Long Overstep Poems

Their sighting of the Village came more quickly than they anticipated, only a few hours after Joulupukki had mentioned it to Lumi.
     “Well, sooner than expected,” Joulupukki said aloud., “almost straight...

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we're going all the way down the road of fate      
Well-being depends on a collective plate.  
Our souls are laden with sorrow and debate,     
And...

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Richard Lamoureux has not forgotten me during my absence. He faithfully visits my older writes and leaves lovely encouraging comments. While I'm busy working on my thesis, I got this notification on this poem. 

Richard's...

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There are a few things you should know about me. 
Firstly you must work to earn my trust, I can no longer hand it out for free, I've done that before and each time it...

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I see you bent low
Your head in your hands
Tears dropping on the table cloth
The heavy sighs that no one can hear
Fill my ear
Even past the wall 
Between eternity and finite time
I hear
I see
Your guardian angel...

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Here another season has gone
And winter is back to this town
I’ve always been afraid of thunder and sparkle
‘Cause its rumbling reminds me that I'm a loner
You say you’re here to watch over me
That you‘ll never...

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Fool’s Quest
By Mark Spencer


We all wish to be accepted
For what we say and do.
But if we overstep our bounds
We should receive our due.

For if we must invade the space,
Of someone’s comfort zone,
Should they respect the...

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Written: December 19, 2023 

"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Edmund Wilson"

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With...

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No illegal search and seizure
Says amendment Number Four
Probable cause necessary
Before we break down your door.
The warrant spells out what they search,
Describing things they will seize.
So hide them where you know they won’t
Go to the judge,...

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my heart, the perfectly shaped egg
oh dear, hear me out, would you?
i can explain it, everything, for you
it's a philosophy only one can understand, will you?

i'm not like the rest
i used to want glasses, freckles,...

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I smile so often at you,
I call your phone every single day on earth,
I talk to you softly and sweetly,
With a voice so charming as the spell;
I look at you with so much pity and...

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Impossible to go towards
Even my lord
Was slaughter by swords
In my Self conscious wars
Sayin let the story explore
In the minds of the vast so they can feel the pain you indured
But Why do that I barely...

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Infinity beckons taunting  
Beyond the mortal ridge
For time enough to really live
Those longings yet to bridge

I wear your symbol 
Pierced in diamonds sharp
On my ears that I may always
Remember to hear you with my...

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Be someone worthy of being loved,
But don’t show too much affection

Share your feelings with others,
But never have a breakdown in public

Adapt to fit the environment around you,
But don’t change who you are

Eat fast food and...

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Does the feeling left linger on the tip of your tongue?
Looking for sense in these empty-full strokes
To overstep bounds missed in the rush
Begging to see behind the puppeteer’s eyes
      Too...

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Many tales encase mirrors
both glittering and new,
still the reflections portrayed
may become distorted by a single
crack thus one becomes many.
Light absorbed and then broken
in to an array of colour; many
smiles surround the boundless
room of Mother Nature’s...

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Lack of communication leads to 
misinterpretation.
That's something this present 
generation deems to adjust to, 
because based on observation a 
lot of us tend to strive with 
limitations.

We want new ideas to serve as 
motivation,
We want...

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Salt a gin and tonic,
It’s too dry. 
Assault my temple with sin, 
Be honest, 
You like the rye. 
Look me in my honest eye, 
Conversations with myself are the fondest, 
Because no one understands me...

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The words ‘God did’ is a general phrase
Looking at it we need to remove the haze
This investigation might amaze some and alarm some
The phrase ‘God did’ is used worldwide 
But will often collide with the...

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How elders sought the dictate of the boundaries,
with insipid lines on arid parchment traced,
warnings not to overstep the distance,
for beyond is where the land is laid to waste.
Beyond is where the many headed serpents
coil and...

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If you think you have missed the Year of the Ox, no worries my friend.
Chinese say it begins on February the 12th and follows 2021 to the end.
Year of the Ox promotes hard work, positivity...

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If you think you have missed the Year of the Ox, no worries my friend.
Chinese say it begins on February the 12th and follows 2021 to the end.
Year of the Ox promotes hard work, positivity...

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Nirveda (sansk.) - aversion to existence

"The existent there is no cessation". Bhagavat Gita, 2.16



Addicted to existence, I may slain
or, maybe, they may slain me. I may die
a hero or, unknown, die in vain.

I may live...

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I once used to be chirpy bubbly,
I once used to laugh on my fall.
I find myself now dull and quite.
how did I end up here of all.
how did I forget my smile,
did I just let...

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A waking up, do I, Dark Poet, need
to shake my creature core from sheltered sleep.
A seed has taken root as bitter weed
that sprouts from disappointments buried deep
inside me, where a well-hid wild thing
with armored skin...

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