Long Penny drops Poems

Smelly Stuff Absorbed 

There are many words for those excrements that appear on the fabric in
incremental solid and deliquescent motions because ingestion fulfils that
autonomous need to shed ablutions but here I declare ‘Waste not Want...

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Sometimes we’re searching for answers
To questions on our mind
Not really sure what we’re looking for
That turns into a question of time



We’re covering the same old ground
Over and over again
Never seeing anything different
When will this searching...

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Resolutions for the year,
Does anybody keep them? 
But just for kicks
I'll make myself a list then . . .

Be up by seven - no - eight
In the morning.
Keep snooze as a backup
For a more relaxed...

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She walks
She stalks the pyramid
With shell fish underfoot
Drawing lime into her creases
And all because
She given can
To step to climb
In single numbers
Until the penny drops
And everything and nothing stops
Paving way for yesterday
To start under the sphinx...

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Consider the pristine edge of observation,
curtains that raise the intuitive mind, with no hesitation.
That prism that can change the concept,
corridors of memory mirrors precept.
Some mystery begging to unfold,
blending nuances into oneness to behold. 
When the...

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Am unready for the substance
    of the bodhi tree,
I will drink the cactus  rain
    and wait for glory,

but is that water just the heat
    tempting...

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There was a time I swear it’s true
When all the roads that led to you
Were leafy lanes and sunlit avenues

And every bird in every tree
Announced this joy triumphantly
The world had a perfect symmetry

It ends just...

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Penny drops into wishing wells,
A coin flipped freefall through the dim,
Streaming trails of wishes behind
Beckoning streaks of luck begin.

Joy mounts and rides the saddled coin,
Penny drops into wishing wells.
Happy laughter follows behind
The sound, she landed...

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