Long Furls Poems

I feared that soon the snow would leave,
As I watched the melting wreaths give way,
To the hand of time, come now to press,
The passing of my holiday...

Where the ghosts of Christmas just now past,
Their laughter...

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Everywhere I look, all I see is nothing
A vast space full of water, the current pulling me out to nowhere
Kicking and screaming I’m trying to stay above the wild waves
But the crash and smash against...

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Me again:
Blue parrots screech hawkers off the streets
Where rats and mobile devices scream
Insults into the ears of the sewars.
Whiskers and teardrops and plops of fun
Which dangle relentlessly above the
Green shoreline. 
Playing musical pillows at sinister
Dinner...

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Written: December 11, 2024, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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A stone's cast ----

   but what great arm has set about the motion?

   was not the first mother reared? ----

   her children on the smiles of angels?

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THE BREAKFAST OF SCANDAL
Once upon a lofty testament
 The blue print of a rhapsodic love furls 
Among the two betrothed by a mutual affection. 
Their love echoes and here to stay and born.

Their twin love...

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Whirling through torpedoes of sound,
spinning and tailing its way like Raphael to earth,
shoots some uninstantaneous ether:
the impermeable myelin of true experience.
The soul—the richest treasure chest ever found;
creating, disseminating, revealing, glimmering, alluring.
Rawest sense material pinging in...

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The city has evacuated the streets at this hour,
and vacancy has given his unsteady feet 
right of way at every intersection. 
The traffic lights, sticklers for rules, continue 
color-coding priorities for non-existent movements,  
frowning...

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A whelk shell on the bathroom windowsill
reflects modest colours curled twirled around
its helix. It takes me back to where I found
this gastropod with others dumped as spoil

over a bank behind a coastal shed.
In the waste...

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With your dad idling in a box stand for huge bucks.
Over time, you're fled with mates, proving plucks.
After all, swiftly, your kids start engaging in sport.
Over the eager mass, they may trap your caring snort.

The...

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You want shape?

Some imagined description of my curves and bumps
 that twist and turn after breakfast and lunch crunch;
flat stomach, erect neck and back
 aged slides away from the bodies track
and the six pack abs...

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Dancing with vigour the dancer swirls
Sweat glistening, passions inside rose
Catching shadows as within skirt furls 
Around my heart as locks you impose

Sweat glistening, passions inside rose
Fixation befalls, this beleaguered soul  
Around my heart as...

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Wrinkles, dark circles beneath the eyes
  furls across the brow
  embedded overlapped dimples deep in the chin.
When and how
  did this face and body age
  so quick before its time?
Just yesterday...

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In sand dune deserts, fresh fountains spring;
Delicate cactus dance in mangrove-lit streams;
Lush green leaves in breeze graciously swing,
And a poet stiches stars, on soft skin of beams.

In snow-frozen fields, merrily marigolds smile;
Sun prolongs his shift...

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Riding a great dragon’s tail through the soaking wet darkness of the early morning,
Red, 
Tails and tails of red bending through the breathing stone as I inch closer to the labour camp,
Closer and closer to...

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The moon rises to see nothing
Everything empty, with only the wind left
Desolate despair reaches into an eternity
Vanquished 'till death they part in the shadows

The stench of death billows and furls
Suffocating like a blinding fog
Rolling in...

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A golden sun I yearn to see t'morrow
That’s never, ever dawn in my life-time;
The crows will caw with its first-ever glow, 
And wrens will timely chime a welcome rhyme. 
The sun will brightly dawn with...

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Deeper than the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, 
Bottomless curls, furls, swirls, and whirlpools of thoughts and feelings;
Thoughts go deeper than the Challenger Deep that does entrench - 
Designs and adorns the inner core of the...

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Twilight – the whip-cracker of – Night
             …………..Reaches the beach;
Sky sets – Venus - the evening light,
      And...

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Firefly tango, lighting up the meadow
Whizzes, whirls, flits, and furls,
The little varmints buzz around, 
Unaware we are watching their every move.
We older folks are no longer chasing them 
or popping them in Mason Jars 
To...

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Do you see streams and rivers within me?
            Originating from mountains and hills
Each, like kids around mother, full of glee,
Abide, not forgetting their first...

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I once met a man with ears so large
That “Dumbo the Elephant” had less by far.
Protruding outward from his head to the sky
Way up to the clouds where the birds did fly
Landing upon his outstretched...

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Murmuring melody mesmerises the dawn.
Colours, like disco lights, elegantly branch out.
Crows, sparrows, robins, and parrots camp on my lawn.
Between harp, lute, sitar, and guitar, there's a doubt.

Is there, amidst the clouds, a lava eruption?
A cloudburst...

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Gleeful roses turn to sullen churls,
And virgin smiles of shyest brides
Soonest morph into widowed furls;
Sad victims of your ill-bladed tides. 

Swearing lovers of staunchest troth
Must sample your bitterest swill too,
And forfeit bonds of grandest worth,
As...

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Star worms snort dreaming with mouth agape;
dark blue vales attire earth's satin
couch; sky furls its far spread, dark,
wet, clouds of wings, and he
mourns, groans and, disguised
as strewn scatters,
stealthily
flies straight
down…
Earth 
spends a 
glamorous 
night with her...

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