Long Laddered Poems

Back in Eighth Graded Class
of StraightWhiteMale English privilege
I learned all healthy narratives
must have at least one
of three tension intentions

Unlike sacred mythic prayer and fable 
multicultures invoking poetry 
flowing soulfully 
provoking gospel primal anthems

Of StraightWhite Man...

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"If we agree in love,
then there is no disagreement that can do us any injury,
but if we do not,
no agreement can do us any good."
Hosea Ballou

If we,
in good faith communion, 
agree
that love is green healthier
and...

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Here I am,


In the first fling of youth-

In what sterile field did I find this anti-fecund missive?

This stretching of a hand, drenched in rubbery black; accompanied by a smell; a sewing, cloying end-platform.

If I lean...

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In London
A young woman
walks the streets
Laddered tights
Swollen feet.
Sells her body
So her kids can eat.
Is  She the one to Blame?

In Gambia
A man so poor
Addicts  his children
To Heroine
To keep their bellies
Full within.
He works all day...

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Is there anyone who can explain to me
why someone in the Soup community
would gripe about those on the lists,
ranting on with their pen in clenched fist?

How important can the lists possibly be
to set someone's nerves...

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Choose moment foiled 
Over moment gone or none.
Penance paid all bard alas anon.
Bars of boxcars rolling down 
Canals of clotted wax;
These are the facts 
As I know them to be; 
Sum total me.

Scratch barleycorn 
For...

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What place is this that gives me peace
Amidst the haunting of the world's disease
Where on a stony pillow I find release
Guilty shadows flee, and I am at ease
What place is this that between a vision
And...

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bullying, death, freedom, games, men, war nature,

Nature Kills for Survival Only! ©

Great animal and man species hunt to kill
They are mighty 'Kingpins' in want for more gamely bites
Mastered forces in ungodly ‘uproar’ hunt down for...

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The sands of the tumultuous rain drops,
Graced my eyes to the brim with tears, 
Splotched memories behind my eye lids,
Like a finger print you stuck on my mind, 

I found love in the poison even...

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A touching version of "Winter Wonderland"  by Felix Bernard & Richard B. Smith.

Fire bells ring, We’re awake and listening
Rush to the trucks
All washed and glistening
We start out the bay
Tell Dispatch, “We are on the...

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I..................
Caught...............
My wife cheating...................
It had crossed my mind, should I give her a beating?

Instead, I sat on the edge of the bed,
Silence choked the room as nothing was said.

I stared at her, through the cheating, beauty...

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Scented Leaves

Flowery fragrance sorts divisive airflow and cooperates amidst plethoric aubergines that bathe breathlessly, brushing raised exemplars of strewn unfurled chartreuse fronds, lain in the wake of humble pattered feet enthralled in its tangy betrothed...

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Life On The Inside

As the trees whisper words of wisdom,
The wolf lies below and howls,
To the Raven high in branches above,
Their spirits entwined beyond the visible 

raven caws from the highest tree
bringing news of the...

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Life On The Inside

As the trees whisper words of wisdom,
The wolf lies below and howls,
To the Raven high in branches above,
Their spirits entwined beyond the visible 

raven caws from the highest tree
bringing news of the...

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I wanted to be a ballerina with a dump truck.
A pink tutu with frothy petticoats and a red and white dump truck.

If I could not have that,
I wanted to be a newspaper reporter with a...

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in the realms of marine stardust
there still flicker deviant desires,
fanned flames that nothing can prevent,
lustrous ignitions devoid of hesitations;
bartering for the souls and shoes
of footloose heroines,
laddered of stocking and careless
of moral fibre;
ah, they were and...

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I walked by the old cafe on Rue De Sienne and heard an angel playing harp 
a cherub an ethereal mome bewitching me and playing softly with my heart 
she wore a halo made of...

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