Long Keeling Poems

A Coffee Merchant was the first man to find,
The corpse as he started off on his daily grind!
What he saw filtered through, so he had grounds
To send for the Police, to investigate what he'd found!

He’d...

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he was not dumb 

but he struck his thumb

now he was dumb-struck

and screamed jolly good

his hand in plaster

and bad luck his master

he could not drive his truck


to bide his time

he drank some wine

set out to...

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On the brow of manhood I bore you
Dreaming of a successor to my throne
Invested wind and echo full of dew
Native prince, that was ever all I own
Knowledge and experience to make
Wealth out of nothing, like...

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Toussaint they dance in Louisianna, and New Orleans
Omitting to say that these two places are blood money paid
Unto the colonies, snuffing your revolution by any means 
Subtle French diplomacy that history would parade
Solutions of lies...

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I stand solo, aloof in the snow, a precipitation 
                     of words cascading from a...

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I can sense your impatience...

While yours truly (me)
doth strives to maintain
comfortably seated
closed eye meditative pose
mine skinny sea thru legs
(mere fo' shaw
by George spindleshanks) outstretched,
(cuz Lotus position impossible mission -
would warrant emergency circumstance
leaving stalwart fellow
as permanent...

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An old man keeling down by a gravestone
cleans the inscription so it can be read.
For it’s a symbol of why he had come
“Love Is Eternal” was all that it said.

Wiping a tear, his expression glazes
sorting...

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Who could truly understand 
That dreadful lonesome feeling 
Only I can really comprehend 
This forlorn emotion coursing through me
Help! for the voice of vitriol is sinking me in despair 
What will be of me, when...

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I remember my childhood vision of the world
How I changed to all things to suit my need
I even taught my eleven chickens how to swim
Drowning them in my careless blind proceed
To happiness. I had no...

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crumpled scriptures, idolized whores, broken down doors, decayed floors;
it is doubtful Jesus planned on this when he bought Moses ten commandments from the local convenient store
no, I believe he wanted something more
but the Devil said,...

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Joy like dew drops softly rise
Odes of rainbows that brim my eyes
Yielding hope in your embrace

Emitting galaxies of light.
Let me cuddle to your breast. Tell me taste
Again your loveliness, keeling me with delight.
I am a...

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At 20 I never thought I’d have to work as hard
as I am at 60.
At 40 I never thought I wouldn’t want to.
Today I’m having my doubts.
A few days ago a man in town died...

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Hope yes we can: a target in the vision of the horizon
Offering here new possibility to embrace omnipotency
People are the motive force of truth, gate to halcyon
Emanations of eternity - the eagle exploits a new...

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This is not life
Façade-glossed eyes
Spilling out
Keeling from inside

This is not
What I traded for a pay check
A calendar space
Insentience

This is not dilated pupils
Suggestive smirks on long open nights
Sidewalk flocks through the blinking city sights

This is antithesis
A...

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The sponge of years has sucked me dry of youth
a million tears I've poured from pain untold
there's no reprieve for one who's long of tooth
contrary is the stage of getting old.

The dustcloth of my world...

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Keeling upon the open sea 
A moving mountain majesty,
is colossal water’s slow roll ~
To stars, I pray for land to stroll …

As confused waves begin to toss,
keeping sane where vertigo’s boss,
under fear's fold, it’s Neptune’s...

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