Long Paroled Poems

THE MAD MAN IN THE CORNER
By Roy Merritt

A mad man in the corner was ranting on insane
A man who was blinded wracked with mental pain
He couldn’t believe they lost couldn’t believe this be true
No they...

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Born to this world in sixty-one
Another child of the sun
I entered in the dead of night
To breathe the air and see the light

Though rooted in the Netherlands
Together we would make a stand
The first son and...

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His past finally caught up with him...

The killer waited silently in the man's room.
His gun cocked as footsteps approached.
The key jiggled in the lock of the door.
The man stepped inside, unaware of his fate.
Three shots...

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When we learned our elderly, kind granddad had died,
All paternal cousins traveled, gathered and cried.
Later, the ‘reception drive’ offered varied rides;
In Rachel’s auto, they shared a liquor-filled flask
And in Rob’s ancient van, a joint or...

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Hung: I woke up this morning,brushed my teeth and thought about me and you 
I thought about your last visit when you said "I only want you" 
You touched my heart,opened my mind and gave...

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In the winter of 1873, Alfred Packer was hired to guide a prospectin' trek.
In the San Juans of Colorady they'd heard of gold that they wanted to check.
Alfred claimed that in Colorady minin' camps he'd...

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I lift and rise to being chased,
pops half-way, till full, beamed round-faced,
a fire host heightened its facade,
casting daylight shadows abroad.

Cool Earth plunged hot by its keeper,
heat courses like the Grim Reaper,
smiles at darkness to wait...

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"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar ... Samual Taylor Coleridge

There lived no better heart to know.
His love was like a light,
Coloring lives in visions of gold,
Softest visions, alive, so bold,
Beautiful...

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Cold.
It's the only word that seems to fit your mold
But my heart is as young as your heart is bold
I beg to fly, I beg to go-
This land is old.
The shimmering dust, your ice-capped lust
That...

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Lord, Lord

Lord, Lord come to me
your love is all I need
You’ve restored my soul and paid the fee
now grace and mercy is my greed

Lord, Lord You’re always on time
to straighten it out and untie the...

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I love having—
hating the feeling of wanting.
Wanting cuts my guts as consequentially as diarrhea.

I steal casually,
like second breaths after waking,
or proper newborns latched onto Mama’s nipple.

It is inspired vice.
There’s a teaspoonful of buccaneering Barbarossa
sprinkled in...

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For god so loved the world that he gave his one
and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life.   John 3:16 NIV

…the great street of the city was...

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Wrongful Imprisonment

I am bowing again, in prison, no advocate to plead my case;
Forcefully constrained: by years and years of hardship and lack. 
Believing, this was meant to be; this was all I was meant to...

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I want to peer through tomorrow’s eyes.
Not a thing already old,
not a yesterday word
only temporarily paroled
from a moribund dictionary.

These words
newly dead now for millenniums.
Words old enough to have echoed from Eve
as she howled
from her guttural...

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A child hears a song on the radio
and the music sets his mind aglow...
at his age he’s too young to know
he’s being sucked in the black, black hole
of foul, filthy, phallic rap and roll.

Tuned to...

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America's bulwark, strong and true,
Resolved to defend, the red, white, and blue.
Mighty warriors, brave and bold,
Years of service, stories paroled.


Since '75, a nation's might,
On fields of battle, day and night.
Loyalty and honor, their guiding star,
Defending...

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Over the river runs a hasty fright;
All our worry what became, becomes.
Instruments of time, un-tuning every night
Brooding with precision to a memory that numbs.  

Golley-wogging on surfaces 
Of mirrored ponds.

With an everlasting legacy,
No magic...

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A lifetime of love in the wink of an eye
I can feel slipping by

Nothing left for me to do
But feel the pain inside of you

If but a second I could trade
The memory of kisses shall...

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Whether you're in a prison,
Or a hospital bed confined.
Yours might just be a 9 to 5,
We all are still doing time.
Our conscience is our jury,
Declaring right and wrong.
Our thoughts the Judge who sentences,
To mental prison...

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The equanimity of the day reached beyond my solitary realm,
As if the tune of demise fathomed the doleful heart of mine;
Escaped from the autistic aftermath blamed by mordacious charm,
Healed beyond charade of some credulous bonds...

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How do you do it...
   arrested again.
Paroled for awhile
   then back to the pen.
We know you don't mean it.
   We know that you care.
But when will you show it?
...

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You were born in to sin
  
    You were living in prison

    You were waiting to face the judgment

    There came a visitor to your...

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Paroled from- My Love--
En libertad condicional de mi amor


What of the whispers of your heart;
 ¿Qué hay de los susurros de tu corazón? 
What of the whispers of your heart;
¿Cuándo se detienen estos sentimientos?
 Un...

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As dusk their line visibly bows
Cropped heads beneath mounds fold
Glum shadows through addle fields row

Listless turrets sprout o'er demarcated woe
Sallowed eyes in bleary sockets rolled
As dusk their line visibly bows

Shocked ears to concussive barrage close
As...

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Torn apart a heart, not a soul,
you struggle. 
No matter, you stay the course 
stay whole.

Blue eyes brash, brazen,
ashen blonde hair
fight the establishment
“What the hell did you care!”

Cut the heads of the parking meters
like the...

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