Long Lightbulb Poems

You’re my star – I set fire to our firey rose 
Bouquet of stars – I hand to you – 
We’re opposites, like poetry and prose
You came out of the blue, I’m left without a...

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Good morning from the ascending light 
Good night from the descending night 

I'm sorry, darling of past glee
I'm not sorry that we were together and happy

I'm a house and you're the ground
I'm the mouse, caught...

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Rassaphrass’s husband LeRoy went out for garlic bread on a Tuesday.  She ate all the spaghetti and meatballs before he returned, to teach him a lesson, because he took too long.  He brought...

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The Christmas Mouse
T'was the night before Christmas
And with everything done
The kids were all dreaming
Of Christmas Day fun
The tree was completed
We had wrapped all the toys
When from the basement below
We heard a faint noise
I sprung from...

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Have you ever had something happened to you that scared you out of your wits? I have. It 
all began on my birthday last year. (This is not a true story, by the way.)

April 1st,...

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It’s a therapeutic journey 
I didn’t wanna take right now 
The shoe dropped 
And now it's time to pull the knife out of my throat
And hear me scream for sympathy
The shoe dropped 
And it created...

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I'll never forget the dream I dreamt 
That reshaped my very being
   I have no doubt, need not attempt
Whole heartedly believing

   My soul left my body vacant
But not to my demise
...

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Alone within a small dark room
Heart racing from impending doom
Just beyond I see a light
I stumble closer to see this sight

A single lightbulb overhead
Reveals a creature sleeping in its bed

The features of it, no one...

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My eyes linger instantly when you enter my world
They light up bright, like a new lightbulb has been replaced
I blink my heavy eyelashes, and you slowly dissolve into my uncertainty
Your look tortures every fiber of...

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through the eyes of real 
selfish ideas wreaked havoc on many
whose hopes and dreams were 
snuffed out—
like the flame of a candle 
in a winter-wind storm....

through the eyes of real
not just metaphorically; but literally 
generations...

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be careful 
when you
invite new 
metaphors
into your
fresh built 
box of a poem.

a small 
house is
perfect
or a poet
that has 
few silver 
words left  
in their 
pocket. 

lower case
       ...

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'Tis nineseventeenPM!
On the balcony, in a rocking chair
In full twilight surrender
Savoring this wonderous time capsule
This moment of captivating tranquility 
So soothing I wish It would freeze in time

Sweet nineseventeenPM!
Not quite my bedtime
But I know Morpheus...

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Yo, it’s been six weeks and countin' and still nothing to show
Cycle through beats but the lightbulb won’t even glow
I looked for inspiration, but imagination faded
Now every word I write fills me with jaded hatred
Like...

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A spectrum of memories // etched in // directing
Synaptic obscenities // fetching regrets //
Count those dour mental entities // concepts like insects //
Innumerable enemies // wielding their sketches

Of interlacing, undulating, thoughts I’d never saught to...

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"The Industrial Revolution!"
It is the workers' cry,
Who'd rather earn their bread each day
And plan their lives and save their pay,
Than lie and steal and die.

"The Industrial Revolution!"
It is the bosses' song,
Who'd rather teach the willing...

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We used to share dreams;
thoughts, my sister and me.
I occupied the top bunk, she the lower
in the cold, dank bedroom
we once inhabited from dusk to dawn.

Not prophetic dreams, the future;
we had no perception, illusions.
No exchanging,...

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MUSE ON THE LOOSE

“What’s that?” – a symphony moving,
A photograph snapped – a muse on the loose.

I must go hunting, set a trap…
Many are running, attacking, tracking -

So I look in the shadowy bushes,
Behind schools...

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I watched Howard 
Lose control
As the rest of the students stared in awe
They had never seen such anger; such passion
Coming from the sockets 
Of a young man's eyes
He was quiet every day
He got poor grades
But...

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OBSESSION OF SOAPS

obsessed with the daylight hours
specifically the graven-image afternoon
like high place dungeon towers

calgon’s commercial didn’t “take me away”
but a clever string of soaps did the trick
yes ~ for three “wholesome” hours every day

like following...

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Belching behemoth, smoking crazy dragon 
ran amok, bore down a scream in slowest motion 
through the side-window frame. 
Lunatic bulk filled my vision, 
inlaid with chrome teeth, 
huge black melting tyres... 
and some bearded midget...

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My mom’d just had a baby
And so to give her space,
My nana and my grandpa
Took me to a special place.

We passed a toy store on the way
And quickly we were stopping.
I found a doll I...

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I open my eyes in this moment
I see electric lights without end
What a blessing taken for granted -
An oversight that I shall now mend

Let us look back in geologic time
Just the blink of an eye...

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The Stars

     It sings "twinkle twinkle little star" over and over again as it flickers on and off like a lightbulb.
     I look up and see the stars. 
They aren't stars but suns. 
    ...

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