Long Firebrands Poems

Two little sparks
enlightening the dark

(tidal waves tugging on the heart)

One named Amelia, the other Aurora:
Completing the scenery --- fauna and flora.
But Borealis, she has no stake in the matter,
for she is just a melancholy rainbow
in...

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The Error, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : El Error

				for Miguel Delibes

(There are just some words and phrases in this translation that I might yet want to modify or substitute with other alternative phrasing. T....

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Even foxes have holes and birds their nest                           ...

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I am a strong proponent of good public education
But restrictions on classroom teachers is unsettling,
Much of what I have to say is purely speculation
And, I wouldn’t want to be accused of meddling,

My experience teaching in...

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There once was a branding woman that worked on a ranch
She ran through woods looking behind every branch
Frantic to find a tolerant male to arrange wedding plans
Her methods guaranteed producing orangutang comedians
Also, her cranky, exuberant...

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Kan you kill kompassion?
Or is this kosmic kuestion 
too komplicated to komprehend?


The hooded hoodlums of hate,
behind a mask
they hide their true face

They darkly despise
their distant kin,
those with melanin skin — 
Sun-protected epidermal blend

Solar kancer kancelled...

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We set foot on dry grass at the cockcrow 
 of a nascent union. 
Cheek to cheek as Cupid towers 
over the rose inside my heart,
shooting arrows at a dyad draped in fire,
gliding through the...

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And so it came to pass
as I raised a bourbon glass
and tossed a bolt of fire down my throat;
the ash from cigarettes
glowed as dying suffragettes,
chained to wrists of every weeping, wailing ghost.

A thirst I could...

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I 
saw 
them,a 
pair 
of 
furious 
hen;hauling 
stones 
and 
throwing 
firebrands 
and 
I 
winked 
at 
the 
ominious 
exchange 
for 
it 
was 
in 
the 
dry 
season.          ...

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The Incorrigible Gods 

Thunder Rain Storm Earthquake Tsunami
We the Gods are angry with mankind!
Noah, build an arc and save the species!

Oh Gods why destroy if to be built again?
We want to see your will power...

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The Practical Joker

By Elton Camp

Joe, by a paving contractor, was employed
Practical jokes were what he most enjoyed

When an extra pair of boots he spied
Another of his inane tricks he tried

With paving he covered the tops...

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Yes, I’m a Poet,
  but I refuse to be tormented  
  
I refuse to be a victim,
  with my words made out of stone

I refuse to bleed my heart out,
 ...

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Yes, I’m a Poet,
but I refuse to be conscripted

I refuse to be a victim,
my words made out of stone

I refuse to bleed my heart out,
on a page of blank simpatico

I refuse to give you weakness,
knowing...

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