Long Outpace Poems

Over harvested fields —

I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern   a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into my bones

Fog an Erebian curtain...

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In realms where thought and tempests meet
where shifting sands outpace the feet
a creature stirs with cunning guise
Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies
its words like desert viper’s sting
they strike the heart then coil and cling.

Through jungles thick...

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I am sad
and need reassurance
this choice was not bad
at the time of searching
Home's new-found voice,
and is not bad
now,
and will not be bad
and sad
in my shortening future.

Diminishing now
into year by year forecasts,
no longer this seventh decade
by...

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A definite bonehead moment

since revised when das scribe 
made laughing stock of himself 
(circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem 
December twenty eighth, 2022).

A retrospective account
revisited courtesy the following 
honest to dog doe eyed, 
doofus dopey dilemma
allows,...

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In ancient times as told in rhymes 
    there was a hero Greek
Whose mother said, “Before you’re dead 
    you should go out and seek
The glorious fame that goes...

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A puddle of fish. A fountain. A silver dish. Never try to outpace a whale as they are particularly good at breaststroke. And please don't slam the lid on the peanuts in a tin as...

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My father always told me
My strongest adversary
Was my own reflection.
In the mirror,
It always shadowed me-
My own personal monster
I could never escape from.

I learned to hate my reflection.

The biggest problem was
My mirror adversary
Grew with me.
I could...

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My father always told me my strongest adversary was my own reflection.
In the mirror, It always shadowed me- my own personal monster I could never escape from.

I learned to hate my reflection.

The biggest problem was...

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Across the vastness of the silver sea of pain,
in a cave in the land of "I don't know",
a moonclad maiden waits and weeps,
embroidering her comely countenence
with copious corpulet crystalline tears
and, fears his ship won't make...

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Star bright is the Morning sun light.
The green the red the blues and trees.
Water sound a rainbow in the sky.
Grey clouds cover my vision but still the light.
Always the sound a thumping in my ears.
Running...

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I value safety  
as I swim whilst made of shadows
crashing into the unbreakable surface tension

Should it rupture I'd lay exhausted -
all limbs and branches
tangled in roots

The sky
only witnessed through the lens  
of somebody...

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(In memory of the 19 children and two adults killed by gun violence in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022…as well as the countless others who have and who will suffer similar fates.)

Firearm Requiem

By Mark...

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A wish, faint and fading, brings tears to eyes;
     a wish we know cannot come true.
Life suddenly can bring a dark surprise
     that breaks our human hearts...

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Drinking red wine 
as a 
downward shift

A shift toward slowing 
down
to see, the softer side
of her

Things that go bump in the 
night, 
with sweet clattering sounds

but oft go unnoticed 
by 
the rushed mind of brutes...

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I used to be blind, how could I not see,
So many shapes around me, changing endlessly.
How beautiful the stars in the sky’s embrace,
The moon swaying gently on its swinging trace.

We don’t understand the speed as...

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The world unravels like a threadbare flag—
stitched in whispers, undone by the weight of sky.
You stand accused of love’s ancient crime,
the heart’s embezzlement, the art of leaving.
But who can blame the eternal lover
when the clock...

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"I've lived too long," he ruefully said
As I was moving him to his last home.
"A respectable man would be dead.
My life is an obese, timed-out tome."

Truth lived in the old man's words.
He had reached the...

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Time

Time, how does it exist? Going far?
No, time can not live far, it is time
Hmm, time is not a time, only far

Hmm, time, far, it is moving time
Time does not exist without far
Object living, moving...

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It's not much of a race,
science trying to outpace miracle
miracle always being fleeter than the equation
the speed of light is simply quicker than the mind
god's heart burning brighter than the hottest crucible of time
the newest...

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The lake shimmers in the early breeze 
Dancing rivulets of light kissed by the rising sun,
Reflecting passing clouds hopscotching with such ease
It heralds a new day just now begun.

Observing its environs with majestic grace
An Ibis...

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I can no longer keep up,
your steps far outpace mine. 
My gait is now
barely a notch up 
from a shuffle. My feet ache.
I watch you bound off
into the distance, powering 
yourself towards some set goal
that...

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Saw a thin fume of carbon
Climbing the dusk; 
Chains of children 
Marching down the hill
To mount to the fire
That blazed on the mountain
Within no blink
Torching the twilight.
Led the groaning villagers
Following the dark
Until I found myself...

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A brand new decade, now we face!
	Year Twenty-Twenty, let's embrace.
Pray our mistakes we can erase
	with better dreams to find and chase-
and stronger faith to grant us grace.

Let's relish life- slow down the pace-
	our paths of...

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I know that love is not always
a constant

like aspects of weather, fluctuating by
degrees~ a heart in beat with each
step and direction...

Let us outpace all hate...or else reside
with resentment, where the failure to forgive
and move beyond.......

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Tick-tock ya can’t rewind
Time doesn’t stop or fall behind
Clock hands cut like a sharpened knife
Time doesn’t lose it runs your life

Born with a cry blink then you're grown
Chasing years you’ll never own
Gold turns gray fast...

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