Long Incautious Poems

(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).



Dear Euphoria,

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Ghosts of Christmas Past

I do not fear the ghosts
of my Christmas past.
My yearly visit with each one
is a gift
a present
for this one day

I drive out to Lantzville Beach
and bring my dog along
My mother loved dogs...

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Sans sixth (psychic) sense...
poise zen dystopian rant

This prognosticator doth predict
potential based at current rate
sinister debacle that will
instantaneously annihilate,
United States storied republic, 
which alarming horror 
points to instantaneous annihilation
of America the beautiful;
(ohm my dog) turbulent
endemic chaotic...

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Imagine they find your bones
in a boggy field -
it happens all the time,
speaking of which,

time is your pocket handkerchief,
your wristwatch,
and your best evening pants
all reduced to insect dust.

Only a fragment
(a rust-addled skimpy second hand)
remains to...

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This is an age of blood;
an interesting era,
corn and potatoes rot in the fields
or are sold into slavery.
Money walks inside a Viking helmet,
Mars is rising red with anger.

This a time for poetry,
for the old and...

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MY DREAM VACATION

Sharing juicy oranges on a dusty Spanish pavement
The cloudless sky offers no respite from the relentless sun
Free of time concerns, we cycle to our next ad-lib adventure
Guided by suggestions not structure
Blown by the...

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Above the Blue Ridge hills
flights of stealth owl
glide in from the moon.

Strange how a jungle is never quiet
but these Tennessee woods
sleepwalk along moccasin paths
watched over by the velvet foliage
of dreaming tree.

Owls are the true eagles...

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Your bones are scattered in a boggy field -
it happens all the time.

Time is your pocket handkerchief,
your shattered wristwatch,
your best evening pants,
all reduced to insect dust.

Hundreds of years later
they discover,
a distant tooth with its crown...

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The Confessions of a wicked Soul …………By Peter Onyancha

I am looking for a girl
Who is a little foolish, so I can fool with her
A girl, incautious, to flip 
A girl who never reasons, when I...

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beneath all the war stricken tumbleweed burrows
lies a maiden
of faith

her longbow is golden with platinum arrows
and somewhere to someone this woman belongs
her present is tainted with hints of tomorrow
when someone to others will sing her...

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SELF ACTUALIZATION

       Simple, Smart, Straightforward, Sophisticated.
       Energetic, Enthusiastic, Efficient.
       Lively, Lovable.
      ...

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To show total lack of 
compassion and mercy
makes a person
completely unworthy
for political office.
It is no place for
the reckless or incautious.

A simple request to have mercy
does not in any way make someone nasty,
and to say otherwise
is,...

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