Long Flesh out Poems

Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvii highlight of February 12th, 2023

Above title attests 
how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.

Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...

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Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvi highlight of February 13th, 2022

Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.

Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...

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Always envious of gifted individuals with neat hand printing/writing

Gnome hatter heroic measures taken
moost ludicrously asinine,
nonetheless hoop fully
me legendary penta meat herd bovine design

of modest fellow (me) will endure as divine,
no matter not one bloody poetic...

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I hate robocalls!

Inxs of recorded messages   
transmitted automatically 
to my telephone number 
by automatic dialing device.

I turn off damn ringer,
and disassemble (carefully 
as disabling a time bomb) 
internal workings nevertheless...
telephone still buzzes
twenty four...

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A variation on a theme by Dr. Seuss...

There once was a Grinch who was bad to the bone,
Which was why he always spent Christmas alone,
But one year the Grinch said, "Enough is enough!"
And decided to...

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"The Eagle has landed”

Apollo 11 lunar module named “Eagle”
prediction defied naysayers ain't no boon
dog gull announced successful landing
while voice of Ole Blue eyes did croon

in Sea of Tranquility on moon
sometime about high noon
halting advancing armies
from...

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I hate robocalls!

I turn off damn ringer,
nonetheless...
telephone still buzzes
twenty four seven
eight days a week
automated telephone calls

digitally recorded message
perfectly spoken English
differentiation to distinguish
"FAKE" simulation
all bot impossible
totally immune to escape

gagging hospitable invective
electronic jawboning immunized
against antipathy, cruelty, enemy,
hostility,...

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I turn off damn ringer,
nonetheless...
telephone still buzzes
twenty four seven
eight days a week
automated telephone calls

digitally recorded message
perfectly spoken English
differentiation to distinguish
"FAKE" simulation
all bot impossible
totally immune to escape

gagging hospitable invective
electronic jawboning immunized
against antipathy, cruelty, enemy,
hostility, insecurity, pleasantry
Yukon...

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La Loba rose with the sun barely glancing over the desert’s surface.
This old hag was as reliable and necessary 
as the fall dearth marching toward the spring’s refrain.

She carried with her a sack in which...

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There are times that it happens, it's hard to let go,
If it does, don't blame others, but look deep inside,
But don't put yourself down, for most guilt is a show,
It's quite probable you're only caught...

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If God Came to Me Calling…
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

I think that if I could talk to God
And see Him face to face
As long as we were introduced,
I'd feel great joy inside.
I...

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My world is pure emotion.
I spend my days crying to the people about things that are out of their control,
My nights crying to the universe as if it would listen and take any pity upon...

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Once upon a time I could change the oil and give the car a lube,
Tune the timing, change the plugs and patch an inner tube.
In days of yore I'd do simple jobs beneath the old...

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Excise Exercise 1.

Today is the Day she prints out her poems-
a careful first time collation of black and white,
and every color to be seen, in between.
Her Heart clings to words of lost love. And hope.
Which...

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I'll write to you of medieval ages,
Foreign lands,knights and of many sages.
Medieval verse,and versification
With ancient meter I shall imitate,
To flesh out this age's animation.
And stories fictional and real I'll tell.

The souls of sundry virtues and...

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I thought my secret was safe in the closet
In scads of pads neatly stacked on a shelf,
But when my muse said it's time
To post my rhymes online
Was the day that I "outed" myself.

I'm not what...

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KING IN A CORNFIELD 
  
When my effigy was impaled 
for all to see                
yours, on the other hand...

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 A love story in iambic tetrameter. 


Don't be afraid, please have some guts,
write a poem 'bout coconuts.

Though they are big, round, and hairy
they're not so bad, not so scary.

The water's healthy, keeps you well,
just...

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It is grand when it works which is most of the time,
Man's path both hope and prayer you see,
Most times progress is possible! Look! Here's a rhyme!
If you work at it, you could be me!

It...

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I
To all you wannabe poets,
Here's a word of advice ere you start:
If you want folks to love it,
Keep your ego out of it,
When you write always write from the heart.

II
It's great fun to write haiku...

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I lie amongst the rats all curled up
Crying
Tears of anger, helplessness and pain

I lie in wait 
The worst is yet to come
I shake uncontrollably

I am helped up, only to be pushed back down
There are eyes...

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Do not subscribe to fatal grooves,
Mind mental moods that plunge sharp blade;
Heed then the taste of petty waste,
No need to feed or grumble strain;
Mesh up your daze with appetite,
Frost burns with cold fingers that choke;
Dying...

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The precipitous day drools on 
yellow and slightly rancid, buttressed in buttery light   
 by a gray glazed glint from the Pacific.
Vertical skeletons of flesh and concrete bob
 with a hallucinatory air,
some freshly...

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