Long Midge Poems

The frog king, enthroned on his stump in the swamp,
Throatily cheered the processional romp.

The dragonflies darted and buzzed overhead,
And kept at safe distance the pink tongue of dread.

A midge lay sobbing right there at his...

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NEXT  STOP  :   DUBLIN


Glad to leave the stonefaced Russian labyrinth of passports small
And stamped documents for every footfall
A bureaucrat’s wet dream  - checking each other’s bureaucracies
No walking on grass, no...

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Just before the ridge there sat a wooden bridge
And it's planks had been in place a year or two.
In the grass almost forgotten was a log which had gone rotten
And was hollow end to end...

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Ignatius Sprout pushed himself to the surface

As he was the foremost elected leader

Followers, Bamber, Gottre, Bovis and Night

were all reluctant to escape their prison

None could remember how or why they were trapped

Bamber's head popped out,...

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Written: December 10, 2023
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Broken dreams scatter several shards of hope
Desperately discarded—suffered a horrible scope
As I recover from mind filth, dust...

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When did your heart and soul soar,
And bring you happiness galore,
When did you see your way ahead clear,
Was it amazing and awesome,
So encompassing and wholesome,
What delighted you most,
Was it your help at the charity store,
Which...

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Sunny the goblin
Was a very joyful troll
With a blue surfboard and a stately pose
Down the beach he would stroll

Sunny the goblin
Is a happy bloke they say
He surfs well you know
Loves the seaside so
He will live...

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The autumn sun is mellow
Grey rain clouds have long passed by,
I whiff primroses yellow
As they heave a perfumed sigh;

Blue skies have looked not deeper
Bird-song now honey sweet,
Rich harvest for the reaper
As he eyes his field...

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"For those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation" 
      ~By Rumi
Decked in floral wreaths and crown
as I lay in state among family and...

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The sudden eighties music craze
had gone beyond the norm
the local supermarket
was swept along by the storm
as more and more of the shoppers
joined in with the revival
filling up on nostalgia
from t-shirts to CDs and vinyl

Reaping the...

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When his six bucks are gone,
His belly warm with beer,
Comes his time of day,
The time he always does fear...

It's off to nowhereland,
His dank basement apartment,
No lovely suburban home,
This is what life deemed is his compartment

Nineteen...

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[First version of ‘My Victorian Astronomer’, which
Didn’t qualify for ‘Ghost’ contest.
Nonetheless, this remains totally true!

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Moonlight imparted a luminous glow
To the surface hugging mist
I cast my bait just to the left of the reeds
With a nonchalant...

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Our Family
by Robert J (Bob) Moore ©2021

Our Christine was the youngest,
of our brood of four
and that’s when mam and dad said, 
“don’t think we’ll have any more”

Three girls, and only one boy
and this last one...

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The family's gathered together and swarmed around the Christmas tree
and even Grandpa Elmer has shaken and rattled the gifts ,you see.

The ham has been glazed to perfection and Mama calls us to the table
but Uncle...

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Today, 
As I was walking, 
I crushed a midge with my
Newly coloured lips –
The same lips I once kissed you with.
After a pondering second, I concluded,
I was mistaken; I should have kissed 
The blood sucking...

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Barbie was the ultimate fashionista.
I received her when I was nine;
she had a shape; no ordinary baby doll.
No baby at all. It was embarrassing to dress her.
Or rather undress her.

Then we had Midge. A friend...

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I know it is tradition
But this year I have chosen a theme for Thanksgiving
We will not include turkey, ham, or beef of any kind
The theme is vibrant veggie
These instructions were given to my cousin Sue
From...

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Florid banshees recoiled, neck and hankering sneer.

A succinctly exuberant suggestion when selective.

Came on, fell flat with laconic ornamentation.

A miniature jaunt, interment; glove comparted.

Pin-striped foxtails attuned tune maddening clairvoyants.

Precisely predisposed, wine-flavored latten tobaccos.

A wooden-tipped juxtaposition, stilling...

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Aquatic nymph to dragonfly.
   A rainbow coloured acrobat,
   With diamond facets in each eye.

   Feeding on wing, as they terrify,
   Their prey of wasp, to midge and...

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Me and myself
With no wealth
Struggling to live
Nothing left to give
Alone I sleep at night
In a doorway I might
Or under a bridge
Swarms of midge
An empty ruck sack
My life hijacked
my child is about five
she has no idea...

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I cannot use my kitchen, I have too much fear.
What is going on? I asked my auntie dear.
There is a tiny pineapple monster in there under the frig.
She is nutty again, said my other auntie...

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He comes to love, openly, one last time,
careless as always, eyes closed, on the rim 
of lovers ledge, tingling toes reminds
him to let go and forget where he’s been,
before this final breath, before the binge.
Before,...

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HOLIDAY    HOTEL

Oh you can talk of Ritz and Claridge
And of restaurants wax lyrical
Never  even  a  beetle  or midge 
A fly in the soup’s an  empirical  miracle

But...

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Betsy Wetsy a doll who could be fed water.
A doll with diapers.
A doll you could change.
We all wanted one
Many of us got her too.

Little Remco Red Spinning Wheel.
They had ads all over the TV.
It was...

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Ken’s chest cracked open.
He’s on the table thinking of his doll.
A heart pillow clutched to his chest.

Barbie’s lost it. The fridge on fritz.
Ken should have handled this mess.

A tiny phone with a coiled cord
and she...

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