Long Mangling Poems

[This poem 'No God Of  Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't  cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]


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The drummer beats slowly, the drummer beats loud
     as he beats of humanity wrapped in a shroud.

Well he beats of the rape and the killing of war
     and the mind mangling sorrow we blithely ignore
          and...

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Cement, sand and gravel, blood, body and soul
Eternity bred from hell's darkest hole
Combine gruesome aggregates, hydrate the mix
Mould them and dry them, then stack up the bricks.

Thought in advance and precision laboured
Set automatic, eternity savoured
No...

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Remember the day before you died? Your heart reeked of mania. The way you lied about your whereabouts broke my world into a mangling mess. Who cleaned up my mess? It used to be you....

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.........eclectic mangling with each dextrous touch, fine lines begin to smudge, 


reality blends with fiction, body becomes an instrument, instantly switched on, fingers-the intimate, 


high octave tinkering, pursed lips to the sky-the...

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2022 Polar Vortex - Across Wide Band Of North America

Power outage here within 
mine happy hunting grounds 
(as well the ghosts of Lenni Lenape),
viz Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania
December twenty third 
two thousand twenty two wrought
(lasting greater...

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I knew him before they shackled him to chair
I contend, none knew him better than I
He's tall, charming, quite an elegant air
An athlete lissom, a kite in the sky
What happened you asked, what so deformed...

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Countless instances submitting poems
finds me racking
quite a hefty collection of rejections,
the responses lacking
disappointing voluminous vicious
venomous vitriolic backing
quite the contrary,
the prefabricated responses

unsuccessful at hijacking
my "FAKE" toothy gumption
(since I wear dentures) lip smacking
bite size packing
not exceptionally appetizing,
but...

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With no Revenge among est, the evergreens softly dance through the breeze that often carries a thickness, mangling through the calmness which would have loved to penetrate the beauty of daffodils with affection instead of...

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With no Revenge

With no revenge among est the evergreens
softly dancing through the breeze that
often carries a thickness, mangling through
the calmness which would have loved to penetrate
the beauty of daffodils with affection instead
of distorted thrills of...

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They practise their guns on the land of the innocence, 
these loathsome creatures wipe out the lines of our army,
now we are what left to secure this homeland, 
"Come forth my soldiers" the cry of...

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2019 Polar Vortex - Across Wide Band Of North America

Ordinarily, the weather
considered non trees
son us, a neutral subject on par
with non nose wrinkling odoriferous cheese
usually ranks as minor distraction,
without whether yours truly agrees

or not, except...

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So many of them abound
They make for a burdensome crown
Worn by a government needing to be overthrown
Is it time to kick all these bureaucrats
Out of town?

The mangling of democracy by quangos
Is the new autocracy
A daily...

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Okay here we go again two in morning
 on the end of nothing known
 trying everyone for what they had
 I know its bad 
but not so long ago it was what it was
 no...

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Hashtags polling

virtual war, viral

naija stand by

wait!

Fall they will,

like pack of cards

in the face of cash

Sandcastle disco!

Sing-song voice, rings hello

trained roll of the tongue

cultivated baritone

a pitch here and there, emoting

Back in chains

tongue under this blade lies

cool,...

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Sinister snarling swindling scandalous scoundrels secretly slither shamelessly
Implicitly interrogated ‘bout innermost insidious illegitimate impertinences
Ghastly Grotesque grimacing gumption gorging gruesome gimmicky gossip
Netherworld’s nauseating narcissistic nefarious nature nibbling at naiveté

Obnoxious oppressors outrageously ostracizing offspring to oblivion
Facetiously fondling...

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The fear in his eyes,
the pain in his voice, 
I had to stay with him, 
there was never a choice.

whispering secrets in my ear,
a whispering of a secret fear.

Oblivious to any given reality
of abandonment, abuse...

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His love indescribable
His presence overwhelming
A child longing to meet its father
Its cry so unbearable
Mangling to the heart; melancholy
A bondage unbreakable
Apart from being crestfallen by the cruel world,
the child croons to its father to hear its...

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Disentomb of a diseconomy is a discourse with or without a hat. To lick at a whip is to wave a wavelength overboard. Fifty nine fields and a jet cake then? Oh really must one...

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Invoking restitution beyond mundane range,
the clarity beneath grounds to actuality
towards mangling misconceptions and rapid change
against those who tolerate useless leniency

There's a massive holocaust taking stern pleasure,
tried and executed, shots fired in a haywire
Bodies everywhere, graves...

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Zambia alone could not give her love
This woman that courts Zimbabwe too
Mellow like a belly dancer
Her soft form moving 'round her summer pole
Do not play with her heart
Her passion is like a cataract raging white
With...

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“Oh Snowman!” sing the children-birds,
“For what reason are you astray?”
He’d put some care into his words.
Who cares what snowmen have to say?

He’d long been keeping up his trade
Of mangling words where truths apply.
But well he...

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the dark raven 
beckons my soul
amidst quaint cackling of
the jackals mangling hisses 
I witnessed flowers bloom
 
as the giant oaks
began to kneel at my feet
I witnessed his face 
why I heard his voice
the mauve sky...

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The genuine journalist 
    must be nosy but fair,
his profession strictly 
    requires him to be so;

but between a public matter 
    and private affair,
the legitimate,...

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My mangling of words
begins again,
I chain up syllables
and thrash them with punctuation,
             the pendulum sways.

Twisting them into
      ...

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