Long Jocund Poems

Cluttering above huddled rooftops
Of sprawling villages 
And shy provincial towns;
Rising sharply amidst swooping
Declinations;
Hesitating when gathering at the
Tangled woodland perimeters of
Outlying greenland bounds,
Jostled apex ridges detach among
Themselves...
When habitually roused from early
Mornings
Newly awakened sounds.

Electrical milk floats whir...

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detangling figurative philosophical,
     (i.e. ineffable) thread tightly bound
most likely requires a greater capacity
     (than mine) to expound,
considerably superior than
this feeble intellectual attempt,
     nonetheless...

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Oh! Let’s engage in jocund races, in trips to jovial and exotic places!
Let us run bold into a bush with prickly needles. My! How lush would be These pranks and 
plays. Now off we race!...

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ERNESTO 
Acrostic

T.ito, thirty- years ago you left us 
with painful hearts  and tearful eyes
too young to leave your loved-ones 
we mourn on your early demise

I.n the core of your heart and mind 
there's hatred...

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aye …

on such
divine evenings, thus,
are perfect odes not freely spun?
the Perseids, dancing their
jocund jigs -
capricious, evanescent stripes of
golden ire under a tapestry
of wonders …
watching rapt, ever-attentive,
streaking, burning ephemeral, as if the
gods themselves trace their
fingertips gently...

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With the force of a thousand storms,  I turned to face you.
When they dragged our beloved off I thought that I would lose my mind.
I shouted loud enough to stir the crows.
You caused...

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The path before me is a silk scarf over rolling hills; it undulates with the earth, leading into the horizon where land meets the sky. It could have been woven for thousands of years, perhaps...

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Once I met a little girl
Sweeter than honey could be,
She must have been barely eight
But looked much younger to me.

She asked with a dimpled smile
If a picture I could draw,
Her eyes shone with a strange...

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Vanishing souls lies in death's pastures
Fleeting joy, incurious in my surroundings 
Shades of green glistening in glory 
An unpredictable breath that barely measures
A destiny that lies and vanishes through the Death Valley

A heart's main glee 
Shines peaceably... passing...

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JOSEBETH
Free Verse

Jocund daughter and sister you are
       Pride and joy of your loved-ones
       Glory of the Church, a lady of wisdom
  ...

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We Reason, Therefore “Litter Be!” (1)

“Litter be, litter be, litter be, litter be!” (2)
Hear our future’s judgment, “Litter be! Oh, Oh, Oh!”

Yes, dinosaurs still roam the earth (more you than me?)
We find their footprints (left...

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Carpe diem? sweet, yet meet?… whimsical? smart? how do I start?…
On a birthday, it’s worth saying something special from the heart.

While I’ve penned all kinds of rhymes— ahead, behind the times, a range—
Some in verse...

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FUNNY ALPHABETS FOR KIDS

               A to Z, each is an alphabet 
         ...

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By Humber in a drowsy afternoon,
When for my love long lost alone I pin’d,
My heart itself did sing a saddest tune
For woeful swain I was to be destin’d.
And I in pain then lov’d this timid...

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ABRUPT ACHE

   Acquainted ! Attracted ! I adore you, Hello Miss !
   Beautiful  bud of love bloomed in bliss.

   Cheered ! Charmed ! Caring craving on your charisma.
...

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This tediousness of life and all
LIFE: that sinful lady
who gambols and whips her watery gown
and whispers those most secret secrets
whose cosmic kiss dances so infinitesimally close to the eardrum
but never encounter

How it all bores me
this...

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The Jackal's line of demarcation ye souls' furlough for interim...
Today, cockcrows perturb in a gala thrice for thee quiescent stay,
God's Park of Ephemera, sashays the daggled the minder harks,
a chest not in to rest, of...

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JOY and JINKS
                                ...

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
                    a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped...

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My paramour, try to understand me now.
You knew the shape of my heart in the course of our budding affair.
At the start, my face was not disfigured with dissimulation, and my mien has always been...

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WILL-SLAP-ROCK

Perilous mixed up in the industry,
Troubled rumbled "situationship" tainted gentry,
epitomize a couple's open chemistry?
Oh...!!! What a timely tangle 
that spangled in a world of Illuminati triangle.
Society's predicament sums up a night of quagmire
even though the...

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This world we have created-
neatly sown earth ripe for the planting.

This world had been perfect-
silent creeks and boisterous waterfalls.

This land that was once Mother Nature's-
destroyed for some superfluous coffee shop
where liars and womanizers lay in...

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I just want to be close to you. 
I miss your touch and your kiss. 
I miss our fun times together. 
I miss our quiet talks..
I simply miss you. 

I miss you too
I miss your...

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Edentulous but determined to bite almond,
grandpa’s ‘never give up’ spirit was evident,
grandma watched quietly, all bemused and jocund!
“anytime now there would be a bad accident!”

Those hard almonds also had a mind of their own,
they refused...

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Spaceward: genesis, obedience, fathomless: universe.
In Cerulean: lambent, sullen, discernible: Close ignite.
With harmony: hypaethral, skyward, aether: womb hiccups 
Whelm time: serenade, stardust, drizzles: diamond dust,
Overall trends: extinguish, slumber, wonder: celestial hymn,
By extolling: Argyle, twinkle, soothing: ...

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