Long Mangle Poems

Sometimes faith lives on the edge of a knife
as Sviastoslav the Rus sacker came to know 
The Khazar Khanate knew how to cut a slight
his gilded skull stole the show,
The Vatican went from a marsh...

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Nexus had not yet reached the other side
When we started to enter in a wood
On which no any sign of pathway lied. 

No green fronds,, but grey dusky color stood;
No smooth branches, but all with...

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“Clap your terrible wings, vivacious serpent of old!
Imagine my plight as dangerous as your spite,
Stomp your clawed feet on these prison floors,
Peace shall always follow the sink of your fangs…”

Silenced were the wailing demons round,
Crouched...

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The typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless crap
from the editor's yap
(spewing flimflamy flak, booming rat-a-tat-tat)
after gashing a...

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The day has just dawn and the infidels are all over the lawn, they are setting up tents in the field and continue to ignore the written deal, the widows and single women are at...

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Childhood memories,making camps upon the moors
 wriggling through the bracken deep,
Making paths to our secret den.
Climbing trees,and falling too!
Moss on stones, glistening sun on stepping stones,
Swimming in the river...with a shiver.

Roly poly down the hill,...

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I cannot sponsor a contest but if you can and you are looking for a topic may I 
suggest a limerick contest that requires the poet to base the limerick on a word that 
begins...

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Night of the full moon

Whale fish are most adept at swimming around in a shot glass but glass goblets are preferred by dolphins whose long dorsal fin opts for wide open rimmed spaces. Stingrays desire...

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I stand in front of me looking at what my life would be,
People I meet told me to follow my dreams until I seen,
What the world really is to be for this I,
Hold my hand...

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"Ennui Sets In”

Whenever pen is placed
Between purloined phalanges,
When my mind unfolds and tears along the seams,
I know it’s time to move my thoughts,
Through the underground;
That dark crusty void
Of dreary dreams diminished,
Where loose hell raisers floss...

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The chill of night crept in from the Rhizophora mangle - 
A tropical tree that gave me a shade from the perils of crime
I know nothing about,
Then I moved on to a barren area of...

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E Pluribis and Unum Haiku

Pluribus Unum
Did look lost without the E
So what should we do?

Henry Mancini
Drove a long Lamborghini
Both made sweet music.

Did you see docile?
Guy who was an apostle
Sleeping on the job.

Let the bed bugs...

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free(style dis)association


won’t be the one you remember who does you in/for if you been watching your back you been under your own skin/you learned the hard way & time & time again/no one will be...

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The kids are in bed - there are dishes to do
Some washing, ironing, paperwork too
Children, office, housework, sometimes I think life’s hard
But it isn’t really, not when it’s compared
To my mums, who rose up early...

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Uther, the High king of England 
fell in love with the Lady Igraine
Knowing she was married to Gorlois
he decided to fight the walrus

For he was the Duke of Tintagel
that Uther wanted to mangle	
‘Thus he defeated...

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Among thou wistful bask of I, belies a heart of breaking, 
A mist within a mask of lies, corrupting my soul of eternal aching.
Shrouded upon my throne, used to be such exult,
A mistress in green,...

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I used to sit on my Nan’s knee; she ran her fingers through my hair
She told me all the stories of when she thought life was still fair

Many a time just sitting there listening to...

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Parting my curtains that bright sunny morning
I took in the garden, my mood took a hit
My facial twitch surfaced again without warning
My lawn had acquired a nocturnal zit

They don’t stop at one: No, lots more...

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The kids are in bed, there's dishes to do
Washing, ironing, paperwork too,
Children, office, housework, sometimes I find life hard
But it isn't really, not when it's compared
To my mum's, who rose up early and was never...

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From Psalm 91:13

On sweaty sin stages, dusty back roads, and dirty ghetto streets
Where monsters where murdermasks as they mangle the meek
Where twisters of terror touch and taint the weak
Still the lion and serpent they stay...

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Christ said:
“I leave you with another commandment.
Love others as I have loved you.”
“Let the little children come to me,
For the Kingdom of God is made up of these.”

Humanity has missed and will miss them dearly,
How...

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Reality, wow what a concept
lifes provable facts
those incontrovertible truths
things that stick out and not fall in the cracks

Its subject to interpretation you see
describing the elephant for the blind
this part the leg,
that a tail, this part...

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i was watching a story about the president's men.
when i felt my heart empty and fill with offence.
they were talking of war both home and away.
a plan that can only darken our day's.
there were number's...

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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LII - Tongue Tweezers

Tit for Tat
Butter for Fat
Rat for Cat

Left for Right
Day for Night
Might for Right

Tick for Tack
Lick for Lack
Lice for Sack

Rice for Mice
Dice for Vice
Nice for Voice

Sap for Lap
Cap for Gap
Rap for...

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Some put on their blinkers.
Others do not.
Some are listening to the radio,
Hopefully something tasty and hot.

Some pass on the left,
Others pass on the right.
I am down the middle,
Watching the traffic, oh, so bright.

Some are looking...

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