Long Flashlights Poems

there were his baseball cards
collected in a shoebox,
his model submarines, and planes.
he paced in a restless waddle
from corner to corner in our bedroom.
he could beat me at any game
and always wanted to prove it.
the five...

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I already have friends suffering from serious health issues lately, with one dead
Now, my neighbors are missing and there is a constant feeling of dread
Although I have been here years, I am not close with...

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Rain



My cornerstone is in the rain and the rain is going to come down to my house and the rain is going to be cold and 
The cold rain is going to be late 
And...

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Bond, Dragon Bond, found his interest most piqued on one spring day.
He did suspect, that the St. Louis Arch, is a weather-controlling array.
Storms simply dissolve and disappear when coming the St. Louis way.
Is it magic...

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A girl was born a beautiful summer day
                 She had beautiful blue eyes and light curly hair
  ...

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Since childhood,
as alexithymia struck my soul.
I kept all my hopes a secret,
hidden in a bucket of unshared dreams.

I kept my soul sweet like marshmallows,
but life has finally caught up with me,
Like a fast car overtaking...

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The generous character-carried-by them good-old-girls-and boys down-home country-copper-
roof-all filled-up-silos-wheat-turbines waiting ready outside the barn deer-skins pegged down 
low the greater-story askant-of curiosity carrying the pureness of a child as to why... . 
Smoked-up hickory-honey-bubbling bacon...

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SHATTERED REFLECTIONS
In the streets we met
In the dimly lit night
They say,” Don’t underestimate fate”,
We finally got a chance to meet,
There seemed to be a barrier on the paths we were supposed to cross,
Our eyes met...

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It was quite a surprise to us
when monsters came out of the night,
the beasts and bad guys of legends
who for so long gave us a fright.

We thought they lived on movie screens,
pulpy books, and local...

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What stirs around me is evasive and true 
A light appears over me glowing and spinning
I get a calm feeling when and ever it's due
People have seen it, gasping and pointing
They say "what was that,...

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T i m e stops for no one,
as searing seconds swerve
through seasonal squalls,
thawing frost that sleeps upon
the necks of onyx roses,
where pain is etched in skeletal sins~
across pruned plumes,
fleeting through amethyst air, 
merged in changing...

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After the storm, my brother
(all gangly knees and elbows)
bore the brunt of its ferocious aftermath.

Every day after school
I watched his wiry biceps bulge a little
as his handsaw scritched against the tree
which had fallen diagonally across...

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This is who I am
My name is Stanislaus J. O’Connor
Born on April 17th in Belfast, Ireland
Youngest of eight children
My father admired the Polish people
The way they fought 
During the last Great War
When the odds were...

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The day would pass in blissful brightness, with our brains on auto-pilot. The stories we'd tell and the memories we'd conjure up from years past, one couldn't help but think we were all running on...

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Light, defined as electromagnet,
radiation; photon particles
Natural visible light: with intensity, and frequency
Light wavelength spectrum / polarization propagation

People pleasure and preen at the beach with sunny tanning 
Sunlight illuminates mountain bike trails for bicycling and trekking
Sunsets...

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Which fish
The scuba diver
Is going after?
The big one
Or the small one?
Which sheriff
Is on trial today?
The petty one
Or the pretty one?
Everyone must have its day
In the Kangaroo Court.
Real justice is not a myth;
It never creates descent...

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Out of the heart

Springs the many issues of life amidst
Throughout a distant embracing strife
Out of the heart a modest choice to make
In ardent springs embraced upon temporal negate

Within time,
Comes about a correlation within its peace
Strong...

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The most awful things happened on a dark and stormy evening,
foreshadowing the battle between good and bad-darkness and light.
Opaque clouds concealed the light as it escaped from the moon.
We were on our way to the...

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A free and calm evening
You, the Anping beach and me
Quiet, cloudy, and lonely
Few hampered noises 
The ocean conquest the entire atmosphere
Angry clouds hide the sun
No flashlights can replace the sun
Clouds are floating to add color...

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Well something of a Blair Witch documentary
The three of us on dark, dark October night
We parked our car and took our flashlights
Deep into the pitch black woods trying to prove
Or disprove the legend of the...

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Well something of a Blair Witch documentary
The three of us on dark, dark October night
We parked our car and took our flashlights
Deep into the pitch black woods trying to prove
Or disprove the legend of the...

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The boys decided to have a campout near the Troll Lake ‘N bridge.
Everything was going wonderfully as the Trolls decided to join in.
Campfires led to marshmallows and s’mores that the Trolls loved a lot.
But they...

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Im lost in this darkness this 
world of destruction my brother 
is not my brother and our 
mother loves us not running 
with many only a few with 
flashlights who will make it to 
the...

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She was eminently qualified in numbers  
Held fast to the beliefs in physical objects  
Felt every molecule down to her mortal soul
Religion guided Sue through water and soil
Down in the mud of love...

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This is your moment

     This is the time when you need to rise. There is no back door to the house 
That is butted up against the hardness of your memory....

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