Long Emporium Poems

6 miles up river Arikara are encountered,
they are a people of amenable disposition and are agrarians,
they chuckle with sympathy as we inform them of our grizzly confrontation
and they tell us that disease had forced them...

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One afternoon Martha the mother of Jack, who was in her early eighties, told an amazing story about her son while having coffee in the parlor with her neighbors; it was a weekly gathering to...

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Dragon was feeling persnickety one day, he wanted his Dragon magic back.
The Elven King had bound it for 100 years, to protect those who magic lacked.
Every young dragon needs to first learn… to live a...

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We ponder Pandora as the person preordained
to unleash a plethora of plagues upon our persons.

But here's what I heard:
Pandora had two sisters,
Persephone and Proserpina.
Pandora perused poetry 
while Persephone practiced petite-point.
But Proserpina possessed the predilection
for picking...

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Have you met, good old Grandma Goodie, Goodie,
With her gingerbread house of sweets emporium,
Tasty treats unwholesome to eat, but oh in pleasures
Indulgence, she corners the market, the bitter,
To the sweet, with her delicious confectionery delights.
Skip,...

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The Green Silk Dress
Eons back in time, was a tall maiden fair
A long pair of legs and equally long blond hair.
A green silk dress, she once did espy
The colour would pick the green out in...

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A jug of wine, a book of verse and thou,
Beneath kind trees that spread their green leaves shady
My sheeps heart beats with love and I seek now
A daisy that this sheep may give his lady

I...

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The orchestra of bombs
musical heroes tip toe through the corpses
blood and mud the choir
to sing their praises
between battle flags and guns

Cenotaph the list of tickets
chisel the shrapnel scars of so heroic
wear the skeletons of our...

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Arc of sure light
Sunrise in a flash;
Emergent horizon

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Street corner commotion
Detour signage shouts;
Road excavation

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Fruit stall vendor
Familiar offerings tempt;
Seasonal fruits

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Emporium crowd
Oriental handicrafts;
Curious array

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Smoky haze pollutes
Grey sunscreen patch;
Coughing episodes

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Hunchback old lady
Sorting paper debris; 
Resolute survival

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Sidewalk cobbler
Old uncle attending;
Sick...

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How far we’ve come
in this mechanized quantum
by silicon faction
the future held
our giddy and marvelous emporium

And if by chemical we could elevate
genetics design circumnavigate
such oblivious wonders
to an image
in an image
and in ourselves a God created

Lo and...

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I spent my day shopping for rubies
Far East posting covert listing
Mr Patwari’s emporium 
Assistants ever so obliging

Hexagonal set quaintly bulbous 
does cheapen the overall effect
Disappointedly I turn aside
Mr Patwari, whose tone inflect

Secretly, soft whispers in...

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Stop to shop on my posh Shop

         
            Please make a quick stop 
  ...

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A prediction for the unforeseeable     
the somehow mishaps inescapable
and accidental omen to avoid
the illogical cat's-paw of capricious fate
irregular in it’s certainty
and a trip into oblivion's insecurity

And quick with madness comes within...

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(buy two for the price of one)

Serve your mom and dad a tea at breakfast
With ginger and drops of sedatives to relax
Drive them to the market in Happy Town
Buy them new outfits and shoes
Parents must...

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The stock of the rifle is hand-selected walnut.
I polish it with a soft cloth and occasionally
use linseed oil.

I dust a porcelain lady
twice a week. She does not need my attention, 
but I give it.

My Nikon...

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She was half asleep in the auditorium
Finding this new year’s curriculum 
Dreadfully burdensome and cumbersome
So altogether utterly drearisome
   When all of a sudden she heard beating of a drum
    ...

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Written: October 23, 2023,
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A staunch surrender in a twilight embrace.
My mind is...

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Dilated time extends shuttle to projectile velocity
Accelerated approach shatters tachometer 
Forcecul thrust spurs blob star pulp blur galaxies
Taken to religion's reason, infinity honourer

Surveying never discover wonder, God's audacity 
Latent edges beckon an awakened explorer
Unbound compounds...

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I'm sure this hill is where it stood.
Amazing shapes of stuccoed wood.
A glass-brick, neon stream-lined place.
As if it flew from outer space,

A swing band auditorium,
An Art Deco emporium,
When romance, innocent in pace,
From dancing to a...

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There is much more to a woman
Than what she can put on show
There is more in the emporium
Than there is in the shop window

Like an expensive Champagne 
That a Lambrusco will out fizzle
A woman displaying...

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