Long Paring Poems

It was a long summer and the bees did their job,
For the trees were filled with apples, hanging like little knobs.
 
Oh, those orbs, they looked so delicious and red,
I gathered so many, I had...

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The alleyways within the maze are paved with rats and mice.

Evangelists with moneyed fists collect the sacrifice

from losers scorned and rubes reborn, and promise paradise,

while in the back they cook some crack, inhale, and roll...

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It started with an apple in paradise or was it a date they consumed

Had they kept their clothes off laundry day would have been easier

	The smell of seduction and no fake news

Honestly who cares whether...

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A feint attempt to stab myself...
quickly found the missus ready to faint

Like a madman possessed
by mailer daemon lemme acquaint
ye with the following verse, I will bepaint
momentary horror, where yours truly
entered momentary third eye blind rage

loosing...

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After sixty-six years, what remains of first love
Is just your name really, but still it lingers,
Like the fragrance of a rose petal kept in a diary.
It may seem strange to some, but I do call...

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Papa ...

Why build your walls so thick?
          Did you fear the world would tumble in on you -
        ...

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A is for abundance and access for all.
B is for becoming your best being on this ball.
C is for caring and catalyst for change.
D is for a direction that drives us to arrange.
E is for...

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The aroma of battle between cheese and charcuterie is in the air,
As the red wine flows and cider that tastes like a pear.

Rack after rack full of bottles to sip,
I race between each place and...

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The Army was getting desperate in nineteen-forty-three,
For warm bodies to fill vacancies in the good old infantry.
Alas, the draft board beckoned causing his heart to sink.
Thus, began the notorious career of Private Roscoe D. Schlink!

He...

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Often in life we have to let everything go.
All attachments will dissipate one day,
only the heart and soul survive the blow
of other fingers, other eyes
making judgments that are hard to realise
as they toss away tid...

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What scene would I want to find comfort in
more than this one,
an ordinary morning in the farmhouse kitchen,
blue checked curtains swaying,
wooden shelves with plates and jars,
the radio softly playing,
a paring knife in my hand?

It gives...

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A Synopsis At Sixty-Nine
By: Tom Wright
2/16/2008

A time when life’s not chocolate cake
When gait has slowed and sight is dimming
My cholesterol is high and joints all ache 
And packed on pounds are not trimming

An enlarged prostate...

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Faith is a powerful thing




Faith in Him was about to fade,
Absolute darkness and weary jade,
In my head and heart though lived a spark,
The dying hope flew as high as skylark,
His enormous blessings flooded at gate,

Iridescent...

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Essence Of Time 


Tick tock the stop watch goes round without a sound
counting the minutes and seconds that surround us 
We live our lives quietly turning hours into making 
while our dreams  wait, whether...

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The Butcher Block / Toolbox
(Today, I expunge all thoughts on kitchen knives)
Written: by Tom Wright
7-12-2016

With a paring knife would you butcher a cow?
Bet my sweetie would if you showed her how.
While I, in thought, would...

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Some people seem to think that love is just for play
an eccentric emotion that ignites the senses for a while
so when it gets too complicated or think it out of style
they thrash the heart as...

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My mind is euphoric from scenes historic
Assyrian chariots innovative wheels bristling Mesopotamian plains
Paring the ranks of each, dated infantry formation
In Greece, anesthetizing anvil of the Dorian invasion
Glorious bronze relics supplanted by cheaper iron distillation
Persian armies:...

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The kinda guy a girl 
dreams about
It's within those 
dreams I found you
One who will take 
away all doubt
The only one who 
would be true 

You make my stars 
twinkle up above
Making the angels 
sing...

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None of my friends have performed breast surgery on themselves.
Once upon a time, I had a little cyst.
In my left breast.
It was benign.

Two doctors refused to take it out.
GET IT OUT! a voice in my...

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30 possible destinations.
Outstanding in a variety of ways.
12 stood out immediately.
Kindness meant we would listen to everyone’s ideas.

25 women thought they might go.
Did anyone think of Belgium? Their chocolate is amazing!
7 dropped out right away...

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My love life truly is humanities' first dumpster fire
Not a wife to the chosen man; just dust from the same pan
Never the true love of heavens disgraceful clipped sparrow
A myth to those who think they've...

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Red string blue string
plays the tune of every being
fifth dimensional knowing!

Vibrating strings sing
one string two string
supersymmetry everything!

Could be just jetsam
a memory engram
is the universe just a hologram?

A mathematical probability
or quantum ambiguity
perhaps the answer for humanity.

Our...

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those daring explorations of inner flesh
the "I know best" of paring innovators 
confident to indoctrinate their own ideas

the subject, the experiment, alive, obscured 
body part: "thigh" on the stage
a prop for the theatrics of greater...

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Hahayaan kong marinig mo, ang bawat pag kabog at paghagulgol nitong nasa loob ko.
Simula, mula simula ako ay tulala habang nag-iisip kung ano ang isusulat na tula.

Wakas, hanggang saw akas bakas parin ang nilagyang gapas
...

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Time passes as I watch the motion of life interact,
this silent paring of two life forms
carries me on a journey, one that allows yesterdays
to spread across the plains of my memories
so I may forage for...

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