Long Grimmer Poems

Expressed love on what was paper thin,

Read between the lines and see subliminal messages buried within,

Is it a sin?

To remain unforgiven from actions done upon innocent victims,

Acts of violent rage unleashes the beast from the...

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…the seeds of neo-Nazism are germinating  
Markus Nierth, former mayor of Tröglitz, Germany 2015

Germany’s rock candy windows and cookie like shingles make seeing the oven inside impossible. At first, the obsessive compulsive cleanliness of...

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When gazing Beta Persei,
a star with many ghoulish names, 
be wary of a winking eye,
for fluctuating flames
belie its evil aims. 

Ancient mariners would watch with dread
and chant their prayers out loud,
when that “Eye in Medusa’s...

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Better days aged, 
Better days wretched 
Around the corner is bloomer,
Inside the room is the beholder,
Alterations on my robe,makes me reprise, 
All stands for a big fact lies,
Rodney grabs my nail,
Chews and goes away on...

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(Marilyn Monroe speaks.)


River of No Return 

A desert is a bitter place. 
There's something cruel in endless space: 
it strips away the human scale. 

I fear these winds that scour and chase 
the vortices, and...

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Marilyn Monroe discusses making
"The Misfits"

A desert is a bitter place. 
There's something cruel in endless space: 
it strips away the human scale. 

I fear these winds that scour and chase 
the vortices, and sting my...

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Sometimes you can hide yourself in a mirror
Not everything’s revealed within its glimmer
What you see is only your outer reflection
You’re only looking at lights reverse deflection
Your eye’s look forward but only see back
It’s truly an...

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With ear to the ground
I felt a slight tremble,
like the stir of a whispering breeze
breaking its covenant of silence.

Stoically solemn hills
partially cloaked in roaming shadows,
the sun swiftly swimming,
across the edges of dawn.

Large crackling trunks,
with gnarled...

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As dawn cracks the sky
and yellow light leaks through 
The neighbourhood oracle begins her day, 
sets out her stall on the corner near the station
"The end is coming"

The newspaper boy in his sister's scarf 
snatched...

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O!  Afterthought, Thou art a stern Taskmaster!
Thy Glare’s as gentle, as is Sun on Snow!
O!  Heart!  Would She have stayed, if I had asked her?

Admittedly, there’s no grimmer disaster,
Than sudden fury rupturing...

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It’s wonderful and rare to laugh
Or smile for two hours straight.
It happens when you get to see
A comic who’s first-rate.

Last night we joined the audience
At New York’s famed Town Hall,
Amid the crowd of fervent fans
Who...

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My parties have become pretty lean
Ever since onset of Covid nineteen 
No more passing around fine liquor
drinking alone, in a hall of mirrors 

A new reality from behind thin veils 
Masks and gloves, my themed...

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Beautiful angel, I see your face.
Beautiful angel has fallen from grace.
 Your eyes are empty.  Your heart is cold.
As good and evil fight for your soul.
 Time alone will  tell
If you’ll rest in...

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I was a land that was steeper
I became an ocean that was deeper

The waves in me were silent
And the view around was grimmer 

The Moon wasn't there
Everything looked gloomy and in despair

Where was that shine...

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Time's pages are turning; folks are churning 
A better butter, worth bread's hard earning
Its unmistaken; bacon is burning
In thin, cheap, tin pans but we're all learning

Somehow, minimum wage is "all the rage"
Scavenge or squander, for...

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I am darkness, 
I am night, 
I am where many are lost without hope in sight,

I creep and seep,
filling the cracks in you,
with me.

Encroaching, slowly, in little ways, 
pushing out the better days,
replacing every happy...

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A mountain of shoes as a monument
To each and every innocent,
Enslaved and starved, burned and killed,
So evil's plan could be fulfilled.

No grimmer stories were ever told 
By the Brothers Grimm in days of old.
More horrifying...

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Sails upon waters of shimmer
Blood red vibrance glowing dimmer
Twisted fate of Sanity increasingly slimmer
Lost Voice left alone to quietly simmer
Memories of faded emotions turning grimmer

Tears forever feed the flow of river
Sultry seduction of body ravished...

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