Long Inflexibility Poems

No bull in the proverbial china shop
but of the astrological skies 
you’d ride bareback upon the animal
assured by its strength and muscular form 
Ruled by Venus and of the second house
A feminine introvert or negative...

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Dear Barbara


When a man loves a woman:

He smiles and laughs with her.

He respects her and doesn’t try to direct her.
In years gone by, I am certain that there was an ‘air of control’ about me...

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I thought I had gotten away from this part of my childhood,
but I turned at lettuce and ran into my cousin Linden
in the grocery store last Thursday.
He was delighted and dragged me back to their...

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Convictions 
susan Q. miller © 2011
Song Lyrics

Maybe our convictions are convictions after all,
They lock us in a prison in our minds. 
They keep us from living in this moment. 
We’re out of synchronicity---out of present...

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I watch my choice couples from heaven.
Two of them could show me how to argue.
Experts, they disagree on the weather.
I would be able to divide and conquer here.
I would be queen of the house, or...

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What My Youngest Son Taught Me
By Curtis Johnson

My wife worked at a hospital at night, and I did not want her to drive herself.
Our youngest son had just gotten his drivers license.  So he...

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Some people find comfort in living the same day 
Every day doing what they did yesterday in the same way. 
I know a man who ate a ham sandwich with cheese plain 
No condiments every...

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From beneath a long frozen earth
ancient human bones surface,
they rise far enough for an eye-socket
to be seeded.

A sapling grew from out of that skull.
In time the skull became a tree.

Like many tree’s its skeleton was...

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The morbid law of the rigid 
It is a principle for the principal
A belief that holds the total
The standard not for the normal
Above reproach, beyond nominal
A law for the feeble and mortal
A rule of tyranny...

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A major intransigence these days:
when does life begin- conception,
fertilization, a beating heart- with
first breath- taken outside the womb?
How could thinking be so varied
on this disputed topic regarding life-
financial, religious, or political gains,
or even self-centered appeasement?
A...

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Personalities, no names just the same
personalities, say what you will, after
swallowing a mediocrity pill...personalities
self inflicted pain, bold lies told
protect and defend at all costs
in the middle, I can’t stop
I want to but for pieces and...

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25 hours of sit down in a basket is not a notable worthy way to spend time or adjust. One should not place antlers in fridges for a gammon steak could rise to form a...

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