Long Hance Poems

November 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky

My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no matter she fought tooth and nail
to keep ovarian/uterine...

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Preface:
Aye do attest
that poetry may not be best
to express whoosh to chest

git a lee till bitta chump change
boot an overpowering literary force
   to pocket earning for a grange
(hmm...who knows maybe 

  ...

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frankly zapped after wildly oscillating
in tandem with seven bobble heads and ten French horns)
a devilish trumpeting event
by pre-Christian Celtic festival standards
with a “proto” Don twick or tweeting
like a Taj Mahal wonder of webbed, wide world...

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Each subsequent process of cell division    
i.e. mitosis sans biological parlance 
erodes chromosomal cap re: telomere if u can envision
some juncture senescence prevails – 
apoptosis no chance to prevent natural degradation 
and...

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I
Arose a rainbow from relinquis'd fiend,
And shines the scarlet where dyes erased,
Storms the tempest  here as it was its grind:
Thus hidden is, no scour at which will rais'd.
II
And in vain I'll ask which pain...

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[first stanza for Planet contest]


Martians, they don’t live here
Even astronauts keep clear 
Residing though in darkest places
Charred: the eyebrows on their faces
Up from underground they creep 
Resembling small asbestos sheep
Yikes they bleat at red hot...

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V- ery well we all know, 
I-t's the day quickly passing by; 
S-o take every opportunity 
I-n soaring toward the sky. 
T-he end of the world 
A-s we know is so near; 
C-hance that we...

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At the first day,
You stand and say,
Wanting to be way,
To do not delay.

Alot of things said,
We could not heard,
We choose our head,
Without listening their words.

You become a leader,
You work in hurder,
You help each other,
And become...

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Along ta derry ga de hance
‘til dawn we sit, amid, astance.
And once the full moon rises on’t
Da mid awhorl doth all we want.

But soon ta blacken brot a gri,
wit stil da crackon akabree--
And once t’gin...

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J-ust don't throw it out the window, 
E-ven though you're in trouble; 
S-tay calm, firm, and patient, 
S-oothe your mind, heart, and soul.
I-t's a new lease on life, 
C-hance given by the Almighty; 
A-llow it...

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