Long Make like Poems

Chapter 1 THE FISHERMAN

At the dawn of humankind in
Africa's great land of sunlight
This adventure of survival 
Of a family's arduous journey 
 
One of exile and betrayal
And of hopeful brave endurance 
Happened long before all...

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I see you’ve larked with fairy friends,
On bough, in fields, near brooks - 
Pebbles skim the water’s edge;
Jump skip, jump skip, hop - over brook…

‘Which side is greener?’ Asked the Dragon mare.
‘The bough of tree...

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In the valley of the culprits 
be patient. 
Remain planted on your legs 
to be struck 
by the newcomers and leaving them 
never look behind you, 
so that each one can see 
the hairstyle on...

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I am if not a man of routine  
A glass half full is a still a big spill if it tips
I can't believe you’d let those words slip 
So make like Pluto and demote...

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What if the city streets rolled up, and Malthus resurrected
As the sun rose at night and stars skipped upon the sea?
What if the tales of doom were doomed, and earth opened
Like an egg and hatched...

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fear seems to be the cause du jour
fear if it all just ended
shapes us like quivering jello molds

fear of the landline
tapping into our heads
fear of the landmine
careless gifts from the feds

electric shivers
primal and oozing
forgetting ripe...

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“If u truly are here, then maybe I’ll regret this song” 

Mother received a gift horse 
She just never looked it in the eyes 
Nine months later 
she had more than she could lift of...

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I am at one with myself
I am the tree trunk that grows from the ground
As the branches and twigs move when the wind blows
I myself remain robust

Extentions of my life break off and die
Or just...

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upon first attractiveness,
mixed with a self-assessment,
pretending you don’t have a “league,”
yet then wondering if s/he’ll speak to you,
the walk up is full of butterflies,
the keeping of the hands at the sides is
torture,
the sputtering of whatever...

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the “understanding”

there had been a lack of desire
on both parts & while one party 
might have fallen away quicker, 
the fact remained that the two of them
wanted to keep every aspect of their
lives the same,...

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I ask for your help
I have never been too proud to beg
Beg your pardon
Beg for a morsel of your time
Time to write a different script
Time undertakes my logic
Logic has never been my strongest point
Logic lacks...

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How I cherish idle days unfettered by a strict routine.
(Tho' I'm findin' such days fewer and farther in between!)
A day in which my spouse ain't delegatin' onerous chores,
Nor wants to chase after bargain sales at...

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I went home wearing my dinner.
I had egg all over my face.
Something I said had made her see red
And she dumped spaghetti over my head.
Maybe I should have said “Sorry”
But she quickly stormed from the...

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Half a home, half a home,
Half a home conjured.
Into the jaws of skip
…….goes all we plundered.
Clear out the crap we said
Make like we now are dead
Into the jaws of death
…….our waste was thundered.

Get rid of...

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It’s 3pm and so it shall begin…First comes the drinking then the fist…if I am lucky he will miss…if he succeeds I will pay a great price…under my bed I will cling to my life…finally...

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PS Muse inspiration: Corey Bryan

it's all downhill, Dilly Dally

Come take a stride with me, a to b

Actually, let me make that more tempting
Let's be onions rolling down the hill
Or strawberries, this will be A-MAZ-ING!
(we'll laugh...

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Oh how very earnestly pleasing
I do so find
The wide, sun splashed avenues
Of grand residential Worthing;
Where the old poets
Announce each and every corner;
So neatly squared and turned
By thoroughly conceived Victorian
Order.

Quiet sonnets reside here
Seeking haven from weary...

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I love you but it hurts, I want you, but you don’t
You found me, I didn’t look for you
Now I'm going through the same
Damn thing that made me run to you
In the first place 
Now...

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Outside the group that's outside the box
seeing inside the outside Im shocked
how you shape our fate as it knocks
on imaginations and what they concoct

My dream craves standards, but they take work
here efforts actualize ideals
tough labors...

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You see me at my birth, 
Like a fresh flesh dumbbell;
Sing lullabies with mirth,
As silent as mumble;
Ease me, in quilt of care, lest I fall and crumble...

You fix your eyes on me, 
At my sleep...

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The hospital corridors are silent
but outpatients reception is busy,
muffled voices are heard behind closed doors,
a shuffling dressing gown stalks the silent halls
in fluffy slippers pushing a drip stand,
waiting patients just in from the cold 
disrobe....

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What Big Eyes and Ears You Have

By Elton Camp

A girl called Little Red Riding Hood 
Visited her grandmother like she should

It wasn’t long before she had to say
“Grandmother, you look an odd way.”

Her eyes and...

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By Elton Camp

A girl called Little Red Riding Hood
Visited her grandmother like she should

It wasn’t long before she had to say
“Grandmother, you look an odd way.”

Her eyes and ears didn’t look okay
On Little Red, she...

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All our Epitaphs 
Lord only knows. 

May my God make me worthy and my Devil make me fine. 
For both they are at odds to own this soul of mine. 
For though I"m never good...

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As you open yourself up for love, 
You realize that you are getting something else,
But you try to make like it is what you are looking for,
Cause you know how it feels to have your...

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