Long Misspelled Poems

A Statue Speaks

The morning takes it's first breath of daylight
Exhaling the sunrise that fills the sky with colored 
brilliance.                ...

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You were my least liked teacher,
                    ball of fire
       ...

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   Storms seductive desiring of dreams   
   Forms favoring moonlight of beams
    Craving hearts upon starlit nights
    Waving wands of unicorned flights
 ...

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Can blackwater lilies 
sing forth sonnets 
of daylight and 
unsung those 
cacophonous notes 
of omen, which 
rhymed with 
sombre elixir 
of spruce rivulets and 
veiled your crimson 
touch of life, 
in eons of unforgivable 
death?...

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I was searching for something the other day.  
I can’t at this time recall what it was; Feeling lost knowing that it’s important and I just let it slip away.   I’m bothered,...

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Bursap another example of my mom's butchering
Of the english language.She really was a funny woman.One time she told me "I used to be a good looking woman .Now I'm ugly as a mud fence.Never saw...

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A one eyed drunken pen stares at blank paper with blury vision It begins to stuble and trip as it walks on the lines, It vomits words unsettled in its abdomen the master of this...

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My Lark, whom I plucked in the Dark

Alouette, gentille alouette
Aloutte, je te plumerai

Alouette(a) we are all a wetta
Alouette(a) I will pluck you dry

Pluck you dry, pluck you dry
Ben oui,  mais ben oui,  lets...

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(cont..) He removed his Stetson cowboy hat and placed it gently on the bowling ball he 
had mounted just for that purpose over the heater by the door. He probably didn’t take that 
good care...

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who knew who knew?
The story ends
hands clean and messy
someone stupid like you?
indecently in the mirror i see

bullets blue dont you know
flies know what you are
authorities alive thought i might die
eyes take a good look
smiling gunshot...

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Let’s be honest, I’m not that honest.
Be honest, 
Just this once.
Forget all the dilutions of grandeur,
The noise.
Eat it so hard in the teeth that your mouth has a voice.
Unclench your tongue just long enough to...

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I can’t do 
Anything 
without you
There’s nothing 
I can do 
without you 

I know you think I’m me
But I’ve been pretending to be
Opened the door 
Before I knew you were leaving
My first foster mother and...

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The ABC's of Politics (For Better or Words)
(SMILE!  They aren’t misspelled.)

Aboulomania.  Bahadur.  Caducity.  Dapatical.  Ecmnesia.  Fabulist.  Gerrymander.  
Highbinder.  Ideopraxist.  Jobbery.  Kakistocracy.  Lucripetous. ...

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The sidewalk crumbles beneath the weight of digging hands
Hands that are trying to find a meaning in something that has no such
And in the mist we can only see what we want to see because...

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Undiscovered poets hear me, to PH draw near, 
This just might be a good chance for your views to ring clear.

An email address you need to get up and running, 
Huge monkeys it‘s said could...

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Tonight I read a diary, the words written in faded ink, the cover worn and tattered, 
but still a feminine pink.
Pages of misspelled memories, sentences left incomplete, but the meaning oh 
so bitter, of a...

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Running, chasing an illusion a blurry vision stretched out over the horizon, and u were anything but perfect in that beautiful mind.
Misty fog, clouds surround the  night skies casting shadows beyond the moonlight.
Silent tears...

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When put into groups I know that I never have to worry or  step up because there is always an A1. 
Arrogant One reaches for the group paper
And the one blue marker, because 
She...

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Inspired by Jan Allison's brilliant "Eye Rowed My Hoarse", 
top winner of the July 2021 Word Play contest.

I'm knew to this language; it baffles me sew!
   With so many mysteries I wish too...

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JUST ANOTHER ANNOYANCE 
From:	Jeff Cohen View Contact	
To:	cjbell@att.net 	



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Browse Notes
DID YOU SEE JAY? (THERE ARE ONLY A SELECT FEW WHO GET THAT TITLE)
by free cee dec. 12, 2011 at 5:20am 
i like playing games but...

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Christmas Future

The phantom dressed in black, hovered by the fireplace
Year of our Lord 2030 was closing out at last
Closing with the shop with New Year’s business         ...

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Ah, those Sunday Blues...
Tomorrow's back to work...
I don't want today to end...
I'm in terror....
My first newspaper ad
As a Dept. Store toy buyer,
Full page, full run,
And the hottest game of the year...
And I've misspelt it!!

I cringe...

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I was never a heavyweight, tough as boot leather,
an artist on skates, or one calm on ‘high wire,’
still with years, if transparent, feel sure of feet’s purchase.
These days travel feels lighter, emotional baggage
or need for...

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He stands on his corner of the street
Born to a life full of lies
Somehow he manages no sign of defeat
The city sees another dark face, no trace of the child inside
Leaving his country to sell...

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JaCkeD iN tHe hOuSe thaT wAS wAck BUILT
I went to a house which was not a house I opened a door that was not a door and what I saw I saw.
Broken mirrors in the...

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