Long Eking Poems

Himalayas

Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan mountains. 2

Out of the chaos, towering peaks arose,
Piercing heavenly soft, white cotton clouds,
Bursting...

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My big friend has locked me
Inside of his house
I do not believe 
I will ever get out

I don’t really mind
It’s comfy and warm
And except for that dog
I never face harm

In the earliest days
of my feline...

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Chapter 13d

Yet at length he reawakened 
As if in another lifetime 
Han discerned a sound and movement 
Stiffly rose to look about him

And he saw his precious Matto
Crouching near him in the vessel!
That was now...

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Proceed no further, please ... 
this Rorschach ink will give you nightmares
Horrifying images everyday in the world you dare don’t see,
terrible things that will make you so soul scared
But, the voice coming from the neon...

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A WALK IN THE DARK

The cold wind stung my ego
As my feet darted down the corridor of nowhere
The bitter push whipped through my skin
I slithered through the arrogant open gate
I elbowed my way into the...

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The devil wants a payment, and the angels need a check.
And the world keeps saying their ain’t no cash to get

So, you reach for the savings that your people won't release
Then you look to the...

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With traffic flowing he stands in the street
Arms stretched, hands up, commanding a halt
Obedience and fate will now compete

His adrenaline pumping like a drumbeat
His eyes shut tightly sting with warm sweat's salt
With traffic flowing he...

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Jeweled morning glows
Echoes of birds from the trees
Withering the night

Juice flows in flowers
Eternal sap of our love
Wellspring of our joy

Jars of honey brim
Erratic flies the loud bee
Woodlands rich in bloom

Just us on these sands
Erecting castles...

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SOFT SENSUALITY

While the waiting is nearing
The longing doubly suspenseful
Mechanically or tender make it eager of welcome
Perhaps hugging and kissing
Will never dampen homesickness
Everything in the “kubo” is envious
Every minute a comfort and intimate
Even crickets stop cricketing
And...

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As corporate execs rub their hands together
In greedy glee on seats of plush leather
The man on the street smells the breath of the city
Whilst the man in the tower thinks himself quite witty
As the look...

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When breath returns sweeter,
From its journey into you.
Sent so softly on its way,
To blend and gently wend,
Its path to feed your heart.

When breath comes eking softly,
 a returning theif it seems.
Bringing its treasures forth,
And brushing...

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Mayhem, pandemonium 
total chaos, bedlam, devastation.
A soft, soothing breeze turns
into a whirlwind, a hurricane causing
havoc, death, destruction and untold misery…
Is it the fault of the fair wind?

The life-giving rainfall
cool, refreshing, revitalizing, 
turns into rainstorm,
violent thundershower,...

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Inspired by the painting by Salvador Dali:
'The Persistence of Memory'

The endless eking out of time
Drains me of my verve
Trying to recall what once was mine
Is any sense of self conserved?
If I could summon just an...

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The mosaic

A myriad of faces,
 Most, long and forlorn,
 Each in a constant flux,
 Eking out a living
 Worry, deeply etched,
 Like parallel ridges,
 On an otherwise barren waste

The many faces,
 Painted with the ink,
...

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From Mastadonian timelessness
Thru Neolithic mankindliness 
Past icy agey instances
Cave-ember dream sequences
Animal carcass sustenances
Tribal ritual religiousness 
Guttural language utterances
Savage native dominances
Eking marginal existences
Toward era-ending extinguishes

To Nomadic brutal homelessness
Under cracking cultural bridginess
Under societal forgetfulness
Under Military expansiveness
Governmental negligences
A...

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Beeping, chirping silicon beasts;
no souls have they, to say the least.
Shrilly, shrieking, cell phones, beeping; 
alarms that keep us all from sleeping.

Walking, stalking cameras gawking; 
all of our privacy they’re hawking..
What happened to the common...

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Gravitational pull like quicksand, her ebony eyes
Ripping into his outer space. He tugs at his collar,
Eking out the empty space of honeysuckle perfume.
Avant-garde arrest of his indeterminate heart -
Time like scented petals pauses — a...

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exploitation continues
the thieves are ever at it
the heroes have departed
leaving behind the weaklings to be exploited
Here’s a worker sweating blood
while the eating homo-chewing dance frenzy
the tamed enslaved beings roam and wander
but only in the marked...

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