Long Ferments Poems

My Lords an adjournment is 
Called for...
All my retire;
But holding foremost in your
Thoughts,
I beseech ye,
Thee impudent countenance of
This most ardent denier.
Therefore heed me,
I caution all ye present,
Thou shall not disband;
Moreover, to reassemble at any
Sudden instance...

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GUM AND GUNFIRE
I SIT AT MY KITCHEN TABLE COMFORTABLY EATING A MANGO WITH OREO COOKIES
while a father fights off fearfulness fervently in a far off forest deep in Da Nang
Where even the trees have fangs
And...

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Seed - scattered strewn or downtrodden.
Grain stuck on passive flytrap mucus.
Wild life biomes ripe with  open sesame.
Frantic birth pangs stiffen their gestations as green  leaf ferments bubble underneath.
Mother of all wombs, diva pulse...

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Today wasn’t a good morning at all for Hassan,
a victual merchant in Baghdad
Thirty four customers got killed by a suicide bomb
A jihadist Arab wearing an explosive vest,
proclaiming to be fighting against the west,
ended up only...

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In the orchard of opalescence
magnificent myriads of mellows
fervently flow in fountains
breathing beguile blossoms
a forgotten fable ferments,
in haunting hollows I hear.

My heart is a restless garden
with varying pulses of penumbra
conflicts caressing cuddles
tenacious tattered thorns
singing to sumptuous...

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Twist in your dark deep eyes flit me, your body engulfs the thoughts. 
Crazy upstart, floating lock, graceful body dexterous striptease dance,
Walk me to your room, steroid zombie in moves, rave, exult to crave.
I hold...

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Happy May Day, all you PS boys and girls...EVOE!

Squeeze a cherry and let it sit,
And don't forget to take out the pit.
Let it ferment,
At least a day as a rule,
To give it some zing
And a...

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Peter Beechey capped the last bottle, of the latest Lager that he'd brewed.
He's changed his recipe this time, so the argument will be renewed.
He say’s the Lager that I make is not near the standard...

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I write about the things I know,
The things that give me pleasure.
I write about the things I love,
About the things I treasure.

I write about what bothers me,
Which trouble and annoy.
I write about the things I...

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By condo fence
Bird choir melody;
Song of July


Marriage banquet
Hosts in finery;
Guests and feast sparkle


Gratitude speaks
Spilling fond banter;
Bride and groom delight


Distant laughter
Prompts curious eyes;
Ears on the prowl


See moments crisp
Potato chips tasty;
TV sitcom drama 


Evening comes around
Rare red...

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She thinks in exotic colours 
that drip off her tongue 
like sharp shining jewels
formed somewhere deep 
in the permafrost of her,
the grey matter thrives
in the lava somewhere
rising inside the 
lux velvet crimson 
pulsing at the...

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Dusty day departs
Nightfall brings rest;
Home awaits heart

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Weary day retires
Night birds coo Good Night;
Sleep on sweet dreams

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Electric words whiz
Electrons on iPad;
Swirl of feelings

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Silent hours
Rain washing panes;
Streaks of lightning

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Fragrant kitchen
Food on the stove;
Happy meals await

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Jasmine flowers
Scented explorations;
Garden...

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Another day; days gone and go
We look forward with plentiful affirmative outlooks,
To the year’s feast!

I run-through my band to unbend the cords,
For refined and fluent tenors,
For calm unperturbed blend of words and strings to born...

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Beyond the hedgerow where the river does flow
Where bunnies unbridled cavort to and fro
And commune with the cows where the new grasses sprout
What, one could ask, might they natter about?
…
…
The cow left a pat and...

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His clothing is mottled,
His beard speckled grey
and he takes up his post 
by the road every day.

But he knows he’s depressed; he is always depressed,
And his sadness ferments like old wine, and the best
He can...

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Daughter, neglected by maternity
A button missing were her eye should be
Abused and abundant by paternity
Her limb missing were her leg should be
Expected to know the origins of charity
Love omitted from were her heart should be
Against...

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Goodbye
Said the Greek;
A sudden shift


So many days
By poetic shores;
A touch of nice


The distant waves
Ebb and flow;
Recall old haunts


On this shoreline,
Seagulls make noise;
Crowded array


Words mix and match
Verse of all sorts;
The poets plot


Strange range,
Broad avenues;
Quaint company


Like minded...

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My wide wild imagination often carries me there,
To that fantastic ethereal world of elegance;
Where those immaculate white beings, like goddesses care,
With meekness, patience, gladness, and heroic vigilance...!

Though I don't know the truth, faith, like the...

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I blow light gale past her potent yearnings,
Rave eyes skirting over unblemished skin,
Silky fragile, creamy mask as sweat dew;
Ferments deep intent in her naked undoing?

Squeals with relish uttered sighs from lewd lips,
Pure music echo in...

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Sleeping in the bones of humanity
A fear snarls complications and apathy
As humid poverty dies ingesting vices 
While tossing dice into the digital
Scream as surrealistic executions
Rifle through old files yellowed
The answer is never bound but held
Loosely...

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Cellphone monologue

I’ve been driving, you know the road is no highway,
how taxing, skirting potholes, cajoling the new jalopy
will be there for a candle lit supper, come what may.
Out of the glare, jacarandas form a fragrant...

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The touch of their slice bleeds out my exuberant self 
As the pain they bring within, into anger ferments
A hot spring of words akin to crepuscular hues bursts within
But before my mouth can utter, consciousness...

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I don’t like to focus on pain,
wanting to remain positive--
believing “rising tides lift, etc….”
but sometimes pain
will not listen to the host, 
receptors closed
to meditation
and prayer;

an open question to me
as to whether we propagate
unconsciously, or flagrant...

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Mindless the mission with visions unseen;
Open to wonder that transcends the pure;
Rest beyond tension the friction that weans;
Embrace the thunder that creates allure.
Time after time we hurl unsure wild complaints;
Reach within a whole that stumbles...

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Your heart is an envelope of my desire
A symbol of my love on fire;
It captures the essence of my love
Like tasting fine wine it ferments in time.

Like fresh juicy grapes in a vineyard,
Wrapped together as...

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