Long Manner of speaking Poems

I was an active and happy person, and had a great fondness for movies,
Like the enthusiastic nature lover, bears a fondness for outdoor beauties.

I indulged in both the old and new movies, those of almost...

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It takes guts to be in a wheelchair
Twelve years ago 
I got a job in the open labour market
My first day I ran away early
I had transport issues
I got a lift with another wheelchair man's...

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Here we are
a title of a song, a transitional statement with no meaning
does it really serve a purpose
delaying the inevitable train-wreck these words will incur
I concur
words are meaningless, disastrous
If they were of any help 
citizens...

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The place, the Twenty Third Precinct, Brooklyn, Vice. Detective Rodney Townsend,
The time, four thirty a.m. Report of incident, death of one John Doe. Ally on the
fourteen hundred block, Forth street. The deceased IE; perp is...

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getting off the d-train one morning
@ the 125th st. nicholas stop 
&
walking toward the soup kitchen
where i was going to work that 
day
i saw a young girl of maybe 6, 7 or 8
(i’m not good...

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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations."              John F. Kennedy
       ...

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What is that which is always becoming and never is?
This image we call Time.
What are those which are always becoming and never are?
This image we call Men
And to the voice which they heard coming from...

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If you really love some-one
Then it shouldn't be so hard
You just put him on an leash
And simply walk him
Across the yard,
The heck with all the implication's
What are the chances'
They would reject him right away
Fore it...

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without distraction
alone
in the silence of the night
we are ourselves 
without anything but our uncanny 
likeness
to the dead that have left us
whom we will soon join 
(in a manner of speaking)
beneath the ground &
filled with worms
or
burnt...

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YOUR SECRET LOVE
It's the secret you told 
never young never old
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you 
was a thing that she knew
though you hid, it was all meant to...

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THE SECRET LOVE OF MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE
It's the secret you told never young never old,
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you  was a thing that she knew
though you hid, it...

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HYPERBOLE MODE
It's the secret you told 
never young never old
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you 
was a thing that she knew
though you hid, it was all meant to be.

In...

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THE SECRET LOVE
It's the secret you told 
never young never old
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you 
was a thing that she knew
though you hid, it was all meant to...

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I Equals MC Squared
It's the secret you told 
never young never old
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you 
was a thing that she knew
though you hid, it was all meant...

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THE SECRET LOVE
It's the secret you told 
never young never old
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you 
was a thing that she knew
though you hid, it was all meant to...

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THE SECRET LOVE
It's the secret you told 
never young never old
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you 
was a thing that she knew
though you hid, it was all meant to...

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THE SECRET LOVE
It's the secret you told never young never old
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you was a thing that she knew
though you hid, it was all meant to...

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Come candlelight, tango with me -
Your bittersweet, tri-colored braid,
Dramatic, stealthy, twined esprit.
Your piercing angst, my eyes invade.

Your bittersweet, tri-colored braid -
Blue, orange, yellow sizzling flame.
The piercing angst, my eyes invade.
O mi amor - you are...

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THE SECRET LOVE
It's the secret you told never young never old
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you was a thing that she knew
though you hid, it was all meant to...

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I stare into the eyes of darkness
And see only light
I've defeated dear Trinity
Who's taken my sight
I've found someone who cares for me
I know this can't be real
The least likely source
Of my heart to steal

If you...

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On a  Painting

Hey, what are you up to?
here is a sliver of earth
between two gravid rivers  ?

Swelling  with milk
they quelled  dyslexic lands 
that dried and cried in nobody’s tongue.
they too had...

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He's Everywhere

When first born to stay alive do try
But eventually one day have to die
To stay alive it often had been hard
When our life is lost body will discard

So maybe in a manner of speaking
What...

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