Long Hulks Poems

Herons fragment the mist,
appear and disappear while remaining motionless.
The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past.
A dewy sky shivers.

Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio.
This morning the sun reached the top...

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THE GREAT BATTLESHIP


Once sailed as the lumbering hulks of the high seas
Fierce winds accompanied most of its expedition
Woozy and exhausted crews grappled the oars and crosstrees
With smoothbore and muzzle-loading guns geared up for a mission

The...

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Small rolling hills, valley plots,
nothing regimented,
graves not scattered, but placed
among natural features.
It’s beautiful here
especially in the Fall.
The Maples are tall and burning bright.

There are new graves among the old.
I thank all of them
for being here...

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Am I the only one, 
the only one left to carry this cross 
through these wasted lands, 
these blasted glass riddled sands.
This cross of madness. 
Leagues I have traveled... 
Long have I forged this burden...

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Last Chance, 

I passed through you many times and remember you.

You sit on the Colorado Prairie east of Denver at the intersection of two, two lane highways.

In the 1880's you were a stop along the...

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Villanelle : Don't we all cling to Life tooth and nail guts in groin

Don't we all cling to Life tooth and nail guts in groin
E'en if the insatiable Beast glowers close behind
No matter what nor...

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Patience of accusations begin to thin 
As they toss complaints at me from now til then
If i could summarize my existence that easily i would 
But another question is that if i even should 

Raised...

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I still feel that short embrace
Him turning for one last glance
The look on our mother’s face
Her knowing his fate of chance

What is this cruel affair called war
Who could give such credence
To savage acts and laws...

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MIRACLE OF CHILDHOOD REGAINED



Snow  - my dream  miracle, 
To me has always called, never  cold. 
Serenely reposing, softly refreshing
Like  flowing water over a low  weir. 
Submerging  sharp corners; ...

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BRIGHT    MIRACLE

Snow is my dream-home miracle,
Always called to me,   never  cold. 
Serene, soft, silent,
Soul-scoured, fresh, reposing -
Like the sound and pure spray  
Of  flowing water over a...

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Plucked from before the hulks of houses going up
My childhood sea and spot of southern sky
The cornflower eyes northern poets wove into their songs
And eastern poets sang the autumn high
Climbed hills to catch the moon
Timid...

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6 foot 7 makes self sufficient
Drums pavement clink clanking walking barefoot 
On Puddles of thought dried to subsistence
Carelessly focusing on how not to look

Indecisive ones with pure intentions
While restlessly calm fidget sitting still
In comes independence...

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Hey there, Muscle Men, please come my way
I’m moving out on Labor Day
Packing’s made me a muscle lady
Biceps are growing on this baby

Incredible Hulks are welcome here
Superman seems to have disappeared
Consider the workout you’ll receive
A...

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Have you ever seen
The portrait of a dog
Painted on the road,
Not in the great tradition
Of living colours as you’d 
Expect, but in all the 
Terror and detail of
An untimely death?

Have you ever seen
The sketch of...

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A voiceless emoted summer ran amok the muse music's mandolin strummer.

Essence of antiquity wander and sulk...
Arched building's olden archetecture is many awsome massive like hulks.

Gargoyles perch at building eve's set...
Mine eyes have failed to adjust...

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Lying in her long veils on the calm black water
In a dream I shall feel lull them asleep among the foliage;
pours burning love the devil's paladins;
that by starlight! of black devils and black wolves!

The wind...

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The ocean is vast, large ships traverse its waters
seabirds abound, hunting for fish
distance between continents measure in hundreds
All life is at sea

All manner of vessels is found on the blue water
And even below surface they...

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I am young, a tough nut,
hard to crack.
Thick mud splashes half-blind me.
Bones are jostled, pushed into aching flesh.
I am spun around and dumped,
lifted up shoved back in.
A pummeled nose bleeds into my mouth,
stagger, run, beaten...

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