Long Intermixed Poems

L'Overture


Lest we forget
Words often mouthed
For the dead of bloody war
Forgot not those great ones
Whose battles were on the home front
Seeking only equality of voice

Ray Charles to you was a singer
Backwards and long ago he was...

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Lisa and I had a party to hit-up. I can’t stay inside all the time, not on a Friday night anyway and a rooftop is the perfect place to mull over big questions and get...

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The Epitaph of Earth may soon be writ
Upon the memory of a glory gone
For all things bright and beautiful, that inter-fused with death
Like harmony and breath have fled as one
   -Suzanne Delaney 

A...

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I cherish every precious lock of my hair as a keepsake

Twas partly on account
of yours truly being incarnation of Samson;
spouse and I wed
please fate, don't say alopecia didst tread;
though atheist to higher power
yours truly pled
heart...

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Jokes on me, guess you're the roaster and i'm to chicken to say goodbye cause I waste my time wishing you would hold me closer ,the shows been over but im still seated, my vision...

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within the under belly of
this hob bull ling Leviathan beast
induced roaring hungry soundcloud issued
within abdominal folds
finding they in creased

never diminishing, matter
whether I turn north, south, west or east
this adult desired,
soon after he envisioned
buttered crispy dish...

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THE DARKENING EARTH BLOTS SOLES, ROUTS, AND CLOTS OF WORTH BRINGING TOLLS TO SATANS SLOTS.

ENOUGH SAID, GOD MUST COME AND FLOOD THE SINFUL WAKING HEAD. END THE MAD. BURY THE WEAK. FORGIVENESS IS ALL I...

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The Burning


It was seven days and seven nights
Or there abouts, I was not so sure
Life was shrouded in the darkness not at all pure
I lost track of dawn, of dusk, of realities fight
To keep me...

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Upon eve, in the morning of spring, I witnessed the waltz of Mother Nature through the 
shaded evergreens. 

An apparition, personification of my daydreams, she did a ritual dance on bare-feet, while, I 
stooped down...

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O yes, that is fine day
For fishing in mountain river
When weather is bad, 
And raining from early gray dawn. 
When world look so pity and doleful
Maybe for artists and poets
But so nice for big and...

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The sweet flag and cattail murmur gently by a lagoon
In the distance there is red visage of harvest moon
The starship rises from the lagoon
Sound is not typical of engine rather it’s an eerie tune

The starship...

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Afternoon duty session
After a hearty lunch 
Only luck avoided
A nearly disastrous crunch.
For a split second the Controller
Let his attention waver and slide,
Which, for a brief instant, caused 
Parallel dimensions to collide.

Dinosaurs appeared on 
Many a...

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He would be king, oh yes, he would
  if there was a way he could.
He'd be ruler of the realm
  unquestioned captain at the helm.
The lies and truth would flow intermixed
  with...

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What is life like as someone who society despises?
It is living as a human,
with unalienable rights,
endowed by your creator,
but not recognized as equal.
The right to freedom,
but not to be recognized as who you really are,
underneath...

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Coming
Glass and metal spread across the freeway.
Something like a melon, open, and dragged,
seeds and flesh intermixed on the freeway.
A families dreams, destroyed, on hold, shredded
and ended. What of the slow procession,
passerbys, looky-looks, rubber neckers,
just for...

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I met her at the lighthouse,
It was all love at first sight
A picture of great beauty
A memory of a sprite.

      Each day I'm madly in love.
    ...

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Do you think I can save all ships in distress?
How wrong you are! Times when I sorely pressed,
Times when my beacon was snuffed out of its glory.
Oh, I can tell you many an adventurous story,
Exciting...

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How many words could describe, could descry
All the emptiness, filled, all the words in the night
That could never quite be said enough

How many tears could condense from my lips
All the feelings, the lies, oh my...

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My ball, My rules
got ups next game,
kids can be cruel
call names, defame

you push, I push
we fight, and act!
More kids ambush
provoke attack!

You swing, I swing
but no contact
ding ding, bells sing
that fight was whack

Recess is done
Trouble we're...

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We are the huddled masses
  yearning to be free
but living in itself lay is often rose-colored glasses,
  and remains quite the mystery.

We ache for freedom transfixed
 some random yet open display
of races, children,...

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My fears and hopes are by love intermixed
My heart's eyes are solely on you fixed
I wish to move the stars to write to you
in the sky with letters that say I love you,
so that way...

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Michael J. Falotico
Contest Name	"Close your eyes and click your heels" contest

O’s n L’s Dimension

I was asleep on my chair
With almost no one even there
I cracked one eye open
Into a lighted room
Looking down in my hand...

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Lying on a soft bed of grass
Eyes closed to enhance the sounds
That gives witness to the fact
It’s the hottest time of year.

The clanging of a bicycle’s bell
With baseball cards flapping in its spokes
As Billy rushes...

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For Timothy Lee, the Best of Me



Since our first night, I have dreaded the last,
thus my passion tightly fashioned clasp.

You are my one safe harbor, my refuge,
my cure for stress overload and pressed blues.
No matter...

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Lost Mayans


Ancients who lived long go
Living for the sun and waning moon
Some hoped to be living by noon
Children laughed in the maize fields
As elders struggled for the grasshoppers wisdoms
Life was simple
Daily toils and simple strife
Intermixed...

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