Long Octet Poems

Travel once on a haunted train,
a taste may make you lose your mind;
Railroad tracks leave the world behind 
dismantled boxcars keep rolling;
Phantom mouths continue screaming,
they show you tickets that were signed;
Pure horror here is well...

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Sonnet Doubles....

I Love Sweet Tender, Kisses That Beg More

I seek not perfection nor world's bright gold
in my waking, I beg pardon from thee
each new day, across fertile fields I strode
I drink black coffee, add honey...

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// This is my tribute to the many blessings that music brings to our
lives. I know many of you share this enthusiasm and gratitude. //

Appreciating an amazing artform: allegro, andante, or adagio -
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms:...

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It’s a word that’s been stripped
of its original narrow meaning –
someone of exceptional intellectual ability 

(think Newton and Einstein), 
or possessed of artistic/musical skill
(think Picasso, Vermeer; Bach, Mozart).

But today its been inflated to 
describe millions...

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The day I heard my guardian cherub play,
my heart raced with sincere anticipation-
For each note was a heavenly display,
as her lyre was born from an angel’s creation. 

An ivory overlay with a swan head engraved,
her...

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Saved a kind soul that was falling
with nothing to lose 
just one abdomen, no sharp fangs 
but huge.

And what's worse 
the carton I called home, 
my dark universe 
upturned 
just a moment ago..

Uprooted now, I...

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An octet of  naughty ants
                             With...

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A Geek philosopher named Democritus
With his companion Leucippus
Believed matter is made up of tiny particles.
It is hardly noticeable.

At the turn of the 19th century
Dalton’s atomic Theory progressed Chemistry.
Supporting many important laws governing chemical changes,
Answering the...

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They all speak to me:
sometimes alone, 
like a solo cello with 
its sad, plaintive voice, 
tugging at my soul
like a magnet pulling 
at life's deep mystery.

Or maybe a small group 
of rowdy instruments 
will gang...

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Why so many must die?
Disparity…not death’s fault;
Death loves all people…

The truth has its ways,
Be careful how you respond;
Bigotry explodes!

Together…we die,
Together, we live apart;
To gather…denied…

Covid-19 kills,
But it’s not the enemy;
The news reveals…who…

Unvarnished truth…: shines;
Varnished lies reflect...

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In the central science of chemistry, a full octet of electrons means that you’re a chemical VIP, better known as a noble gas.
This is what can be learned if I truly paid attention to the...

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