Long Hardily Poems

WHAT BEGAN AS HACKING INTO MEDICAL DATA OF VETERANS MILITARY FAMILIES ORGANIZED CRIME VIDEO CRIMINAL GROUP WORKING VERY CLOSE WITH CHINA DUE.TO THE EXTREME NATURE OF AMERICANS NEED FOR SONY PRODUCTS MORTAL COMBAT OVER LAKE...

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Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon

Tantamount to shrugging Atlas off mine bony, 
   ill suited,...

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BEING FITTED FOR MY MURDER WAS LIKE ANY OTHER DRESS FITTING WHEN I WAS LITTLE THE TAILOR SHOP WAS ALWAYS EMPTY AWAITING MY PERSONAL FITTING MY POP WENT FIRST WATCHED THE SEAMTRESS CAREFULLY MEASURE HIS...

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That's-That's-That's All Folks
By Roy Merritt

There’s a little guy ‘round here 
with a red mustache three feet long
And there’s no one about it seems 
with which he gets along

He’s always angry it seems 
and often pullin’...

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Italia we strolled the country side throughout 
the villages of Sicily peeking through stone 
ways above garden nooks of Puglia catering to 
the soft and sensual galleries of floral canvases 
that covered scented walk ways...

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Erect in knee high waters bidding to attain the shoreline that is not discernible in the distance.
I mean not to aggress.
Furious with a rage erupting from my core, spattering into the waters till it abscesses...

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If I had done exactly what Jesus asked me to do,
this bitterness wouldn't hang heavily over me
and my broken spirit that can't find a patch of blue...
when the cloudy skies wouldn't defy serenity!


I should have...

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Distance separates the pleasures
Of a touch never meant to be kissed
Once lost in void filled rainless
Clouds like tomorrow rewinds  

As yesterday feasts upon my eyes
Won’t open to the realities of 
Emotions felt only in...

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WITH APOLOGIES TO MISS HARPER LEE
By Roy Merritt

It's a sin to kill a mocking bird 
According to Miss Harper Lee
But I'm afraid I'll have to say 
I hardily disagree
Because you know them birds 
They're a...

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If I transformed myself into something
that feels no joy or expresses no feeling:
like those stones in the wilderness
that feel no warmth or coldness,
I'd get rid of this carnal lust...
not fearing what it may cost!

A long...

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Were I to swim to the edge of the sea,
what splendid scene should await for me?
Would I behold the legendary town
with glittering brick roads and king’s famed crown?
 
Could I uncover the truth in the...

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Torpedo grass is a noxious weed.
To gardeners, it’s a plant they don’t need.
Widespread, it almost never grows from seed.
Some botanists say it hails from Asia.
Others claim the plant comes from Africa.
Either way, this weed made...

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my muse is plotting every inch of my time today
I try to escape but there is actually no way
on writing poetry and fiction, she is hardily keen
I cannot refuse Trixie, for she is insanely mean

no...

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I am an observer of people, places, and things.
I have watched many of them mount up with wings.

I have rubbed shoulders with the good, bad, and ugly.
Some lingered awhile, and others departed suddenly.

The bad and...

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