Long Perforate Poems

Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships

Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...

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It's too hot and humid for September!
Even dust specks descending in the room's sunlight
are beads of sweat running down my sides.
I bring pencil, crossword and ice tea 
to this chair and table, these angled shutters,...

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I’ve been needing your lies 

I’ve been craving your poison 

I’ve been missing your demons 

I’ve been loving your hater 

While I was playing with death 

While it was ing me upside down 

While I...

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The family gathered to celebrate the new baby
A home filled with love, past memories and joy
Smells from the kitchen perforate the room
Children and laughter, barking dogs, purring cats
Aunty Flo’s paintings proudly decorate the walls
Grannies old...

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DON’T THE COUNTLESS COUNT?

What if “what if” didn’t matter at all?
What if the word “if” didn’t exist?
Would madness and sadness continued to call?
And would disdain, pain and petulance persist?

There are countless millions of people waiting...

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DON’T THE COUNTLESS COUNT?

What if “what if” didn’t matter at all?
What if the word “if” didn’t exist?
Would madness and sadness continued to call?
And would disdain, pain and petulance persist?

There are countless millions of people waiting...

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It  was  very cold outside .
 Mist and fog engulfed everything on the earth
 to be viewed by mortal eyes . 
I was roaming aimlessly – 
unclad with any manmade clothes . 
Frowning...

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It  was  very cold outside .
 Mist and fog engulfed everything on the earth
 to be viewed by mortal eyes . 
I was roaming aimlessly – 
unclad with any manmade clothes . 
Frowning...

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It  was  very cold outside .
 Mist and fog engulfed everything on the earth
 to be viewed by mortal eyes . 
I was roaming aimlessly – 
unclad with any manmade clothes . 
Frowning...

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Apparitions of buried memories exhumed with rash eulogies
Arouse dried up tears that ever fail to cleanse the robe of guilt
Arraigning again before the partial jury of tormenting thoughts

Kaleidoscopic filial relationships hypnotize the mind to dumbness
Kamikaze...

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If you could hear echoes from my heart now,               
Would you perhaps reflect and wonder how
I have longed to hear your...

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The silent battlefield has drawn its armorial...
no smoke rising from weapons so unsurpassable;
bodies lying on the bloody grass;
some writhing, many lifeless!

One nation has risen against  another nation...
with the plausible thought that one
will subdue the...

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Father my Heraldry to charge;
You're a shield, my shield...O' God
And you impaled me;

With your two coats of arms;
Placed side by side;
Father, you often fall by on, you impaled me;

Father, you pierce me with a sharp...

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'The Celtic understanding of friendship found its inspiration and culmination in 
the sublime notion of 'anam cara'.  'Anam' is the Celtic word for soul; 'cara' is the 
word for friend.  So 'anam cara'...

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Mei-ricka’s in love
Her heart burns like a hot pistol
She’s got a ruby ring on her second finger,
to signify her sacred vow to her main squeeze
Amended her desires twice, vowing to remain faithful;
every morning and every...

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Thoughts of you perforate my normality. 
Insidiously creeping in and ‘squatting'in my heart. 
You are a sitting tenant in my house of reason, 
yet my heart cannot evict you, for you have become 
the focus...

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A COLLABORATED LOVE 

        AMBER love in SILENT mode flickering
        ready to rush on green zest and zeal.
   ...

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You may shoot a round of golf with your goofy neighbor Rolf,
or smack handballs 'round until your fingers bleed.
You may pump your mountain bike up the peak named after Pike,
and I'm sure we'll all applaud...

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You trickle through my mind like a meandering stream. 
You infiltrate my normality and drip, drip, drip annoyingly 
into my totality like a tap in need of a washer. 

Thoughts of you tug at my...

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My heterodox heart abandoned and impaled,
By such beauty where kisses have been jailed…
Marooned by your love and escaping has failed,
Decomposing with my last breath echoic exhaled.

Imprisoned by lachrymose of your lascivious lance,
Intoxicated by illicit lust...

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You perforate my normality 
with snap-shots of the past. 
Images of yesteryear form 
a slide show which interjects, 
dove-tailing, sneaking in to 
the now with the stealth of 
the stealthiest fox. 

Distracted from the present...

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I did not even think, lo, that you would erupt,
Like lava from a wild volcano, so abrupt;
You are not mere water raised as a vapor,
Nor imaginations unwritten on paper;
Instead, you are my hopelessness and helplessness,
Breaking...

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School never taught me this:

As a mite upon the side of an angel,

Dawn in a place covered by

my hands across my face,

four pillars of goo goo muck,

and a cellophane chick riding

a llama with pink bow...

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so look at us, the princess and her fool
          this painted jester - just a silly clown
         ...

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It’s that time of year when love looms everywhere and the thoughts of the one’s we love perforate the air that we breathe. Making plans on how to show how much you care, maybe a...

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