Long Gaggles Poems

?•?LIKE TUPAC LIKE MOHBAD?•?
Pain persists; Mysterious exit.
Tupac & Mohbad's demise calls for justice.
Tupac reigns in death & we await his rise, 
Mohbad's the first superstar buried twice.
Juxtapose their life & departures.
Death became their untimely captors.
1996,...

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In a humble hamlet, not so grim or glum, 
Lived a goose named Lucy, quite the funny one. 
With feathers fluffed and waddle wide, she'd roam about, 
Her honks and hijinks would make the townsfolk...

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Gaggles of ghetto girls mollycoddle, dandle cranky babies;
some cradled on arm and hip, some hustled along
on low-rolling rides. Granma’s noodle their talk
together with headshakes, busy body elbows akimbo.
Thin men lounge outside bodega’s, soft-soap, 
play imaginary...

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“Cambodia is
Cambodia but not really
Cambodia.”
That’s what some say
As the years roll on
Forty years or so since Pol Pot and his pals posted
‘Year 0”, 
Sent the whole thing to the wash,
 And it came out 
Red.

So...

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Dull as a pool of mud
Grey and stale in their attention 
Seeking out the diamond in the rough
Shining a benevolent get well soon
Shine a blue light, shine it big and bold
Fearless, fall upon me in...

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blue irds roosted on the top of the moon
Listening to the good witch as she gave a croon
Her two magical mystical familiars sitting still as bats
Which is not so unusual for these ebony cats

What is...

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Feathers on flippers are not just for strippers
Gaggles of geese are more willing to bite
Seagulls are soaring at four in the morning
Sweeping the sky for the bread of the night

Flight is a fashion of fabulous...

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The babble of youth
grouped in gaggles like pecking geese
pricked by the silence of the unabsorbed,
garbed in the flesh or cloth too large
or too small for their burgeoning minds.
Gangly limbs akimbo
intent, inward…looking outward
flung like a sling-shot’s...

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Some cold forge words to make metal musings,
hammering, stammering then scribblings.
Pounding prose, forming phrases in viscous verse,
many manner of makers, none for the worse.

Some lift language right from the curb,
well-slung slang meant not to disturb.
Writers...

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Cock Fight

I saw them from a distance, the group of men
and older boys, huddled around two fighting cocks,
black-feathered, standing, resting their necks
pressed against  one another, like sated lovers
not wanting yet to speak 

the group,...

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I wonder but wondering is neither wavering or wilting. And just who would build a duck arch at a junction anyway? The way is always clearer when the past is lost but who argues with...

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Sunlight's shadows, breeze tumbled
Kaleidoscope of jig saw puzzles
Pond's wrinkled face, old and wise
Accumulated  knowledge
Fallen coconuts, lazy lay
Pink skirts, deeper eyes; hibiscus, oleander
Flirting friends, fat bladed grass
Green with envy
High stepping investigating crowd
Folded flapping wings, noisy...

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A cathedral of cedar spires,
branches, lifted upward toward a robins' egg sky,
adorned the gravel trail;
on the way to the hot springs 
deep in the heart
of the Japanese alps.

Fallen cedar fronds impressed the surface of the...

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Shrill overhead birds
ripping my thoughts apart
The taste of oncoming rain
limps in the air
Gaggles of forgotten children
waging wars of imagination
As i draw a breath
leading life
its terminus incorporate
My hand
rub the my epidermis
head
and choral sighs escape
Problems weighed and...

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Eternal Flight
David J Walker 

Gaggles of geese
Cross the faint light from the
Three-quarter moon in the east
Gliding 
	In the ancient art of landing
Perfectly on the smooth surface
Of the pond
Between the house and the 
Nearby highway

The last...

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