Long Musters Poems

The Whiskey Bottle Wish

 	One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking one of the revolving doors with him. As he flutters...

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In his seething silence, I spoke, softly to him,
“Did I desire once to be higher than you, oh seething heart?
Could I, in my human flesh, sympathize for your imminent demise?
Cradling you in my sorrows, as...

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There’s a man I’d like you all to meet whose Aussie through and through,
From his felt hat to his R.M. boots, he ridgy didge, true blue.
He was born in Roma, Queensland, back in nineteen thirty-three
And...

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I stare at the stark darkness ahead,
My hands squeeze the steering wheel
While a simple trepidation musters its way to my heart
The road is long, my headlights keeping shadows in check
I see the smooth path, intrigued...

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He walks the moonlit moor,
With eyes all aglow,
Hunting down his next victim,
Bringing death unto us all.

His ears are perked up,
Listening to the sounds,
That fill the night sky,
From the bats to faint footsteps,
And horses neighing in...

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Life keeps going to find his purpose
he strolls across verdant plains and trudges up the hills
sometimes dejection follows rejection and distress
darkness engulfs
and something spooky emerges 
looming large to form something horrid…
a hideous hunchbacked hiatus.
Life slows...

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Living the Dream
By
Kevin L Fairbrother

From Hobart to Cape York from Perth to Sydney
And all the cities, towns and country in-between
I am visiting places on this Island I’ve never seen
Experiencing the highs and lows and living...

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Written: October 20, 2023, 

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality. By Thomas Beecham
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Gum trees standing tall amid the scorching sun.
Home for Christmas day, each and every one.

Old Sam from the house next door,
Accepted our invite to share lunch once more.

Each year on Christmas day he joins us,...

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PHILISTINISM…
Shysters set up gallows must for self..
Musters dominate china red dominatrix.
AS works had been done, all that did the jobs could well to eliminate cause by their poles and forces as that keep are to...

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As the light dims and dances on the horizon
A menace stirs from its slumber, slinks from the shadows.
The game move to and fro, staying sit means certain death.

The eyes of death blink with certain deadly...

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He called it love and his captivating way,
   She called it fear and longed for the day.
All alone she cried those bitter nights,
   While he ran around to his hearts delight.
He...

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*Image of Ready to Break by UCA.

Tale of the Halted

'Tis be a day of echo
and with it, the result
preys on the lips to no 
end, the uncontrolled 
tongues hast lain in
plain sight of held shame
and...

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When all the land is in repose
There is a noise, as nightfall shows,
A noise to stir the sinews of your mind.
And those who hear it at its best,
(Who know its sound, as others rest)
 May...

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He is the one who walks upon it.
Hallowed...from the sacrifice that passed it on.
Home...from infant life that still reposes
in the body.  There, it will entreat
with that fair eloquence the body politic
employs--all torn from old...

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He comes in the door very tired from a long hard days work, 
Throws off his vest and kicks off his shoe-
He  falls down onto the bed.
Moms in the kitchen planning up tonites dinner....

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A twisting whirly musters
hard baked leaves and bark.
There’s another red sunset,
just before it’s dark.
The wilting wattles weep,
and plea ‘I can’t live on!’
The strong keep fighting drought.
The weak, soon dead and gone.

Wheat fields and their bounty,
wither...

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I REMEMBER

I remember when I was only THREE
And a total stranger ran off with me.

I remember when I was FOUR
a screaming baby, I wasn’t the only one, any more.

I remember when I was FIVE
Starting at...

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I REMEMBER

I remember when I was only THREE
And a total stranger ran off with me.

I remember when I was FOUR
a screaming baby, I wasn’t the only one, any more.

I remember when I was FIVE
Starting at...

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The heart and mind meld this time
I would that I bleed, not cry
Bleeding tells them my body hurts
Crying reveals my heart and soul hurt

The tree of life is uncertain and short
Season in; season out, my...

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The more you know, the more you disappear;
True, it has always been this way, though I never learn
No, I never learn to shut my mouth; to pause, 
And really listen to the erecting truth of...

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He gently creeps into her room
to rest tenderly near her side
 while thoughts of melancholy zoom
 in  of his once vibrant bride
she's been there for him
so many, many years
he sniffles~and tries to hide 
the...

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The scarecrow 
Surrounded in a field of sugar cane
The sun begins to set 
He musters out a yawn
A horizon he has seen for the last 34 years
From which he was placed to lay and hang
He...

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Watch the Snowflakes Fall

I am dazed					
As I stand beside my window
And watch the snowflakes fall.

I am struck
The sudden changes in the air
And beauty of it all.

I see white
Patterns when with their playful dance
Form drifts out...

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I recline in gentleness 
to view the harvest moon
rising in a Maxfield Parrish sky
My heart, my soul 
floods with feelings of longing
that the daylight hours
deny.

A restless sadness, a discontent
that beauty often musters
A gentle breeze, a...

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