Long Drizzly Poems

This was last Christmas - 39 days ago - doesn’t that seem like ancient history? 

We were in Lisa’s (parent’s) 50th floor flat, in Manhattan. It was mid-morning, we’d done the present thing, and it...

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3:15 a.m. 
 It was a crappy, wet, rainy dog-hiding drizzly morning.
Anthony woke up in a bad mood, with a sore throat, that got worse when he looked out the window.
Of course, the obstinate dog...

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My greatest one-night stand occurred
on a drizzly, spring Friday night,
my long-term girlfriend had let me,
I meant to drink her away right.
Went down to a club I knew well,
just to drink, wanted nothing more,
then came this...

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A ittle boy of 9 or 10 said, "Want to buy some chips?"  I replied, "How much and for what purpose?" The little boy told me, but I quickly forgot and asked the kid...

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Panting, running, paying, fuming,
Bumping, swearing, hurrying, driving,
All because today is the thirty first
Of the month, why are we all nigh to burst!
Got to buy groceries, go the butcher
The dry cleaners, the florist, the baker,
Did i...

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DAMP 1
Out walking to where three valleys meet,                           ...

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Apples and Hosses

I started to cowboy just sixteen and raw
On a spread east of the divide
The boss man was as tough as I ever saw
He didn’t keep nothin’ inside.

I knew your pa, he says, a...

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She recall her day when she sat by the window
And saw the defiled sky to brace up on with spiritual phantasm
Of some demonic begrudges – amassing and making
The flushing spirit of the late evening merriments...

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...A big log bounced from way up top,
and before Guy could react
It struck his square across the chest,
up rose a sickening crack.

We sprinted quickly to our friend,
who lay helpless in the snow,
he struggled to draw...

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She muddles an unusually warm December
dark drooling deep afternoon

Drizzly wait,
not long before her hungry needy kids return from school,
she props herself against back porch wall,
knees up,
peering out 
listens to wonder how her life is the...

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Skies bring happy tidings; Hear peals of thunder "clap"!
Lightning brings great illumination with no gap; 
Why should barren clouds move with no torrential pour? 
It's, thus, when my soul thinks, wings, begins the rare "roar"...!

Each...

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I ain't fretting about intentions the words they come whenever ya tempers bit flaring up flying above Everest.
Hearing the voice of us heretics stone cold siding with the weather this morning bit misty no wonder...

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Life’s elusive beauty slips
But slips not quite away.

When there is nothing to hold on to on
This slate grey day when every voice is muffled
With nothing to say

When nothing is of substance all
Lines blurred in the...

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Cold and Shoe less

On the cold and wet pavement.
On a misty and drizzly winter’s morn.
Crossing the intersection in clear view,               ...

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There he is in the garden among the radiant blooms,
making time all by himself what he loves most doing.

He whistles and he hums out in the hot summer sun,
under a gently falling rain on a...

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The route winds and twists literally forever.
by way of the sea, the farmland, and the sky.
Yet, we triumph simply because we are clever,
If you ask why on a dune I saw you stroll by.

By way...

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She was on her way to work 
A sixty-minute drive she made every day
It was a rainy day, drizzly, a Monday
Her car flipped in every conceivable way
 
Her children were at school not knowing
That their...

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DAMP 2
Where three valleys meet, past Dovestones, a drizzly day.                         ...

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One misty morning Grace came to my little house,
The drizzling clouds had soaked her purple blouse
And her rounded eyes sparkled with rain and lust;
I kissed her dewy lips as any savvy gentleman must.

“Life is dreary...

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I never cease to puzzle over
life's mystery, how on a drizzly morning
I found my long wished for love
crossing the street in opposite direction,
eternal love was conceived in the moment
and she passed by unnoticing my gaze
that...

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Pin prick tattoos from wind nipped lobes,
designs from cracked and wrinkled scrolls;
don’t leave me in the Autumn’s robes
amidst the drift of wandering souls.

I'll weep behind night drunken suns
in drizzly, drowsy fruitlessness;
where vines lay bare 'round...

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Going home

He had come back different, or maybe he had never really come back at all. 
It had changed him; now eyes withdrawn, furtive,
Looking out into someplace, somewhere within his own mind.

Even in sleep, never...

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Pin prick tattoos from wind nipped lobes,
designs from cracked and wrinkled scrolls;
don’t leave me in these Winter robes
a  wand’ring soul…a wand’ring soul.

I don’t embrace night drunken suns
or drizzly, drowsy rootlessness
where vines lay bare ‘round...

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Too Soon

Do very youthful men and women fret
About the ill success of dreams they’ve dreamt?
They barely have begun to even whet
Their lust for life! I think they are exempt 
a mere while yet from lessons...

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A smile sneaks its way into my brain right now,
as a snapshot of that drizzly eve flashes by...

Buying roses from you, dear Miss Rose
and I am humbled again by you.

It's been a while since I...

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