Long Hunching Poems

I sat and scanned the massive world that I alone would reign. 
To me, a kingdom, large and long, yes…this was my domain.

Where I was King and Lord of all the land that I would...

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I spend time with a friend 
well, a pseudo-friend 
an acquaintance of sorts 
no, I guess he'd be a friend, 
shit, who knows 
one of those types you never really share your heart 
that authentic...

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An Angelo Arab, you had immense spirit
dappled grey with a huge leap  over fences.
Your stable name was Tom, pedigree name
too much of a mouthful for every day use.

In your stable you were a terror...

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And I witness
Your deplorable “glory”
Hunching over my tattered spine,
So we can have something in common

You walk with glorified shell-shock,
Another sentient tongue, 
Straddling on the Eros of vindication

Your sandpaper hands
Reach for an assaulted tenderness
Embracing lambasted lyric

Another...

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i grew my dreams up in a field
and waited till they turned up strong
i took the one that grew the most
and plucked it well before its time

i put the weed in a jar of glass
to...

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“I was frolicking up a staircase made of clouds only to end up muzzled in a circus ”

I explain to Lola - my puzzled therapist 

“Your rational faculty seem to be calloused by your crippling...

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It's another mild day and the sky glows white
The air is still and cool as the midday light

Admirers giggle, perhaps at a young caller
One hunches over, the other stands taller

They don't look wealthy, yet they...

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sometimes the snow falls in sheets of white, 
a blanket of excited kisses, playful - 
fleeting
dampening your thoughts
racing your heart

and sometimes, the snow
falling in sheets of white
brings waves of brittle stings, sharp reminders
memories in the...

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Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
hunching broad shoulders, when the north winds blows
Winter rust is over, and the leaves are turning green
Sunlight filters through the limbs, and warms me to the core

Outside the city...

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The water's dried up,
trees broken and dead,
the pleasant scent of decay
permeates from everywhere,
sinking into the pores
   of my nose,
burning away any other smell.
I watch my pack...
       I...

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In Church today at the dawn of morning light,
  she sat in front of me
  hunching over just a little to my right.
Pale, frail, mottled unfolded hands, 
   with hint of...

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I am hungry.
I take a bite from a sandwich.
I record its 343 calories.
She breathes, 
“Pathetic.”  
“You ought to be eating a salad.”
“You can’t afford to eat this way.”

I go to class.
I am too short...

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Tremble at this door child but do not come in yelled the Quent   
she an ogress at the end of her wits wearing muslin and flint   
was only looking for a...

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To be or not to be, shut the hell up and join me

Ponder this, while you blow bubbles in your milkshake

Those bubbles you are blowing 

Have more life than the good book states

So much for...

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He pushed his shopping cart towards the empty tunnel 
it was full of rattling empties and a brave cocker spaniel   
a penniless vagabond hiding from the rainy day pummel 
wet,  cold, and...

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In a kingdom full of perspectives
Much I marveled the ideal principle
Deep into that darkness hunching
Vision - tormentor of my dreams
When I thought of the Vision

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I heard a designing, happy dreaming
Of binoculars that are mainstreaming
I had...

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A  FAKE WORLD
The truth stood downcast in the lie
 Its chin upon chest and hands tied
Shoulders drooped with a hunching back
Gagged, maimed barely able to sigh
 
Chained mercilessly in a  cell
The truth stood...

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Somewhere partially due east 

Of Hunching Cliff 

On the Jurassic coast

Where the Old Lighthouse

Used to stand it's ground 

Battered intermittently minutely 

Against the wave's and constant tide

With only the steeple rock formations

As any form of...

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A LETTER TO MY DISTANT LOVER

Dear friend,

I wish a gentle wind could rise from my deep self
and blow towards you humming my deepest wishes
on freely swaying tree branches
along the cool banks of a river which...

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Hunching in my shoulders trying to close my ears
I feel my navel tighten as I suck in all my fears
Concentrate on breathing warmth into my inner fold
Touch of headache starting as I’m fending off the...

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He’s late-stage Charles Bukowski,
Hunching gnome-like over the bar,
With weary eyes, and scruffy stubble.
It’s sure he must have seen some trouble. 
But he’s got plenty of cash in his pockets,
Along with the keys to a stolen...

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Whispering pills remember
Where people and love fail
Lingering in shots and hits that filter
That leave body and mind deranged and frail
Comes about in random trysts 
Posing for love though suddenly betrayed
This fascination one has to forget
To...

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In my newly built house it was my first morning
With my name plate "Dr.Ram Mehta,Litt.D " hanging
I saw a tall man coming in, hunching with a short stick
A complete stranger quite tall but looked little...

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i've seen it several times
someone motioning, flourishing
waggling, swinging, curving
hunching, moulding, stooping
pulling shapes, a twirling
a form, a delineation, shadows
fingers, tree branches, winding creeks
sometimes a head inclines 
obstructing the cityscape
what are they listening to?
what are they talking...

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