Long Out of step Poems

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Cooper was a large and curious tiger, the bright star of a motley circus,
Always out of step with others; like erring moon, of dawn skies, citrus.

He was well fed and got lots of attention, like...

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On a park bench one sunny afternoon, a teenager sat next to a stranger,                     ...

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“God like, not so different” 

She wrote, 
“where do you go to my lovely?”

my response, 
“I sink into the screen 
like a scream queen goddess,
I am Lilith most of the time
tap dancing away and 
singing...

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Words hang from rafters in cobwebs of silence

The candle flickers on a window sill in pain

Locks with no keys stare into closed chapters

The poet’s unhinged mind holds its threshold

Floor boards creak without pace like a...

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In the whispering embrace of twilight,
Where shadows hang like forgotten whispers,
A man stands, fully aware of his mystical powers,
His heart a vessel of dreams, his soul a tapestry of forgotten constellations.
He is a poet, unshackled...

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The lights of the city reflecting from the aqueous pitch, pavements in a kaleidoscope of colours create a melancholy ambience for the few who venture within. The city is transformed as the animated bustle of...

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Actions speak louder than words, it's true.
Folks may doubt what you say but they'll always believe what you do.

Don't let the best you have done in the past be the standard for the rest of...

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Speak to me my muted heart
where went your rhyming ways
The voice of a hearts deepest hour  
in mysteries a soul explained

Is your rhythm lost or simply hiding
in the noise of life as it whines
expression...

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The Headless Warrior



The creation of a civil war and a people that is not set free
Is like the blind leading the blind
And the person at the helm cannot see
That he has no vision and is...

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Mrs. Lightfoot had taught music at Talbot Elementary School for years.
A couple of her pupils excelled in music but most became engineers.
She sat at her desk to muse upon the past after another trying day,
Recalling...

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Inside Out   Upside Down

There are times, at least once every day,
when I seem to be turned inside out,
when life itself seems to get in my way.
My mind is cluttered, clouded with doubt.
My decisions...

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weve been watching the foreshadowing
of the perfect act
writing it together
to where the pieces fit perfectly at this time
we are the masters of our art
and you cheer us towards perfecting your life
table talk advice
of the deadlocked
lets...

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The Guilt Trip


When I was young I had bad acne & would often skip school
 Every time I looked in the mirror I would always see someone ugly
 Sadness broke my heart in two then...

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Nothing stirs the languid souls of folks like a hometown parade.
Friends and neighbors uniting to form a colorful cavalcade.
Any special occasion will do such as Veterans or Independence Day,
To uproariously celebrate and put on a...

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You’re jealous of my passions
Don’t think I haven’t noticed
‘cause I don’t keep up with fashions
And I don’t eat of your Lotus

I don’t fall for your heroes
Hook, line, and sinker
Don’t worship in the shadows
Of your latest...

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Whispers from lips as innocent as brush fire, dance with these words, they're mine to lead with. 
Spin me around, dip me, into your Desires. Your demand is to be followed, yet my compliance will...

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Do you ever feel like –
You are being driven onto jagged rocks
By an unforgiving tide,
Searching for a refuge,
Searching for somewhere safe to hide?

Feel the world is spinning much too fast
And you are barely hanging on,
Like...

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Neon lights outlined stalls
in braids of red and green
in the dim cavernous hall
of the railway station.
Muted drum taps of passing feet
and crisscross talk were pierced
by stabbing announcements
of departing trains.
A stairway tunneled upwards
to the street
where a...

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I don't do perfect,
And refuse to accept it as an edict,
As perfect is impossible to perfect,
With billions of definitions of what makes anything or anybody perfect,
Even scientists have been unable to perfect,
A way to define...

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How does one remain engaged with life, so incomplete
Gaping holes in mind and heart, will have you take a seat
From there, you're left to fence the goings on throughout the day
Observing in third person, what...

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The eve of darkness they come out to play
creepy crawly with our senses. The street
wise, the waifs, the tiny cherubs all blend
together to form a society of sorts that is
out of step with time; they...

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Gray dawn,
Just before sunrise,
quieter than a mouse...
The house whispers under
the yellow light I left on to tease
the darkness and prevent stubbed toes.
The hour, my usual morning rising,
out of a restless sleep, any how, at this...

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((Sequel to 'Battle'))

Silence.
Men marched, out of step
Away from the rising sun that cast the sodden ground
In shades of blood.
Heavy, blistered feet
Clad in boots of worn and faded leather,
Carried them back to a desolate camp.
There were...

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TOUR DE FORCE

so enjoyable
 flourish
in a cosmopolitan
complex
spanning
 the compulsive so
 sombre in a deft
narrative

untangled
in   panoramic moments
of  sustained intimacy i
tonally out of step
&
on repeat
 a  formulaic empathy
assertions
of the preemptory
 surrealistic
  praise
 the irresistible
close to complete
MOODS
dedicated& displayed
so athentic
a cultural cachet
designed to exist
predominately
in
new visions

visual coterie
du jour
awashed

a mania
 synonymous
shoe horned
then
forgotten


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two...

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