Long Elevens Poems

"1331 is already done
1111 is even more fun
With these number and with these words
We prove to each other that we are nerds.
Tell me a story whilst I dream
Tell it with flourishes, candy and cream
And get...

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A Wordsmith’s pen
Is mightier than the sword
For he can turn a tricky word
Into a verbal weapon
And win the day against the hoard
The words of the Bard
It’s not very hard
The turn of a friendly card
The changing...

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For the break.fast at hand,
So that I'll understand,
He makes me a sloppy jo.
... ug. So over I rolled.


She nibbles at JO,
waves g’morning to MO…

Mmmm.
A tasty treat, made so sweet,
I’m glad, one of us can cook…
First...

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glittering gold crosses 
adorning muscled, tanned bodies 
endlessly liposuctioned into Versace
worshipping the almighty dollar 
as they cruise the golden boulevard 
disciples of Bentley and Rolls

paying lip service to the lord
with collagen smiles 
gracing plastic personas...

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She who holds a seamlessly symmetrical silhouette 
so supple to the touch 
coupled by hips on sticks of tango, that inimitable set of pins 
simper at all that you clutch 

Bob nearer the eyes of...

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Forgive me if I ask how long before we converge again around the bonfire in the wee hours to douse this chilly dust-laden winds of the season.
It was a misery, but it should happen again.
That...

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Hand surgeon, aptly named Charlie 
Had a habit most folk view bizarrely
Each day before patients lay on his table
He sniffed a line or two which made him able
To slice and dice, hyped up head felt...

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Did you blink when I winked?

"Lincoln, where’s that’s Ham?
All that’s here, is a can of spam?"

Reboote She said, as she stood on by…
Waiting to play, she decided to fly.

. . . . . . ....

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"!! Eleven elevens !!, cried the Seven,
"Did you forget girl, how to play?
While you rocked on your heels,
And you swayed two fours,
Did you trip and lose your way?
Dragon say, was to the Layer
you should play..."

With...

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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
And I bet it stunk to high heavens!
And if she really lived in that thing
The size was bigger than elevens

There's nothing worse than a stinky foot
Well,...

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When the lights go down 

and the kids are asleep

My spirit wants to party

Tell that to my feet.


My poor tired feet

As big as they are

Have carried my weight

All night at the bar


They're in a tough...

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One wants to lead the world,
Two wants to heal the world,
Three wants to inspire the world,
Four wants to stabilize the world,
Five wants to change the world,
Six wants to love the world,
Seven wants to know the...

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One day I’ll wake up and lie 
Tell you that I’m not happy
But I’m really “not”
Say that I’m over you
But I’ll never really stop
Being in love with you

Seeing you walk by not
Feeling anything for you
Not...

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Once upon a time not so very long ago,
There was a man with old shoes, which let the air flow

He travelled to the shoe shop with money in his hand
To buy another pair of shoes,...

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I wanted something bubbly
Coke with ice cream trick
That fridge, again, empty
So I made my trip to Kwik

Swerving around this town in my horses
Parking up by the front door
No training could have prepared me for
What waited...

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I sit with crooked knees, bent 
like the browning blades of grass 
trampled by turtles 
and picked apart by doves 

My moans aren't moans of joy 
but parables spewed at sunlight 
burning crosses that bare...

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I float 
in breathless transience
of heartbeats
as the moon's feral pupil peers
through keyholes
in the clouds

The Orpheus kiss
is a crap shoot
elevens showering sterling whispers
of soft Tiffany roses
from gentle arbors
or twelves
of black sky thundering
bastard answers
to unspoken prayers

I may...

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