Long Marlene Poems

Here's the deal, folks...

This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts. 
   The 1st...

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Here's why this was necessary...

   This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other...

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”



The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts

(Part 3)

Avian Notes...

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Clarence Goddard, Harvey Bell, Virgil Barnes and I met for coffee every day for close to forty years.
I was a school janitor...Virgil was a farmer...Harvey ran the lumber yard, and... Clarence managed Sears.

We always met...

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The tender ceremony with full honors welcoming baby light faeries was tastefully
And artistically played out on midsummers eve, an ethereal night, it would seem.
Her parents, and grands were dressed in full colonial faerie attire. They...

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My friends these are Perilous times. You can see it everywhere, feel it, and for many of us we are experiencing heartache through the loss of a loved one. To add to our troubles, sickness...

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The Letter

DEAR Marlene,

Sweet heart of the dead
Adored by generations not yet born
Marlene we love you.

Your beauty burned the wings of JFK
And brought big John to his knees.
For your love, was meant for more.
You shocked the...

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During times of ancient civilization, Khonshu was a god of Celestial Heliopolis, worshipped by Egyptians. He once posed as a human pharaoh then ascended into the role of god of the moon.

Khonshu, the moon god
became...

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“Ever met the Pinkertons?” I asked my friend, Nadine. “Well…Dexter’s wife, Matilda, is a gossip through and through, 
And yesterday my sister called to see if I might know if what Matilda’s aunt, Marlene, had...

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Let me tell you about Morpheus ...

Morpheus is a fictional Marvel character ...
          his real name Robert Markham ... he was once human
   ...

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Lili Marlene

In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And free their consciences, to allow sorrows’ comfort.

A noisy silence pervades...

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Potential cause célèbre dermatological solution
to stem palmar hyperhidrosis,
which medical break thru a last ditch effort
if Glycopyrrolate ineffective
to stave off sweaty hands.

Venerable Doctor Harold Milstein
an acclaimed dermatologist
possesses over 45 years
experience with Dermatologic Care,
Cosmetic Dermatology, and
Mohs Surgery...

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   "Wedding of a Wench"


a joyous celebration promised arrived on lacy invitation
bring only your smile as a gift to offer congratulations
but my cousin, Marlene, was known as a troublemaker all her life
now so...

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for George
"You always said you had little invisible friends,"
He wrote in a Christmas card one year, and Yes,
funny he would remember that.  I called them Shovel,
Hoe, and BicaBacaBoca, all of indeterminate gender,
like Arial in...

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A Bio of sort
I sometimes remember things I didn’t know I knew
it comes to me like a clear vision in black and white 
I like seeing movies in two colours, say, Casablanca
as I like the...

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Way, way back in 1974, 
When I was just a teen 
Three friends and I went to this place 
I'm sure you never seen
 
We all went on a camping trip
Two miles in the woods...

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To be sung to the tune of Lily Marlene, inspired by the lady herself and the film Personal Services - Cynthia played by Julie Walters.

Underneath the lamplight in a leafy street in Streatham
Lived a naughty...

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So long, Marlene, we mean to say, we'll miss you when you go
The thought of you will cheer us through this tide of chill and snow
Through winter storm stay snug and warm beside the fire's...

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Forty years past, I can still see her face 
The name Marlene never left my brain 
The young lady I met years ago 
Standing naked in the river, in the pouring rain 

Miles deep inside...

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A friendship had started one day on the phone
When I first met Marlene, I didn’t feel alone,

She asked me those questions in a phone interview
When I thought to myself, “what the hell do I do?”

You...

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We’ve taken this rode to Manitoba
And seen the beauty and felt the cold.
Seen lakes to the East and West,
And now I am feeling old.

Seen a bear in riding mountain park,
But now it is time for...

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by Bob Moore © 2020
(keep the tune of Lilli Marlene in your mind)

I was born in England, 1942.
Dad was in the Army, and learning what to do
if Jerry the German should invade
he’d make them pay
chase...

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Marlene Larson

I just heard yesterday that you get to go home.
You will soon be young again and free to roam.
My thoughts and words today are for you my friend.
Every time that I write, I’ll think...

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R.I.P- Rest In Peace

You came to us just in time to save us but somehow we couldn't do that for you.
How could that be?
In just the blink of an eye you were here then you...

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the cold winter of 1949

The frost hung mercilessly over our town
the woman who had had her nose frozen off
in the winter of 1933, said this time it was worse.
It was bad, cats jumping from one...

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