Long Full tilt Poems

One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.

'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep

(So farmers left...

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SHAKEN UP

The vortex sucked
me into the globe.
  shaken, distressed
pounding on the confines
of the glass.
   the snow n-e-v-e-r stops.

Music lifts,
   from the bowels
of this new world —
the humor of “it’s
 ...

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Pirates Remember

In the days of old, 
the ships were bold, 
and went anywhere they pleased. 
They were men, 
hard men, real men...
released from the burdens of mud on their shoes, 
traded in favor of swimming...

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“Hi my name is bottle I contain a lovely wine,
I come to you honestly I taste quite divine.”
“My friend stay a while and I’ll take care of you,
Relax have a glass, maybe one or two.
Have...

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Were slowly opening back up
Following the phases
Keeping to the rules
Taking it a step at a time.

But once the gates open
A stampede of bulls
Crashes through toward the field
Ready to frolic and merry
Like nothing ever happen.

Just because...

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I cannot read small labels, my eyes don’t see so well
The labels on my spices: a culinary hell.

I came up with a system; it’s pretty hard to beat,
‘Cuz most of what I cooked before was...

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The Poet in His Casket

Well, look at you lying there!
In your brown suit and gold tie.
How I want to hug you now!
You can't be dead, you're only forty
years old!

We lived together till you took a...

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Once upon a time, a Bedeviled Bachelor,
fell in love with a Sinister Spinster.
It seemed to be a match made in Heaven,
until the day all Hell broke loose.

It started when the Bachelor's Brother,
laid eyes on the...

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They said she sails forever the seas off Cape Horn:
See her and wish to God you never was born. 
Laugh if you wish but  there’s  countless bones  
And hulls been sent to...

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Thirteenth Fable 
Thirteenth Fable 
 
Superstition 
 
Fables of CharlaX 
 
There is far too many to make a short list there is superstitions eye remember 
when eye was just a kid. The many things...

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Wild woman twirls her  scythe with the power of the confident.
Mastery of underwater breathing aids her in her quest to fix the sea.
Scent of lilacs wafts off her.
I marvel that she has no idea...

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HIDDEN YOUTH

Locked inside each oldster,
There's a youngster you will find,
Peering out and looking back,
At all he's left behind.

He's really not so different,
From the youngsters of today,
Though wrinkled now, his eyes are dim,
What hair he has...

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She gave me an angry look.
Neither her face or eyes were familiar.  
The hope I had been counting on for three days, dissipated.

This mean-looking eleven-year-old child had been through more
awfulness in her life, than...

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blackbirds …

innumerable …
clouds and washes of them
I grin to myself -
symbolism …
you taught me that
and more … (and less)
you taught me the difference between
love and lust … and Love
but you used a dull knife to...

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I always start
twisting your mind
with the eloquence
of imagination,
causing fear 
        to mound up
like the scum
  that collects
around a storm drain,
     building up
on your...

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I’ve been good for too long,
   my finger 
have become permanently curved
and I growl
     with every other breath
so in order to gain control
I release the beast.

Running into a field
...

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Born to a time of stress and rigors.
Loaded guns with half pulled triggers.
Endless days of fear and sorrow.
No hope now,No hope tomorrow.

Skinheads hating blacks and Jews.
Drive-by shootings in the news.
Kids at war,for red or blue.
Don’t...

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the brakes went to hell 
after the runaway truck ramp
spun down the double line 
like mad dogs chasing bluebirds
screeching on Prof. Helix's blackboard
the last thing he said was
I hope I don't remember this
the first thing...

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There are days that take you back in time,
While other days, hold tomorrow’s promise.  
The city of Orlando will be my world today,
And I confess being, at my core, a city soul, 
At home...

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HAPPILY NEVER AFTER

I’m referring to an echo I used to harbor within my heart
Back when I believed you were the “happily” to my “ever after”
Because you were a beautiful beginning to my every affable start
However...

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Big Ben strikes ten, depart Kings Cross.
Squeal of tight wheel, where lines criss-cross.
Clickety-clack. Clickety clack.
Now heading north-bound on fast track.

Leave city sprawl in grey and grime 
for now we're on East Coast mainline 
in rural...

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West Berlin, British Sector
Hotbed of rumour and lies
I’m there illegally, not wearing 
A Jimmy in scaleyback disguise.
I was a Secret Squirrel or
Sneaky Beak was another name
They called us both but
They both meant the same.

There to...

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Autumn’s First Hush - The Villages, Florida 

Autumn’s first hush, it’s almost imperceptible. 
Maybe it comes in a brief welcoming breeze, 
Cooling our damp skin on a late summer night.   
But, long gone...

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Deep in the forests of Galloway and Kielder, there is a hush.
Secrets hidden in the form of moss-covered steps………shush!
The silent ruins are not well known by most; confidently hidden.
Camouflaged by ivy, and woods, faeries sense...

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Dear God, this is your old tried and tested friend, Milt,
I’ve always been a friend of your son, Jesus the Christ
You know since childhood I have worshipped you full tilt.

But, on occasion, I’ve felt like...

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