Long Header Poems

The night was frigid and at its poorest,
But who am I to judge, when I was not the wisest,
A slight breeze crawled up my spine,
I could taste the wind’s saltiest brine.
My eyes conveyed to an...

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Flood lights are bright 
One more match am I right 
It’s the reds of Liverpool 
And the Wolves who are determined not to be fools 

Soon it will be a weekend break 
With only the...

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I received a cookie cutter form letter of rejection from the editor for someone else's poem in my SASE. That someone else sent me the acceptance letter she received for my poem in her SASE....

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Froth
           by Odin Roark

Come
Be my operator
Me your camera

Medium shot
Lower Manhattan sidewalk café
He in Armani suit accented with Ferragamo tie
She with Jimmy Choo and Prada outfit
Both...

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Zillion supporters screaming, a loud buzz,
 Yearning to return home cheered by victory.
 Xerox machines preparing the next day’s papers; Max
 Wit for the shame or fame of a member of the show.
 Violent vitriol...

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Daily Poetry #67, April 5, 2017
Word: Wound 

Through time in and out, history repeats,
And I find that life leaves the same wounds. 
Unable to heal, I hide them away,
Hoping no one will see, no matter...

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I have no boundaries

I am the air
Lightly above you
I am the earth
Strong beneath your feet
I am the sparkling city that embraces the ebony of your sky
Diamond Concrete

I am a bold faced lie
I am a dose...

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Most hurtful wounds I hold in our hearts.. ..Unhealed with unbearable pain..
It’s from the knife of love. ..Cuts deep down.. Ripped the heart deep inside..
Many are yet healing and some are still soaring..
Many years moths...

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No more creativity deemed on 
the exercise of rotten faculty
Nor burning intelligence’s 
penalty
Nor repression sold as 
suppression
Nor dissemination of distortion 
I shall be content at dawn
To take my leave
Subjugation’s tyranny’s ambition
It’s combat? 
Humanity’s mission
Submission’s antithesis...

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A huge Congratulations 
to everyone who passed
matriculation this year 
but please don't congratulate 
to me because I have no one 
to happy hearing your sweet voices.

In the past years I was waiting 
to hear some...

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It cracks me up, when I hear, people say, why does God allow things to go a certain way. Could it be, because we don't live for, and respect His gift of today? We pay...

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Ropin Pen
Headed to the ropin' pen
On a Saturday night
Cooler is loaded
This just feels right

Got the ol' dodge rollin'
You know I ain't no phony 
Got this six horse trailer
Loaded with my one and only

It's a 10...

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Email?
I’d rather eat kale. 
Texting is more fun to me. 
An informal decree.

Email is-
When you have business. 
When you have something important as a paper letter. 
What should I write as a header?

When I begin....

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Water, water everywhere
running down the walls
and dripping through the ceiling
like the darned Niagara Falls.
The carpet is all sodden
but really, if you please,
I draw the line at paddling
unless it’s in the seas.

I never liked the wallpaper,
though...

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They don’t get it, bunch of fools
Don’t they see how the media drools
Over each and every tweet
Crafted not to be discreet.

Are they blind to my great skill
Of bending media to my will,
Time and again I...

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Dews of diamond falling, love pine whispering
Greenish leaves waving, gentle breeze ripples the pond
Morning sun showering the kids vitamin
Elixir of beauty splashing yet am unripe
But its my season!!
Seasoning myself yet the aroma goes no where
Friends...

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Both France and Australia were nil-nil until extra time when Aussie Alanna Kennedy’s misdirected header during a corner kick produced an own goal for France. The goal was disallowed for a foul inside the box...

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What In Life, Can We Truly Ever Hold


What of life, brings us such great thrilling calls
Weeks dancing about, floating on cloud nine
Remember as children huge red beach balls
And ice cream eating, strawberry was fine!

Why does...

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Of all the sights I daily sees
There’s none so wonderous as cheese!
In a block, wheel, sliced or shaken,
Correct me if I’m mistaken,
At the slightest whiff of cheddar
Concentration takes a header!
And throughout all the rank and...

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I see that Bubba’s so forlorn.
He’s too depressed to talk today. 
Two months in a full-body cast	
can keep one’s cheerfulness at bay. 

He donned his super hero suit 
and took a header off the roof
(two-story!)...

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