Long In stages Poems

Vets Know
                  by Odin Roark



Deployment
(Via Refrigerator Magnets)
 
Sweetheart

Should have told you

I’m sorry
I’ve buttered
the last piece
the heel
you never eat

Can...

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(A LIFE TIME IN A DAY)
                      I
So! This is what it’s all about,
to think...

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At this very moment, no one has successfully defined what Life truly is, so
      every fleeting second that passes, one breathing being at a time, tries 
   ...

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"The Mute Hearts of Babylon"



the day 
the poets died
a cloud past
over the eyes
of those 
who required
the dance
in music

storms
calmly stole 
electric love 
the new arrivals
raged on
while the 
beautiful dreamers 
woke too late

sunk raptures
looped on cue
sucked in...

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EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT NOBODY KNOWS

The Paleolithic Era was a long time ago. 
It consisted of a few years in a row. 
That's pretty standard as eras go.
I don't know what happened,
but there's one thing I...

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Ho, ho, ho! 

There is this well written article, the link which I gladly give down below,
It is a most beautifully written anecdote of a traveler's tale for well it showed...
A funny side of Malaysia...

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The Way Our Father Can

As I close my eyes, I disconnect
I feel myself slipping away from my reality
The everyday has gone, I feel nothing at first
I do not feel the stress; I do not feel...

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KITH

I have told you who l am numerous times. But you just took me for a regular creature, all of you have failed the test of recognition; I am not all human, yet it is...

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Hey,come 3rd quarter of each calender year,  it is that time of the year again, 
This phenomenon is headlined in local dailies each day, again and again...

An enviromental situation, all kinds of experts in...

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Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.

Part 2

act three

in the third act delirious 
the laws of physics etc.
he coughs...

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In only a moment of maritime mirth
My ship's maiden voyage was missing at birth
The King's Royal Navy reduced me in rank
By flushing my ship in the place where it sank

I fell in the sea with...

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We Live By Time
By John Herlihy

We live by time
And not the eternity that is its envelope.
We live in space
And not the infinity that gives the universe its scope.
We live by hours, by days, by weeks
And...

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OLD AGE PAINS

(In Loving Memory of my Mother.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Old journal book soiled by life's pains;
Aged ugly looks, pages and stains;
Old people hooked to sad refrains.


Here in this room old odours cry;
Feel the sad gloom where unease...

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In hopes of reconciliation
Many times
I bore recriminations
For my rights
For silly things
No matter how much esteemed
In the craftiness of perverted selves
Though they pummeled me
Have never made me groan
As much as the lost of friendship
For which I...

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We live by time
And not the eternity that is its envelope.
We live in space
And not the infinity that gives the universe its scope.
We live by hours, by days, by weeks
And not the timeless wonderland that...

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Stonehenge is a famous monument in Britain
a prehistoric mystery, architecturally sophisticated
built in stages, the first part built 5000 years ago
the unique Neolithic stone circle about 2500 BC
it is thought to be build by Druid...

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Death to the old self

                              ...

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Verse 1-- Oh! Lord God I find myself..
I find myself again occurring at irregular intervals;
Finding myself repenting, over and over and over again;
Oh! God I was lost not I’m found;
In the steady arms of your...

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When God takes you for a walk He will take you by the hand
He will guide you towards your destiny so that you may one day see His plans
Now walking is good for you, it...

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Follow not the rage of the seas,
Forget the storms and devastation,
Set aside the heat or the freeze,
Because time is of the essence,
The heart of nature may be of violence,
But it's Soul is just. It's actions...

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It's funny how everything turns around, travels faster than the speed of sound.
        how easy we forget the things that matters the most; from every nation to every...

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Chuang Tzu (pronounced shuwang zee) was an ancient Chinese philosopher…when one night a vivid dream appeared before his sleeping eyes…in his dream he was not Chuang Tzu anymore…he was a butterfly.

After experiencing a dreamworld where...

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Fighting the war men give their lives,
Grieving children an morning wives,
They worry at home while the men go to fight,
Then cower in shelters throughout the night,
The leaders of countries, who fight from the back,
Who take...

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Like dew upon the grass is your Word
refreshing in it's purity when heard
framed within the structure of your Love
distilled with gentleness descending from above
 
In judgement and understanding Jesus walked
of the rulership of kingdom also...

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In slower pace older men walk and bend,
some hung their heads and limp with age,
their drooping shoulders unable to stand,
Greater demands of a new climate change.

Growing old on earth has a heavy cross to bear,
We...

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