Long Harpooned Poems

THE CHOICE

HE WAS asleep
Between space and time
The first light on the world
Floated idly
On him
He was just born.

His folded hands
Glowed a pale pink
To keep the fire of life
He wondered if he was really awake.
Is it the...

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What splendid creatures God has formed.
I think of whales who swim above the silt,
giants of the sea that are cruelly harmed,
harpooned from life by men without guilt.

An industrious creature God has made
in the miniscule form...

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"The Green Bruise of Daylight" 

A person can die for love
one sees red
the other sees blue
purple bruises

one sees red 
alarm lights siren
purple bruises 
detach into the grey

alarm lights siren
there is no more singing
detaches into the...

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Who has bewitched thee, thou noble ones?
Chosen to be the head of thy race,
to fulfill thy creator’s will,
through siring, supporting, and securing a clan.

Prophet, priest, prince, and patriarch,
How did you lose your lofty perch?
What sinister...

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Along a pier, on a bench,
An old man sits all day.
Passers by not lending time,
To what he has to say.
They'll never know the loves he had,
Or ocean blues he sailed.
If they had just a moment,
Oh...

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Shipwrecked 


He was Japanese, smiled politely 
and took his shoes off
I smiled also, it was the right thing
for us to do,  shipwrecked sat
in a rubber raft of the type leaving
Tripoli 
Libya, where we murdered Gaddafi
and made a mess in...

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Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,
May thy candle burn quickly before thy night…
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart,

For the slings and arrows deploy and depart,
Solitary stars sacrificed amidst dying light…
Lamenting love rest upon...

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What is life without love?

And love without any life...

For I die a thousand times,
And enter a thousand hells...
Wasted wedding bells...

My heart pinned against your knife...

And scorned within the emptiness
Of it’s shattered shells.

“Lift thy dungeon dagger,
and...

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We are comparative microbes, insignificant
of thought and deed. Diminished by
the raging peak, the ragged arrowhead,
laceration poised to rip the membrane of the
sheltering sky and make it bleed.

How many have braved the ascent, ticks
on the silver...

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Putin rides Russia’s pride
Cheers ring nation wide
Swept along by the tide
No matter, Putin’s stride

Putin derides all global calls
Jeering at the soft flung balls
High on the home-pep of it all
Playing pride before he falls

Before today Putin...

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Balefire

What glory is a lighthouse with no storm to weather?
For there is no solace in harbouring a harpooned wanderer
Truth be told, I am the jaded sea-torn sailor
Yet they sing to me and call me the...

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SHARK IN THE SOUP

               Dragon harpooned shark,
              ...

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Upon my intransigence, I seek solitudes,
sovereign of their state…
Pertaining to my pensive pertinacity,
rigidity reigns supreme…
Idol inflexibilities sustain my endurance,
thus my punitive perseverance ponders still…
For love be the catalyst that displaces my fortitude,
my firmness, my patience,...

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devoted to the sea of love or kisses harpooned upon the darkest lips
or just the sea, midnight blue that seaweed wraps, cocoons,
two lovers in lovers art.   the moon in cahoots with ebb and...

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NARWHAL

        Nine noted naughty notorious Narwhals.
        Active admirable acrobat anonymous aqua mammals.
        Restless rowdy...

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It has been far too long cold
at the dam of this great galloping river
where tonight I have 
stolen the villagers’ dancer
and set her ablaze
to amuse distracted chill
while I latch to the trailing smoke
and slowly 
...

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