Long Fitful sleep Poems

I got a story 'bout a boy from the hood
Stayed out of trouble tried as hard as he could
Initiated when he was 12 years old  
They gave him a bandana and he did what...

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WORDS. They are my silent friends. I love them. Really love them. Always have. Always will.

I slumber on at night in fitful sleep. Then they come for me, wondrous and insistent, and torture me relentlessly....

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III.
It was near midnight when they came again,
four warriors armed all with flaming brands,
Myron bolted up from a fitful sleep,
and poured out bullets as the horses ran.

He managed to shoot one off of his horse,
but...

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And there the story might have ended 
But the bite on Suzanne's thumb 
Throbbed and became distended, 
'I must say, I feel a little rum', 
she said and lay down on her bed, 
but as...

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Today once more on this old seat
I mused amongst woodlands deplete 
of leaves where Autumn acts the churl,
watched winter smoke’s caress unfurl

Like ghosts that rose to touch the sky,
spirits of men destined to die
who could...

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Ship-wretched

Golden sand as far as can be seen
Lapped by an ocean, aquamarine
Sun blazing, high, in an azure sky
Another land hermit crab scampers on by
Palms edge the beach gifting welcome respite
from the heat of the day...

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The chance was there—then quickly snatched away,
but that moment became the reason she sustained hope.
Her captor had failed to lock the cellar door one day.
The key would turn moments later, but she wouldn’t mope.
Knowing he...

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Aren’t we all repository of talents many?
Some of them may be hibernating snug.
But they wait eager to wake up, 
At the opportune time like dormant buds,
At the first fond touch of spring.

Gardening is one of...

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The “rinodemwiticus”

It stood proudly hungry
watching all the others sate themselves
promising them forever more.
It turned – I saw the other face
preening itself as it strode
through the debris of its
efforts to build a bigger nest.
I watched it...

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“ Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Jim Rohn “

Relentlessly I pace around the room,
like a caged lion, dreaming of vast forests,
yearning for savannah grasslands,
vaguely remembered.

I fret for I feel inadequate,
still, I yearn...

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ESCAPE PLAN

the sea, red,
shook.

the Lord’s mighty binoculars
he spies out the escape
(God always has a plan)

the waters tossing and turning
(as if in fitful sleep)
the waters were afraid
knowing the power
of the Almighty

twisting, convulsing
clouds emptied out buckets
the skies...

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She fell into depression's pot
(an easy thing to do)
where darkness is, and light is not
(I'm sure you've done it too)
She wallowed in the shadow's jell
(with three birds and a cat)
where sticky feelings tend to dwell
(I'm...

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Upon the hilltop darkened deep
Sat a house in fitful sleep
They sat and watched, and no sound came
From the two in their fame

The first one spoke, sollem and still
"Look at them. Useless. Let me kill.
It will...

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Five hours on most mornings in a church
Seeking for shelter
From listless life that left me in the lurch
Which deprivation couldn’t alter

Despite the fervent wish
In my mind
Entertained in a dish
From which enough meals I couldn’t find

In...

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Her funeral held earlier that day,
in her coffin she held her mobile phone,
she told him that she wanted it that way
and now he crept off up to bed alone.
He tossed and turned, his was a...

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dread weight portends a churning belly-ache
  the day sinking ......
  relentless countdown to the frowning hours
  before the night of fitful sleep awakes disturbed
  that day is now here ...... too...

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I lay there wide awake,
sleep elusive tonight,
My wife slumbered on, 
mewing softly in a dream.
I gazed on her form, 
draped only in moonlight.
The Devil must have seen us, 
A dark thought in the night.
What if...

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You called out of the deep blue sky
When twilight was running from the night
Woke me from a fitful sleep
On the verge of dreams
Could this be reality
All the times you wonder in to my mind
When real...

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My Face Or Yours
(Ship-wretched revisited)

Out on the reef, lurk broken timbers
Phantom remains of his long ravaged boat
Each fitful sleep brings a new silver moon
And his silhouette yacht now afloat
But in the day those dank timbers...

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In honor of Remembrance Day and those that serve. 

Tour of Duty©

I awaken from a fitful sleep
One where slumber was not very deep

The night before after counting many a sheep 
My eyes closed and they...

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Tuesday was the day the ogre found my kitchen.
The dog sat in the hallway for an hour watching her
Empty my refrigerator, and two cupboards.
I had never heard my dog whine like this, I thought it...

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Awoken from fitful sleep, too uncomfortable to resume

Stifling heat prevailing one morning in early June

Through dawn's weakly strained golden haze

Fresh air my lungs desperately craved

To reach the front door, I descended the stairs

With door ajar,...

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I open the door and in the darkness
I see you in the bed,
Like I have so many times before.
You look at me, your eyes sparkling with sensuality,
An inviting smile upon your lips.
Your arms are open...

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As the desire of flight hardens my veins,
Your eyes, cool as the earth, shot with filtered 
sun, stay my limbs.

It’s difficult to believe in longing or sorrow
Beneath the eves of yew and hemlock.
Though stepping towards...

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Vitriol and darkly circumspect, 
These desires they know no bounds.
Tender prey and inviting eyes-
I spare no expense in this cold lover’s stare.
Awaken some deeply buried sense of entitlement
When I tell you that I asked the...

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