Long Extruding Poems

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You died at 22; left me alive
At 25 to write this sonnet tomb;
Block letters hewn, with fumbling hands I drive
This pen in metered clangs around your room. 

In desperate pause, I step away to see...

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They’ve all gone those singer songwriters of yesterday 
or are in the process of leaving 
But their songs remain in our hearts and psyches
their words forever embedded in our souls

They came like a breath of...

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Temerity has become the greed-follicles that puncture peacefulness in human life.
Extruding tangled spires across the earthen lands like trees ready to fall and crush.
Power seekers boldly trample upon the complacent, seldom knowing meekness.
Tromping over the...

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The sun melted and fumed smoking in the disoriented darkness of the creeping night.
Exulting to breathe life within tormented crusts of hardened granite and molten lava
Waiting for the cool sheen of the silvery moon to...

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In a dream 
I saw me walking down a narrow road
I have not seen before,
A road paved with greasy stones of graveyard
I have seen before,
A road cutting a black tunnel in the midnight air
Now thick...

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Where's Your Poetic Voice? 

How to render it contemporary, unique, one in the whole wide world? 

Be elusive, a multi-headed, myriad-brained grandchild of Loch Ness? 

Or be happy?  The flow of dreamy happiness

when painting...

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I had heard grandeur speeches
    of wisdom and power
    Eternal tales of grandeur and glory
    legends WHISPERING through the times of days

    Since...

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If I was to write a memorable song
some kind of melody not very long,
expect something catchy with beat
with a titled chorus that would repeat,
vibrant positive, feel good factor tune 
sung by Everyone from Earth to...

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There's madness in enlightenment,
preferring darkly recesses of denial
    whilst moon descends sensibilities,
shedding white powder florescence
fracturing every crack & crevice,
most days long to dwell
in oblivion, remembers it fondly,
before unicorns and monsters
became real and...

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Does anything fear a man?
Making him any softness 
Of manhood? And dignity?  
Extruding a bit deference from him?

Does poverty do that? 
And power? and death? 
And anything else potentially gets that?
Bring in a man...

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