Long Juli Poems

Try as I might....I could not get it right
Small fingers that stretched over the chipped ivory whites
While scrunching her face, with that crabapple frown
She would tap out the beat, with her eyes looking down
"One, two,...

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Tina-Louise dashed into a tattoo parlor   
And asked for some ink in the shape of a flower.       
Much below the knees so my mom doesn’t holler;
Would you...

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Justice adjourns in Civil Law.
All must hear my voice.
I entered the Court Room insecure.

I stand as he enters the room.
The Judge begins deliberation.
Justice adjourns in Civil Law.

The injuries I have are the cause of litigation.
My...

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I was hiking in the hills, and I was talking to the air
when a fork in the path, took me first here,... and then, there
Prickly thickets, were aflame with brilliant crimson,
entrapping my feet, with a...

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If in the distant sky I were the evening star,                         ...

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Corina's piano
played in Waterbury
on Tudor Street;
that's where a small crowd
would gather by
her open window,
and hear her new song
with a 3/4 beat
and happily sing along...
despite the sizzling heat.


I've moved back to New York, this past May,
and...

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Blank pages of life - spontaneous, unscripted, undefined
Experiences uncovers blues and rhymes one couldn't find
Begin to indite, though endings pave unsure and unplanned

Culture, law, ethics and education; man learns and understand
Defining, refining and reminding they...

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U gujarna ab raaste pe badla badla sa lagta hai
Wo najariyan logo ka ab kuch kehta hua rahta hai
Pata nahi kuy ab rishtedar ijjat dene lage hai
Wo dost jo yaad tak nahi krte the aaj...

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A sure shot, he sets up a can, and digs his heels in the sand,
with feet spread, a hat on his head and gun in hand, he looks grand.
Cloudy skies shade the sun from his...

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Enters entitled, exits entitled; "Oh where art thou," this title be?
Entirely composed of humans in this entire amenity.
Humanities amenities entirely entitled to a life less entirety.
Entitled to less entirety than one could humanly admire, admirably.

Entirely...

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Here you stand accused of intimidation, degradation and defamation
Daily depreciation, mental extirpation exploitation and pontification
Demoralization, cutting down people short of castration or amputation
Being a ruthless purveyor of humiliation, frustration and devastation

We gave you undivided attention,...

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LITTLE GIRL

     “Come,” 
she says, and beckons.
I sit with her, we’re playing
LEGO dollhouse, Bob the Builder.
Barbie, Play-Doh, drawing.
    “There, a birdie, lift me?”
     “Darling,...

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Tripping, skipping, lipping Lee. I’ve got a wart hog, you’re on my knee!
Spiking, liking, biking me, I’m going to travel, far as you can see.
Hopping, bopping, cropping, key. Fits in a door knob, bigger than...

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Seeking Serenity 


To seek serenity is simpler said than done

   at times so filled with sadnesses that come and go.

      When one's resolved or healed, another has begun...

...

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Barren land of illiteracy ,
Soil never having been loosened,
Not fertilized by education !

Prejudice from heart difficult to eradicate,
Aspirations vacilitate, soon disheartened,
Barren land of illiteracy !

Comforts and bad money marionette ,
End of the day, lie disillusioned,
Not...

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The story of my life will give you many facts:
How life beat me down and I wanted to run away,
All the tragedies of my youth, all those acts
Made me the poet you see this day:
Oh,...

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At the edge of dawn, to climb the path, along the windswept hills
The world lies blue, from a downy night, and views serene and still

The world is hushed, nowhere to rush, at least that’s how...

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Time for a showdown with my ruptured soul,
because I have come to the breaking point;
no more-  the sad past has taken a toll,
I will end fear and express my viewpoint.
Time for a showdown and...

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When meadow flaunts her robe of green
and covers me in tender lace
her perfumed view lights up onscreen.

From mantle wrapped by pure citrine
a peaceful view my breaths embrace,
when meadow flaunts her robe of green.

Cascading dewdrops quite...

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Why is life so unfair?
Why do people not care?
Why do people leave others hurt?
Then found crying in the dirt?
Why doesn't the world just realize,
that they must see through another's eyes?
Why do people just have to...

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I fear not the day when you’re not near when in dismay,
          for you have given veneration and such fine clarification.

When you glanced my way that...

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The brightest star will one day die 
    Its light will shine no more
          Even the effervescent butterfly
    Will one...

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Emma is a fashionable name, popular in England, Germany, and Finland.
Evolved from: Erminitrude, Irmengarde, Irmen, and Ermen...Medieval words 
How sweet the sound that classic name: Emma, universally preferred.
She thrives as a high-powered problem solver graced...

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Cancer stole her husband; life isn’t fair
Susie walks to the church where they’d got wed
Orange blossoms braided in her fair hair
Thoughts of his love will always fill her head 

Susie walks to the church where...

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“Oh Emma, my cherished and unholy soulmate;
Woman of air! Raw phrases leap with love and hate.
Behind glasses seethes a romantic, daring the night
August child of gothic verse, lines we all recite.

Yet , when soirees roll,...

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