Long Factored Poems

"PHOENIX: Bleeding Hearts and Blue Violets”


 

Broken Hearts bleeding red
You lie in white sheets
Turning in the crisp clean pages muddy with
Black Dogs barking in your head
They run all night chasing your tail
You twist and turn...

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RESURRECTION OF A HEROE:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
CHORUS:
Far from comparison, far from fear.
Failure part of the journey; shed no tears.
Man...do... the best you can do.
Talents in your hand's only for you. 
No body cares...what you...

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When ‘He’ decides to destroy one and all
I’ll spend my last day in this old snooker hall
My cue in one hand and a beer in the other
I’ll play my last game with my dad and...

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Global warming is on the rise;
hear the hateful voices,
see the angry eyes
Earth temperature is flaring to the moon,
	nuclear hate
gon bring an apocalyptic kaboom
Hostile tweet emotions
		press send to our doom
Then sorrowful hearts
	will be melting soon
Unless we...

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Put a sail to me, I'll cross the seven seas
I'll just sink with the ship
that hasn't carried me that far
it's battered and dilapidated
but I'm too lackadaisical to try and fix it
who do I appear to...

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Time is a man made construct whose sole purpose is to bring an ordered form to the 
events of our lives. It has no place in the overall picture where what is…is, and what 
isn’t...

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Although I'm childless by own hand
That's no crime as I understand
But parenthood I might restrict?
This world's not one that I'd inflict
Upon another soul by choice
So, in this cause, I raise my voice.

I do not judge...

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I don't know if there's a way to describe spinning whilst still
Reverse vertigo, maybe I'm still whilst spinning
But what if pieces of me flew away
Centrifugal forces dictate that happens

I don't know what I'm left with...

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A personal view of the Devizes Neighbourhood Plan
and the referendum on Thursday at the Town Hall

All careful plans of men may fail and fall
And falter, crumble; leaving broken stone
No reason to devise no plan at...

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I watched something on the television in a program about Euthanasia 
And since my father died from cancer what palliative care would be a saviour
I can understand I think how sick people would want a...

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I watched something on the television in a program about Euthanasia 
And since my father died from cancer what palliative care would be a saviour
I can understand I think how sick people would want a...

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Self knowledge equated to the encyclopedia
and perceived facts, products of personal reasoning
the efficacy of thoughts should not be questioned
and assumptions simply made real and absolute

Typical of such a thought stamps on convictions that
the banana and...

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This was the road he took
Despite the light strewn of leaf
I can tell
The wind has not disturbed his footsteps a lot
He has left for us a trail of grief
And destiny hanging between earth and hell.
I...

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Fallen upon knees in ashes of pipe dreamer’s infatuation 
chimera's collective stardust reigning through macrocosms,
world spins counterclockwise unrealistically bound hiatus
stained glass mirrors fracture in rhetorical opposition,
earthly beings condensed to mere commonplace residue
threadbare allegiances written on...

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You will just have to teach yourself
one poor female victim at a time
for kissing is a dangerous occupation
for adolescents and virgins.

Angles and shapes have to be factored in
at lightning speed
before the plunge is undertaken.

The neck...

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Polly is in politics
Convinced herself she's great
Though it's tough to find benevolence
Whilst sifting through the hate

Polly has a message
Polly has a creed
The only thing Polly does not have
A strong defense towards greed

So Polly eats the...

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Can anyone fathom a temperature of -40F

That's what we're experiencing today

Must qualify that, it's with the wind chill factored in

It's a balmy -15F, in this winter ballet

What am I doing here, have I lost all...

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My fourth concussion
                 and first skull fracture
            ...

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However we came into being,
Commenting on anything and everything,
I am sure was not factored in,
When it came time to give us a brain.

When it became obvious that our brains were about to implode,
Computers appeared on...

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Predicting the future is an interesting possibility
So think of what things may for the world to see

Let's have a bash at what might be known
People will have implants for mobile phones 

Public transport will be...

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UNDERTOW OF NOSTALGIA
the ambiguous
    explored
on an indeterminate
surface

liberating
    the emotional freedom

 a splintered breakaway
  of
    excitement
& expectation
improvement
 emphasised
    by  innovation
effect& consequence
emphasised

 trends in full force
conveying
emotion
 meaning
  suggestion &
heightened sensation

a super reality
in the unconscious
  with enduring influence

maturity
denial
 of instant predictions
&priorities
factored to emergine
as motivations
    I re engage


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making...

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"Mr. Nelson, you are brought
before this very board
to answer for some variance
that cannot be ignored
your project shows completion
thirteen months ahead of time
the stakeholders are happy
and you haven’t spent a dime
normally this type of thing
is very...

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The metal door behind me
and the key that helps confine me
is a continuous reminder
that our lives could be more kinder...
we shoud see the situations
thats corrupted our vocations
and avoided so called friends
who held hands to bring...

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Rub A Dub Dub
"Entrepreneurs in vat scat."

Humpty Dumpty
"One jovial oval toppled over."

Jack And Jill
"Up a Tell there is a well that once gave rise to laughter. Till down the Tell a laddie fell whose head...

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A friend passed on – not someone close
But someone I adored.
A service in her honor
I would never have ignored.

So when I heard, belatedly,
That there had been one planned,
In three days’ time, I reached out
To the...

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