Long Fingerless Poems

Word Fantasy in F Sharp Minor  (3 Movements)

1

(Andante con moto)

Hey man. Take this.

I got it last night,
under a fractured street light,
with shattered pieces of clear glass, scattered
at the nexus of an obscure dark freeway...

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The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the strengthening light, 
In its deliberate and unconcerned   ...

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gripping numbness
ripples across my face,
infinite timed tears
burn through my skin, 
glittering a fire
of unrivaled suffering 

grief beyond measure 
rips apart my psyche, 
keening at a moonless sky 
I am bereft of my star,
mourning an existence...

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It's insane how much has changed.
From never talking- 
to talking every single day.
I am more attached to you than I am my phone
My 2 addictions combined 
Infused with my blood
It is a good thing that...

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III

This is the land of the convectional rains
Which vie on the monsoon back scrubbing streets
This is the land at half-past four
The rainbow rubs the chilli face of the afternoon
And an evening-morning pervades the dripping, weeping
Rain...

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Part Two

From that moment onwards
Not when the fingerless muscles unclasped
    the indented bones
But from that moment of knowing
   from that very moment of sustenance
That day of human unbelief died unsung
And...

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as you lay down beside me in peace whilst you sleep
i think of the pain thats stored in you so deep
amazed every day just how you still show so much care
the worlds full of goodness...

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The clown with his red cherub face
A maggot in his twisted brain
The jack-booted leather Christian
With dull razorblades down his spin

Staring down from their high windows
The taste of gin upon their tongues
Lusty fire crackling in their...

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glove - a covering for the hand having separate sections for each of the fingers and the thumb and often extending part way up the arm

mitten - a covering for the hand and wrist having...

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A pair of new shoes in the thrift store,
the old shoes would shuffle away
from them if they could.

A ragged man struggles 
carrying a large plasma screen
in outstretched arms.
He is walking it home
but he has no...

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Four Cafe’s

It was post digestion time, 6pm ! uncomfortable bloating causing a staggering stand,supported by the apartment windows brass clasp, the torn green velvet digestion chair lilted just beneath. Nested above the Canal Madeline, perched...

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Four Cafe’s

It was post digestion time, 10pm ! uncomfortable bloating causing a staggering stand,supported by the apartment windows brass clasp, the torn green velvet digestion chair lilted just beneath. Nested above the Canal Madeline, perched...

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Now I hold a key to Solomon's Seal
It fits the Star of David too
Rock climbed the Walls of Wisdom 
Cornerstones well placed towards a
Throne of Love, bloody thorns my rope
Courage dissolved into pebbles of joy
As...

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Black spot on roses and fingerless mittens
Green stinging nettles and flea ridden kittens
All creepy crawlies and insects with wings
These are a few of my un-favourite things

When my back aches
When my head spins
When I’m fighting mad
I...

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windswept windsurfing wallabies warbling whales wailing................................................................................

A pink fish travelling with a tea towel is neither in a rush or dirty. Gridlocked gorillas getting grapes gracefully glide. Seafront mystery in windswept hair carrying a carrot, a...

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Colours chatting. Charts cantering. Divine decanters are in no way an explanation in a bowling alley or on a pool table. Snooker a sock. And land in nets. Flashing flesh fishing faint frog eyed frames....

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End
Close
Conclusion 
Fin 

Black…

It’s too late now
The dogs are asleep now
Tears are unshed now 
Peace is gone now
You’re gone too now

Breathe 

Shaking violently 
Contorting beyond recognition
Bloodless cold
Soundless screams
Crooked broken smiles 

Focus 

Stop staring one-eyed ghost
Sprawled mutilated...

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Inside woolly mittens, they kept each other warm
From frigid, chilly temperatures amidst a winter storm

They huddled up together, these friendly fingers four
Until they heard, "Hey! I am not here to ignore!"

It was their stubby next...

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Awakening lashes
on midnight silk
in burning ashes
the remnants of guilt
My wings tied by
the forces behind
my feet to the fire 
a lover in my mind

.

”... Where am I now…”
~I’m awake somehow

.

Breathing in the dark
is a fire side...

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The light is thinning.
A ragged man struggles
to carry an unboxed
large plasma screen.

He is walking it home,
he has no home
still, he is walking it,
but now it's raining
the TV becomes
a slippery umbrella.

There is so little light to...

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Stretching out my crooked frame
I once again
see the odds are good enough
to join all those other nameless beings
who populate the internet
with ink and echoes.

In a dormant room
a laptop is singing quietly to itself.
Its calulating clock...

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Shuffling, shuffling, the tramp shuffles.
One shoe too big, one shoe too tight.
Shuffling, shuffling, from dawn until night. 

Pausing at bins, fingerless gloves.
Searching for scraps with a hungry eye.
A few cold chips, a half-eaten pie.

City gents...

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Feeble, a word not often used 
in this hi-def, mega bite world,
where almost anything can be done
with the tap of a fingertip,
the aged still feel feeble.
This crackled feeling runs along the rims
of brittle nails 
and...

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A romantic stuck in the age of the Net
Date, select, one thumbed, spider trapped
The bars are empty, a fingerless fret
The bars are empty, no notes ever tapped
Dress for the photo for the trending application
Distress for...

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THE PASSIONLESS REVOLUTIONARY


A ragged impulse – the scrivener’s tetch
truncated our conversation on the working
class.  Your brief was their craft
was their art, which liberation lost
to them: mine was an impounded version
of the waggoner’s instance, the...

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