Long Haplessly Poems

As I hover over the darkened room, I wonder how I have gotten here. Did I die, was I 
dead? That was the only explanation I could think of for my disembodiedment. But 
concentration was...

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Could it be that two city streets meet at a portal
of awakening that leads to enlightenment?
May your next frontier be "Inter-Be" discovery.

Nearly forty years ago on July twenty-fifth,
working in the center city of Philadelphia
I was...

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It has become painfully obvious that the only way to be heard
is to pay through the nose to be a lifetime nerd,
the way to be read in on this sight 
is to pay through the...

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There it was, a stranger of sorts. 
I say "It" in place of "man" as my memory supports.
A beguiling arrangement of coffee mugs,
 porcelain creamer boats,
 filled with lumps of matured cream.
 Sour and old...

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The Foreigner’s Waltz                 ©Pollyana Darrell 2020/06/02

The whisper in my dream bellowed your name-
Who you were never mattered before,
I never...

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There lies inanimate a lady who lived within her character
		Who I found so ugly when her heart was going pitter-patter;
		Her character left no ornamental mark on earth as it was burlesque –
		But that was quite...

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Death! Is absolute
the ultimate fear,
yet many, find it the
cause of so much
aggravation. Still! It’s
tops in the profit
stakes, wielding  “Wide
screen, splatter
delving special effects.”
Cold shivers to
counteract hot steamy
nights, where evil,
always appears to be
enjoying its
renaissance in a...

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THE MONSTER YOU DREAD

i can’t handle rejection,
the unhug of perfection.
a piercing scream of perplexion —
my complexion streaked
grouted and piqued.

i backhanded you by
closing the splintered door,
vainglorious to the core —
now you can’t see the open sore.

you...

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You seduced and teased my yearning, with your succulent lure
A floral fragrance sumptuous and bizarrely pure,
You impaled and intoxicated my mind, with your corporeal charms
My impassioned heart, raced to your ominously parted arms!
You clasped me...

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Calamities…
assaulted by the Memorial Day tsunami
drowned victims & floating cars--
appendix detonates during the Season of Hell
haplessly hospitalized in the UT-Austin medical zoo

Delusion of progress…
recovering in the mobile home 
plodding through texts of 
postmodern pointlessness--
overcome with...

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by Michaelw1two

Inspired by the word-works of Mamata Sampath

 with that it comes, 
 what lies beneath it; 
 beauty or horror, 
 it captivates me; 
 crawls and creeps through me, 
 to it, I...

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Only an extra-ordinary nose
(which I have not)can follow the odour
of your strange reason my son !
Why am I dying so much to pierce in to you
and why are you so bewildered and scarred
just at the...

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Yours is a horrendous bother

I decode one side, you obfuscate another!

I twist and turn, twist and turn again

fingers engrossed around your parts, another twist

extirpates the other side! My enthusiasm refuses to wane.

I warp your shifting...

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Oh she of many lovely looks and names
reflects the golden glories of the day.
Her mythic face points to the western way
an intrepid mascot for freedom's winds
this flying lady lives well out in front.
Seeing her heading...

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Under appreciated shards of glass
Haplessly pressing until flesh gives way.
So many calendar pages pass
Knees bloodied, knelt down to pray.

Tears committing suicide off lashes,
Pain silenced by the wrong company.
Pastels covering her outside clashes,
Does who she is...

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{Up}
I go…
I sleep on
Mashed potato
Clouds, floating about…  
Rest has taken its toll 
As I reach up to haven
Cloud 7 – here I go!!
I am ascending
As I embrace
Nirvana 
Farewell,
Love!
{I}
Have fallen 
Short of time and
I’ve been...

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As You Travel
By Franklin Price
4/8/2019

As you travel down life's roads 
And if are blessed with health and mind
Do not  travel haplessly,
Make the best of what you find

The choice is yours of roads to take
To...

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Turn not deaf to the stern clamor,
Frozen upon my mourner’s lip;
Whose cry has weakened the desire in me,
Desire to rest in the arms of slumber;
Greeting my open eyes, tired,
For an infinite slumber!
That shall transcend the...

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How did I get here?

Amongst the crusty sand and screeching gulls
Where greasy waves spill haplessly
Under an unyielding, gray sky

How did I get here?

Wandering about in pained abstraction
Looking at the rolling, dark waves

Parceled out in hopeless...

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I'm concerned now 
with only solitary things

the stinging course 
of an unwiped tear
and a small blonde curl
wrapped in plastic

 
never lengthening


a fleeting smile
forced from cheek's hollow
its laughter drowned in a meandering brook 
that doesn't babble

...

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An off-day for the quill: I’m channel surfing
from a carpeted beach beneath beveled
canopy.  My legs haplessly dangle flung
overboard crossing a comfortable
black leather partition provided by Sears.
On CNN there’s a bow legged French horn
wearing white...

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Skills will falters 
The front is back 
The back is gone
Hour after hour 
Day by day 
We cross junctions
wondering thoughtlessly 
Wandering haplessly 
Trying to fill my lines
Dying just to free my life 
from being lost
inside...

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Amongst the mysterious and gloomy forest
Begets a creature so cruel and ferocious
Consciously aware of its own destructive behavior
Deceptive in nature; unforgiving at heart
Enchanting the woodlands like a corrupted hermit
Fantasy twisted; reality tainted
Gremlins, Ghouls, and Goblins...

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Every now and again
you look at me from
the corner of your eyes
and give a teasing smile,

Are you playing with me
or falling in love?

Like a fisherman
reeling in his catch,
you have me hooked
and I thrash about 
holding...

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