Long Handbook Poems

NO PART OF THE WORLD (Part 1)


Have you read Jesus words at John 17:16?

Referring to his disciples he said
"They are no part of THE WORLD, just as I am no part of THE WORLD"

What could...

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(Door bell rings)

 — The damn dog barks and a voice is heard. Arms stretch, forming a letter Y. A head shakes. Dimples become this smooth cheek; lips form a letter O... Exhaled respiration sighs; the break of...

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake and darling buds of May and summer's lease hath all too short a day. Sometimes too hot the...

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Miracle ova fertilized cell...

Yielded pink bundle of joy
self determined autonomous millennial
relocated University of Pennsylvania
Engineering graduate class of 2019
calls Oakland, California home
(employed at Certified B Corporation)
lives with her lovely beau,
and two beautiful tortoiseshell cats.

December twenty second
two...

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Dear budding poet,

Regarding modern poetry this is a result of poets such as you redesigning forms of poetry written through the ages by different nationalities, famous and just ordinary people like you and me.

When composing...

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How will they remember us 
Those born after the war. 
What will they say about us.

Will they fully grasp the level of our sell out
Our denial of simple pleasures to our children,
Not letting them know...

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LITANY   OF   CAT   COMPLAINTS


Why so glum Rusty? Offered Max  as a tentative 
One-no-trump   opener.
     Well, it’s all down to you guys ...

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A few also rented words by David Archuletta:
"A Writing style technique that hides with an evasiveness, while still long steeped in confusion." 

The above Copyrighted and Trademarked sentence shouts of compound meaning. Both of which,...

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I've been a bit free with the vitriol with a couple of poems recently, and need to check myself.  Some months ago I met a bard, Kevan Manwaring.  In his book, the Bardic...

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My dream was such that I just didn’t want to be awake
When an unexpected change in tone caused my good mood to break     
As my Buena Vista faded ‘neath a penetrating...

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When in Spring with leaves turned to green
Eyes, hands & face
There lived one man with a thirst
To live in the moment between space & time
Selling his pots and pans to get by
Although the years would...

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I walked into my school at noon one day, straight from a bland boring counseling meeting and no one was there.
No receptionist, no secretary, no nurse, no vice principal, no custodian, oh, where were they,...

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Is all relationships complicated or is it just mine? Or is complicated even the word I'm looking for that's unknown just like my thoughts n questions I torture myself wit!! Am I good enough will...

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You went off the screen 
Never to be seen 
Can’t find you on google
You don’t even tweet
Like Tweet 
I feel like smoking cigarettes 
No, I’d rather scream
But who will hear me 
Because it makes a...

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an irrevocable positive transformation occurred 
within and without 
   the world according to Matthew Scott Harris 
   got mussed and stirred.

No longer central focus of mein kempf, 
   NON...

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I feel your always mad at me, Nothing I say ever feels ok. Nothing I do, is ever suffice for you. I always feel like your putting me down, never once are you proud of...

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I get a severe case of ghetto epilepsy
when it goes skin dark at night
Get a bad reaction  ...  very violently,
to any rearview flashing lights

Hear the loud siren behind,
see the shiny badges moving towards...

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Since I began reading God's word 
I've come to a definite conclusion 
It doesn't matter what I've heard 
It puts and end to all confusion 

Everyone reads every now and then 
For current events or...

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As I walk this graveyard somber
Of a country shorn of life
Its gravestone reads, in the distance yonder
Stabbed by debt’s dagger knife

Our Founding Fathers, like demigods
Of a past enlightened age
Founded this nation, with musket rods ...

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just in case
ever comes
a day they
decide to
warm up
the cold
war for
that's 
what
it

seems so
today for 
i'm practicing
retirement in 
preparation
last night i
stayed up
as late as
i liked
having

in mind to not
set an alarm
clock just
wake when
it felt like
it's time
never
mind
ing
to

call the first
food...

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Whining, it happens when blizzards come calling
Grabbing a jacket I walk down the stairs
Beside the window where winter is lurking
Waiting about as if nobody cares

Coating the trees with a cottony fabric
Not quite as warm as...

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I think it’s funny when in the thrift store I see
An Alcoholics Anonymous handbook donated to charity
With the former owner’s full name on the front, page sides, and spine
And even a return address label on...

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He often thought to himself
that he has been too quickly assembled
that he should have taken more time
for the busy hands of his constructing mind
to fill-in the flaws, smooth-out the cracks,
properly tightened the loosely screwed together
parts...

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From here)
Leaving him was harder mentally
Physically it was just a step outside the door
There wasn't a handbook nor a map
And friends and family expected me to bounce back like that
Just looking at me physically you...

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WAITING   FOR   THE   BUS

At the metal pole with the “transit logo”
Line of six, then rapidly  me, and  now twelve – 
All looking in the same direction- down...

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