Long Fixedly Poems

The Rhine Salmon Complaint, Translation of Etiemble’s Complainte d’un salmon du Rhin

						For Yvon Belaval
(A lilting musical poem of varying line length in quatrains with a refrain and much internal
 rhyming; end-rhyme scheme: alternate rhymes in...

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Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium 
as light brainstorm doth 
hail forth the following poem.

Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuronal, glial 
and endothelial cells, and although 
there must be biological...

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After beguiling charisma,
damnable excoriations fixedly,
gamely, horribly, insult jesting,
kibitzing, loosely mindless nattering,

outlandish pablum, quintessentially
representing senseless trumpeting,
unswervingly vapid wordy
X-DOUBLE-MINUS
yawping zest.

If ye did not already guess from thee 
above blimey claptrap, Das English flap
doodle glib human incorporates jokingly,
kookily,...

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Strolling down the city sidewalks as
the snow falls in the most charming patterns. 
I try to catch flakes on my tongue/

I put my arm through my lover's arm. 
We laugh and kiss and move closer/

He...

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There was a time in yesteryear
When I had lived alone,
I had come across a certain fear
Of things that dwell below

My mind kept leaping back inside
The dark holes of the unknown
Till one night I felt cruel...

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I descended the wretched trench of lies with willing defeat,
My heart severed too many times to ever even care
Of what horrors lay beneath

I face the unknown with a corrupt thirst
I have seen these familiar twisted...

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The stones slipped through the great fingertips of God
Each ligure staked its existence on the four corners of the universe
The quadrivial region began to spin and pull into a sphere
And pathways revealed their footholds 

The...

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I was in my chemistry class (lecture #2) and the professor was asking a series of questions. At first, hands were flying up, the answers were easy. But as questions got more complex, and the...

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Happiness, a silent dawn, is born beneath the eyelids of sleep,
Smiling like a stolen kiss from paradise,
In the dream of the night that just melted into the morning light.
It is the love for the morning
You...

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While Up And Adrift In Cloud 9...

Reprieve from damp,
     and rainy, or sultry weather,
     I schlepped a
     light weight Shaker
made folding chair
 ...

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within Zieglerville, pennsylvania

genuine snow white hair 
upon her noggin doth adorn,
perhaps she will divulge to me (in private) 
after i croon (to said lass), 

the melody of Jimmy Crack Corn
hmm...or, maybe this mission 
perchance twill...

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aside from being worn 
     during mortal kombat firmly braced
full body armor suited up 
     with proctologists safely positioned
 
     most definitely
 ...

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in lieu as payment for buzzfeed ding,
livingsocial, lodging, et cetera accommodations.
the best buy google research to locate a
handy dandy blues clues milieu, true
value venue iterated above reference

to intentional communities, yet no idea
this bumbling, fumbling, rambling,
et...

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God sometimes does pray to man;
Quite often we hear him not.
But once above the din of earthly prayer 
I did hear his voice;
Through the dizzying whir of angels' wings 
His prayer came loud and clear;
A...

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I romance you, but you romance the sparkling stone
I love you with my heart, but your heart is in the phone

I talk to you lovingly, you talk to our little pet Tommy
I ask you to...

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Under the Constellation of Poets I see,
All I can say is, "O' boy, Wee!"
God is so good to me!
It is like Poetry Heaven & now I have the poetic key.
How the writings once were bottled...

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If you were to embrace me one moment,
I would melt in the fissures of your throbbing prestidigitation
My heart would dare not let me see the poison you excrete
My mind would make excuses, to be in...

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I see the one who stands beneath the shaded tree,
and fixedly watches the ripples on a stream 
till the dusk of day has fallen, and nature 
pulls its darkened curtain across the colored heavens.

I see...

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Ooh, the sky
carrier of my favourite colour,blue
Whenever i feel down and blue
All I gotta do,is look up to you
And all my problems reduce leaving only a few
I envy the birds who fly through you
Sometimes,I search...

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THE    WATCHING    WINDOWS

City of a million windows all lit up
At the hour of  vermilion dusk
The void dims into deep violet
With great horizontal bands of inky blue-black
Clouds  -...

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Standing statuesque 
At the traffic lights
With my sign in hand
My banner
With my shield I stand

Begging for alms 
Asking for care
For you to care
As you fixedly stare
In another direction

You have edited me out
You see me but...

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FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

Whitened collar, fixedly starched 
To the ultimate limits of self-perfection, 
Points righteous, crooked finger 
At an open-mouthed assembly, 
Crouching beneath thick-
Eyebrowed gaze of a dark
Frock-coated scarecrow.

His cackling voice emits 
Hollowed-out squawks,
Casting lines of...

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C’est la vie, Billy!

   His cheeks a deep scarlet, 
     His jaw tightened in an eerie grin,
        He stands, rooted to the...

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Wandering through the memories, the old couple smiled
Observing fixedly the wedding album kept as a treasure
Naming the photographs that were taken for the leisure
Dwelling on the mind the years that were far in the time
Emerging...

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Ten unread messages and nine missed calls later

I finally texted eight friends to call you a lying traitor.

Please don’t leave me, I’m not strong enough to grieve

Our seven birthdays together or the six promises that...

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