Long Lymph Poems

      In the purple shadows of the black's monoliths, where an ancient echo calls forth, at the blurry forge of "Ralkon Dis",
a salient dragon from mystery's petra cliffs drifts you...

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She maneuvers gracefully without fins or flippers
creating no ripples in deep blue waters
sneaking calmly upon jittery preys
and disguise herself in the middle of the day

A sudden thrust from beneath the fog
she buries herself under a...

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Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon

Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that says
Thirty-eight and  Never coming home
So I hope it’s not...

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(Dedication: For Ann)
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Man makes gods here to quench desire;
Urge and surge flood the pathway sight;
Sense hint and cheer in burning pyre;
Embrace warm blood in glimpse of light;
See phantoms near that play with fire.


Meet your true...

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I just made it in time for Mary's funeral, it had been raining
heavily all day but the sun came out through the clouds.
And as I watched her coffin being lowered into the ground,
I was filled...

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There’s unbearable beauty in crimson…

There are many crimson colored things in this world. How about blades of leaflets during Autumn or the beauty of a McIntosh apple? The most unbearable beauty I know is the...

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We cannot do without water,
But it could do without us
If we choose!
 
Bodies of living things are made up 
of mostly water, squashy plants,
Blood and Lymph  included too. 
Without Hydration, the skin as well...

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In Nursing School

In nursing school they have us learn all the proper medical words,
Because in Greek and Latin we defecate, but we never make turds,
And what's worse than learning about all these dreadful diseases
Is forgetting...

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I was working out back, while under the palms
I've a tendon-cy to stand under the limbs
to focus my eyes, and digest the surrounding glands cape
Plantar-d there on the ground was a carpenter ant 
that caught...

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Military Industrial Complex out to enslave the masses/
Save your asses from these genocidal, dangerous facists/
They’re releasing gaseous anthrax to take breath outta me/
Our Social Security Numbers are used for their death lottery/
The Bermuda Triangle is...

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There is a plan that's hard to see,
By and by I learn to discern,
Sculpt as I can form and beauty.


I uncover what I must learn,
Discover rhymes when reason sleeps,
Here recover truth that I yearn.


Now space...

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Our story takes place in the mid sixteen hundreds,
Filled with (not so) fresh corpses and newly beloveds.
The stench of Black Death had choked all of London, 
Moulding its streets into plague ridden dungeons.

As parents and...

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I remember how I cried
The day my father died.
The doctor laid the blame
When he said that cancer came:
Lymph nodes, lungs,
Philosophy of Carl Jung,
Words of explanation
For everything, no blame,
Too late for shame.

The final service was long.
I...

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(For Axel Caleb)
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Apt lovely face charms in sure light,
eXpress the way joy shouts and screams;
Excite this space with looks most bright,
Love comes Sunday with cuddly dreams.


Charm styles a poise with pout and frown,
Ask cheer and...

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Almighty Eternal God

I had a lump on my neck for a couple of years
 Seen a doctor and told me it can be a cancer if I don’t remove it
I’m pregnant and the problem is...

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Almighty Eternal God
I had a lump on my neck for a couple of years
 Seen a doctor and told me it can be a cancer if I don’t remove it
I’m pregnant and the problem is...

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You’ve heard the saying
Any port in a storm
With chemo – a chest port
Is usually the norm
I’ll have a nickel-sized bump
Or a quarter at best
Just over my heart
Left side of my chest
And through it all fluids...

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Winter dark...solstice etches itself 
on texture of bleak silhouette
ebon in fervor...cycle’s lymph
grips the  inked winds halving the cleft 
between old eve and fresh sunset 
as morn falls on dry ice...asleep,
yet kismet unlocks ...creatures reap...

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Yesterday afternoon on March 22nd, I had the paramedics transport me to the Emergency Ward of Swedish Hospital in Edmonds, Washington. And I was diagnosed with Lymph-edema (swelling of the legs) But I praise the...

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There's nothing we can do, the doctor said!
     It was December, nineteen-seventy.
At once, those words exploded in my head
     and pierced my heart- which broke in agony.

How...

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"I am feeling it." He said.
He meant his age. As I watched
I saw a vision…

Out from the cuttlefish bones of his breast
grime coughed up and dribbled.
I saw his heart stutter, the vapid flutter,
watched his lungs...

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See what you see, see with clear sight;
Ask just to be, ask for true light ;
Yield to be free, yield to what's right.

You know you can, you know the way;
Endow fond plan, endow fine play;
Sense...

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Dawn flings
A brand new light,
Joy sings
Of awesome sights


Wake up
To a new day
Fill cup
With happy play


Seize cheer
In sacred woods
Right here
Love tastes so good


Feel breeze
In windy touch
Fine squeeze
That tells so much


Sun glow
Brings lovely heat
Day shows
A lively treat


Sense...

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“I am feeling it.” He said.
He meant his age, and as I watched
I saw a vision of him…
Ribs broke away
from the cuttlefish bone of his breast
opening outward in a rueful grin.
I saw his heart stuttering...

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Quitting coffee and should it kill me
Want to say that it's been fun

Sidled up to this specific teat
Not long after my first weaning done

My body trying to clue me in
As I clung to my drug...

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