Long Escape hatch Poems

It’s been 36 days since you were dethroned 
You were the free-standing house, I was the fist that ripped the power line in half 
You’re the ouija board to my spirits of the past,
You keep...

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“Azure blue sky dreamer.
Where you bound today of mystifying  days?
Can you hear me through that enigmatic fog?
Your Milky Way incarnate hyper trance phase.”

“Fellow wonderland  adventurer.
I’ve been pole vaulting otherworldly golden orb frontiers.
As I...

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The Great Escape

Perched on a rooftop terrace in glorious sunshine he watches ahead
Floats on his sky looks inwards and ponders the magic path unravel
           ...

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Dragon and the Sheriff of CrazyLand are in competition, Whoa to all!
I think what they’ve developed, must be a macho, low key, kinda brawl.
Fighting became their way, long before The Wizard of Oz came to...

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He lives between two worlds.
 
One that an average, or sane person, finds him or herself living day to day,
and that of a fictional writer, who allows his creative side to pull him into the...

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The world  that a normal person, finds him or herself living from day to day, and that of a writer, who allows their creative side to pull them into the shadowed spaces of his...

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Team leader Renee peered out
of her faux gold  window  around a pulsing Friday noon.
“Almost like we’re puppets of each other down there.
Maybe everywhere?”
Albert, her partner and co-worker were apt to look down on...

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Uncle soldier Sammie
is too flashback	    far Saigon 
The bad memory withdrawals 
are too ganja gun smoke strong
So he pumps up the blame volume,
saying who’s dirty napalm wrong

He’s got a shaky second and...

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When time flies, feelings of euphoria,
spur jaw-dropping habitus within,
vision of nirvana on groundswell earth,
chirping bird amber tone on hedgerow,
cacophony that piercing aural backdrop,
riotry of wild bewitching warble,
golden fronted leaf, black nape oriole, 
northern red bishop,
snapshot...

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Azure blue skies weep in rent glacial torrents,
iridescent earth sun trap poised  to garner sympathy,
dark red cloud’s indignant float might yet rumble,
toxic deluge drenches mudbank plot as toilers whine,
thunderstruck I gaze at wild indigo...

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I have played the coward and the brave,
both the strong and the weak.
A man must be a man, and forget nothing,
keeping close to him
those times of disgrace and honor,
drink both the gall and the nectar
of...

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The everyman’s watering hole
A refuge-cold or balmy, what’s the difference?
Leaves change, politicians run, and politicians lose 
Styles, erratic like the wind
Friendly faces amongst the crowd
Turnstile movement except for the old guy at the end
Yea, he...

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Anger,  Anger, why must I always see, feel, express you?
anger, My body is clinched, my heart is beating hard, 
Why do I always  feel you inside me? Is there an escape hatch for...

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Lost and confused nowhere to run
starting a new life here its begun,
going no were lost in the mind 
empty completely black 
not unconfined,
trying to make sense of the pieces
as i go day by day the...

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A city kid born in an asphalt jungle, whose alternating currents in mind can create an oasis 
at the horizons edge.

Free falling into an amber dream, breaking out of no man’s land an escape hatch...

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Everyone has an excuse for what they can't do. 
Don't be like the others looking for an escape hatch.
If you have a dream, you have a reason to believe. 
Dark roads are ahead so you...

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A warped 
zone
twisted &
unworthy of 
  grasping--
impossible to
  escape.

No reward
No love
No answers.

Frantic fingers
 scrape at the escape hatch
yearning to push the
EJECT button
  (clinging to hope
for transmigration).

A glimpse into
  dying
a flood of
...

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Don't open the escape hatch until he is far away.
Look out the elongated glass opening right above me.
Only then I can offer proper advice to each soldier.
I read a secret advanced directive I hoped I...

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Spiral carved spheres on long green stems
            brimming with redness
Fiery egos afloat in spring air
Layered petal enclosures, soft cups,
     ...

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A misty morning in Donegal.
My sheep are scattered over bog.
Must wipe the sand man from sleepy eyes.
Put on the kettle when I rise.

Rex is already outside half door.
He senses mist may rise some more.
No delay...

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I don't believe in Jesus...
Life is what it is...
God didn't write the bible;
wise words but not his...
You say you're going to heaven...
I am truly happy for you...
I hope doctors find the soul
amid all the grey...

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(A Blank Verse Sonnet)

The moon creeps through the barnyard's busy night
where ducks chase bugs on top of pond's still face
and turtles wait in murky bottom's sludge
for tasty treats to float across their view.

A pair of...

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I don’t understand how you can put them down
You have never met them, the new people in town
Old hag said, “I do not have to explain any justification…
for my obviously brilliant floccinaucinihilipilification.”
I rolled my eyes...

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One last street light glows
Where faith was lost and gone
It wasn't so long ago
You found yourself all alone
I know, I know...
Been down so long
Drop the burden , let it go
Find yourself another road
I was told
Always...

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Christmas, me in my red wagon
Slogging in tears, later you forget
Am I a full person?

Blown black pepper stings your eyes
You strike me, the ambivalence aches
Covered mouth laugh-sharing from now on

Reattached you escape childish dreams
I offer...

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