Long Durst Poems

Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch

So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...

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Lost Perspective

Eve said to Adam-let us eat the apple so we become ourselves
So naïve, why should I die first in order to become what I am already
In his image and likeness I was and I...

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Learning when/how to close seat then...
flush... the toilet with good frisson!

Bull leave me you, though how bison
teen and juvenile 
from a sixty four year old
married male no less!

(alternately titled long windedly
using lower case letters:
no matter...

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[Continued from Part 1]

“And the efforts of the Senate to extinguish all this fury
Were frustrated by convictions that their god would promptly hurry
To reward and praise the burning of the books in Caesar’s hall:
Pliny, Tacitus...

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Learning when/how to close seat then...
flush... the toilet with good frisson!

(alternately titled long windedly
using lower case letters:
no matter tidily bowled over based
upon real events, perhaps subject devoid
of literary merit and/or taste
no embarrassment, cuz
I got nothing...

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October 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on John 21-Acts 1

Key Verse – John 21:12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing...

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Our lives produce such struggles
to which we must rise!
And often we find places
that from which we would run and hide.
But just remember that Your choice
will bring the happiness you seek... 
Just Be the Brave one...

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Against light source well crafted 
tubular structure appended with eyepiece gazing
offers viewer eye-opening, mind boggling 
instantaneously birthing then vanishing
resplendent myriad colorful 
geometric awesome shifting shapes 
hypnotizing sight seer into a whirling gigolo 
where multifaceted fractals...

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Do we see the world 
through rose coloured glasses 
Durst cut up the bodies of people
Psychologists say
He must have a mental illness
perhaps but the spanish
conquistadors cut up the bodies
of american indian babies
did they all have...

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ARTE MAYOR*: Neither Cricket nor Football

Is this the way to prop A-first
Sock not oval ball overhead
Slam not round ball with drumstick dead
Cut not corporate tax: the worst
Hundred millions sweat till tv burst
Swamp Super Bowl cheer-leaders'...

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Speechless
Unstable
so now I'm off popping more antidepressants
after jonesing for the truth
so glad someone
anyone could offer me reality
that I'm truly
seriously
deluded and misunderstood
and now i know there is nothing i can say

Oh sinead
what does the con man...

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“Query”
from a word miner non-trumpeting
Beatle browed quarry man.

One emailing digital commoner bemoans assiduous, 
zealously yearning xing worthy values undergirding 
the storied renown quintessential peaceable operation 
nations marvel lately kindling justice,
institutionalizing hope, gentility, freedom, equality. 

Dummkopf...

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How do you say thank you
To someone who sacrifices so much
She carries you within her womb
Nurturing you with her love

Never complaining about the stretch marks
She wears each one with pride
Knowing they are her testiments
She is...

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3/23/17


Skilled like James T. Kirk
Fred Durst
And William Randolph Hearst

Putting in work
And occasionally going berserk
In and out of dirt

For all that it's worth
Respect the universe
And Earth
Regardless of if times keep getting worse

Is there such a thing...

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Erstime, ere bards nor Wondering Joyceters 
did glybb their gobs with glanjous tongue, 
Sir Slip The Most (a Figleafmoistner) 
was undangled…and his sling unslung.

‘Twas on the Ile de Deux Sans Mustard, 
with her Fowlling Fopplott...

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whence place thy sight up above thine shoulders,
as it tarries to see no one but thee alone,
even when thy path seemeth crooked,
and goest astray like a lost wondering sheep,
ye durst wax in the Barn of...

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(York Assizes, 20th August 1612)
Judge Sir James Altham, Speyks,

Tha wi power t’ eeal
wi power t’ cumfort
logic an’ knowledge
ney i’ t’ nivver t’ be,
nobbut God grants ‘is 
holy wesdom t’ select few.
T’ thee wi nooa gumption
livin’...

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COLOR
Color is an agent,
Of beauty,
We use it in beautifying,
Our body.
 It’s like flowers,
It’s used in decorating our 
Buildings.
It’s like perfumes,
It add value to our,
Body, and it is attract the nature, 
But when mixed with water,
...

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COLOR
Color is an agent,
Of beauty,
We use it in beautifying,
Our body.
 It’s like flowers,
It’s used in decorating our 
Buildings.
It’s like perfumes,
It add value to our,
Body, and it is attract the nature, 
But when mixed with water,
...

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Her hands were always busy
Either planting gardens 
Praying over loved ones
Or cooking hardy recipes that we all want to know
Taking care of others is what my grandmother she's best at
Even if she doesn't know
She doesn't...

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It's 4:30am and I can't sleep,
the sheep leap and lay in a heap,
told me they're tired and got shut eye,
even my own mind has shunned I,
lets just freestyle this rhyme and see where it goes,
it...

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Once upon time doesn't always mean a happy ending,
You try to stick out but just keep on blending.
Each day we get a tad bit stronger,
Moral dilemmas forcing us under.
Can I hold on just a little...

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Lord, save this unholy Baptist!?
     Her lactation, like mother's juice,
slakes thirsty tongues with creamy gist.
     To flush her slick love-chamber's sluice,
with corkscrew thumbs, and practiced wrists,
 ...

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A lover’s dance is but twice the pain, 
Dark and in duress
I have shamed. 
But you prolong your steps,
The dew upon your forehead; askew. 
Dare I stroke the flourished flower
that is draped upon your cheek.
An...

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You have lost the game,
Which is impossible to win.
Surrender your defeat,
And I will so mine.
Give in to fate,
Let it run it's course.
And I will take this route too.
Thou have not a clue,
What life is about.
Not...

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