Long Modicum Poems

So cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only...

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Once pawn a time...

About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable to recoup forfeited funds.

While holed up in castle keep,
(albeit fetchodit...

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Please come join me in spirit if not in body...
regarding my resumption 
of daily/mostly nightly constitutional

I accompany my dark shadow...
(small number of  hours 
before edge of night,
where twilight zone evokes night gallery - 
drawing...

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ANIMOSITY VESSEL :
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
VERSE 1:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
Here she sit at her thresholds corner;
Looks pity but craving to blow a vandal,
Crazely permitting no one to untie her shameful sandal,
Eagerly wish people...

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Introduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years. this is such a poem where i can see the...

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By Stanley Collymore

Never speak ill of the dead we’re constantly and solemnly
exhorted regardless of who they are or the life that
they freely chose to live, as they’re no longer
around, is the lame and unconvincing excuse
that’s...

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VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
Spread                           ...

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there is a reason i requested this restaurant
much to ponder tonight in our realm
i brought you here on our first date
praying anxiously for a Lady and the Tramp moment
you brought the romantic within me to...

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...........................
What blood, what dish,
For obozhatelnitsa dreams!
Leaving a modicum girl
Vamp quickly flew away in the night.

So they came slowly - 
Fed with the darling child,
While the girl gradually
From bloodsuckers in the coffin came down.

The little girl...

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I was brought up in the Catholic religion…
Catholics…we knew what was wrong and what was right
with the Bible as our guide…everything was black and white.

Then I grew up and learned nothing is as black and...

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Resumption of daily/nightly constitutional

I accompany my dark shadow...
(many hours before edge of night,
where twilight zone evokes night gallery),
and resumed walking a circuit
around perimeter of parking lot
today, a breezy temperate
twenty fifth of April two thousand
and twenty...

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Flim flam artists con like hackers 
From the digital underworld 
Scammers. Modern Thieves  
Taking advantage of not just 
Little ol’ ladies, but Me!
And the vulnerable gullible glue 
That holds our species together 
Shame on...

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You don’t have to say
one spherical metallic word
I know with GSW empathy credulity
just how you feel ... I bequeath kindred sympathy
Taking one lead body blow 
for the I homeboy visiting team,
was enough mental pain timeout...

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Recruit Division

I never applied to join the Army, a nice man phoned me,
He said I was the type they liked, with a steel certainty,
Plus he happened to mention the nurses on the way,
And the simple...

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Whenever I make a mistake my mind drifts to my little league coach back when I played the game…I’m sorry to say as the years have passed I have forgotten his name.

You see I loved...

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“We have a surprise for you!” They told their grandchildren who were staying with them for a few nights.  “We guarantee you’ll be amazed…it is a truly wondrous sight.”

Moments such as these one has...

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The problem of the inclusive pronoun is still very much a problem for the writer, and needs an accepted solution.  I tried for years with a suggested one of my own, but it never...

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Pareidolia is when we see familiar faces where they’re not supposed to be…
Like Abe Lincoln in a cloud, the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast 
or Albert Einstein in a tree.

Because our mind has...

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I believe we’ve all been blessed to be created with an open mind
I imagine with this gift our creators were particularly elated…
as it allows us to be open to the variety of wonders…of all the...

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No Joke, This Punster Riddled With Anxiety

Hue more, a dog send,
asper how this poe
whet tick mutt air ring
mortal doth cope with woe
principally said misery prevails
because a dearth of dough
cash, liquid legally rendered
assets, money, y'know

what I...

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It seems to me I have two types of dreams as through my life I stroll…
The first are the dreams I make…over which I have a modicum of control.

Dreams I work on every day…dreams that...

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A gaping wound oozes within,
the soul of those despised by kin.
The very ones who gave them birth
treated them as without worth.
 
Whether it is covert or overt
Rejection causes deep soul hurt.
The child who lacks a...

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Up til now I have avoided a scam with my name on it,
Despite it being tailored to suit me,
Even wearing a bow tie,
Appealing to my taste buds,
With words smothered in chocolate,
And smelling like my favourite...

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from all the excitement that we pretend exists in the world &
the meaning that we tend to try & make for 
ourselves
we are left in the wide open space of a barren field
a parking lot
an...

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Line of inquiry:

“feeling not thinking, soul with love linking ~
we attained God consciousness unblinking”

There are times I'm torn between feeling and thought,
consciously aware of a dispute between mind and heart.
I become anxious when I realize...

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