Long Gra Poems

I am married to a man who gives money generously
Not only to me but to every person with their hand out
This used to not be a problem but these days panhandlings is a full-time job.
The...

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(fear not stalwart reader, the sword of Damocles just grazed thy chest when fate found us a place to call home).

to avoid the pitfall of prospective homelessness
which near future prospect 
   induces existential...

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written just a couple weeks before the lease at prior abode would expire, and no affordable habitat....just by happenstance and a thankful invisible hand of destiny.
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Back in roman times I was called a stylus
I wrote messages and stories on papyrus Writing since Before Christ, 
Don't matter what the time is 
Even wrote for the great poets known as the vikings...

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They say
?There are a million ways?
To say I love you

In this day and age?
I could only find
?In my computer’s brain?
The words 
to say I love you?
In 53 languages 
of the 10,000 languages
?Spoken on this planet

Someday...

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Madame Mistress, ebonies princess,
Southern comforts golden jewel,
A golden beauty down south does dwell.
She hides many secrets beneath her,
Glittering mask of mystery's mystic spells.
A dark priestess is this Cajun queen,
Black widows magic women,
Known as Ms. New...

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today, i wanna die and bid god riddance grandly 
   going gamesomely gra grave,  de deum, and cymbal crash
to bing mulct emotionally, physically and spiritually - 
   all the grinding...

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be-ing...........some-thing beau-ti-ful
                                 ...

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Louisiana on my brain
As I’m arriving in my city of Hammond / Ponchatoula
All I see is a delightful   town .
I see the beautiful peaceful swamps.
I see the beautiful bridge that scares me.
They call...

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Carved are your Cottages  (This poem is in English and Polish version)
Rzezbione chaty twoje
 
Carved are your cottages,
Rzezbione chaty twoje, 
embroidered are your clothes.
zdobione piekne stroje. 
The ballet is your dance –
Baletem taniec twój...

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Let's burn their flag
  their Confederate flag
The flag of traitors, of betrayers
  Let's burn their flag

Let's light them on fire
  their Confederate flags
The flags of those who humiliated
  the once-noble African...

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If in my beginnings I saw a photograph I saw that somethings was a mortal fact
A mortal sympathetic pack
My body sympathetic to instrumental tracks
In our relationship in our position within it
Where so relentless on the...

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In the city's limits at dark,
All the lights were in a glow
From corner to corner stood 
The brightness shimmered its shows.

It is something to view at night,
If you haven't been to the city before
Put it...

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Butterflies, dappled sky, monarchs'
Wildlife, butterflies' migrating.
Wildflower meadows' kindle, marks,
thoughts of when I was young, chasing!

Wildlife, butterflies'', having fun!
Now, much older, with camera.
Field trip forays, recording done.
Pics now in an album folder.
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In iambic tetrameter, italics showing...

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Not to Show Off One's Learning
(?? ???? ???? ???????)
 
 
Instead Self Effacing, B'Tz'nyus,
Otherwise, Imbibe Drink of Ego,
Schnapps in Shrinking Hollowness,
Rather Honor Your Fellow,
Not Me! Nor Mine! but Togetherness,
Elevate Your Jewish 'Bro,
B'Nai Yisroel Cholent Finesse!
...

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