sand 

Your names escapes my lips
I tell myself, 
“Get a grip, dude…”
But...

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drink your 5 year old milk,
boy!  I know where you live, stop painting your nails
like a girl, boy!  Aging copper
tones cut corners in my ink-
stained eyes from the lies you told, melted from...

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it is heaven on earth, some say; 
a paradisical playground, 
peopled by bronzed angels in miniature 
and permeated by fragrant incense, by jasmine, 
by the toll of a temple bell.
it is an eastern jungle, 
a...

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MY PIECE MY PISS

You're such a beautiful creation
Unique among all creatures
Your brilliancy is unhidden
Voice like that of the angels
Smiles like attractive cheese

Your set of teeth is a charm
Sparkling like the galaxies
Always lost when stare at...

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LETTER TO MY EX

You're such a beautiful creation
Unique among all creatures
Your brilliancy is unhidden
Voice like that of the angels
Smiles like attractive cheese

Your set of teeth is a charm
Sparkling like the galaxies
Always lost when stare at...

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Inglenook 

She, the face in the embers, 
The remnants of a raging fire,
Smoulders like a cigarette
Between lips of lustful desire. 

Where men stoke in gay abandon, 
Pokers hot as blacksmiths arms, 
To fade and die...

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Oh, why must I wear this uncomfortable mask,
when entering stores, or working at my desk?
Don't listen to erratic idiots or irrational fools:
think about your health, do the right thing always;
if death dealt with our reality...

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In the hold tears are shackled
White eyes stare dark corners
Bare breasts hang limpid
Humanity dowsed in sewage

The slaver pitches, rolls
Each wave a fathom from home
Each trough a deeper despair
The screams and creaks in rhyme

Lost souls ghost...

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"Tell me your ten happiest moments,
from birth through all your years."
ensconced he sat behind his desk,
stroking his Freudian beard.

"Take your time, my dear, and think,
just tell me when you're done."
I swear, for the life of...

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~ Sounds To Sleep By ~

A Poem by Debbie_Philly 

Sounds To Sleep By
 
The sirens pierce through me like a sharpened dagger
something is smoldering in this small corner of my city
the neighborhood is dowsed in...

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The night sky is of winter's grey seasonal turn and
deep within my soul, a chill comes from where 
love's frozen embers still burn.

A cool breeze from across the sea does blow.
I know it was only...

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her letters to “god”

though she never received a
reply, she always wrote him,
in her little diary & planted it
neath’ her mattress when she
was a teenager (she had an 
image in her head…her
beautiful caucasian jesus 
with his...

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A lovely flower dowsed upon the lethargic rocks
Gruesome idiocy lead to the battlefield of soldiers
Cynical viewpoints closed like a lock
Peace crushed in between the burdened boulders
Fickle truces built upon greed
Fighting oneself is our demise
It's usually...

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A decidedly good morning,
Risen upon the land—yet—
More risen are the eyes and the
Lips that plan to speak blessed things 

Mustering out a smile 
From a despondent stranger,
As they return the favor
With a gracious compliment

City life...

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