Long Platelets Poems

For ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...

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This has more similarities to a story than a poem.

November 2010 - I was in second grade when I started feeling drowsy and weak. I would come home with unexplained bruises, and neither me nor...

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Today I hoped to achieve something great,
Something many would consider a heroic trait,
Giving plasma to those in need,
With the hope that the doctor's treatments would succeed.

Taking me back after a two hour wait,
I realized there...

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I won't ask one question,
just stab my pen in
and draw out the ink,
nothing will stop my flow
with crimson words
and chunky verses.

The night is dark
and streaked with grey.
Mist swirls around my ankles
like a lovers caress.
The moon...

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A beautiful box in the golden morning when you are watering plants
At midday a workshop where you are providing me with the ladder
In the evening a walled closet to transform the personality and gravity
At night...

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I go in for chemo session #2 tomorrow.  I sure hope my blood platelets are 
somewhat back to normal or at least healthy enough so that we can get this next 
session under our...

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No trouble with my blood this time so I am now in chemo # 2.  My baby white blood 
cells were a bit below what they wanted to see but my platelets were back...

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BIKER 
The night sky is made of black tar, and broken glass,
And the moon, if you melt it in a spoon, once was an old hubcap.
So by the light of night, ride the Milky Way’s...

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Chemo Session 3 – Aborted

For those of you who are keeping track
I went up for Chemo – they sent be back
My platelets didn’t do so well
They sent me home to rest a spell
I’ll have to...

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Ain't no wonder we're baffled about eatin' - ever'thing is taboo.
We're deluged by self-appointed gurus toutin' their points uv view.
Can't they desist and find somethin' more productive to do?
They can eat their tofu and water...

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In a domain, now lost in time,
There roamed a minervoo over the land.
With five hairy legs under platelets of rime;
They skidded and skated, they frimmed and they frammed.

But by far the scariest, creature of all,
Was...

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fame,
you bitch
it was you who taunted us
we walked
on razor sharp blades
of grass
gras
p
ed
at straws
covered in white dust 
inside
on the surface

on the surface
we used the word art
and crapped on it
like so much hay

hey
we did it every day
in...

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How marvelous that when we bleed,
To staunch a flow with little speed,
If not too deep, no bandaid need.

A miracle occurs indeed:
The platelet, wondrous little seed,
Exposed to air, sprouts like a weed,

Creates a mesh from here...

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The heart a beat or two skips a bit;
lingering memories drag their thorny fingers through this pierced brokenness!
                 ...

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The Heart That Bleeds Contest
Sponsor: Malta Forever

I've been lost and found and forgot where I should start,
it's all contingent on the circumstance of my bleeding heart.

Gone...no more...goodbye...

My veins twist and my senses expand,
as I walk...

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Like sparks trailing
from a million, billion fireflies,
a single thought limns a trillion suns.

From the first small bonfire
flickering across four million years,
whose light imprints itself
upon the canvas backdrop
of a feckless, barely cohesive Infinity,

the matter of man,...

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"Finally my blood began to coagulate,"
the second stage of hemostasis -- how great!
First I applied pressure to the bleeding spot,
the platelets circulate to stop it (a "clot.")

Coagulation forms a more solid wall,
in other words: a...

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Flesh is land I may say; seas are blood-floods; forests are bones;
Physic and spirit of nature, has zones of sand and stones:
Bones support the body to stand, bend, slide, glide, walk and run,
With no bones,...

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Coagulation Starter – 3-28-24
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Coagulation

Finally, my blood began to coagulate,
Flowing like insomnia
Between the wounds of dawn and dusk
When wounded memories drip pools of enigmas,
Fleeting gossamers of absolutes,
Drying into sticky puzzles.

Bloodied dreams wander labyrinths,
With no exits,
Leaving spatters...

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I woke to a winter morning cold as stone

Afraid of my shadow

The invisible chains, heavier than led

I realized where it began

When men lost humanity

In the garden of life

They eat the fruit of life

Realizing the naked...

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As I roast
on the coals
of my inferno,
my mind spirals inward.
Loneliness
sits down with me
and rambles in silence,
teasing my eardrums
with deafening tones
of misery and solitude.

Scratches form
       upon my eyes,
blinding the feelings
...

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"Encyclopedia of an villainous Air Gun"


with platelets of debasing who 
a disastrous leg pining, has set me a fire
bring a distasteful villainous villain of rifling, death
 
SHOW your self
you DEVIL  
do you know, could...

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One little two little three little habits,
Four little five little six little rabbits,
Seven little eight little nine little hobbits,
but...
10th to the 10 said two little droplets...

nine little eight little seven little pea pods,
six little five...

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O life, in plasma form! O red stream in my veins! 
Cells, platelets, tissues, fibers, water, and salts wrapped!
O, you who carry oxygen to my each cell! 
O, you who maintain minute warmth of my...

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the empty chambers 
of a heart buried deep, 
low beneath a vibrant earth, 
darkly fed by brackish storms 
washed into catchbasins 
wetly percolate through broken clay 
through caverns delved by mineral roots 
building languid waves...

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