Long Grafts Poems

I have several poems up about my Mama, Angel Manassian. Mama died on March 19, 2000 at the age of 74. She battled with MS for most of her life. She had me at 41...a...

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Face down in the mud, he paused before he rose
'Women pay a fortune and I'm covered to my toes'
Back among the runners, he tried again to jump
Over the high barriers, but he really got the...

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Krakatoa Kritic #007

Let those comment who kill with soft words when they ‘get’ you!
Should we hold praise hostage, retreat when we can’t see
reciprocal giftings that laud what we write in return?
My take’s yours if you...

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November 1 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Romans 11-12

Key Verse – Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how...

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Brutus Iulius Trois page 02

Where Trojans are there will be Troy
In Hesperia  the elder cousins the new Dardanoi 
the sons of Silvanus Dardanus shall inherit
and Lavinia's bloodline shall dwindle down  
caught by a...

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In a place of unmarked beauty;
Lays a stone dead and cold.
The ear the dirt covering lays hold;
The outside of the stone.
As the crust of the earth begins shaping the stone;
Grooves and rough edges appear.
The dirt...

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In a place of unmarked beauty;
Lays a stone dead and cold.
The ear the dirt covering lays hold;
The outside of the stone.
As the crust of the earth begins shaping the stone;
Grooves and rough edges appear.
The dirt...

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This is where black breaks open into bright bleeding feeling
as souls suffer the fire of flesh to enter arena Earth screaming
searching the ether for Adam and Eve's answer to forbidden fever
while angels wear snake skins...

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I have bad teeth. Always have since birth.  I had braces as a child and hated it.  Hated going to the dentist.  Put it off too long, too often.  Ended up...

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Should my being alone
Turn loneliness?
Is it wrong
Even if aloneness 
Turns loneliness?
Isn't each moment of aloneness
A treasure?
Isn’t each loneliness
A challenge-filled world in itself…?
Does a primrose suffer darkness?
Has a lotus got averseness of mud?
Doesn't a cactus enjoy...

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pain is
a mind thing
blue skys

	Each day I awake and kiss the stubs on my hand - - - now, five of them.  I never broke!  Remembering each day, I thankfully kiss the feet...

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Was absolutely healthy, fit and fine     
With Lifestyle of jogging, gym, laugh & be merry   
One day ... alarm bell rang at odd time     ...

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People all over the world need organs to survive.
Donate what you can spare to keep someone alive.
Kidneys, liver and bone marrow too.
Maybe someone else will take your cue.

Some parts you can donate while you yet...

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Last summer was dry
Grass turned brittle
Beetles devoured roses
Fumes from sweltering engines swept over
   dusty streets like ghosts.
The ground cracked.
Bits of dirt crumbled in my hands.
Bone dry desert thoughts
Puffy lip,tongue cleaving thoughts
  ...

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you seemed so real;

an angel, slipping down
through your ring of fire
whilst into the night, as ash
you'd walk the winds
and graze the edge
-of love:
dancing above me, reborn
like nails sinking, straight
through the coffin, into flesh;

death is with...

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Flexing the six feet physique
to fill the eight inch stomach
Whole body with heart and soul
do sweat until fatigue to have bread
for the quarter stomach only. 
Labour Without seeing day or night, fully
to see the smiles...

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Written: October 12, 2023
Cinquain Poetry Contest                     Sponsored by: Ink Empress   
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Guile gust
I grasp...

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You won't know what it's like to heal until you can feel gravity,

Until the cavity in your heart takes skin from your soul and grafts itself anew.

See, once you've had a little taste of trauma,...

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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine
  
Trials amid tribulation
failures, gradual adaptations
life a series of grafts
some taking, others left for dead
 ...

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Winter buried Fall in a shroud of white
after Autumn had stripped the trees of green.
And a contrite sun diminished its light
while a dulcet moon loaned Winter its sheen.

But Spring soon starts unveiling Her fresh face,
as...

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Now spring will bring another time of change
As apprehension raises my eye brows
I welcome beauty to these days so strange
Though family values take an exit bow
The closeness that we cherished long ago
Has slowly faded like...

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Bright blessings bind
Move mellow mind


Speak softly sane
Voice vibrant vein


Still silence shows
Feed fragrant flow


Live lofty lines
Meet mindset mine


Thrill touching tease
Esteem earns ease


Apt affluence aims
Tensile toil trains


Grace grafts grand gifts
Let laughter lift


Charming choice cheers
Face fragile fears


Dance dreamy...

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Desert Head
The tales they told of ole sailor Fred,
Had skin-grafts a grafted on top of his head,
To keep out the baldness, a triangular patch,
Touch of a p smell coming, perhaps,
 with the new hairy faerie...

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Prayer wheels make me dizzy 
getting tangled in my hair 
I bought scissors ten a penny 
clumps and mats everywhere 

Prayer wheels make me giddy
I shave my head, going spare
Place a thimble on each finger...

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