Long Long drawn out Poems

The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At The Saloon


That wash-bin washed away tons of trail-dirt
Many a pint of blood too said the old man
He was lean and mean in his cowboy shirt
Weather-beaten face and western sun's...

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(A raven’s shadow falls across the page. A quill scratches furiously, punctuated by heavy sighs.)

December… a month draped in the funereal crepe of the dying year.
Darkness descends with a swift, predatory grace, the sun a...

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This is the stuff some hearts are made of.
Anguish. Elation. Say it once again!
Just for the sake of hearing a feeling's name,
and the long drawn out sigh
of sounds echoing out of breath, out of breath,
out...

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I’d never ask you to walk in my shoes.
But rather see the world through my eyes.
Take a journey within the mind of the lost, and perhaps you’ll realize 

That my complexity has a depth that...

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Death of a Dream
      by Amy Swanson


Time
   existence
       goes by
          *long drawn out...

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somewhere along the way
s/he lost track of themselves---
perhaps it was because they had been
hurt before & swore to never go into
anything full swing again,
or perhaps it was out of a genuine 
dislike of themselves---
either way,...

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while s/he was playing the game
following the rules
doing what her/he was told &
living the life of a 
good citizen,
s/he was walking evidence of 
a system which had worked,
grinding its gears to churn out the
proper amount...

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April 26, 2018 Thursday 9:10 am  A COMING APART OR A COMING TOGETHER


	WHEN WILL I HAVE YOU?	

	I ask
	oh, anything to get you to focus on us
	Think about 
	Talk about us
	but, the bait isn’t taken
	You...

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This (Numerical) Life

I am a number. I know this because you spend all evening asking me my age, as it is my birthday and we dine in lavish style. My name is forgotten; the eccentricities...

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~Black Friday~

With the turkey out of the way
It's time to do some shop and save
Black Friday...here we go again

I am up at three o'clock
So I'll be at the door on the dot
Shopping like a mad...

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With the turkey out of the way
It's time to do some shop and save
Black Friday...here we go again

I am up at three o'clock
So I'll be at the door on the dot
Shopping like a mad whirlwind

Pulling...

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With the turkey out of the way
It's time to do some shop and save
Black Friday...here we go again

I am up at three o'clock
So I'll be at the door on the dot
Shopping like a mad whirlwind

Pulling...

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In the Dark I stand motionless
Staring across the moonlit landscape
We are together but I am alone
My thoughts consume me
The silence and isolation comforts me
My heart quickens as the music starts
A solitary howl piercing the night...

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On many long, drawn out nights, his routine was to
shuffle aimlessly along dimly lit city streets.
Much of the time, his only companion was a
concealed remnant of cheap bottled wine. He
scavenged for food and money. He...

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"The Road Not  Taken," Frost slow ball to my curb," ... by The Poet.

If you instant your past past your eyes! (Uhh!)
And the pause it had caused tis now gone, (Poof,)
made of years, good,...

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Africana, Serengeti kaleidoscopes
I painted with Zebra isotopes
 My ethnicity abounds from my
 afro follicles.
 Black fruit with pink middle 
 My garden cultivates Nubian yokes
forever bound like 
 Sampson tied to temple pillars 
 pulling...

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Do you think I kidding when I said I was not perfect,
I laid there waiting and I tried to call
But were you to be found? Nope, not at all.
See now why I am the person...

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they thought they were doing a simple task
but failed to realize that all things done
never simple or like they seem. Would
you care to take apart the item in questioned
asked the Professor?  Smiling, he spoke...

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The court’s dragons are working overtime
which doesn't surprise me, for real.
Last week in the headlines we read old news -
former state policemen achieves third appeal
for killing his wife and two children.
Their murders are a twelve-year...

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He’s awaken by a whisper in his ear,
The demons return; his deepest and darkest fear.
He shouts, “I don’t want to do this anymore.”
Demon whispers, “Come on, give me one more score.”
He shouts, “I hate you,...

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The night was dark and stormy, lightning lit up the sky
Your little boat was rocked and tossed around in the sea
the sharp and jagged rocks drew nigh  
Without warning there was a loud ripping...

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The sweet aromatic scent of his skin
lingered on her nostrils
The soft touch of his hand gently caressed slowly across her
The sensation tingled along her arm in the cool midnight air
Their long drawn out kisses lingered...

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first meeting
by sight has
since blinded
me for she
had a towel
wrapped as
if African style
or getting out
of the shower

(to note her
face was pure
no makeup
nor blemish
of an almost
copper toned
color but her
eyes nose and

lips) now common
place yet still
unbecoming
for it was
IT...

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The beauty of lies, 
      Between your eyes. 
The song of drugs 
      I find in your veins 
      ...

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It's Not Easy When The Road Is Your Driver 

To want you to hold you to need you
 We look for love in all the wrong places
 Certain vestibules will leave a trace in
 A...

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