Long Overrules Poems

(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).



Dear Euphoria,

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Wings                                  ...

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“Dwellers of the Ancients, is all be seeking The Fallen atop?
Well… be advised and turn back for to entertain he will not
It's been far too long since mortals have come before our sight
And above all,...

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THE ENEMY WITHIN



She’s in there arguing with my affirmations.

She's sabotaging my dreams.

She kicks my best decisions in the derriere.

She confuses my left brain, my god brain,

And she encourages the repetitive behavior



That never worked in the...

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April 29 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezra 1-4

Key Verse – Ezra 1: Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of...

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From Sunday to Sunday,
We work hard like the donkeys in sironko;
Moving to and fro like roadside vendors and hawkers.
Like the holy spirit has descended upon as,
The way it was on pentecost,we move up and down...

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Like the Vikings who left us this word – ‘berserk’ 
some of us may have shown it through human reaction,
where we go berserk against disproportionate behaviors
such anger or infuriation that defines the immediate actions.

It’s still...

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To Eamon 

I followed you down that long straight road
Stretched through plain under sky
You with your boy and your bicycle
Me, with Despair in my stare and my sigh.
And we came to the Dante-esque crossroads
And watched...

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Depression overrules my mental during the most blindsided times
Smile on social media but I’m crying inside
Work hard everyday but I really miss Crime
When I was a dealer everyone was around
No more jumping around making music
...

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Unique Love
By Rick Rucker

I have found a Love, so intense,
That it overrules my common sense,

I don’t mean that it is bad,
Just more incredible than I have ever had,

At first, I thought that it couldn’t be,
Certainly...

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For the One I Know

In the ray of the rising sky
Will I raise my voice to the Most High
To glorify His Gracious name
The one that is never the same
With anything or bear by lords or...

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Cinematic overture
Chagall’s whimsy
Dracula and the dinner guest
Dessert invitational
Dueling hearts
A thousand mirrors old
Stories from the pages of history
Abracadabra
Hungarian rhapsody
Mountains of Bavaria

Tiger eye quartz
Falling from the heights
A storm is brewing
The earth bleeds
The doomsday clock
Eyeing the hour glass
Of...

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Well, 62 years ago,
both of my parents were 'lost for words' and were simply amazed--
"That I kept on finding them!"
In the sibling department, there were six of us,
three sisters and two brothers--I was the youngest,
and...

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When darkness falls, when night prevails  
And moonlight alone, walks with me
Will Faith go astray, or will God lead the way
In the Den of the Holy See
Will these strangest of times that we live...

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I cannot begin to expound this breathtaking damsel
Grossly beyond definition, synonymous to a priceless parcel
An embodiment of perfection, fashioned with the master pencil
Dominator of her peers, born to exceed the greatest counsel

A baron to beauty,...

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Nation’s Damnable Blight

Black slender man, bent twig on the branch of a slave’s family tree,  
Planted in white culture during infamous time of our history, 
From seed transported in the belly of those infernal...

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Black slender man, bent twig on the branch of a slave’s family tree,  
Planted in white culture during infamous time of our history, 
From seed transported in the belly of those infernal slave ships.
Bitter...

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I am inspired by a contest theme to write a poem
The muse becomes a secondary thing.
Even if the muse is inspired, 
and I try to scribe something 
on a theme of my choice,
the contest themes...

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A kestrel dips into an updraft
thinking he knows the world
tranquility gurgles 
through silent valleys
over mountains
around the earth
refracted 
through the wind

The creature soars ever higher
in great swoops and dives
the horizon curves as it eludes vision
the stars...

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Crystal Clear
   

This is the moment when my thoughts are crystal clear,
Gone are all the distractions that got me here.
A moment when the mind overrules the heart.
Begin at the end and work my...

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I know you from somewhere
                            Have we met...

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Bright yellow sun, a stroke of noon’s delight.
Ice cold, red hot, a ravished tongue of spurs.

In moonlight serenade she scales the roof.
The darkling wine on lips — a sparkling feast.

Her rhizomic heart drum, in mystic...

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When people said that Ruth should go, 
I argued they were wrong.
Today, of course, we sadly know
She stuck around too long.

Unfortunately, now it seems
We’re destined to repeat
Mistakes to ruin all our dreams
And knock us off...

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Blank Verse

DEATH OVERRULES ALL JUDGMENTS HERE ON EARTH

In reign of terror, split, with holes and pain,
the sentinel, distained his fingers black.

The pools of sticky-red descend, like mud,
and eyes despise the madman’s gaze, above.

Where flowers bloomed...

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I don’t know how i'm feeling,
I don’t know where ive gone.
My confusion overrules me,
What have I done wrong.
I feel that no one sees me,
I feel that no one hears.
All I know that’s with me,
Are the...

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