Long Papered Poems

A Place Not Meant To Be
           
PART: II            (699 of 1487 words)

#9: Days of...

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Sung to, You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch, (extended version).
KP

You’re a monster, Donny Dump.
Some biiig-time twiiisted clooown.
To no end, I could deride you,
are no depths you didn’t fall to,
no ineptness could elude you,
the bottom-feeders they...

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Spartan are the white walls were once hung draperies
And things papered, paneled, plastered...
Yet, 'tis so no more. 
Now all is white and wan and sickly, 
And the ghostly shadows of the accoutrements and impedimenta that...

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Written: August 11, 2023
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In a world saturated—with eclectic noise,
Synth melodies dance, enticing with poise.
An earworm takes hold—its grip never wanes,
As we crave for a moment to break free of chains

Through the cacophony, a floral dress...

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Window Teacher
                      by Odin Roark

As teacher
She was petite
Unassuming
Framed in layered paint
No make-up on her
Save...

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                              If I held the power...

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"The Living Soul Retrieved"



The spine is bound
Inside the pages
with each turn a new leaf
the living soul is retrieved

Inside the pages
there is heartache and grace
the living soul is retrieved
imprisoned, innocent footprints are traced

There is heartache and...

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There are those things that left our bodies when we were younger flying innocently...
Those bridges of pretentious smile that we took to our mother's  dimples to collect glories.
Those magic tears that once sliced loneliness...

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from above a hum, a gentle pop and they appear out of thin air 
large as Right whales out of the sky they pour in like colorful dreams

gliding down on papered metal wings, the airborne...

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I am wearing heavy feathers
with the gaze of the day lit to my backside.
A rotisserie routine,
hot with punishment and prayer.
Prayer for punishment,
punishment for prayer.

Answers from a sky beaded in blue birds,
upon gods’ supposed pretty blue...

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When it is time to come out of lockdown.
Some will be looking for a showdown,
Others will only want the lowdown.

Some will not fit though their doors,
Others will need something to hold up their draws.

Some will...

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Each word supported the other
there individual effords supported
the structural  placing of this
Invisible concept. 

When words were papered,
It read like a rambling of
Untamed words.
This venture was uncharted
I wanted to give these men
Fictious names to create
A...

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I

You died at 22; left me alive
At 25 to write this sonnet tomb;
Block letters hewn, with fumbling hands I drive
This pen in metered clangs around your room. 

In desperate pause, I step away to see...

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Part Two


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Golda and Goofus.

or how a young Baer lost his luncheon and found that man need not live by bread alone.
               ...

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Purposeful Valentine's Day

Upon tis day,
       thee am all set,
Retired in May,
        didst nay forget,
Excuses naught,
       ...

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KP: With embellishment aborted, 
sidewalk and street talk wail from paper. 
Tears vividly seen because cursive one's don't wipe away. 
An intrinsic institution allergic to plagiarized allegiance, 
we're born and bred to bleed blue from...

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...and that’s when she told me our marriage was over.
Belated she said, like the anniversary and birthday cards I forget to send.
Chaos, only chaos, will come from this I replied, begged,
desperate for her to rethink,...

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*Image of Make A Paper Airplane by YT.

Pen Am Expression Airplane

Welcome, all writers and riders on board,
Pen Am Expression Toss-N-Throw Jetways,
Piloting, Captain Armstrong Paperweight,
And Co-Pilot Ace Bellwether Coxswain,
Thanks flying this all-expense paid--by you!
All poet and...

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"Let the sea be my grave and the crest of waves my monument," ... by the Poet.

As winds embrace a mound of cold in distant view where life unfolds,
and flowers bloom in colorful rows as...

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outside
inventoried oval-stoned
cathedrals appealing
chiming crimes of passion
woke citronella
fog
hung in cement-hamocked snowdrifts
cloaked slow on slick-stained windowsides
tenement sheets
with the pomegranate notes
of rhythms unrhymed
   while all the uptown laundromarts
rising up
from insomniac-scrambled sidewalks
corked-copper moon tumbling earthward
like a sweet
sweatshredded...

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Where Has All The Beauty Gone?

There is no time like the now times,
The ever-present blood-swooshing times.
Time again to surrender as a smitten lover surrenders,
To the never-ending rhapsodies of erotic impulses,
Which exhale as a listless leviathan...

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And from the tree of knowledge, a serpent slid into view 
He’d seen it all before, our future he already knew 
Moses on some mountain, taking down the tablets god drew
Jesus climbing Calvary, being mocked...

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he stands amid the dusted rays
of beams from smudged, windowed days
casting light on the words below
pressed flat upon papered page

he's been here since before sun up
stained and smelling of turpentine
surveying the thoughts he's pressed
quickly he...

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I long to think in great lofty thoughts
Instead I'm stuck in the mud they brought
Filling the cracks of my mind with lessons taught
I sought out respect yet that's not what I got

The reading of books...

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