Long Matting Poems

Now that no one can escape
      its time to turn it up a notch,
going over to my other “victim”
           I...

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He fell one stormy midnight clear,
His feet upon his head,
He deaf of mouth and blind of ear,
All purple, green and red.

He dined politely on a rose,
Then with a speckled hen,
He quickly drew himself a nose,
And...

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Black –

darkness pitches, naked witches, almond moon of hallowed season
crossing stitches, dogs and bitches dance entranced for wicked reason
powdered sulphur matting hair, licking dirt and twitching praises
sanctify the night in pain, evil stirs and sickness...

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Finally, that vicious day was over
At last, my labor was through.
Before I could rest my troubled head
Slowly I knelt calling to you.

Lord Jesus, I am...

“Frustrated by my frailty
Discouraged by my pride,
Aware of my constant failure
...

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The clouds
are tinted red
as the sun sets,
  I watch from
    the shade
      of an old oak tree.
The sky 
looks like after
    a nice...

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The smell of blood
        awakens me
                from my slumber.
I find myself in the...

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High summer at the Regiment,
Admin Inspection coming around
So they placed a little saluting base
At the edge of the Parade Ground.
A coco matting covered floor
On a stout square wooden base
Which the fatigue party 
Manoeuvred carefully into...

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Can you see the darkness, the utter blackness that surrounds me
The only light shinning down from a single street lamp
reflecting off the water on the street
a sad run away story

the black pavement blends in with...

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   time …

drips as color, inked and puddled
minutes like sable bristles, bound
laying down the hours as fading bands of value
what are the shades of a life - of a person?
how do aim and...

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On all fours
   I come in low
exploding into your chest
landing on you
    knocking the wind from you,
and while
   you gasp for
your life giving gas
    ...

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The leaves coated the ground in a tapestry of colour,
strewn around like matting hiding all sorts beneath.
A woven carpet that blanketed the earth with hues
of Autumn colours as slowly they returned to dust.

The trees seeming...

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inflamed by its sputtering,
cavity muttering-
opened by oaken and metal frame fluttering,
lapsing from pavement and pierced into meat.

uttered uncomfortably, aortas ushering,
sizing in varicose clumps that then gush and bleed-
underneath-
addling- 
marrow now callousing,
blood pools in pockets that...

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Boom boom
boom boom
boom boom
My heart pulsing in my ears
Along with the sound of footsteps causing
The ground to vibrate beneath my head
I squint through the darkness
Breathing slowly and heavily
Inhaling the sweet raven red blood
And spraying it...

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When you lie at home all day
Watch yourself a waste away
Watching TV shows again and again
Think of places I might've been 
Covered with a blanket, lying in bed
Sweat matting the hair to my head
Can't find...

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Makes Me Nervous
 
  The busiest highway runs
  as usual but alongside it
  pin drop silence of death
  spreads feathers at Chicken-stalls
  makes me nervous.

   The caged chickens...

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From many houses, pots, tubs
I'm begging my words

the alms of poems
I'm begging from-
the stars
sun to moon
star-spangled ship to the space, cosmos
the drop of the snow
the morn breeze of the autumn
smiling spring rose
the flying chirping birds
swimming...

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