Long Dumfounded Poems

Everyday is a new day
Except Thursday the symptom always replay
Madness, mental instability, psychological disorder.
Call it what you may
It’s the same thing every Thursday

Her frienenemies taunted and teased her all day long
But on Thursday, they singing...

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Famous Last Line

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I had by no means celebrated Christmas in the past with such love
                  Until thy lord presented thee...

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Like some grinning mad ghost scratching at the side door of your senses
Begging to come inside to bring you wrath and wickedness
Bringing cold where it's warm
Bringing scariness where it's safe and secure
Bringing scattered shouts where...

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I woke up today
I am sure I did
Or have I?
I slowly unwrapped myself from my bed
Groggy and yawning
I was off to write the constitution
Should I failed in this endeavor
I shall hope to have enough gasses...

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Death of a Piano
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

I stood tiptoed and stretched tiny arms.
Little fingers danced upon the keys.
The soft-spoken nurse protected me.
I was safe and free from harm.

Balanced there in a...

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...that's what I told her...but she didn't believe
Used to ugliness and cold crime scenes
Like a bad dream...smelling roses while gettin tangled up in thorns
Pain of death...pain of being...

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Truthfully, the question knocked me off my feet
Like I was zapped by the stun gun,
The question is so insipid, so jejune, so naive
so unsavory that I caught myself dumfounded.

How can you ‘become’ a poet?
Can you...

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She was sixteen and dressed to the likings of fashion 
a beautiful loose top was her choice of today's passion 
as she mounted the bus she got stares from the guys 
and teasing looks, but...

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i've been to the valley of terror and tears
i've been to the valley of madness and fear
i've been through the floods and i've been through the fires
i've been through the river of rage and desire
i've...

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As I sat on a sunny beach
A tiny bottle bobbed in reach.

I rubbed it jusy to wipe it clean
And from it came a fairy queen.

"What is your wish, if I may ask?
Granting three wishes is...

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From Psalm 91:05
No terror by night nor arrow by day...
Shall destroy me, divide me, or lead me astray
The devil gets played as prophets get paid
Rebellion and rage turn into love, law, and order
Another demon gets...

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As I look through the Pin Hole of Light in the Sky : I Weep For YOU
            I saw my LORDS FACE : “...

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Googled and Bamboozled 

When she saw my eyes they both were googled
Causing her to be dumfounded and bamboozled
And then ended up becoming completely baffled
When off all my entire brains had been raffled.

How big of a...

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om dead Jesus raised
were dumfounded and amazed
His honor we praised

vituperative
in Congress what they revive
they need to survive

had stood on a bench
were uneasy and did flinch
when killer would lynch

should hear choir sing
along us they had to...

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As a delivery driver, I had a right to that space.
I calmly requested him to allow me to park.

I had time sensitive deliveries, but he said,  “No!”
It was a loading zone designed for people...

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