Long Mulls Poems

Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines ever sway slowly,
while pockets of air blush...

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molten times, volcanising immensity, vast plateau
  belly-belching landform
  oceans, shallow seas and lakes swell up and down
  land-bridging, submerging
  any one place moving astride, stutter-shifting
  continental drifting world
  climate...

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The Carnivore Within...

Meaty morsels besiege
this vegetarian advocate
yet, the atavistic Jainist within me decries,
egg hen hies his, and lamb hence
carnivorous ache that won't abate
case in point being on the horns

hoof ah dill ham ma, neither willing,
nor...

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*Image of Achieve Your Day by Pixabay.

Blessed Moments

As night sleeps gold streaks undisturbedly passive wake
     An accordion of yellow feathers flutters dealt reflectively
        ...

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Villain Unmasked


In odd places the Villain appears,
In the right places he disappears-
On merry moments then re-appears.

For, such is the habit of a Villain
Who enjoys to inflict carnal pain
Yet, scarce and elusive to be slain.

He contorts...

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Ponded and becalmed after the downpour, lying in shining stillness, I reflect an earthly existence; above me newly leafed limbs, and beyond, the wild beauty of motley skies in the afternoon’s brightening quietude. On the...

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*Image of Loving One More by NS.

A Second Please

Aesthete equip upkeep spade, trowel, and watering pail,
Balters out freely, gagging unwantable, grit travail,
Chrysalism advents the righteous eyes and elaborates,
Dulcet forgivings a moment's lapse and recuperates,
Euphoria occasions...

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(Dedicated to all booklovers who have lost their loved ones to the scourge of the termite hordes - I did)

I thought I was a bibliophile
and indulged in pedantic boasts
I'd speak of ancient tomes and stuff
revel...

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October sky, the 1st we celebrate, a seasons heart yearned treasured moment,
    Sun rises, new beginnings, Enlightens nature, we seek atonement.

  Dawn lights an autumn’s crisp chill, christening fallen leaves of...

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While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays,
And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise,
Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of a slowing day,
Desperate hope lingers still, in resplendence of autumn’s...

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heard from the parent who insists
that the person you just broke up with 
was the best one you ever had?
heard from the parent who tells you that
you’ve got to settle down, that you won’t always...

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Keep art form crisp, keep shades of grey;
Offer to bare, offer to show;
Sense strokes made brisk, sense lines that sway;
Take wear and tear, take tint and glow;
Art lines propose, art sparks appeal;
Bring profound fare, bring...

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Mind moves
Motives mingle;
Meaning mulls

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Primal play
Puzzles poise;
Pretty pace

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Notice noise
Nimble near;
Nurture noose

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Sell story
Sanguine stuff;
Stray streak

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Laughing loud
Lofty leaks;
Latitude

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Crazy cruise
Careless crooks;
Comforts calm

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Little logic
Lifting laze;
Looking loud

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Mystic moment
Meekly mild;
Massage motive

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Pregnant program
Pretty puzzle;
Poignant poise

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Ample apps
Asking apt;
Active ageing

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Lovely lines
Lust lingers;
Living lewd

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Tumble tells
True taste;
Tilting...

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An illicit child that none who so wants,
Child of incest, if world’s one family—
A truth to no warmongers ever haunts,
And to which all here are reconciled with.

Grown in the wombs of deep-dwelling desires,
I’m nourished by...

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Mind mulls meaning
Mood funds feeling

Observe and sense
Tension and tense

Heart in sure whirl
Feel senses swirl

Wait and stare blank
Watch thoughts that flank

Here on the verge
Feel thoughts that merge

Brisk surge of waves
Mind the dark caves

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The picture standing up hanged by the wood
redo..., at blueness painted livingroom alike is a horizon
she by carry out veiling white over her torso
and, a big lasso in her large black hairs ---
up designed of...

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Pleasure primes pain,
Wit wonders why?
Glimpse gutsy gain,
Style sanguine sigh.


Fancy feels faint,
Big blossoms bulge;
Queer questions quaint,
Ideas indulge.


Prompt payment plays,
Ask apt award;
Death delays day,
Reap real reward.


Action aids arm,
Buzzy blooms bounce;
Cherry cheeks charm,
Pretty play pounce.


Wanting woos wealth,
Migraine mulls...

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Wednesdays At Six


It’s my night to meet with Liz
To tell her “bout my private biz"
She mulls it over then tells me how it really is
You see it’s her job
To listen to me cry and sob
Imagine...

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It was one of those days…not great!
I went to the mailbox, there to find
A playbill dated September 8.
I could not tell for sure, half blind.
It seemed like a bill for raking the leaves.
Perhaps, written by...

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Art asking apt
Loud leaping laps
Tasty time trap


Worthwhile words will
Touch timely thrill
Bright bounty bills


Plot plenty play
Succinct strange say
Dizzy dream day


Nurture nice noise
Charm crafty choice
Ply pretty poise


Dazzle deep drift
Seek simply swift
Cheer chancy cliff


Dare doubly dull
Sample shrewd skull
Mellow...

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Urge uplifts use
Live lasting love
Free frenzy's fuse
Align above


Go glimpse grandeur
Seek sure substance
Seek soul splendour
Discern distance


Do dig deep deed
Sing self-styled songs
Signs shelter seed
Life lingers long


Grab grumpy groove
Sense special store
Mind mulls mood moves
Grace grants galore


Brave bold belief
Do...

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As in crystal methamphetamine, the mind becomes cold.
Anxiety, paranoia, and schizophrenia
Creep in, like snakes and deathstalker scorpions, uncontrolled
Are bones, veins, flesh, and blood affected by asthenia?

The body begs for calm composure; the moody mind mulls.
Midst...

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The Funeral of Tinapa,

Conference table littered with chicken and cockroach laps

A keg of palm wine descending from Adia Abo

Grabbers haggling on sharing formula
Emporiums rust and rats
Shopping mulls moaning
A banner of hypocrisies at the gate’ welcome...

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Ink fuel in my pen
Set word fire at hand
Verse play mulls clear trend


Feel ignites mere words
Forge meaning now heard
Muse moves that swift bird


Indulge how thoughts dwell
Feelings surge to tell
Yes ignite words well


Word by word can...

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Life walks with death till final theme,
From that first breath to the last glimpse.


Just know that thief that steals to be,
Death holds a brief for all to see.


A face we know will be no more,
Death...

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