Long Hollowly Poems

Oh, this impish ill!
this mystic flock of ever-roaming pain;
You now possess fully
my body and my life.
I am at your full attention and mercy;
Do you not rejoice?
Are you not overwhelmingly triumphant?
This very body that shamed kings...

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Pandora's BoX

Whom to blame?
What woman now walks, the lethal ancestress
Of the original ancestress, that one named 
Pandora, that one with the gleaming eyes that said:

   "I want; I need, to know?"

Where is she...

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Skin pulled tight over gaunt faces,
hollow eyes looking out at me,
fearful of what they see,
dreading pity,
empathy,
apathy,
wanting form me
only an ear,
an ear i’ve given  too many times
from those too many times
so tired is this ear
that...

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the great bard and Elizabethan play wright
begetting complete dramaturgy
     explaining fate hollowly airtight
succor starved, riddled smitten tattered

     sir real body politik blight
under whelming enthusiasm
   ...

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To figure you out holistically, 
I need to wade the waters cautiously
A snap of a band on my wrist 
Every time I think of this 
I had my fifteen minutes of fame 
When you needed...

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Tearing a poem in two, ripping a part an entire idea
insanity or ingenious, unthinkable or approved, forbidden
who knows
One important question: is traitor now the title I bear
a traitor to myself, betrayer to everything I stand...

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The black wall reflected my white-washed skin 
and disheveled jacket, above the chattering din...
Loosly lopsided glasses hang limply on my face,
Cold, dark, black, they somehow seemed to fit this place. 
The smooth memorial seemed to...

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Deafening Silence
By Sy Roth

Are they going to die like that 
Buried under the silt of time with it all unresolved?
Are they a ribonucleic disaster, a broken string of DNA 
Deposited in a weary, weeping womb?...

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Although aging may not be a present thing to experience
it is a great blessing. No matter how hard he tries to understand 
old age, the youth will never be able to conceive the meaning of...

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8/17/12

There is nothing to these phrases
But somehow they reach the reader
They touch . . . me
Am I the only one caged in this prison?
Do you ever wish life had a better meaning?
Do you ever wish...

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far beneath the steeples of cobble stoned london, 
he moves without the parting of a shadows grace.
 from morning to morning he carries no longing.

  under the heavy hymns of the luthern organs
 he...

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Her Side
By Sy Roth

Are they going to die like that?
Expire
Retire 
As a broken, opalic string of DNA
Ribonucleic disaster
Worm-eaten womb 
Ascerbic molecules.

Who enabled this procreatic mission?

They rimed it with a urine trail
Left --Her side
Discordant disdain
Heeding her...

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Friend caution in recklessness cast 
at mercy of four elemental winds; 
marooned to rest abandoned in 
eerie thrall of empty deserts. 
Tanned into wisps of burning paper, 
dust-blown ghosts dissolving, 
coughing up a storm. 
In...

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Beyond the cabin walls
a shimmering molt of starlight
brushes brilliance
over my black drenched car.

Snowflakes fall
disappear
then appear to float up
on weightless whisps
breathed out
from inky cisterns.

A chill window reflects,
it takes my picture
through a fisheye lens.

Behind me,
a log fire...

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Tomorrow I will wake up and work out just a half hour,
And yet I find myself weak. 
Today I will limit myself on the sweets I devour, 
And yet I find myself weak. 
Now I...

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Trails of laughter amid tears
Tales of the ancients rake pensive queers
History is but present hollowly thought
Experienced oceans of belittled naught

Swelling chest and above the eyes
That constantly gaze on high
We hear the change of the believed
Rainwater...

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The whale song resounds in each shedding tear,
  The surface lies stoic and hushed,
Each aqualung fathom compressed every year
  Blue velvet and casually crushed.

The parting of souls torn a sorrowful drag
  Of...

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Earthy barmy leafs scurry
Pulling rapidly in peak flurry 
Lamenting blind as mists worry 

Crude cool calm earth attacks slowly
Silly calm breeze shoo wholly
Sharp plume vanishes hollowly

Descending riveted cloud gleam 
Sputtering upon scratching stream 
Hurries vacantly...

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FALL UNTO

A smile in a mirror

Cracked!

Swallowed in shadow.

Haunted by violent secrets and fears

Fact forms from our fictions

Hollowly grow gray

Heal broken back

Silent grievance unsoothed tears

A turmoil fault – a symptom in form of an addiction

Temptation fought...

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SANDS      OF      TIME
 
My child the struggler-
Half-buried, sand-holer
From fractious family.
Each christmas hollowly
 
Joyless in the cold
Tracks  in the snow,
A pointless journey
A useless straggler
 
My...

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