Long Mustard Poems
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Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
mustard, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Red and Green ChristiansLet's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.
This is true of radical jihadist Muslims as well,
although we both know you think you're more special...
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Categories:
mustard, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
On My Mother PassingON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...
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Categories:
mustard, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Finally Saved Part 2 - Translation From Rabindranath TagoreThis is the Second Part of the Translation from Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate Philosopher Poet from India.
Father only smiled; thought, "women
are emotionally heated balloons!
Life is a difficult salvation, they don't have that knowledge",
After...
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Categories:
mustard, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form:
Free verse
ProofWe are the days that we’ve become.
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings,
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s fightings.
Our lives wrapped up in phrases coined
in books like,...
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Categories:
mustard, allegory, america, computer, crazy, extended metaphor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
Digital CreationismDigital Creationism
(Man 0, God 1)
Part 1: Binary God
For men it seems God is a binary function
And like ones and zeros 'HE IS ON or 'he's off.'
Is...
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Categories:
mustard, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Fooled Forever FooledMy man’s veiled message unclear
I’ve dallied for four long years
Sis, have I ever been
Fooled!
Turns on the charm on a whim
Parades what you saw in him
Just a tad so you are
Fooled
There’s not a ring
not a vow
no...
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Categories:
mustard, song,
Form:
Lyric
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus ChristIt is no small feat to attempt to speak
of the dying of our Lord
who sacrificed Himself for us
by a fate far worse than fire or by sword.
For one as whom not...
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Categories:
mustard, christian, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Bigger Than You ThinkBigger than YOU Think
The internet,
is large... indeed.
It starts here and never ends.
It just starts over somewhere else.
In the beginning AOL,
time spent waiting to connect.
Now we sail across the sea,...
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Categories:
mustard, addiction, allah, america, angel, appreciation, assonance, august,
Form:
Narrative
Like Rabbit In a Headlight CaughtPTSD
Like rabbit in the headlight caught
I want to move, i know I ought
But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified
My body still, arms laid by side
Stretched out on mattress, naked, soaked
From sweat in which my body’s cloaked
My eyes...
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Categories:
mustard, anxiety, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
That's What They SayThey say...
Still waters run deep...
Then why are there so many shallow people?
When it rains it pours...
Usually the day after I wash my truck.
Walk softly and carry a big stick...
Or walk hard and carry a small...
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Categories:
mustard, america, cheer up,
Form:
Free verse
A Souls Opus, I Wait Upon the LordI Wait Upon the Lord
With the most blessed life I can imagine even with all
the chronic illnesses and painful hours since
age 8 still I have known Christ to stand in battle beside me
while...
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Categories:
mustard, christian, evil, faith, good friday, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bemused and Flustered -Part 2-The messages you send me puts me on Cloud 7…
Sweet love of mine…
That’s why I meet up with you at 7-eleven…
You’re looking fine…
Not everything lasts – I’ve learned…
All the messages – all have burned…
In the...
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Categories:
mustard, deep, words, , sweet love,
Form:
Rhyme
no heroes - WWI -
heroes?
there are none here, now ... ever ...
don’t feign to look, for your eyes will
beg their smiles,...
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Categories:
mustard, appreciation, introspection, life, soldier, war, world war
Form:
Free verse
Opening Day With a Little DelayOpening Day with a Little Delay
Take me out to the ball game
Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games;
Basket catches, ERA’S, country hardball;
Foul balls, the pick off, intentional walk, the...
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Categories:
mustard, baseball, celebration, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Is ThisIS THIS...? Poem 8/17/
Written for Jim Eslinger , 37-year anniversary
What are these specks we must trudge over,
Transplanting ourselves from one wilderness to
Another?...
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Categories:
mustard, christian, earth, nature, time,
Form:
Free verse
Stop Killing My CountryStop Killing My Country
Accused of political banter,
to speak the words, God Bless,
and America in the same sentence.
Bespeaking the fear,
of being proud,
just to be born in a land free from tyranny....
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Categories:
mustard, allah, america, anti bullying, chocolate, christian, introspection,
Form:
Narrative
Man-TrolOn this day I confess that I am sad for life and what I chose,
What I am really feeling, only I and God knows.
June 2008, I met a handsome man during my work hours,
Who in...
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Categories:
mustard, fear, god, me, heart, prayer, day, god,
Form:
Bio
Village PoliticsIn U.S. municipalities
we have Survivalists
and Thrivalists,
Revivalists
and Liberated Rapturists,
AggressiveRisk Addicts
and MultiCultural WinWin Escapists
into monoculturing WinLose Cocoon Closets.
Survivalist addicts
often show up at Town Council
and School Board meetings
fueled by alcohol
speaking Either This Yang Wins!
or that alien green ecofeminist...
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Categories:
mustard, drug, green, hair, health, parody, peace, political,
Form:
Free verse
Heaven For Dummies, Yes, You - Hell DebunkedHeaven for Dummies, Yes, You! (Hell Debunked)
You may think I’m all ‘Ego’ or ‘Certified Loon,’
but I pray you’ll consider this humble attempt
to move riffraff from ruts, to unstick (maze stuck) muse
through a monstrous attack on...
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Categories:
mustard, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
The Mask of FateThe Mask of Fate
(This poem deals with the Corona Virus.
It is very intense.)
My kid's school called.
The college.
They said that there had been...
a national concern; regarding the Sun.
No...
That was not...
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Categories:
mustard, abortion, anxiety, death, death of a friend,
Form:
Narrative
Horses Are HeroesI've always admired
horses
and I guess I most surely
always will
No legend without em'
complete
The unsung heroes of
any heroic battle
Pony, colt, filly or mare
ride it bareback if you
dare
Ride them to a trot, ride...
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Categories:
mustard, horse
Form:
Quatorzain
Mingling Like MmmmmmmmmWhat is the difference between a digger, a forklift truck, a spoon, and a toaster? None. Bread slices can be carried by forklifts and bread can be dug by a digger particularly if ground. The...
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Categories:
mustard, adventure, allegory, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
We Don'T Have Forever To Get It Together"We dont have forever to get it together"
Each day we wake up is a blessing
So why are we sitting up here stressing
Stressing about things we have no control
Not realizing who makes us whole
We walk around...
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Categories:
mustard, art,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Saturday Afternoon Before Jack's 2nd BirthdaySaturday Afternoon Before Jack’s 2nd Birthday
A Caravelle wall clock behind me
ticks away muffled minutes,
Its black pointed hands
reaching upward and downward;
The EXIT sign above the open white door
...
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Categories:
mustard, birthday, grandson, words,
Form:
Free verse