Long Dozes Poems

See them crawling out of the mound walking in a straight line, one set is going to East, the other to the West, carrying little particles of food in their mouth and moving  with...

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You win ever so calmly never to know 
what may be hanging straight above your head.
Under complications we break and bestow – 
Habitual ponders and worriment are gifts to our dreads.

Always constant surveillance of our...

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She refuses to bring a child
into this cradle contaminated world
Even herself, she wished
were never brought into it

With stillborn immature regret,
she woulda flatline wrapped the umbilical cord
around herself ...
And let the ultrasound noise
drown her,
with a suicide...

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You don't think you owe me
Well I contend you do
On my desk, I expect a bouquet of roses
I worked thru most my childhood
Paying my playground dues
‘Cause the factory called America never closes

Insufferable agony
Is an overrated...

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A FRACTION PHRASED IN FALSETTO

In the time it takes for a woman to whisper goodbye
Between dry eyes and eyes that cry
For the time it takes that lady to bat her eye with lashes long
That’s the...

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I've been musing lately about things that really make a home complete.
One thing for sure - a happy home is one with laughter and love replete!
'Twill be a place with affectionate parents who dearly love...

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Ratings War
                    By Odin Roark

His trembling fingers press remote buttons
Finally pausing on…

The News Channel.

Breaking News –...

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“Death, life’s old nemesis, comes unbidden.”
                             ...

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"Write your dreams," Carolyn Kizer told us
in a long-ago poetry workshop in Paris.  I would 
like to, Yes, follow that instruction, but on wee-
hour trips (no pun intended), to the 'salle de bain' 
I...

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Letters congeal, to words.
Words anneal to sentences,
which tell a story,
painted as images,
imagined in the mind's eye,
trying to emulate what
the eye sees briefly,
on the see-saw.

A glint of sunlight,
caught slanted and sharp
on windowpane reflected,
stabbed in pain
with shad...

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Temporary InSlamity
                 

Two a.m , still awake, gettin’ leg-shakes 
Gaggin’, burnin’ on my mis-slam-stakes 
Tryin’ to win some judge...

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Yes, This Day Is Done

In the corner of the deck unseen,
An old lady with a floppy straw hat,
Tired, arthritic, reads in afternoon's cool,
And listens for the dogs.

For first there is a hum on the roads,
Then...

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			The Test by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

	What’s an antipoet:
a trader in urns and coffins?
a priest who does not believe in anything?
a general who entertains doubts about himself?
a vagabond who laughs at every thing
...

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Songbird acapella
Early morning hymn;
Balcony recital

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Blurry haze
Burnt ash off-odours;
Surabaya harvest

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Bridge underpass
Homeless man dozes;
Happy dreams lurk

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Chinatown brisk walk
Noodle takeaway;
Homecoming

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Coin shop interlude
Metallic global trips;
Static travelogue

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Darling smiles
Sunset stroll;
Silence speaks loud

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Fanfare flair
Just for today;
Death anniversary

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Wayside flowers
Mystic beauty;
Unknown aura

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Words fail
Noisy passage;
Sense...

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The Earth is groveled by her own soul.
With her skull welting on the sky, as all.
Affixes the omissions in her memory.
Together with people and greenery.

The grass lies behind shuck's pole.
In a casket placed of ivory,...

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The steersman dry-heaves
into rolling scuppers,
the skipper dozes fitfully in his sodden berth                       ...

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(Base USO club, Zweibrucken, Germany, 1963)

Of a lazy afternoon, I sit
     propped up,
Bones aching, sorely tired from
     lack of work,
And dutifully read the comic
   ...

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What happens when the moon isn't up to her best?
She takes a break,
Dozes for a while,
And comes back shining brighter than she ever did!

What happens when the ocean waves lose their energy?
They lap at low...

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Just Remembering

In a corner in her garden, sun hat leaning,
Traffic white noise backgrounded,
Sara dozes and dreams of life long ago
When she was young, so young.

She is dancing the jitterbug, Glenn Miller playing,
Baby sister peeking through...

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I have dipped my pen in the sublime, it is my gift to you . . .

Green apple,
Is the sweet tender of life
Its taste is as soft as your skin
Its flavor makes me dance as...

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Spring Beauty and the Beast 

Tenderly Spring sends harbingers of beauty,
Knights errant of crocus and snowdrops,
To warm winter’s shopworn heart
And soothe his brittle bones of barren boughs
With balms of long jonquil sunbeams
Melting the grumpy curmudgeon’s...

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THE ERUPTING VOLCANO

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Autumn Yawns

Autumn yawns – early darkness stunts her days
Eventide wrapped in golden umber tones
Bands of autumn hues swaddle mellow haze
Sunset sundrops sweet serenades intone.

Twilight dozes ‘neath the harvest’s birthstone
Autumn savors new frost in early dusk
Scarlet...

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there is no house of God.
but there is a single bedroom apartment of God.
televangelists asleep on the floor
the convent too, dozes -
their manic addresses bring slumber,
wearing pious housecoats
and their belief on their sleeves.
"no girls allowed,"...

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We walked through the sea-glass garden of roses,
where the sleeping flame of a celestial beast dozes.
We need not run, nor hide in fear,
even though we knew he was near.

We’ve known his magnificence since childhood,
when, flying...

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