Long Peppery Poems

“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...

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Written: February 08, 2024
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Scarlet lips susurrous softly,
amid quiescence of dusk
bequeath beamily beguin beats 
within our sumptuous souls.
As grace echoes in crimson,
tears trickle...

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Minni is five
                                ...

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With you, life has given me an advantage
I've played with the switch and misused the voltage
I've made our connection susceptible to cancer
and created more questions, difficult to answer
I've landed us in a place of unpleasant...

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1. They said the meeting point
between your traits and swagger
has dislocated 
and your newly acquired awful image
is beyond reversal.
But hey! I do not fall for obscurantism
on your honor, my senses are on sentry duty
even when...

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A shiny penny fell to the ground,
and the face of Caesar
started spinning 
ear candy propaganda around

Sparkling tales 
of a former, dark ale kingdom
Oar barrel sales
that spread liquor violence
under a rising Western horizon

The little copper-voice image...

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If you want to keep 
             your expanding 
              ...

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Midst exciting functional cooking session
provoking strong eating urges’ passion
my appetite strides for flavorful progression
brave to defy menus’ farting repercussion.

There’s sizzling pride in hot arrogance, deeply fried
buttered selfishness floats atop oil, dairy-fied
turmeric-colored hypocrisy becomes chillified
all oozing...

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roll your puff pastry into a large disc.
make sure it cover to bottom of a
spring form pan. use extra to cover 
all sides.
layer slices of boiled potatoes around interior
of the pastry dough
using a mixture
of butter...

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"A Duel"
By Rachel Heffington

Long ago in a valley green,
Where a thriving hamlet once had been
Was a rubb-ly castle, hidden well
By maples tall, in a shady dell.
The penants, fluttery once, and gay,
Now hung in shreds- a...

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I guess I'm at that point when a few 
things seem to make sense
Thankfully I don't seem to be alone in 
this case
Normally i can analyze how i feel or 
what the situation might mean...

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Industrious buzz of solo bee search jackpots
Unashamedly trial diving in each lurid shell
Stickier with every trumpet he giddily accosts
Finds further stupor in fluted sweet compel

Ruffled taffeta petals burn, vibrant five
Three wiggle flame fingered fringe
Other two...

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You’re to slap a customer 
Stubbornly sticking to a thousand
For an article clearly worth ten thousand
And he to it, not a new- comer:
Buyers, after receiving your warm Hello’s
Trying  to force out your hot bellows,
For...

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Give the people what they want,
let them have it   quickly
The pot is on the boil,
hissing steam 
Desires of an improper seethe

Angry thoughts on a roil,
the patience of diligence dissipating
Hurriedly, they the cast the...

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I heard bankshots last night,
sounded like vault robbery for sure
These startled eyes, which got rudely awakened,
saw some masked bandits
mute walking on a one beam teller ...
not cash registering one word

No safety deposit reassurances were heard,
only...

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You’ll do it yourself – the day after the doctor 
said, “no heavy lifting.” And your husband 
(dreaming again) insisted on a patriarchal turkey 
like you always used to have, when he’d 
handle the fowl...

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Jingle





Oh my dear soulmate,
your one fine touch 
and my strings vibrate,

Darkness of night,
vanishes with a sparkle
and sees me bright,

Depression so deep,
as you rescue me afloat
to the shore I creep,

Thoughts unaware,
keep me in a fix,
and I...

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You came in a beat up old blue Landie

with tales of sleeping giants on your lips.

It was your first night in the cottage

when the Wye was skipping over stones,

dividing the spiked water milfoil

with sacred Pumlumon...

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To The North Pole Of Course  (Part Two)  
 
The farmlands, bridges and countrysides woosh by in a rush 
then vanish before my eyes at a hundred and twenty six miles per hour.
...

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Time to celebrate, from such great ecstasy, the ear feels peppery
Uncontrollable mob, the scenes of joy and happiness copy
Morality of men, permits adulthood to behave sloppy
Underrated chaos for fun and a good time to taste...

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Snapdragons (edit)



One is a serpent on the wing, the other a butterfly.
Each belongs to species created from
tissue paper, water, and light.

When half-awake I can hear the droning
of their nocturnal flights,
amber engines rattle cut-glass hangers
as they...

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Blue Plate Special
David J Walker

Why is it I never
Eat as well when 
You’re not here

Even though I am the one
The lone man at home
Doing the cooking for no one
When I know that you’re not looking

A...

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In the subway, a flute player,
at his feet, cents, and dimes.

He is young, skinny,
large peppery Adam’s apple
bobbing,
all sharp elbows and pursed lips,
an old time preacher channeling Bach,
not hell-fire, but more the flame
of creation.

At a distance,
watching...

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Distant piano music,
or is it the speech of a banjo
unearthed from some attic prison?
Wait, do I hear a flügelhorn moaning, 
or is that a different conversation?

Brahms plucks at his peppery beard,
glissando and arpeggio flutter
into mountains...

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Softly dressed in a black top to hinge 
Brown chinos skirt and beige watch 
Hair resplendent in curly full fringe 
With cute accessories to match 

Her voice rings out in a velvety tone 
“Obim oh,...

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