Long Effuse Poems

Throughout full room sprays of sweet nothings suffuse
Mellow are memorial moments, mirth as well as my muse
High-floating foams, filled with redolent renaissance
Gently freshen up and fondle my hairs
My hairs, eager to inhale inspiring air
Grow fixated...

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"Death is the beginning of life as life is the beginning of death ..."              
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For years, we went for Chinese food
Most every Friday night;
Our sons, best friends both then and now,
Made sure that we’d unite.

But conversation always flowed
For Larry kept things fresh,
Ensuring that both kids’ and grown-ups’
Talk was sure...

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We have a flower box on our back porch.
The house is painted gray, the box is red.
I can see the flower box from my bed
it sits upon the railing on the porch.

When late afternoon shadows...

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The contradiction of the rager
So youthfully endowed with unpleasantries
Of a child-man high in cumulus clouds
Stratospheres of anger that rain 
Down like spoiled fruit
Falling from the rotten vine
Futures of grandeur, illusions of manhood
Snuffed out by his...

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Sleep.. indigo’s eyes, night loving allies,
Sol’s flare is stars' disguise dawn till dusk’s reprise,
peach awe-inspired skies effuse juice sunrise,
east, grapefruit pink lies - lemon slice rhapsodize.
Pastel wash replies to Zephyrus sighs,
morning glory highs yield to...

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" ...betrayal begins with trust."
                  ~ Quote_ Phish  


Our trust presupposes expectation,
based on a script, being but delusion,
which is the root cause of our frustration;
betrayal plunging mind in...

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Age, the withering rock that quickly falls 
to the gaping hole in the earth, the hardest place, 
that traps a life and snuffs it swiftly out 
in the confines of enclosing, shrinking space. 
Yet her...

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If all writing is, indeed, a mere ruse,
Why do I need an inspirational muse,
or editor my syntax to masseuse
Mind's eye is vapid and obtuse;
My brain is calling an immediate truce
Inane pretenses no longer refuse,
and with...

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May a month when trees display their many tones and hues 
Adorned in their best all new and fresh; trees dressed to impress 
Cloaked in many shades of green like emerald, lime or chartreuse 
May...

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A breeze is nice, but my advice
When temperatures are soaring
Is get inside where you can hide
And cooler air is pouring.

I guarantee that with A/C
Your mood will be improving
And you can do the normal things
Like standing...

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we have been asked to police
contest entries for plagiarism 
relying on unproven software
sponsors are expected to comply
to make judging somewhat fair

perhaps we need to introspect
why are contests floated at all
is it not to cajole poets...

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