Long Outed Poems

At once she paid a visit. In her colorful dress, so revealing and appealingly suited to her slendern torso. I to gaze the door way, mine heart pounded viciously,  a death knock. I was...

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The 2020 Revolution 
outed Bad EgoUnbalanced Energy Paradigms
associating these with toxic symptoms;
LeftBrain Desecrating Rabidity
preceded by Chronic Stressed Paranoia
preceded by Cognitive-Affective Dissonance
about being born into a WinLose devolving EarthSoul
that originally intended WinWin polypathic outcomes.

Energy, like nutrition,
said...

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She Hasn't Killed me yet
                           58.

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With each morning comes a new genesis 
That today would craft a dissimilar, Then 
The echo of my voice to be perceived too
As it outs the grief that lies within the soul.

For father, disillusionment was...

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Dedicated to the first amendment..


Censorship. What we can see and hear. 
Limited. Possibly to stop mass fear. 
Or perhaps, censored so we adhere. 
To the facts that remain unclear.
Some don't even know about it.
How our...

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I once read,
If I am a parishioner,
(or a student
or a child
or some other non-elite ecofeminist identity)
Then someone has power over me.

It would have been more helpful
if this "someone"
had been named,
finger-pointed outed.

I am left wondering,
Who could...

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Leaves release from their place of honor
Firm branches remain behind as naked
Look down on diamond blue hillsides fall
That origin, location where trees begin
With a proper perspective on leaf and limb

Held firm are the branches tilting...

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I thought my secret was safe in the closet
In scads of pads neatly stacked on a shelf,
But when my muse said it's time
To post my rhymes online
Was the day that I "outed" myself.

I'm not what...

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If she heard one more yeehaw or giddy up she would croak.
Being a greenhorn in Texas horse country is not a funny joke.
When she started on this adventure she could do a high kick.
She had...

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Absent Fire

Where did you go my fervent fire? 
Your absence leaves much to be desired.

Let not darkness come within your camp,
and you have not oil within your lamp.

My igniting love, you often resist,
as my appeal...

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Many put up a front and try to hide from the world how vulnerable they have got.
Me, I put up a front and try to hide from the world how vulnerable I am not.
Damn, I...

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“Getting by” sounds really easy,
Though, of course, some folks just don’t,
Attitude that’s cool and breezy,
One who’s surfing with the flow!
Though you could be facing cancer,
Gliding off a hanging rhyme,
May survive although you still won’t
See death...

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Even now, in the midst of 
a pandemic,
I look out with bliss
at the landscape before me.
Birds even chirp in the trees!
Oh, if I could but stop time and hold it all -
right here, right now,...

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AT DAWN OF REALITY
There wasn’t need a chase on foot,
Or cry over split milk,
Had to accept it wasn’t what I thought was fine silk,
Many a days I waited to have.
 I had foreseen of this...

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Ate a bite of cake. Took a diet pill. It did not kick in.
Ate a piece of pie. Thought I would jump some rope.
Relieved I could not find the jump rope or my exercise bike.
Devoured...

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The Nimbeltockie sag a poo.
Long before the Ragamoo
Brake the rapon names a loo.
Barred the Lala Sot.  Would you?

Came the hora Ratterscamps
Running through the flinterdamps,
Chasing Nimbeltockie folks.
Magling pashatasing jokes.

Gone the Nimbletockie potters
Outed by Ratterscamps, the...

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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe," ... Carl Sagan

Subtle crafts soundly, using euphemisms,
yet cluelessness dealt a sheltered abyss.
When one confront internal mechanisms,
whatchamacallit ... orphaned hit-or-miss.

A...

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Plundering stuff to clone is obscene
Leeching from others whose work they have seen
Always alert for what comes their way
Grabbing their windfalls by night and by day
In their bid for acclaim and contests to win
As they...

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Pretending the roman’a clef is fake
We portrayed bits of truth in every take
Director and author got into spiff
Author threw up his hands and said “what if”?

Protagonist was not camouflaged well
We knew him for sure. A...

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Santa Claus was delivering toys in a sleigh
The jolly ol' fellow was singing, "Hey hey hey."
But Saint Nick was outed
When his reindeer shouted
Zipper's open! Your jingle bells are on display!

He cracked the whip over Rudolph's...

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She was the best of the worst of the good.
We were in awe of her, because of it.
Her parents were fearful that she would never find a man.
Silly folks.
She never needed one.

She was outspoken, yet...

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I did not know I was worthwhile when I was a child
I thought I was pretty, but that got bashed out of me
I knew I was bad; the belt proved that, right?

An artist? A poet?...

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