Long Ligaments Poems

     by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day

                 first comes...

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  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner Jewel 
 soft it lay cradled  
rhapsodic rubicon...

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I.

In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll—
left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat
of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice
between being and non-being, the eternal paradiddle
of consciousness striking against the drumhead of reality.

Listen: the Buzz Roll...

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MEMORIES OF WAR 


In prison we turmoiled 
packed up cards to fall 
whilst they sucked 
genitals like bonbons 
a quartz on a table
gleamed its knowing

War torn ghettos with 
swollen stomachs 
stretched wide, auras 
shattered, splintered...

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Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 7

Janushirasana – Knee- Head Pose  

In praise of Janushirasana


There are many Asanas 
And postures in Yoga
Full of benefits 
And boons like advantages
For the human body and mind
Which...

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Uncover
I have uncovered something of importance
Well importance of me
I admit
my attention has been shared
my attention has been stolen, distracted
but my public
you already know the details
but my public
you already know the stories
yet I call you here...

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I shake out my jacket
    and crack my neck
to regain my control
       although I’m enjoying 
    being hostile.
The room is now darker than...

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A Fool now stands before me.
He also stands a side a cliff that sprouts dripping orchids and noisy dogs.
My voice has been cut out, like paper Marché dolls, my vocals are laid out in a...

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Part 1: The Event 

Back in younger age days, 
Going to grad school in Boulder, Colo, was no fun, 
Lots of course work, research work, little time to socialize, 
Professor had to meet his grants...

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You could see the shadows on his empty face.

He left no trace of what he’s done to us but fear, peering inside a mind that was once so clean. 

Now riddled with tales that you...

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First of all whenever I have to give my personal information, I always feel violated 
This is one time I cannot save my little privacy 
Since I have to be honest
Since I have to show...

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We are one. We are the same. We are I.
We move with the same ligaments, the same joints, the same muscle strings.
We ooze of acid. We erode. We exude a putrid odour.
We are a walking...

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Me?

I'm two hundred and sixty pounds of fat
muscle and bone.
ligaments and nerves.
emotions and freewill.

six feet and three inches
of longing
and of hope 
that is bound to be lost

I alone am no hero.

but then again,
alone,
none of us...

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Far away from the discomfort under my skin
My soul rejoices
Recoiling at sorrows that like a pointed pin
Pricks my choices

Stealing my freedom
Drinking my peace of mind
Shoving me yonder the kingdom
Where once I lived unkind and blind

Pinned...

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ask the moon

two approaches
two dead ends.
love doesn't die it just slips into your
back pocket
shifting uneasily
like detached spiders legs
you must remind it
that there's no where left to
run.
bodyless memory
entity unto itself.

towards and away
connected at their ends
by the...

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Lines reign rectangular beyond widely 
sombre dour density of inhabitants 
Living rendered responsible behind wisely 
secure doors definitely insure us

Neighbours harbour unfamiliar stories
Measureless textures hold untapped instruction
Sectioned protected fences forbode inquiry 
Composite dismissed in driveway's...

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The mechanical components, the valve that pumps my heart 
The reactive nerve endings that serve a sensory stimulus 
The tear ducts that latently only lend lubrication 
The silly little practical necessary body bits, pieces and...

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With every step I take every word
that comes outta my mouth that speaks life
I vision it in my dreams death
is around the corner waiting for my
downfall to see me in that body bag
and the coroner's...

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Metal never pierced flesh or bones
Ligaments weren’t shattered in dashing haste
Not decorated with purple stones
For my heart hid from that waste
Sand and fear my tongue still taste 

Born to die in hellish fire
Infernal flame, spirit...

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Date: Mon, Nov 30 2015 at 11:26 PM

Hard life in these twenty six years
Instead my heart cry the tears
Feel like being stabbed in my heart a spear
Face in tears smeared
Knowing the tears will reappear
Looking in...

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A centipede found its way into our home
My hairs stood on end for hours on end! 

And while we tried learning about it on Google search, 
in a dark and damp crevice it made its...

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I am the sentence lost poet who has forgotten names
hollow versions of imposter me with little left to crawl
inside the words. My life is shaped by subtle arts stripped
from the mirror of reflected lives –...

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Black man in the projects
Basketball or prison prospect
We’re to believe that concept
Some don’t live to 21 before they got slept
Shows sometimes it good that you gotta rep
She get around sometimes it ain’t good that you...

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words,
but let me tell you what a word is worth

Worth it all      All of you
Eulogies of bygone days
Teleported feelings from here ...

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He discovered
how to connect and merge,
or such discovered him.

His five senses did not become six,
but a number closer to one.

It came upon him,
that he was one with everything,
all that his mind and eyes perceived,
be they...

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