Long Lanyard Poems

PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not in my room
Lying on a cold flooring, with a feeling...

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Solving the Problem of Wedding Gifts

By Elton Camp

How I sympathize with the dilemma of a couple planning a wedding!   The stinginess of some who are invited is simply incredible.  They seem to...

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He puts it out there, the Schrödinger’s cat of invitations.

Now, I’m irritated. “I TOLD you I don’t have time for.. involvement.”

“But you have to eat - so eat with ME,” he shrugs. “You can build...

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Written: June 25, 2023

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We evolved toward the Zenith Ringers.
While no daylight is expected, I am thrilled.
With Banana Cakes, Cheez Whiz, and Zingers.
At Family Dollar's end, our hearts are tilled.

Maybe with Viagra or Valium to help...

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Bruised but alive
     Thrumming heart ...
          Bloodied hand trembling
             ...

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bruised but alive
thrumming heart ...
bloodied hand trembling
I measure the moon with my thumb
as I watch the long boat drift away downriver -
YOU are on it ... with the king's entourage
and I have lost you all...

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is when he of the Mount of Olives
whom you believe keeps the night watch
catches you by surprise with a wash over your spirit
like Baptism, when he suddenly exists "de facto" 
as you are walking, just...

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Three times the Master spoke
and three times the capstan broke.
Decks awash with briny spume,
the storm raged in the gathering gloom.
'Pull in that spar or else we're doomed!'
Above the roar the Master boomed.
The crew strained on...

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Peter is joining us for lunch in the cafeteria. I met him on a crowded Saturday morning at a coffee shop. He’s from the flammable, paper-dry, sagebrush hills of Malibu and grew up overlooking the...

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languid doldrums, swaying lanyard, sails hanging loose

  dreary small drums reverberate, neurons dumbing down

  nerve ends fuse, sunlit shadows depict my numbing frown

  feelings grind dull, thoughts stranded in the dangling sluice


...

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Oh hearken the struggle, life's gossamer threads,
The delicate sway of hope ...
Framed by churning white of Lord Neptune's might,
Faith dangles a slender rope.

Wan maiden, her savior, and a scarlet shawl,
Battered by surf and gale ...
Yet...

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-Quiet voices with low decibels are taken with offense. Preconceived notions, spoken words without thought, inserting smileys to disclaim. Invertebrate personas can be seen evaporating from the skin, with the naked eye. Forming a resin...

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The bugles will sound in the distant courtyard
The proud soldier came home from the cause,
Many tears will be shed with noted regard.

A much-decorated warrior in the vanguard,
The dress military uniform he will wear because
The bugles...

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I was inconveniently waiting 
For your interest to show
But that never came
Should have kept my hope low

You were conveniently using
My time to your standards
As if I was a key
Hanging from your key lanyard 

You only...

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If You Would Be So Kind

It is almost as if I am wearing a long lanyard
Showing that I have set a new standard
As my performance reaches a higher peak
For another new poem will hunt and...

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Bicycle tires spinning, carefree with no helmet —
The nineteen-sixties, the neighborhood is our space.

In Summertime, the playground’s a haven with friends —
Sunny smiles, weaving potholders and lanyard lace.

We peers are miniatures — unpolished future selves...

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