Long Jumpstart Poems

Onerous task confronted teachers and parents

As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet 
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.

A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus...

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The (tongue In Cheek) Balm...
Of "permanent" Sleep

Abbott, nothing beats the
     immortal heavenly reincarnation
     after mortality odometer
     unexpectedly set to zeros
preparing deceased
  ...

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While vehicle underwent routine oil change today...

At Norm's Save Station
551 Gravel Pike, Collegeville, Pennsylvania,
yours truly suddenly realized
fifty eight years earlier
(a preschooler living at Lantern Lane)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated
November 22, 1963,
12:30 post meridiem
Central Standard Time
as he...

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Poems 
Healing hands 

Life can be rough and you try to be tough but how can you when you don’t feel like your enough 
You wonder why you are still here wouldn’t it just be...

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Many decades..
There has been a war on psychedelics..
In the western world..

It had been ridiculed..
It had been banned..
It had been surrounded by negativity..
Tremendous darkness
False accusations had been drawn against it..



Had been misinformed..
As to its actual cause..
Placed...

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Coming from out of nowhere 
somewhere in space
somewhere above 
Somewhere my love
Running and running I was
Those son of a guns
Would pop me in my head
Pop pop pop on my face
Splat spla splat
Trying to dodge them
But...

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Abuzz (Aldrin The Afternoon) With Energy

a-gush with vigor 
     of a balled umpire
after a cold shower,
     particularly most enjoyable, when
     (during hot weather),
...

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Quite a vivid late afternoon/
early evening dream
transpired within me noggin
housed deep within skullcap
regarding right wing kooky
conspiracy plot to kidnap
a leary paranoid 
schizophrenic king suspicious of trap

upon arising from lengthy nap
yours truly, who sought to pull...

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It is me looking at my old self, laughing, mocking the weakness within
the bad memories of yesterday seem absurd today
I know and so should You there are many storms ahead
no matter how hard they hit...

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Whilst walking by the sea at the very crack of dawn
An early morning saunter on this special Christmas morn

Something caught my eye just as I meandered by
It was different, it was still, had it fallen...

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Notes:
1. This simple poem works like a mantra.
2. Each stanza has 3 words in 3 lines. 
3. Each stanza can be used to catapult your 
feelings, and jumpstart your feeling-thinking 
mind bridge.
4. All you need...

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Yo, wake up, Van!
Brother, you’ve been asleep for a good long while
Things sure have changed a lot;
reality took a dark turn,
being so boorishly bad is fashionably back in style
Like a rip in time,
Van, your thug...

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Imma toss you an adventure, I stole from the stars
In sparkling glass vials & Mason Jars
Imma make you a witch bottle
So beautifully new to you
Jumpstart our process - rekindle & renew
Extraordinary rock in my life...

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I was so afraid to look into your delicious eyes, but I wanted so bad to throw you 
onto the silver hood of my four door, automatic drive, eighty eight Buick Park 
Avenue that painted...

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How did it come to this?
You and me down memory bliss…

Somewhere in between losing myself …
I misplaced the dust remover off my shelf…

Now I’ll march on, like a cheerful parade…
Smiling my big pearly whites, as...

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Meanwhile Doctor Kaunda reminded young
people in the country ascending the rung
of success they have a big role to play
with trappings of pride slung

in weaving together unity among unsung
swiftly tailored heroes, as sowers
reaping luxe fabrics of...

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Sacrificial, the non-closure of gecko eyes, and counts the lines
Drawn of rain and neon on my window’s negative plate;
In restless turpitude, nervous sanction, switch flicked
The jumpstart at the cone of shadows,
And, lost, reminisce of never...

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Stomach growling
     harsh, 
                 scowling
at me to feed...

Emaciating myself
  toward Emancipation,

A hunger strike of...

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Have you longed to give your heart just for the sake of giving?
Withheld for years, for pain and tears spark fear that steals from living 
a full, enriched, and glorious life where joy outweighs the...

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I feel your love communing with my soul,
fueling flames of passion in my heart.
I didn't dare dream I could ever feel whole,
and yet, I fell in love right from the start.

Though tears may fall, we'll...

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Surrounded by selfish men who use us in every way, whole day
With utter disregard to our thoughts, feelings and what we say
Out of this situation we should find a way, inequality shouldn't stay

Oh women, wherever...

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Think, feel and live with love that acts,
Heal as you give with gracious tact,
Etch as you breathe joy that you fact.


Work with words kind that inspire soul,
Ask for sound mind to live love whole,
Yield cheer...

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The uncertainty of my future and the torture of my past 
has shrewn my confidence asunder and shakin up my cast
a closed door in every direction my walls are closing in so fast
I feel the...

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When love feels upside down and falling apart
From affairs that deal directly with your heart
We tend to over think them from the very start
Stuck in your head like a pointed dart
Looking for the right answer...

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A is for the altar that I was saved.
B is for the blood that Jesus gave.
C is for the confession that He is real.
D is for such Devotion on that day.
E is for the Excellent...

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