Long Galls Poems

Prelude

After banishing my foe off to hell
The Lord took pity on my soul 
And returned it to my undead shell
Again, I was alive and whole

But the consequences of a second chance
Meant that I would have...

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Here I am sitting in the chair
Staring at the ceiling above my head
Contemplating life's meaning  and testing my deep feelings
If a pin drops I can hear the sound
If a dog  moans I can...

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Under the colorful leaves 
Of my Poet-tree
The Autumn breeze
Blows one off and it spirals slowly
Down for me To read

I pick it up off the ground
And looking around
I hear no sound
On a big mushroom I sit...

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Woolen objects wrapped up in fine linen tucked away on a shelf bear the scars of age-old men lamenting in their years, while the sound of young men gets ready to join the conscription line...

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According to the will of fate 
I have come... 
I emerge from the flood 
A living soul. 
My memory is torn by the night. 
The night is enshrouded with darkness. 
I wander around the world...

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Fast as an atomic banshee, he roils sacred halls 
of White House clutches levers with brass balls
American powers remain unrestrained when he calls
Armada to exorcise imagine aery dragons, 
   he inarticulately falls
non-communicative, faux...

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LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY


You have come to the altar, for remorse, forgiveness and peace;
Now before you can even open your eyes and get up off your feet;
You must find the inter praise,...

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Sad man, Sad man, quoth what you may,

Of life’s raptures that has left you in dismay,

“My young pupil, my eyes weep from sorrow,

My fainting heart scatters at the mirthless world,

You know not of unwelcomed lives,

Begotten...

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BEAUTIFUL SADNESS

“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows
brown and sear.”   William C. Bryant

Does she hear the tinkling bell in her sweltering state? No...

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I dream fragments of poetry, 
	my pen balanced in my hand, 
	journal opened to that page 
	already darkened 
	with blots of frustration,
	asterisks for seemingly important ideas, 
	collections of words and phrases 
	intended for collage and...

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Sage advice and self control

Balanced living in heart and soul

Shades of colours that bring to life

Every aspect of this beautiful life

Try to hurt me make me bleed

But you cannot but you can't see

Avarice means very...

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Do you see the frame or the cage?
Step beyond and into this: a rare and colourful bliss,
island of calm in an ocean of rage...
Yesterday, the thunderous sunder of schizoid storm.
Today, this eden of balm where...

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Does sucking lemon leave you licking your lips.
Does a lime leave you light and fresh.
When I even think of touching the tongue,
to either of those it turns my mouth inside out.  
But not as...

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The bar was dark [bars always are] wouldn’t want to see,
he asked me what I’d drink, I answered back,“Who me?”
Since I didn't have much cash to exchange and less capacity,
I told him I’d have a...

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A torn tale ere was sewn b' time's tool;
''f haggard hemisphere 'n' nocturnal nude,
'n which porous promiscuity 's oft draped -
furred fabrics, scales embroidery.

This tale 'n which cursed clothing was hexed;
porous past oozing sassy spell.
Makes...

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All joy had fled these pinched, wintry alleys.
The sun had slouched away
to die somewhere alone,
like a poisoned cat.
Across the steep valley,
Chestnut trees stood stoic and erect,
terracotta warriors, undecked,
their green bled out.
Damp was the only regular
that...

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The one emotion God asks of us is love;
nothing is of equal value or above.
And yet, lust has corrupted it with half-lies,
until its purity's hard to recognize.

Reality is oft difficult to bear,
expecting love, only to...

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If time shall not our derelict joys 
Revive with tunes melodious so, 
Let past's nostalgic merries balm
Our souls and bid all sorrows go.

Should ebbing laughter and smiles 
Their cold arcs yet vanishing carve, 
May old...

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The rocks on the sea bed
Can be friendly in storms
When our sails are bedraggled
Or all tattered and torn

From our voyage on seas
Often left unexplored
But there's truth in the water
That cannot be ignored

In the wind is...

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Shipping as it was

He had many ships the old ship owner
He liked to visit his vessels eat the onboard cuisine
Talk to the crew he knew their names 
Listened to them and their problems
Seamen stayed onboard...

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Love is neither blurred nor blind,
It only leaves the bad and bitter behind;
And focuses on fate and the future to find
That it was not a mistake you made up your mind.

Love is neither blurred nor...

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Faucet water,
At the Wappinger Falls
Natural poison,
Gets our galls,

When first here,
No one warned me,
Two months on the toilet
and I finally could see

Don't drink the water,
It's nasty stuff
They give us reports,
From chemical anaylizers
Our water is pristine they...

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The Do Not Call list doesn’t work
For scammers still get through.
I answer, feeling like a jerk,
But what is there to do?

My house phone has no way to check
Just who is on the line.
(You see, I’m...

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The Moon She glares from the ebon Halls,
As the sea stretches too taste Her galls,
The Candelabra dyed as magick stole its pore,
Starry night blackened as She sinks to the core,

The Sol it shone from the...

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Trammel through the halls
with war on your mind.
The army must forestall
the enemy in the night.

Fever grips the wizard
as hallow comes the ball.
Ladies dance, and boys now prance
up and down the hall.

We see them in the...

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