Long Newcomer Poems

A FADING QUEEN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

She had  all the feminine gifts those many years ago
Drawing stares from everyone where ever she’d  go
Back in high school, she was the center of attraction
In every classroom, she...

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Twelve days of sleep deprivation has thrown
Aunt Zee into full blown manic.
And it did not help that a young
cute female doctor who was trying
to please, wanted her to get to
drive to Omaha for Easter, so
she...

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I'm in bondage, is this a dream
I'm governed by extremes
Let's leave this land of tyranny
Oh, let us run away
Escape on to a new land of liberty
"people who survive war and escape tyranny"

Despotism, absolute power, autocracy,
Dictatorship,...

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The Great Success
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I sat alone meditating and contemplating, 
Deeply thinking about the universe, the human being and life.
I asked myself: 
What would a fetus say if I were to phone him, 
If I were to...

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" ... full blast ...."

357 is a great tale to tell...
Tesla saw the steps
so invented his call

And then in the silence 
of Olympian ground

"...I heard you rang?..."
Said d;Meter to them all....

"A cosmic gun" was just...

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Last year’s alarm clock by my beside silently, vigilantly ticked away until 4:02 AM 
In the hour of Platonic picture-perfect darkness kept company solely by the bloodshot red
Of the alarm clock reading 4:02 AM
And a...

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Strip me bare like the land
Sacred and unprotected
That you come to claw and tear
To hold its sparkle 
In the ostentation of your hand
For man is more than spectacle
And I am more than
Just a sum of...

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Color Me WRITTEN BY Lucilla M Carillo

Color me white, or color me black. Color
me brown, or color me red. Color me 
yellow, but color me to be just me.

Color me anyway you want. You are...

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this epistle per mine choice of heir apparent presidential throne
composed from one liberal minded non-conformist rolling stone  

prompted awareness that one voice can affect which contestant will win
and occupy the white house after the...

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Heathens, scamps and thieves were lying in wait around the cove
Could not see them in gray dusk, but Captain Tawny Right felt them
Being an empath, as well as an Irish pirate queen, she was clairaudient.
She...

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??
The record showed how you fared against the current best...
Reality is harsh but this very loss should not lessen your zest...
You have played very well and had given your best....
It is more than ok even...

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Dreamin' with my eyes on these Montana skies
Blue as the plaid in my plum good shirt
I got the mitten by a beauty queen smitten
By a flannel mouthed tenderfoot from the Wyoming dirt

I’m just a waddie...

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I never met but always appreciated Diane.
Through the media, I knew her first as a politician.
From my perspective, I knew her later as a good lady.
I observed the manner of her poise and her calmness.
It...

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Miss All That (MAT) came in all prissy; serious cooks laughed a scoff.
Dare this woman think she’d make the finals in the ultimate cook off?
Something wrong with her we decided; her waist was too thin...

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How can you tell when you've hit bottom and
 it's time to abandon "ship"-does it stare you in the  
falseface and wipe your browmemory clean cool of
fun classics,  milling around in poor daylight
low...

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You can hear her in the dark, listening –
Like the wind’s cool breathe, glistening,
Telling hearts to believe, just believe –
Because love will not deceive, won’t deceive!

You can glimpse her in the soft like summer,
She’s a...

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“I have told this story true before today,
In a different format in a different way.
A feeling of regret that I didn’t do more, I had inside.
Hung a plaque on the wall. This is where Horrible...

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Treks of Tracks of the past, current and future:

Treks of Tracks of a noted past: 
Made mostly in our childhood days
This upon playing childhood games
and in innocent playground escapades

Treks of Tracks left on dusty baseball...

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Freshman year, newcomer to public school,
   my hormones were roused by Billy D. in typing class.

Sadie Hawkins’ Dance just days away;
   a chance for girls to ask boys out.

Too shy to...

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Shattered thoughts pierce into the flesh of the souls betrayed
Wicked wounds forced beneath the crimson blade
Her last pain-staking wish to be taken under graceful Cherubic Wings
Will fall with Faust- A sacrifice to which no knowledge...

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Two beings feel like they are divine pairs..
Met each other...so very compatible in every way...
Feeling never expressed...
It was all said by the unheard music from universe...
Their union was more than merging into the absolute...
Such immense...

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It seems everywhere I have lived, in every city,
There’s a character everyone knows and some pity.
Melbourne has the Banana Man in his Banana suit.
Many think he is strange and some think he’s beaut.

In my town,...

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Agnevee was particular and pertinacious.
People avoided her on the street.
She always had a cause, a candidate, a platform, a drive or a charity to talk up.

Agnevee’s pertinacity was well-known. She would not budge from any...

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Burnt orange, mahogany and deep yellow
Merging with emerald greens of pine trees
Coloring the ridges, mountains so mellow
They whisper inspiration into the breeze

They’re called the blue ridge mountains
During autumn, they go through transformation
Changing from their typical...

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Christmas angel was sent with her little candle to aid the creatures of the woods
Empaths like her were welcome, the forest beings recognized her instantly.
Is it that time of year already? A bunny asked her....

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