Long Flasks Poems

Flings and wings and rings rejected…
 Cupid’s arrows fly deflected…
“It clearly is too late” she signed, “to love, adore or pay me mind”

Penciled lines drew cruel conclusions
mocking mirror’s cracked illusions…
Sometimes, in time, I hang awhile,...

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Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11e, The Island Kingdom (continued)

Matto, Lisa and their parents 
Contemplated now a journey 
On the ocean that was longer 
Far than any in their memory 

One whole week upon the ocean...

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(alternately titled: impossible mission goes awry
probably mortal enemy cast spell binding jinx)

Both mental versus
physical tasks necessitate
laser sharp attentiveness
triggered within blinks
similarly on par when people toast
momentary instance utter silence

before more'n one
wine glass simultaneously clinks
cheering hurray, especially
if...

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Are we living for Christ's return?
in our daily lives considering this
at any time wherever we are seen
what a day when Jesus comes sheer bliss!

Here in this parable of the ten virgins
Jesus speaks of the foolish...

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In life, we tend to hide behind a false garb of compromise

Then twisted in disguise with falsehood in lies
Vanquished yet torn at its seams dealing with mean,

Thorned twisted yet miserable in dire blackened flasks of...

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There is a small town in an out of the way place named Brownsville,
Exhibiting beautiful seasonal trees and a stream with crystal clear water flowing into a mill.

The elders of the town are hanging up...

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Our Day Out

Our day out to Wales in the Summer of 1981
In car temperature soars that alike to Lebanon,
Not like the previous year of 1980
When temperatures where more akin to Haiti.
Mark one Cortina of a...

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In the crucible of time, where the iron of human will is melted,
Lords of armies forge their crowns from flames that build mirages.
They invoke the spirit of the earth, but their thoughts leap over windmills,
In...

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the stern of the junk  

stuck out like the tip of an iceberg

surrounded by plastic bottles

filled baby’s nappies

flip flops and crocs


we can walk on water

whatever floats our boat

sustainable climate change

the hotter the better

while the...

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Wow! What a surprise!!
I thought my trailer park neighbors,
Me, they did despise...
Perhaps for playing my organ too loud,
Or maybe a loud TV
But I never expected...
A gift from them to me!!!

There it was,
At my front door...
An...

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At the heart of this art there’s a tartness that fits like a harness/
Put those pieces and bits together to finesse and furnish/
I’m breathing in the flesh here I go out of my mind in...

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I dreamt of being transported to a strange alien land
The sky was splattered with lumps, of red gooey sand 
Spacemen appeared through it, with rubbery hands
This wasn’t on my bucket list, I could not understand...

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Raindrops upon the asphalt
Stain my camera lens as it stares at the moon
I lack a jacket and the wind is strong
Would it be cool if I was ice all along?

Reading the twist of the story
Before...

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O Mardi Gras, how I long for thee
The carnival season of music and glee
The colorful floats, the beads, and the masks
The joyful crowds, the drinks, and the flasks

I wait by the roadside, eager and keen
To...

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Let's melt down all the plastics that will not biodegrade
and form some giant ice floes to replace the ones God made
so Polar bears will have somewhere to sit and sleep and stand
instead of getting persecuted...

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'Twas in the bleakest of the winter
When I was caused to stop and frown.
Treading careful on the frosty ground,
I heard not far away a mournful sound.
It came from a crate, tipped over,
When I looked, I...

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Fort Worth to El Paso, a long stretch of tracks
Deputies securing Wells Fargo money sacks,
With reins in hand, stagecoach en route
Jessie’s gang kicks dust, chasing the loot.

Oil lamps hanging on the tavern’s post
Saloons filled with...

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i

pot bellied boasting navels
shiny round ball bearing stomachs
haloing out of diesel grime
over alls and silver buttoned railway
insignias

these long waxed pig curled mustache workmen
rotated their lives between shifts of day and night
with metal lunch boxes and...

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So as the fauna flakes into flasks and the distance is at ease,

so as the forgotten fallen ones are at peace and you and your life are crease,

so as the harrowing start and a seasonal...

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No milk for babies
 
 I have lost track of who is fighting whom in the overlapping endless wars 
in the middle- east, but that is beside the point today.
I was standing in supermarket`s till...

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Forever Swansea...

Bright blue skies in the summer sun, 
The birds among the trees. 
The golden sands of Swansea Bay, 
The calmness of the seas. 

As I walk along these golden sands, 
I watch each breaking...

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There is a stack of books over there 
One has information that could change your life if you care 
Then have your collegiate book fair 
And in the end you will end up with a...

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Donkey’s ogling artful masks
like drunks ogling addictive flasks – 
You sure look fancy—Nancy! 

Be submissive! Behaving neurotic
is now patriotic – loonies in charge 
of the asylum; 

        ...

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Energy filled the suffocated air 
we found Bourbon Street all but unaware; 
After the Sun sets we hide in plain sight 
many dark places much to our delight; 

Easy to disappear among the masks,
parading around...

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Remarkable how time seems to go faster
As we age, truth is, we move much slower,
If we are not careful, time passes us by
We grow less purpose-driven, mellower.

We leave more to the next generation
Feel we have...

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