Long Isabel Poems

On July 15, 2010, my wife, Teri, and I took our younger daughter, Isabel, to the doctor for a regular checkup. She was nine months old and appeared to be in perfect health. Her first...

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Screaming Guillotines

I.

I sit on the wide veranda of this house called America,
And I can see the Beast Boys coming our jungled way,
Coming like wild torrents of lapping flames over the astonished landscape,
Coming with black eyes...

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Silly Sally sells books, this week there's a sale -
               New titles each Friday; I go without fail.
   ...

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V.
Besides a rushing stream he saw a stone hut,
framed by aspens clinging to a rough slope,
the chimney was stained from long years of use,
But who lived out here? He just didn’t’ know.

Until his eyes happened...

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If it were only me, I will be doing anyhow
Nobody would have been there to challenge me now

Now I look back into the face of the future,
What I see, golden grains, people of peasant pictures;

Red...

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supporting the anti-communists in 
the Soviet Union from
1944 to 1989---
supporting al-Za’im in Syria in
1949---
installing Shah Mohammed Reza 
Pahlevi in 1953 Iran---
supporting Colonel Carlos Castillo 
Armas in 1954 Guatemala---
providing weapons to anti-communist
Tibetans, from the mid-1950’s to...

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The years have all started with January
a comforting effect, a personal safety net
to know past turmoils blow over
and begin anew
so why have I woken up in December once again
After Midnight Project compelled the mirror to...

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We never knew when she went away...
exactly.
It was over a period of time,
A little loss, each day...or hour.
Accumulating surely,
slowly,
but steadily,
in the wake of our determination to stop it.

This can’t happen to Mama, we wont let...

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Why…hurt…Why…hurt
Isabel, her gaze pins the accusation upon the one in question
And a solitary moment, frozen and regretted, hangs in the air
The intensity could set a lawn ablaze; still the ice remains its frozen nature
Her eyes,...

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Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme
was born in Chillan in central Chile.
The bastard son of Ambrosio, Marquis de Orsorno,
his Irish-born father hailed from County Sligo.
Bernardo’s mother was Isabel Riquelme.
She was from a prominent South American family.
Bernardo was supported...

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Community of the Campfire
David J Walker
 
I
I’d forgotten the scent of the campfire
And its sense of mystery  and 
Community for the few who 
Were invited to its  borders
Offering its view of a flame
Named...

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Sub mitt meeting a Poem

Sub mid night

Sub meeting the meeting of the meet

World trade meeting

World trade submitting proposal

When the world is round can be flat

Like a dish for the Catholic Isabel

Kingdom of Spain.


Your world may...

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Greg Focker was always an awkward man, 
only fiancée Pam could understand-
Jack would be his in-law,
and soon baby’s Pawpaw,
retired CIA in all the land.

The Focker’s housekeeper was Isabel, 
rumors Greg had an affair and didn’t...

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Reginald had arrived in time with his cane searching the marble floor

Strong and bold past his age with his dream ready for ascension

Nestled the rings and went over his line one hundred more times

An organ...

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Did you see her?
She’s gorgeous,
She’s nice, 
She’s pleasant,
She’s everything you’re not.
And what angers me the most?
You like her,
You wish them both good luck.
I mean,
At first he rejected her,
But it seems he now realizes the mistake...

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Isabel, the southern sea
Was kind to me, was motherly
Like home and cotton sheets

She had a still way about her
 With tiny tumbling waves 
Like Kiari’s dream, a reverie
She settled into me

Like a full stomach 
And...

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AMETHYST
                          HEY MY AMETHYST,I'LL BE YOUR HERO.
   ...

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Daughter of fortune

She is the daughter of a woman who found passionate
love in Paris with an opera singer; now lives in her brother’s
house and knows, in the end, life is about a haven of romance
is...

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Long ago in times of old there was a young man
Searching and planning for the quest for his heart
He looked over and under and far away
He kept searching for that one beat to keep his...

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A lady as lovely as Isabel
shouldn't have any trouble
finding who can satisfy her well...
until that guy becomes a big bubble
that'll burst and simply vanish
putting an end to her wish!

Do you have any dreams at night,
or...

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Bay area's crown jewel, The Claremont,
Where age 24 Steve Jobs and I talked,
Well, him--as to the future--I was shocked,
The guy aimed high, humble, who want for naught.

An unscheduled stop by a young Prince Charles,
That shook...

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Welcome to the bungalow of tender Isabel
Where we got so many cherry sparks,
Santa Terpsichora now is sitting with a pal
Drinking under the portrait of Richard Marx!
Many times repeat the words of very jolly song:
'Fly and...

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here she is
my seven year old
bunny bright
and monkey bold
floating on her tippy toes
shiny pink face with a runny nose
says what she thinks
and that's you told

tea stained freckles
and sapphire eyes
exaggerates
but won't tell lies
six teeth lost 
to...

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You look so pleased to see me 
from far along the ward – Jim:
I recognised you after several years and, 
returning after analgesia relieved the pain, 
shared Communion.  Christ's love
which reminded you of the...

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Not To Be Used 
Isabel Serrano Hoogsteyns

Tickling began to contour my face
Cold destroyed the water 
The windmill enforced in pain
I felt powerful
Velocity, the verse of my whole body 
Moving in a single direction
Follicles covered the...

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