Long In no uncertain terms Poems

Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea...,

yielded following resultant fiction,
which arbitrarily selected thread
first popped into my head
considered one among many possible
near infinite concocted scenarios
arose up, thus continue at your own risk
only entertainment ye...

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The Uyghur Empire’s ruler where the sun rarely blessed

Travelled to the Northern bank of the Luo in contemplation

And stayed in a tomb for three days after battling Yan

Thus, four angels of the Faith of Mani...

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Erlenkönig waited to see the owner of the footsteps he heard from the corridor across the hall and to his left.  Very cautiously one of the Iberians peeked into the courtyard.  It...

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1) "A true friend knows their own limitation:

2) Excuses any condition presented for them, to always, and in all ways allow for just what is practical, and proven that works for all of life continuing.

3)...

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Soccer was the thing for all young men to play.
And my little love wanted to join desperately in the game.
So he got to be the goalie… to wear that special crown.
He was so excited as...

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The Kung Poo Master, he literally, lives the ancient art of Kung Poo.
He senses and knows, before you do, that’s there’s going to be a poo.
Living with depths of concentration: that we can truly, only...

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Dismantling Of A Growing Nation

Back in late 70s, while I was just another fresh face in a local varsity....
Racial based politics was gaining grounds with public sympathies....
Remembered distinctly DAP, the opposition party,  was gaining...

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I just wanted to thank Poetry Soup for, well, for being, for existing as a format for poets to share their hearts and souls. I can hardly believe it's been 6 years (gulp!) since I...

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Just lay back on the couch and tell me what’s unsettling you

      Everything has changed and I don’t know what I’m to do

Expand on that in ways that might help...

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...The wedding was planned for that fifth year,
but when it came Rob sadly did say:
“I’m being deployed, they’re put us on alert,
I’m sorry love, but I must go away.”
She was in tears, but what choice...

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Woke up jumped off the couch and
put on a mask
Used in order to survive another average day
Sat on the stairs lit up and smoked
enough to blow a mind and descend
into a heady hazy trance

Oh boy...

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I hopped on a south bound

with my head in the clouds

thought I'd prove a few wrong

maybe make a few proud

but just like every other time 

there's no rhyme or reason

just a reason for a rhyme

I...

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It seems watching snow melt happens faster these days
For truth’s less and less liquid and lies new life maze
As degenerate whores court the end of the earth,
Their souls so bound to Satan they’re raptured at...

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You claim that you’re the future
and all should clear the way,
you say that older ideas now
can no longer have a place.
You think you’ve found a new path,
that you’re rising like the tide,
too blind to see...

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Ignorance....

How is it...gifted with
abilities to reason
we can all remain so unaware...

How is it...gifted with
mental ability of logic
yet,what do we really know....

Even with our limited sense
of language and words to communicate
how do you describe in uncertain...

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Leave free agents alone
Bully
For they’ve got no time to be the clone
You hurt truly and deeply

In games without aim
Where you torture and suture at will
Treating victims the same
Way happiness you steal

To boost your roost
Bereft of...

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Well this will be my last Alphabet gossip poem
As l was summoned to Alphabet H.Q’s this morning
Told in no uncertain terms there will be ‘no more Alphabet gossip’
And given my final warning

So, l wanted to...

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Maybe it is because of the loneliness of listening to opera on the radio by myself too many Saturday afternoons. It might be due to the sadness of seeing autumn leaves dripping tears outside my...

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your labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done

I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and anyone who’d listen

gently tapping to the rhythm
of our beating hearts
united...

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One day my little brother Chris asked our mom for a bendy straw,
He liked the way the way it bent towards him until I told him of a flaw.

My other two brothers backed me up...

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"A Púca is an Irish benign creature of Celtic folklore,
notably in Ireland, the West of Scotland, and Wales."


The Púca 


His was not a large White Rabbit,
his was a gray Hare,
gray whisked with gray tufted ears.

We...

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Hey there dope fiends,

It’s me, your addiction. The thing you can’t 
live without. Your job has tied you to me.
The out of town family would think
something was all wrong if you didn’t stroke
me on a...

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Cathie finally lets me go out on my own now

As long as I wear a tracking device of some kind

This, of course, is needed in case I wander away 

And can't remember where I live!

At...

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Cathie finally lets me go out on my own now
As long as I wear a tracking device of some kind
This, of course, is needed in case I wander away 
And can't remember where I live!
At...

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We no longer move in normal ways    
and all this because of Covid 19   
I no longer watch the news these days 
Each day I pray for a simple cure...

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