Long Outwitting Poems

The Rhine Salmon Complaint, Translation of Etiemble’s Complainte d’un salmon du Rhin

						For Yvon Belaval
(A lilting musical poem of varying line length in quatrains with a refrain and much internal
 rhyming; end-rhyme scheme: alternate rhymes in...

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Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened

When a boy,
I wanted to be as tall as my father
(he passed away October seventh
two thousand and twenty
linkedin to congestive heart failure),
who stood at his prime
about six feet and...

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The last trailing tendril filaments
of moon beams nocturnally trace
fashion an illusory gilded chariot Ark,
whence upon celestial runners,
the approach of dawn's early light
illuminated terrestrial space
which nebulous solar city flanges
revisited since time millennial
hubbub of human race
nsync with...

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outward brain stem hummock
     analogously, (asper bound
minuscule magnum opus)
     figuratively paginated with drowned
atavistic animal instincts

     roar back to life upon found
perceived or real...

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Outward brain stem hummock
analogously, (asper bound
minuscule magnum opus)
figuratively paginated with drowned
atavistic animal instincts

roar back to life upon found
perceived or real threat adrenaline
splashes cerebral hemispheres
triggering body electric
to become alert as a bloodhound

countless millenniums ago
the flight or...

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Slaves to Perception….
 
Perception is influenced by probability judgments formed on the basis of earlier actions performed in similar situations
 
 
And I think I know
 
As much as I know of a triangle and breathed in the number...

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WD-40 resistant, cranky
     mental gears no longer appraised,
honored, nor prized
as a precision crafted tool
never adequately utilized,

     when eyes stared blankly
     taking up space...

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This generic creek king mortal mwm 
   (who generally river ears the bay sea gully feels ire ate 
asper propensity plundering positive human qualities 
   tested to the max), bait
ting virtue...

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Hens and Roosters in the barnyard
living in symbiotic relationships
each searching for kernels of corn.
Taking turns with beaks they snip
scorned and pecked. What the heck?

How hard should it be to get along
even when some foul fowl...

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She was born six years after Post World War One.
It was the first morning of May that she beat the blazing sun.

She was a beautiful honey color, with light brown eyes, and cold black hair.
However,...

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As I closed my books,
And went into the bedroom,
I saw a faint figure,
With a balloon as a stomach.

As I moved closer,
A horrible noise started,
Ugh! It was terrible,
ZZZ.... SNORE..... ZZZZZ......

Hoping for the best,
I lay on my...

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A Doll I love

Mightier was my pen
      To embrace my youth so young;
The days I nurtured for a while
       That sings a song just...

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I looked deep into the mirror just the other day 
But I didn’t really like what the crystal had to say
He looked right back at me in a reflective sort of way
So I didn’t wait...

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The turbid clouds hover mountains
of fluttering maples,spruces and pines
while I am crossing those bridges of wonder,
adjoined by sturdy steel cables
that even an impetuous wind couldn't oscillate;
man's ingenuity outwitting Mother Nature...
a tuneful voice rising from a...

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With you I want to have a word,
Thou immor(t)al bird!
No angry generation
Can tread thee down:
Thou wast not born for death.
Thou art indeed a riddle on earth.

People seem to like other creatures
But not you, your function...

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Kaleidoscopic optic, nervous eyes;
Blinking disbelief while dropping 
Moisture-laden kisses.

Each one misses.

Sorrow such an individual thing.
Truth be said, 
There are places that it cannot go.
We cannot go.

No one can go.

Until they go.

That is when all barriers...

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I know all outward beauties like purest roses wear,
And summer's brief warmth like eddy breath fleets;
Shiniest pearls do with piling age outlive their time,
And give way to sad eternity’s far gleaming sweets.

Tales of more glittering...

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Future Shock
Scheming together years ago, before the weekly executions,
dreaming of days we'd lift the fog of ignorance from the masses
and paradigms of stagnation shifted with cerebral solutions.
To no avail our heady course in theory only...

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Form = Free Range Verse

The Hunt

Mans desire to hunt
Testing skills from the beginning of time
I had outfitted myself the day before
With camouflage, and all the tools of the trade
The excitement of catching my prey
Outwitting my...

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What is it you have to answer
 But before you ask someone
 You have to know the answer

People call me  ed, Edward, nygma or prince of puzzle
Conclusively it doesn’t matter 
Cause I can make...

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That I could ever cease to love you dearly;
How possible is this?

     As possible as wearing water
     Possible as eating air
     As stacking...

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A short stout figure in the forward line of attack,
controlled with skill the darting ball on the green turf. 
With the magnetic pair of magical legs like a wizard, 
spearheaded the attacking formation across the...

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The dead is blowing hisses with their thin whistle 
Swallowing the metal, the sound and the supposed terror 
Flying in a backward spiral permeating through minute touches
Of infinite displacement among lost consciousness

My death is not...

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The Lemurs of Madagascar are such a delight,
furry and friendly, with eyes that stare bright!

Like us they have fingers and opposable thumb’s,
and two legs to walk on, as they show off their bum’s.

Like us they...

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In days of old the poets told a tale
A scout rode out to search the unforseen
To gather food and drink, to blaze a trail
A pious nobleman, charged by his queen

He was a fearless man and...

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