Long Lana Poems

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Warning! The following choppy, batty, 
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy, 
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy, 
sketchy material prone to find the reader 
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...

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Go ahead, you freaking coward, I thought. You drove all this way, with your new 6" GPS. Now you’re a bowl of jello who can't ring a bell? I took a deep breath and pushed...

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AntiPoem 4
“Santo and Johnny”

(Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading)

Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass
Just oozing out their mellow electric dream sound as the
Santa Monica Pier exudes...

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On a smoky grey October dusk
ensnared by a timeless musk
my heart met those dulcet tides
mellows engulfing it in strides.

A frivolous soul I'd always been
a quarter of this world I'd seen
yet the universe felt strikingly adrift
my...

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"In the 1840s, two sisters fall in love with the same man.
                       While...

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The Submission Page does not upload Arabic alphabet symbols, so
I posted my poem in Arabic on the Notes/Photo page above my poem.

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I gather images of Easter's sign,
bouquets of varied thoughts and memories:
emerging crocus, budding branch,...

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Met some famous people in a dream I had last night.
Meeting and greeting them was surely my delight,
However, the way they mingled was more than I could bear.
There actions made me worry and made me...

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All that I have left are pictures and treasured memories anymore,
That is all that I have left of some one I love and adore.

Left behind inside my chest is a black hole, a hollow void,...

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Mistress Lana thinks she is
my Central Committee guru
sends her greetings to the downtrodden masses
she's downtrod a bit of real estate in her day
ground under her boot heel
investment swindlers and barbershop quartets
at the kaleidoscope factory
perforated by...

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Sound travels faster in Darkness
At the edge of my canopy bed, I parted with my words
With background music
       "Waiting Game", "Hot in Here", "I'm of Fire", "Cherry Wine", "Raspberry...

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I used to listen to Lana
Sit on my bistro table
Furnished apartment.

The drunken couple screaming next door
At themselves
At each other
Before he died of a heart attack 

I’ve travelled far from that table. 
Beautiful kitchen
Lumpy couch
Lonely mirrors
Lonely...

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A song came on the jukebox and we listened with intent
He sang "Only The Lonely" with a voice that was heaven sent
I was only in eighth grade, a few years from being a man
There was...

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"love pyres" 

after the war
romance became 
compulsory 

not desultory

twin flames
lit each other 
up

love pyres

ashes 
falling 
Psyche rising

immaculate
immolate
in the aftermath

falling,
 
silence 
sings
lit within

kissed by Eros

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)



“Like Snow on the Beach”/ Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey
https://youtu.be/069MS0nKpbg

"Mastermind"...

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Arabic script doesn't survive PoetrySoup, I hereby rewrite my previous submitted Arabic poem in FrancoArab letters,

laqad kunt fina al-saraj al-munir .... wa kunt alsadiq wa kunt al-khalil
wa kunt rasul al-mahabati fina .... wa kunt shifa'...

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She was a teen girl from Oklahoma
Of copper bronze skin with auburn-red hair
Such a pretty girl dreamed of marriage
But she had a job to do taking care of a newborn cousin 
such a pretty girl...

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Form: Tanka
Passion for what still exists
Phonon of ones fists
Durance of eclectic hours
Fire on the hell gone towers
Phenomenon is.
                 ...

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I hope this letter doesn't end up being just another fan mail that goes unread
I hope it finds its way to you before the sunset

I hope you understand why I wrote it. I hope the...

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Looking back, I wish I could change things that I have done wrong, Then if I 
did, I'd open my eyes in the morning to the sound of a different song,    ...

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Dedicated to my 22-years old daughter Lana

You’re my life… 
My sunlight...
Be with me tonight…
I’ll stay here, 
So, you’ll hear
Saying me: "Good Night..."

Let’s take the road in the morning
And just ignore the every warning.
Don’t be afraid...

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“People tell me they idolize me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.” 
Quote by  Phil Spector (Found guilty...

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menthol cigarettes / messy journals / propane torches / unfinished poems / 
                 broken promises / black bandana /...

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They nicknamed Doris Day the girl next door
But she never lived next door to me.

Sting is known as sting but isn't a bee.

Davy Jones was known as a monkey
But I never saw him swing through...

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On graduation day you put your saddle shoes away.
You took a naked walk through the garden till you got to the pool.
You had Vivaldi on steroids, Monet on cocaine.
You’re not Mother Theresa. No need to...

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“Bel Air” ~ Lana Del Rey
Ashen stoic gargoyles sit amongst the gates
The sunlight shines through heaven's doors.
I'm impatient and apollos chariot awaits.
You'll be my golden wings as I soar
up into divinity engulfed by light and...

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Talat.Apni soti menu day..
Sain.Tun bund vich leni ay??
Talat.Aho bund vich leni ay..
Sain.Bara wada ganda ayn..
Talat.Aho me pen yak policeya..
Sain.Powder day jurm vich kini
dair jail katti ce??
Talat.Wawa dair andar rya wan..
Sain.Tun punjab police de shaan..
Talat.Apni bhesaki...

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