Long Halfheartedly Poems

     We sat at the end of the bar in a seedy place on Seventh street.  Nursing our drinks, we both had a bit too much that night.  My...

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Slowly creeping out of winter 
Would it ever be the same 
If I showed up at your door 
Out of breath, out of line 
With a million excuses behind my manic behavior?
A video diary full...

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I’m a dolphin without waves
I’m a mountain lion without his prey
Again, I’m a beaver without a dam
I will come as I am – His wandering lamb

Sang the tunes in my brain
Weakening in the ruins
I broke...

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I’ll catch you before you run away
Open up the corridor of my mind’s eyes
Gottah wake up…
Gottah wake up
Gottah wake up and sift out these lies
Don’t run away…
Don’t run away…
Don’t run away this fine day, no...

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Got to use that anti-gravitational 
hyper beam to draw people in,
only to hide from them everything.
Safety lies in obscurity.
Safety lies, primarily, in not being the same.
It comes for me when I'm indifferent. 
I try to...

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Scrambling tooth and nail for a patterned fate
I approached the lofty mansion of Learning's Gate.
All cued up for a slip of paper - the one they call Degree,
halfway convinced that I hallucinated humanity.
For who under...

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Galaxies of glory
Strikes me vigorously
Stars do shine
Like turning wine
You are mine like guitar strings
You're my serpentine swine (holding unto someone that's stubborn)
I am like a butterfly without wings
Darkness will not veil His illumination 
Galaxies of...

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There's weeds in my
garden I can't use a
ho(e)
The man who could
pull them don't care
no mo

The shit's overgrown
I might need a plow
But it's waited so
long that it's no
use now

When we planted the
thing we both shared
the work
Then...

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Sweet Just the Way I Like It

you're a genius she moaned
there can only be so much money in circulation
he replied halfheartedly fingering her abacus
the moon arose sharp as a razor
and they set about creating a...

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Finding a Home

I always yearned for the sky to turn blue
Walking in the rain was all I knew
I would halfheartedly splash around
My true feelings never did make a sound
Never did have a home
Optimistically I thought...

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My face is in two halves
smashed together in flawed symmetry,
each half squirming to get supremacy,
Oh Two-Faced One!
Split so, halved down the middle,
which side are you on?

Do I see my better half
in the mirror? 
Or in...

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No matter yours truly
(potential rising star -
analogous to ascending yeast)
bred for easy street
life of po' witless
mendicant nimbly,

pointlessly, and rhythmically
shuffles (think tramp)
along his poetic little feet
garden variety beastie boy
aimlessly, fortuitously, halfheartedly,
and mindlessly follows

one after another backstreet
revisiting,...

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old enoch goggleyed and goatbearded
strolling with a jealous god
under a silksilver sun
beneath a stonewashed cotton sky
stopped
sighed
tugged at his rusty sackcloth toga
trailed a barebrown
caloused big toe through
the ochre coloured sand
stung a split nail on a surprised...

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They come to me with their tall tales.
I pretend to listen to their fables
Appropriately sad, I say
It's well my sister. 
Everything will be fine 
I say it like I truly mean it.
The truth is,
I have...

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On my return from London



Happiness of meeting dears
and then the pain of parting;
My longings fail to give up
to the things most heartening; 

Back to memory lane ....

When Sun rose with tender smiles
and opening of those...

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An early morning half moon sets, casting an eerie glow over  
my waning flower garden. The fireflies’ warm glow is long gone.

Robins once inhabiting the high branch of the oak have left 
only bits...

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I thought of you today
And reprimanded myself
I love someone else
And you shouldn't be in my thoughts

But you're everywhere
You're in that blue butterfly I saw
Flying across the gray sky

You're that cloud shaped like a heart
Floating mindlessly...

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Those employees were all liars and thieves, she told me.
I zone out a bit, until I hear….My brother is a piece of dog dung.
I should have never let my sister back into my life.
I listen...

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My heart is bound with twin-distressed grommets
But every night I look up at the sky Waiting for a comet.

My eyes fixate and focus before they leak like faucets
And I glance up, I zealously try
To spot...

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I was uneasy throughout the day on Monday
Attended to my routine chores halfheartedly
I read the morning newspaper nonchalantly
Without grasping a fraction of the fine print.

Could not concentrate on anything specific
Felt as though enveloped by a...

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Finding Time VS Making Time
Written: by Miracle Man
December 2, 2020

Time, once spent, is a non recoverable item,
it’s like retrieving words spoken in haste.
 We lack power to recover or augment,
so we waste this precious commodity,...

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Words appear on a page but I see them not
I am in a foul mood, and determined to keep it.
There is ugliness afoot, in my mind of minds.

Halfheartedly, I pick up my I-pad
Poised to play...

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As God breathed life into us,
so must we accept his gift!

Breathe in the life he gave you
for yourself -
and do it not halfheartedly.
Inhale deeply every little thing.
Swallow your experiences too as if
they were tasty morsels...

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You crawl beneath my timid heart
Deploying feeble desires
I speak with vivacious eloquence
But, I have not changed my reasoning

Or, lack there of

I dive, head-strongly, into the same folly
Dreaming dreams I've halfheartedly dreamed before
With vehemence as my...

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You will recognize the sunflower field when you see it she was told
The butterfly smiled, halfheartedly, wondering if they would be bold
Just fly straight south until you see a field you cannot resist he said.
Saw...

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