Long Harmlessly Poems

A Night On A Wharf

The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...

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The River Mersey and The Black Pearl New Brighton 

Let the Caribee and sultry sea call to the pirates bold. 
But on this shore, with its tales of lore, The Mersey keeps its hold
For merchants,...

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III.
But I had a much higher purpose now,
damned or not, I would serve the True God,
for thirty years I served with my brothers,
upon a humble path I faithfully trod.

Maybe I wasn’t a miracle worker,
though I...

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for no fault of mine, congenital blindness has been my lot
i never fail to wonder how i look
mum said i'm blond and beautiful
till date what blonde means still beats me
i can only imagine the meaning...

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Siege warfare (trumpeting)
average joe biden his time
linkedin with aberrant behavior
transpires within me mind,
(not just today December 5th, 2020,

but everyday/365)
warrants depleting stockpile arsenal
constituting exhausting mental health
uprooting deep seated repellent pesky
daunting lost cause.

Overruled by irrational thoughts,
I feebly...

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The air is crisp, cold weather
that you can sink your teeth into.
It's midwinter with a brief break
between rainy weather fronts.

My fat limping dog and I have
got to get out of the house and
find some wildness.
He...

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(buzzfeeding, kickstarting, needling darn noggin)

An effort to recall word, phrase,
musician... indigenous tribe...
most frustrating literary
endeavor to das scribe

aggravating enough to sub
bourbon spur teetotaler to imbibe
and/or nsync, whereby soul searching
devil's advocate demands bribe.

Lil brokeback Engelbert Humperdinck
(born Arnold...

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'Course as a grim teller of tall tales,
(albeit poetic) reasonable rhyming
quasi roundelay I readily admitted to feign
cuz, stringing words together with
pride and prejudice plus
sense and sensibility, jocularity,
and conformity I dissed deign
(spoiler alert) iamb, trochaic,

dactylic, and...

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When I'm outdoors, I'm usually found
walking about staring straight down at the ground,
avoiding eye contact or even ear contact from they who surround me.
I'm not a people person obviously.
If by chance there happens to be...

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Man loves man
Man helps, and cares of man
Man wishes and prays for man
Man does these for human betterment,
I don’t negate these but say for some reasons
I see what man does well for man
Man gets that...

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Thoughts about

The games in life, that one plays for his / her audience, are games perceived
- usually – by the recipient and sometimes by an observer, but to the player,
it is not a game at...

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Most restful sleep since... being in utero

Courtesy restless leg syndrome
spouse called me expletive rat fink
ousted me out the bed with plink
as lovely bones almost got extinct,
whence consoled self singing ditty
Skidamarink a-dink a-dink

makeshift burrow of pillows...

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10-56
It’s the part of the job they warn you about
But they can never really train you for it
Never really prepare you for what you see 
when you duck under the yellow tape the first time...

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Silence.
For over thirty years he longed for a night free from the snoring that her sinuses caused.
Foolishly, he thought he could sleep much better if the grating sound did not echo in his ears.
Now he...

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Harmlessly on a search one day 
Our paths crossed 
Looking into your eyes met 
I began to faint 
I started to dream 
As the fire started to burn in my heart
I came across a moment...

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The old man…who has lived long…who has seen this a hundred times before
was asked, “What he thinks is the saddest part of war?”

“The tragedy of war,” the old man said, “amid the destruction, the death…the...

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It's that time before Winter and all through the yard
run pathways of petals all beautifully charred.
An assortment of heartwarming hues can be seen:
deep reds and bright yellows and shades in between.
How my innocent heart beats...

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An empty room is grumbling, replete with stale time
Sorrow comes to tuck you in - the perfect evening crime
Emptiness adorns the walls; north, south, east and west
A solitary toy performs in spring at your behest

Black...

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Hostile,
and angering nations,
the dark winged angel was bent
on destroying entire civilizations,
genocide is what he wanted and darkness is what he sent,
the Earth hung limply in space,
crying, as the dark winged angel was set on
eliminating the...

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Rust ate away the Tin Man's heart,
but I never stopped loving.
After abandoning me, who wouldn't
need a wizard's magic to restore
some semblance of feeling?
Loving me was like loving a tin can:
I always had something to offer.
Loving...

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Inevitable that our past
Indulgence in many an unholy repast 
Brings now ego borne ferality
Seeking to penetrate our open porosity
Having no fear we do not resist
Our emptiness within offering no target
Grossness seeking an anchor
But there being...

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The end of a wasps nest I ignored has resulted in up to 10 wasps a day coming in next to where I work.

I'm proudly putting each one outside (the most I caught at once...

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A fluffy haze of pure white floats peacefully above
as tender wispy tendrils sing of antiquated love.
A blanket of cerulean shines carelessly nearby,
embracing skies with unseen tides beneath them as they fly.

A violet warmth of giggles...

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Everywhere it soaks and seeps collecting
more as it journeys to destination
starting life as a single water drop 
this life giving fluid of such sweet nectar

Seeming coloured one moment clear the next
we give it such little...

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They burst forth and charge downwards
Matching uniforms shiny against the grey sky
Their only desire to smash suicidally upon our ranks
We hear the thunder of them coming, and carefully prepare
The vanguard already lie smashed upon the...

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