Long Installments Poems

Consider for a moment freedom as a greedy banker. It does not sell the country perpetual security, liberty and happiness, it loans those qualities at a high rate of investment, and it does not allow...

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Cabbie with A Heart

This latest news about a selfless taxi driver…
The kindness out of his heart is a source for wonder ….
In the daily business of ferrying his charges for a fee…
He works long hours...

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A toddlers Crayola masterpiece marks the box
Where the story of our days now tarry
Passages tilting the axis of a bittersweet equinox
As photographs eclipse yesterday and today unvaried 

The plans we made for a life
After years...

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(This time I've quoted my own poem titles. Everything in quotes is a title.)


"Dear reader," again, this monolog persists.
We're no longer "sparring" with figurative fists.

"The blood of an Englishman" is my last token,
"cursive curtsies" for...

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I seek peace that will give rest of all my work
Where do I run to meet you Mr. Peace?
I would love to see you embrace my heart, my body and my soul,
The labor pains I...

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In halls of time threaded upon the spindle of lingering thought,
Youth sheds at dawn like dew entwined on strawberries,
Weaving a veil of dreams and hopes, the storm is but a hushed song,
The greatest gift—a mystery...

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At the end of my world
when my soul left my body.
It's the end for my admirers
then I become nobody.

My grave stands alone 
in the dark, in the wind.
I will disappear like smoke
any sign no one...

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This Year, Underneath the Tree
By Rick Rucker

This year, underneath the tree,
Presents all around,
But, the one that can’t be found,
The one, that means the most to me,

Your Love, which you give to me, so True,
And I...

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Lay away.
I had never heard the term
Until I saw a friend use it. We were in seventh grade.
We had both fallen in love with a purse with large ugly brown beads attached to the side.
Hers...

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"I'M JUST..."


sitting in this parking lot
trying to get lines down into
that one great poem,
I see everyone's struggle. 
it seems easiest for me.
acceptance is the key to
that lock.
if the ones that saved you
after the ones that...

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The Curse: Part 1 (If it is a man)

The god of curses awake
Take the poison and erect your tongue to spit
I want to curse!
The god of curses whose sex we speculate
Not he nor she, crane...

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Oval day broke and hunger looking for $5 meal 
Walk into the discount store. Food fossils line the shelves, with beverages stacked in dusty years and bread petrified with mold, hard for two weeks. Jesus...

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Overabundance of Books in Market
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"On the turn, 
I've found 
an overabundance of books 
in the market !
I've heard .......
There characters are being sold -
in some relations,
in some selected installments. ........
Some has filled with reasons.
Some has...

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“Amaryllis One” 
“Amaryllis One” 
 
 
Cheph 111 reminicint. 
 
The falcon yerd lady screamed at MarYlin please set this thing down in one 
pieces she screamed and screamed the engines were hauling the fuel...

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Thursday morning I received an urgent letter
from the Internal Revenue....it said I had to pay back
my refund or they would garnish my wages;
there's much confusion about the new exemption laws, but the money is due
by...

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Paul wants to his debts pay by installments
Red-eyed Mark holds not back raw sentiments.

“The cash you plan to release me piecemeal 
I could lavish in some delicious meal,
Kitchens crossing their doors to food feel
And pubs...

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Foregone is my freedom
My future and it's conclusion
My most detached relationship
To myself now subject
To scathing privately
In installments with you.

Now I confided
“He tends a garden”

How was I to express
Without existential anguish
This irrational leap of faith?
Subjugated or...

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A love that secures pain is worthless.
A love to which any pain is a part,
Will destroy so much of a life,
Life is too precious to struggle,
With installments of turmoil,
Destruction between two will end.
Torture of the...

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May second, it beckons me, my birthday!
Many, many moons have risen and set
since this big baby's birth along the way.
I have no qualms, few querulous regrets.
Happy birthday you pathetic poet!
You managed to eke yet another...

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Time moves too slow
when kneeled before oppressive 
three by four inch plastic altars 
taking communion with fellow debtors
and praying
in allocated installments of faith
for blessings of pregnant dollars
and a forecast
of January amnesty

But we all hear December's...

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