Long Hyphen Poems

Where do we think all this economic and politically empowering
cooperative
nutritional
organically luscious imagination
and ecologically exegetical orthopraxis
started?

George Lakoff speaks of strictly straight stern paternalistic God the Universalist Fathers,
vertically Winning over an otherwise Loser, yet highly competitive, ecopolitical...

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" We Will Get Our - Hyphen "


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Mein kampf analogous to one long run on unparsed sentence fragment

Heavily punctuated - hyphen
to embellish poetically
with bracing circumspection,
I markedly exclaim (parenthetically)
cumulative elapsed LXIII obits
around the nearest star
dashed by at lightspeed,
and quoting James Thurber
storied fiction titled
My...

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"Give me words, thousands of words,
I offer my kingdom for words, for I wish a
poem to write.
Not any poem but a masterpiece of a poem!" The aspiring
Poet shouted, and then in a lower voice added:

"Give...

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"Give me words,
Thousands of words,
I offer my kingdom for words
For
A poem I wish to write
Not any poem
But
A masterpiece of a poem!" The aspiring poet shouted, and
then in a lower voice added:


"Give me:
Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs,
Determiners,...

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Sole (and soul) brother waves magic wand (poof)...,
and eldest sister absolved of guilt once and for all

Be happy don't worry
understood how thee feel sorry
for never defending me madam norry
(a real word meaning "woman of honor").

She...

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if the sinking-of-boat …ice-cream by name 
be deducted from the swept-off-in-flood … by name roll no 31 
then would the wings of the comics 
cease to exist 

what says the uninterrupted sound of water-falling 
from...

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Poets are a funny lot
they come for what is sizzling hot
Compassionate? Most times they're not!
they give your rhymes a decent shot
curious to see what you have got
compare and contrast on the spot
criticize the missing dot
or...

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A Reflective Ploy...

it is a reflective ploy;
on the part of me,
when proofreading
all this work of mine;
and do I really care?
that a full stop.
don’t!
or that commas;
are often too many
or misplaced.
now semi-colons
are useful dudes
to slam!
two slightly related...

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He made me feel in my violin,
and, after all, he was much older.
Being in his house was like being at school.
I sat there waiting while he lit the candles,
and was too nervous to help him...

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Talking heads 
will give you their attached credentials
with solemn aplomb

And it’s plenty hyphen proof long

They’ll make unlearned eyes gasp
at their hyped expertise

Get simpler minds to hyperventilate,
as their lower rack thoughts 
common sense overheat

Everyday, mundane pondering
takes...

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The million-to-one longshot - 
I know this unlikely victory 
isn’t so sweet when the race is fixed
and everyone got paid on the side
for being in on the trick
while I just ran and ran and ran.

Ran...

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Parable of the Talent

Date: Mon, Jan 18 2016 at 6:03 PM

Writing is The Gift
I use to Submit
My Innermost Wits
Bliss
Dark Twists
Through The Eyes of The Prince
Through the Strides In the Abyss
The Cries of the Winds
To Shine...

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Did you ever realise that one day you could be gone,

You’d close your eyes

Never to open them again.

That the world for you would stop,

But would continue for the rest,

 

Did you ever realise that one...

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FISH TO FISHES

They changed the "many fish," it is now called the "fishes"? 
As in more than "one wish" for our dreams, as in "wishes."
In the apple half cut to halves, that we have to...

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Michael Miguel Hyphen Ex
Knew the alphabet to letter p
The which he’d scan learned
Over a bowl of fragrant tea
On his journey to the earth
Which he’d spotted from afar
Whilst herding sentient blossoms
Around a not too distant star.
He...

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some poems ask to be naked
they have no use at all
for punctuation
not even for an en dash 
an em dash nor hyphen

they play with a flowing  grammar
that must be read like water
or paddled through...

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-  Dying Mother-            
Perched on her stool but getting there
Angry at paper that just does not care
Onion unlayered in the last of her...

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A semi-colon connects two thoughts together
An exclamation mark screams out its cause
You don’t have to wait until the end to breathe
a comma can give you a pause

A question mark begs for an answer
Quotations usually mean...

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