Long Podge Poems

Yuletide pageant merry go round

Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style 
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart 
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two plus seventeen carousel rides resonated
veritable pantheon of pagan rituals 
and...

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What Is Love 
   by Edmund Siejka

My parents argued frequently
So love was an elusive something 
Usually found in someone’s else’s home
In high school 
A little more sure of myself
I dated my first girlfriend
In...

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I've lived in Idaho before they turned our state sideways to resemble a gun
Seen lively conversation stop midsentence aftering catching a glimpse      Of the sun

Yeah and some may say we...

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H-E-L-P!!!     N-e-e-d     s-o-m-e      b-o-d-y!!!...
Spouse booby trapped husband!!!

Homicide courtesy munch
house zen by proxy
immediately suspected hunch
police, K9 corps, and ambulance
nearly lost their lunch crossing...

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Try mumbo jumbo chicken gumbo soup saith dumbo

Yours truly an unfortunate hostage
within Homo sapien zoo
presenting poetic hodge podge 
and mish mash to you
looking for unwitting subject(s) to woo,
and albeit impossible mission) to free me,
where within...

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Tower, buzz and scurry
Oh great resilient city
Ahoy!
Alive.  Scramble bustle earth's
 ethnicities
On lurid quests--
A pendulum of tantric turmoil and
Blessed harmony

Quixotic city--brash,
Sangfroid merotomized and
Chrematistic--metro nonpareil.

See a myriad melange of
Tortured splenetic
Souls and great spirits
Noble and soothfast

Great city,...

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While crossing Verrazano Narrows Bridge
recurring mem’ries of New York recapture 
history and civilization of the two boroughs
provide me with deep interest and emphasis.

Brooklyn in its old Dutch for “broken land,”
and Staten Island named “Staaten Eylandt”
named...

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A musical throng of 400,000 strong invaded a dairy farm in New York in 1969,
 which set fire to the 70’s; but there was no chance of me being there; 
I was a good girl,...

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Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style 
breathe prez sense frostily exaled aired
per millennia athwart 
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)

two plus seventeen carousel rides resonated
veritable pantheon of pagan rituals 
and quirky superstitions lit 
(akin...

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SOW

Sow he was an athlete good, 
and an Murray so dark too. 
He cleared 7 feet where the high jump stood, 
yes at school he had a clue. 
A teacher jammed poor Sowboy's head, 
right...

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Written ~ December 
two thousand seventeen
in case ye dear reader possess 
an eye extremely keen
nonetheless just by happenstance 
courtesy this human bean  
counter, who also happens 
tubby garden variety alien. 

Panoply of mystical elements...

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(More Pun-ishment)

The difference between a Fine and a Tax
is really easy to tell!
A Fine is a tax, for doing wrong!
A Tax is a fine, for doing well!

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade,
I once heard...

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over occupied world
bewildering hodge-podge of people
pushing stress where it ought not to be

in the slim rays of late day
in the splattered mess of guttered streets
a homeless man asks for a light
for a half burnt cigarette...

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Sadly I heard my mother Groan
                             ...

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You’re entering names into the computer,
a program called Family Tree. Burritts 
and Badgers and Shattucks. How fitting 
that I’m fixing chicken with roots
tonight for dinner. Potatoes and carrots
roasted with onion, garlic, turnips 
grown since the...

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A trickey question came up,
while some friends had a talk.
If a "fly" had no wings,
would you call him a "walk"?

Another thing that puzzled their minds!
If a turtle doesn't have a shell,
is he's considered "naked" or...

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Once I purchased a book about 
Total Recall
It might be of 
Re-cap-i–tulation
Rum-i-nation
Or glorious immigrant stories….

But I failed to reach even 
a library spot…
Too high a ladder.
Your ablution will falsify
Your ebb and flood tides
In Between, O...

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I see that some people
enjoy the experience
to be in a spotlight.

  It’s a strong need
  for some who long,
  await the right time
  that may generate
  another meaning,
  another...

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The early morning sunshine peeks
                              ...

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How does a well dressed man differ from a dog?
It will come to you, if you give it a chance!
Time's up -  A well dressed man wears a suit,
a dog - just "pants"!

If there's...

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There's a real old famous saying,
which has me wondering, just a bit!
"If all the world's a stage",
where does the audience sit?

One thing to me's a misnomer,
and I ain't fooling round!
Swimming, ain't no sport, my friend,
it's...

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The bringer of light
at one time had a sigil
apparently derived 
from a box that was magical

Hodge podge collage,distant mirage
panoramic screens,our world of dreams

Multi-dimensional
multiple facets
doorways of personal
consciousness enwraps us

Magical box,long forgotten with time
fullfilling gestures of mimicking...

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tropical island --
                                ...

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The minute I saw her I knew she was an artist
Her hair screamed CREATIVITY! It was fabulous.
Oranges and purples, beads interwoven, a hodge podge.
Messy some might say, I did not see that.
I saw an artist;...

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With the onset of summer
there's a calendar of events.
a time to go somewhere
a time to enjoy the weather.

Like in human relationship
there's a hodge-podge of events,
encounters, discussions or clarifications;
They are bits and pieces of life.

Leafy trees...

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