Long Gauges Poems

Ah Consuela! Invoking vast vistas for visions of green Spanish eyes,
I discern them again where she left me back then,
                 as we kissed when she parted, my friend.
Through those ruins I tread towards the footlights,...

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Israel Beckoned...In A Dream

This secular skeptic beheld,
eyes hallucinated, harried, felled
and haunted by
holographic images gelled
that didst silently scream herald
ding exhaustively

roaming, schlepping, meld
ding and trudging across
elapsed, nor quelled
blinkered, bloodied dead souls
across fractured wartorn veld,
where bludgeoned ghastly

eons of...

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Creaky wood floors give me away as
I roam the hallways of this ramshackle fortress.
These old empty veins that used to carry life
Rusty nerves are dulled and mute

I walk a well worn path, softly.
Curtains always drawn
They...

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I have learned the hard way that people aren't always what they seem,
They look you in the eye, shake your hand, then take you to the cleaners.
It's been many a year that I have thought...

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The trouble with idiot lights,
You see, it’s a problem
That goes, perhaps,
Farther than me.

There's abundant ignorance
That floats in the bog
In a kingdom where machines
Can measure breath’s grog.

More than vast numbers
Aggregating in crime,
There's a feeling that
What is...

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Oh matchless our delight does never end
ceaseless variety of kingdom you defend
unending the exploration of the world around
photography of new discovery found

Within the caves growth of limestone formations
lattice work and crystal chandelier creations
eons of history...

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Our Flying Days
I’m flying over the lake near where you live.  
There’s your house, your small wood cabin by the shore. 
Looks child like from up here.

The fishing is great. 
Views even better. 
Especially...

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VEHEMENT VELVET FROM VIENNA

velvet moments are the words she scribes with eloquence and elocution
she writes words with alliteration, laughter, tears and absolution
i read her words daily and realize that true love is not kisses or...

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Strange Unicorn of the Sea,
we solved your mystery.
Of Arctic Ocean fame
you are Narwhal
as named. 
Unicorn 
of...

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“We have no milk,”
you speak quietly
in a tone reminiscent 
of another’s observation
that wine had run out
at a wedding feast.
Miraculous transformation
of wine or milk
from pitchers of water
seemingly absent from
the church job description
of educator and
director of parish...

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Nap Time

In the astral world of utterance, one overhears the whispering of sweet nothings, breathlessly whisking up a spell of portioned scents that nay, nearly spilt the teacups swirled cremes delights and demitasse gooey treats,...

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Matchstick Bikes 

To tinkers and toilers 
     I salute, 
From mending boilers 
     to weaving jute, 
Man and boy 
     for generations, 
I...

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I dreamed I was a porter
carrying bags that weighed a ton.
Quickly answering in the Club Car
when anyone called, "Hey Son"!

I dreamed I was a conductor
punching tickets neat as you please.
Walking up and down the Passenger...

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Come!

On the white mare he rides 
The crowned spectre is charging
With the white bow in hand
Devout malady imparting
In shadowed smoked entrance
Venom absorbing the lands
Fear the approach of Pestilence
Or breathe your last by his hand

Come!

Crimson stallion...

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Black-Eyed Peas (Oklahoma Summer)
David J Walker

The blooms arrive in June and by
July the pea pods start to dangle 
Soon the picking will begin when 
Grandma says so shading her eyes
From the angle of the morning...

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Put the headset on
	adjust the boom mic
launch the software
	in the manuscript write

outside of my room
	lit with artificial lights
cold black night sky
	over empty city now

seeking words hard
	filled with many nouns
defining images sharp
	that I would rather not...

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How you likely started your day:
Went out the door  and locked it tight.  
Went out the walk while looking down, sorting out your keys 
and then unlocked  the car door.  
Feeling...

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they wanted to express their happiness with
words, even though it 
never seemed the moment would come.
The territory of greenland
has been voted yes to statehood
and the new city of
Thule will be build and will become
the capital...

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Nestled somewhere inside my
head, next to pictures of you,
are tiny tidbits, crumbs have you,
of conversations. Pauses as I 
watched you be.  Smells of
cigarette smoke and scented candles.
Like strobe lights, they flicker
on and off, leaving...

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While lying in my bed, in the darkest hour of the night, peacefully sleeping, and vulnerable in 
my subconcious state, he finally showed himself to me. All the nights with voices, and 
screams going through...

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He never once mentioned the pressure of his blood
or his Mam
I found dead on the floor

his Dad’s cancer
or his younger brother
not once, during the best years of my life

he fixed cars
with a pipe slowly smoking

a...

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The earth of five million was of one speech,
Build it up, higher and higher, undie,
Towers of dub man,
circumvent his plan,
Suddenly behold the man, throw it down,
Speak of Babel, people uncomfortable,
Confound and confuse, scatter, no matter,
Shem,...

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I wait for the heat
of the Allis Chalmers crawler’s engine
to fill the tarped in space
where I sit huddled
next to levers, gauges and knobs.
The crawler seems to float.
The tule fog obscures the ground
covers everything,
all that has...

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Hello,
I'm here for the ad, young man
I believe it was your father I spoke to
on the phone about an hour ago
Said I was coming by to look at the car on sale
Sure, I'll wait ...
by...

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My family is an old car:
Dad is the oil of the motor that keeps the car in good condition 
Mom is the motor mounts that hold the motor in place
Paco, The Chihuahua is the seats...

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