Long Dwarfs Poems

“Are there many Fairy Folk other than the elves?”  Joulupukki queried.
     “Not so many as before the humans took control of the world.  The ones left behind in Erin...

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    Sponsor : Tom Woody 
Contest : Black Hole Love
Submitted:   16/7/25

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“Love embodies in millions of forms and frequencies, not all known. Its intrinsic nature is detachment, with eventual dissolution into...

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I'm a fairly active charter member
of Connecticut's Medical Marijuana Program,
qualifying because I'm also one of the oldest HIV+ survivors in the U.S.

In fact, 
not a single cell within my entire organism
would have been brought to...

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I watch everything goes up in flame and there was nothing I could do to shut out the pain the evening and the morning become one and the fire spread out all over the land...

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try me if you please as you are out spreading the disease
plagued by thoughts of granduer with affectionate melancholy
sparkling array of blissful care through the air
my very soul permeates a reason for being amidst the...

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Into the dark he stepped, the frozen flakes falling 'round him
The last vestige of humanity, now, lost in the storm's wailing din
The only light to guide him, the glow of the snow, soft and dim
All...

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Aurora wakes at 6:30 a.m.—
not to birdsong,
but to the wail of toddlers
and the ache in her knees
from sleeping on the side
that keeps her back from seizing.

Belle flips waffles in a castle-shaped toaster
bought on clearance,
while her...

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Dear God!
by Taras Shevchenko
translation by Michael R. Burch

Dear God, disaster again!
Life was once calm, serene...
But as soon as we began to break the chains
Of bondage that enslaved us,
The whip cracked! The serfs' blood flew!
Now, like...

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 Part 2
4th Delirium: Lost Souls
Sunken cities , pilgrims peering.. gawking,
squinting eyeballs, blazing sun
Janus facing, shepherds chasing.. stalking,
friends embrace before they shun
Tearooms steaming, tumult teeming.. talking,
lovers listen, poets pun
Broken stones unanchored, quaking.. rocking,
slipping, falling, one...

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Hans and Liam caught in the depths of winter                          ...

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As the Pied piper, when the first circus came to town                        ...

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I am
                                 ...

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October seventeenth ninety sixty one ...

Born sixty one years ago,
the follow poem from your bro
transmitted courtesy flagship
named Jacques-Yves Cousteau
constituting countless ones and zeroes
instantaneously traversing cyberspace
as packeted, framed dataflow
binary digits bit of information
to acknowledge when
thee transitioned...

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I looked at the room broken bottles blood fragments of clothes.
maybe a tooth from somebody not fast are to drunk to get outta the way of a conversation 
turned bad. 

The juke box had almost...

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The Cinematic Film Treatment as Poetic Element 
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Sagitanis Goes 'Bow Wow' 

Nightingale Sagitanis is a homeless woman suffering chronic and debilitating bouts of near-terminal existential ennui and muscatel intoxication until, in the midst of...

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Once upon a time
In a vast kingdom of Modern land
Oddly not in a far far a way suburban
Was there a pretty girl
Prettier than the Venus, some claimed
Softer than petals of rose, maids alleged

She was skinny,...

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I have to ask the question of old, how did the trolls move west?
How did they sneak across the ocean, and to the old Midwest?
How did the Trolls come our way, then into our basement...

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A COMPLICATED FATE D' COMPLI
Your bedroom closet is larger than this room
Where fears father plays the part of Lady Sorrow's groom

Your master bath is three times larger than the one I enter using a key...

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from all identical to nothing identical
many exceptions to no exceptions
eventually deduced from the above 
all deductions being eventual
that to have a spirit there must be suffering
now for the latest in strong arm technology
The U.S. Bureau...

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A COMPLICATED FATE D’ COMPLI
Your bedroom closet is larger than this room
Where fear’s father plays the part of Lady Sorrow’s groom
Your master bath is three times larger than mine 
The one I share with the...

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What has become of Nigeria?
What has become of my countryhome?
What has become of those children littered there?
Is everyone there still alive or all are dead of lassa?
What has become of her economic that once glowed?



I...

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There is special interest in planet 
That orbit in a star's habitable zone great, 
Where it is possible for liquid water, 
A prerequisite for life on Earth to occur,
To exist on the surface simpley we...

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Diamonds forever sparkle deeply as a treasured jewel
Dawning and revealing pure in a fresh breath of light 
Shining on warm gentle bonds inside one’s very heart

Tears just beating drums with sounds splashing gently
Young and beautiful...

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Diamonds forever sparkle deeply as a treasured jewel
Dawning and revealing pure in a fresh breath of light 
Shining on warm gentle bonds inside one’s very heart

Tears just beating drums with sounds splashing gently
Young and beautiful...

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I see a Nigeria clothed in white linen,
Her skin glitters and glows like the sun.
Her lips brightened the earth of its darknes,
Unity, love, progress and kindness uphold her.
She dances among the nations of the world
joyfully...

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