Long Dream on Poems

I grew up with rural Michigan white red-neck evangelical root systems.
These did not always feed my multicultural self/other liberation of the GLBTQ subclimatic root system
for regeneratively healthy instincts,
yet I learned to survive within this fundamentalist-alien-straight...

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This situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!

Scene: A comfortable office where Andrea Dietrich is finishing up with...

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Blossoming 
Effulgent sun proffers love 
Clambering… 
My brain makes me wonder if you remember the times shared
Back to the blessed times, I recall that you would listened, be worried about me, and, at the time,...

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I went out for the newspaper at the usual time this morning, shortly after 5AM, (yes, I'm one of the "odd few" who still enjoys the crisp feel of a morning paper in my hands),...

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I killed my friend,
I never wanted,
Do not see me cruel,
I did it for love.
We both ran naked
Under this influential shower.
No one uncoupled his lips
Against this faint madness,
We were indebted,
Either had to earn the prize.


It was...

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“Dream On”

Hm, my heart as it slips out of my reach
Like the waves of the sea, flowing passed the palm of my hand
Do you know what I mean? You’re eyes are as blue and playful...

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A FADING QUEEN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

She had  all the feminine gifts those many years ago
Drawing stares from everyone where ever she’d  go
Back in high school, she was the center of attraction
In every classroom, she...

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Loaded like a gun, about to fire away and I’ve become numb inside
Sugarcoated in lullabies and lies today…in the shadows, I simply hide
Wish I wasn’t so sober, but I cherish my progress quite well
The dungeons...

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I’m fearless to say that I used to bleed out remorse
Before I met you…of course
I used to cry myself asleep because I felt so alone
Before I met you, I was on my own

V.7: Give and...

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LUV TALK 
(Browned-Cents)

Chivalry lives, it’s not dead so I’m still opening doors
You said you'd be with me for life so I just evened the score

It’s hard for a poor at heart to find true LUV
So...

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An old man
A Grumpy bitter old man
Bitter face
Red nose
Wrinkled beady eyes
Scruffy clothes his best attire

Life has not been kind
So his bitter words bite those around
He lived alone, inside his madness
Leave me be and go to...

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* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun. 

A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once beautiful but at the same time, taunting. For if these...

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I’ll love you, even if you have strayed into the 
darkness
Stop whistling the blues, you mockingbird – whistle with 
your might your marvelous tunes of accord and faithfulness!
I love you from the bottom of the...

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Dream of what Tomorrow may bring to our front porch
I’m fearless to say that I used to bleed out remorse
Before I met you…of course
I used to cry myself asleep because I felt so alone
Before I...

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I’d do anything to erase your departure, 
leaving a troubled trace in my mind – face your fretful fate – 
there’s a rainbow after a rainstorm in the afterlife! I can’t 
wait till that nirvana-like...

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We are Winkin, Blinkin and Nod.
Many years this earth, we have trod.
We each had a dream, we three.
Winkin first said” my dream came back to me.

It was the Pacific Ocean calling to me you see.
Discarded...

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Life gets in the way and somedays I find it hard
To even laugh or play - after all is said and done
Have I even prayed? 
The gratitude that I should
Have shared with my God, the...

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I am perched in a dark and damp castle, clouded by the putrid scent of death.  Even 
the floors know of death, for they are basking in blood like the bottom of a sea...

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The nights are stolen by your embrace                            ...

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I fell in love in this grand land
Love found me and kissed me
After all, sweet reveries did embrace me 
Affection grows in your heart – 
Love becomes serpentine in your keen, passion-whelmed 
heart from the...

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Should Be Done

If you want to have much fun
Here is what should be done
If you data used is empirical
Write some sounding satirical.

So much for my rhyming. Now
for my formidable blank verse 
format.

What should Democratic party...

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The Cooee-booroo was Irish, a migrant to this land, 
who fled his native Galway and the grip of famine's hand. 
For fifteen years he'd forged a life 'round Goulburn, New South Wales, 
though sought his...

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“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R Tolkien English writer

I miss the sensible in your heart
Just before you whispered your thought.
I miss the color of your soft
Just before you were blushing from a soul
Spent...

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If I had the time,
I’d sit on the front porch…
With you,
Gossiping about the fireflies this June,
Whispering in colors, brilliant 
Gasps of forever, painted on the midnight…
Moon, glowing through the sky,
Escorted by the escaping stars, graceful,
Flickering,...

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All anxieties are gone
We dream on like daydreamers, awaiting another great, 
delight-illuminated dawn 
I’ll love you until my life is no more
I’ll love you, even if you have strayed into the darkness
I love you from...

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