Long Knavery Poems

(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).



Dear Euphoria,

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Predator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus


I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion

Part I

I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with its dying light screaming in agonizing moans
upon bloody battlefields of...

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When your idols are fragile
Is it any wonder kids lack style
Perhaps if we walked a mile
In the shoes of the soldier we'd attain guile

Look at the newspaper
The government is a caper
And everything will taper
Due to...

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He comes to shake         the foundations of the earth
the work of every hand              ...

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We humans like all creatures to have a purpose, an aim,
From one-celled amoebas to fungi-spore glebas,
They need a good reason to compete in life's game.
Consider cats: They school us in hygiene
Licking their paws and their...

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Delfin
Free Verse

SATURDAY, May 28 2022
When in this world you bade adieu 
Leaving your siblings and family in sorrow
But here am i now, paying my last respect to you

Eleven years we haven't seen each other
Now I...

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I'm just writing my story
Leaving out all the glory
I never tore them; yet the pages and spine are all but broken
Its letters are scattered, yet still the words form a concise omen
Would you read it...

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The girl shouted for joy in the middle of the velvet full moon.
The little dog barked twice interrupting the high-handed act of argument.
How many words will describe the perfect purification as we proceed to knavery?
"I...

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Once a boy now a man
                            Morgan Harper...

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A bug trapped in amber. 
Fossil flowers in a stone. 
Sabre tooth caught in tar.
Iceman asleep in a glacier.
Nature doesn't care!

Nature makes no judgements, 
cares not who you are, 
drops you in your tracks!

If by...

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I ride the bus...

Tilt a bit, balance-
ponder later. Yolk yellow 
and sky blue, chalk

grey paint. Steel
rectangles; winding parallel 
lines. Circles- Eternal.

Toothed horizons-
golden rose shaped sunset
tauten, its nectar 

steeps; blushes. Inks gnarled
columns of trees, dusky, their
limbs...

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Not till the loom was silent
And the shuttle ceased to fly
When history unrolled the scroll
And reveals the reason why.
The darkest thread as needful
In the weavers skilful hand
As the cloth of gold and silver
Of an industrious...

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Dancing in the shade
Of the celestial glade

We're moonlit pioneers
Who overcame our fears

Bravery not knavery
In a cosmic soup so savory

Beauty is in crystalline flowers
And monolithic towers

Remove inhibition and take a tour
And enjoy the universe's greatest score

And...

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Remember the frigid december,
coldness, draught and damp.
She waited until september,
that tawdry promiscuous tramp. 

Gone by day and on display,
street corners, pimps and thugs.
Burning ashes in a cigarette tray,
and abusing all sorts of drugs.

On the fill...

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Although the endless aridities of mortal survival
Are wont to twist the very best in every man,
Honest be against the knavery of those around,
And always keep your word because you can.

It sounds smart to preach the...

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Unknown Affairs
Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015

I feel, 
Most hate and wrong, in the world 
Can be traced indirectly to money;
Or the lack thereof;
But where does sorrow start?

Cornered within my mind
Are matters undiscovered, I query why?
Possibly,...

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What might have brightened sober days
Is now a poison clearly seen
Within the labyrinthine ways
Of hearts and their fugacious queen. 

The king of clubs once owned my dreams
And all the diamonds in the crown, 
But then...

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Sorry for the many times I have loved you.
For the endless nights my images leech, 
And dote upon your memory.
Had not it that your peace drives my last nerve to insanity, - 
Need I mention...

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I had a little bunny fair
Who loved no one but me.
I hardly thought a fox would dare
To do such knavery.

I built my pet a darling hutch,
To save him from all harm,
Not knowing that a sly...

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