Long Forking Poems

The finis sing touches touché

Knead dull brows knitted; 
belief system I cogitate 
gearing thee ordinary bipedal hominid 
acquiesces to deck the halls 
of the mountain (dew) king with boughs 
of sister golden haired 
sprinkling angel...

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Sacrifice made when selecting abode
Unit not ideal, but affordable close to City
With a three year old daughter, I worried
About noise transference below and above

Three level town house style was unique 
Huge unit fronted four smaller...

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There were three wings at the veterans home.C wing was for the seriously ill .B wing was for those
Who were relatively without relatives.Not really unwell just unwanted.Finally the wing I worked on
for seven years A...

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Chounds like 
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 Eye chased mye deer into the rough the golf was tough and leathery the ball 
wound up in the gulf near the coarse leather...

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Day crackles clean and warm like burning coal
A new passion swam his veins, they bonded him
For that pheromone was strong in him, and abrim 
The pack bayed towards the sunlight burning gold
And welcomed a brave...

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Forking River Dam, Illinois

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John M went camping and took his friend Timmy. Off they went to the Forking River Dam. They 
went to the...

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3/4/25
"Time"

People often rat pack
Quick to have the last laugh
It's a sad fact
That we never could get past that
Time is something we can never have back

Few heed the forecast
Torches pass
Opposing forces clash
Since the prehistoric past
Waters roaring
Weather...

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A large bowl, a portion of meat, and a six foot ladle were out one day on a country walk.  Playing with pebbles on a distant shore were the radiant seahorses. Dressed in hoop...

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I dreamt that my uncle sat next to my father in a field.
They sat upon a concrete slab. I think a septic tank. 
Their coats beside them and a guinness bottle in the uncle's hand....

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("Honeybee on Apple Blossom", 2020, original pen and ink)

Nourishing Soul

Like a bee to the flower
Holding pollen and nectar
What is it we seek at play in the fields of the Lord
If not nourishment of the soul?

All...

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Time’s Arrow Flies and Yet Seems to Stand Still
(On Valentine’s Day, 2022)

This dull and uneventful day, in memory 
Of the love-forsaken Saint,
As heavy rain beats dull, relentless, 
Syncopated rhythms on the windowpanes, 
I’m sitting here...

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One-liner 
of doom...

"I'm leaving you"

Mercy! 

The poor fellow 
must've died 
a thousand deaths
right then...
 
"Whack! Whack! Whack!" 
goes an axe
straight through 
his confused heart. 
Ouch!
 A devastating impact.

Numb to the bone
as he stands, 
directly facing...

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"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do."

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Poetics Poem, Red River Gorge, KY

I traipse the course of a forking, rambling stream
Barefoot from the rounded top of one small boulder
To another, the slashing strikes of cold water
Startling my every careful leap, place to...

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The humidity is a  sodden blanket
over our heaving bodies.
We are climbing through the jungle
to view a temple on top of a mountain.

The exertion is draining us,
I have to nail words together
to form constructed sentences.
Amorphous...

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Your best investment lies in God’s hands
Which guarantee life, love and boundless care
Regardless of kinds and types of lands
Which your feet dare to walk without forking out any fare

In kind or slush cash
Men and women...

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3/25/19
"One More Thing"

This morning
Clouds forming
Soon to be storming

Most ignoring
The warning
Continually warring

Waters forking
Rapids roaring
Avians soaring
As events continue coursing

Heard enough recordings
That were reporting
About global warming

Whether it's sunny or pouring
Cold or scorching
Dogs and cats arrive for boarding
In a...

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Boys and girls willing and able
Moral judgment isn’t stable
No one reads the label

Quickly  Moving  Slowly

Red bull gives you wings
Thoughts become things
Naked skin clings

Quickly  Moving  Slowly

Rollin’ in the hay
Going all the way
Erotic...

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I am but alone, on a world so far from home
Scouting out there somewhere, deliberation is my roam
Territories I now enter, the unknown to us mankind
To learn we have to enter, then knowing is what...

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Zerk was a lurking berserk
who lived in the murky-murk of the cirque 
by the smirking Turk 
Zerk was irking a-jerkin’ and a draught of perkin
Zerk was a-joying his shirker’s approach towards work
Zerk was a-starking, a-barking,...

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You start by trying to ignore yourself.
This is reflexive.
Ego always wants you look into the wrong mirror.

Later you find out you can't,
you're  just too forking obvious.
So you come up with excuses, play the victim
blame...

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Tainted fate was broadcasted this afternoon, 
and the life of which I had called mine 
was pasted into the dreary news. 
Quoted as a mundane, overused headline. 

But I saw it for what it is...

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Once vibrant and cheerful
but now sombre and grey,
the room of beating hearts
has been tainted with pain
and needless misery.
A life once cherished and loved
silenced by the unpredictability
of the forking of roads once
full of determination and strength.
A...

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The jester cries his tears in vain
the joy lies with the mad man
eternal bliss from darkness blame
the  moment finite endless same

Impermanent like summer tan
as ancient San in Bushveld’s plane
a lapse of time in patient...

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On a swelteringly hot afternoon;
 Bracing the savagery of the elements

  Upon sun-baked desert sand dunes
   A mongoose on the prowl wanders
   Into the far distance, forking tracks
  ...

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