Long Podiums Poems

Can We “Feel” Music?
By Carol Geyer


Can we “feel” music? Can the notes cool or warm us?
Soothing like green aloe balm, or warm as flaming Yule logs,
 or as majestic as a fully leafed oak?
 ...

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Such heavy artillery,
To whom shall we run,
To God have we come,
In pain and sad form,
To state our hearts' deform,
To stake our rights and reforms,
You know that where two Elephants fight the grass suffers,Do be well...

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Impeachment is neither a peach, a pullover nor is it a purple plum. And a sanctimonious swan is neither a swamp spinning yarn nor a spotty sporty spade. Ok then. Paste and post but not...

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In endless quest we sought seclusions peace                          	
hiding in the...

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Heavy shootings and more,
Primitive lead Automatics and their ancient songs, Contemporary Lasers and 
these sights of your futuristic DNA-CONTACT-ELIMATOR and more,
Please lets speak to Rome....The very place the revolution will erupt,
Where in this filthy universe...

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A portly partridge, a kale coloured koala and a lecherous lion were climbing up a snow covered precipice in a first gear shake. The beating of the engine spike of deathly chills and the iced...

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i just want to sit around,
drinking, sniffing things, scratching
myself, getting high.
just watching my pen
fill up a page.

do whatever it takes
to become a 'writer.'
a 'poet.'

something i admire, but
never really aspire to.

i just don't think i'd fit...

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We are quarreling over a graveyard of great ideas
Wandering under skies filled with flying political spears
Ideas are rotting under the soils dug by the unscrupulous
We buried our true identity and our mourning is pretentious

The commoners...

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Pivotal not to pivot a pickled pig. Playing in a plait. No no plastic garments. Ha said a garden ornament. Release of structure. Sky dance. Planes move like a huge whale. Motionless static of a...

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How dare they think to diss our Flag
	and disregard our Anthem song,
when this great country gave the chance
	for them to move and rise headlong

into the limelight of renown,
	be part of teams respected wide
and honored by...

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I have seen them
strutting like cockerels on podiums
sweating like pigs in their ill-fitting suits
words bubbling out of their snake forked tongues
-democracy!- development!- unity!

I have seen them
lock themselves up in their posh grave tomblike cars,
is it...

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Whose Words?

By Mark Stucky
Hissing whispers in the garden
twisted the warning words of God.
A shadowy tempter in the wilderness
shouted enticements to the Word made flesh.

Twisted words whisper and shout today,
from screens, podiums, and even pulpits,
spouting conspiracies...

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“We were right the world is wrong.”

Declare the Siamese twins

joined at the hip of policy of lies.


Bush and Blaire, that friendly pair

demanding, pounding fists

on podiums of Red, White and Blue. 


The dynamic dual declare

“listen people...

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Everyone is intelligent
Of this, histories are reminiscent
You know something I don't
And I too have something to front
Then comes the flowery ideal of the idealist
To be straight-faced by the reality of the realist
And you wonder as...

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Mel had to berate a bad car driver, 
Who, at traffic lights, nearly hit her,
She said “Life flashed” in rigid fear, 
When the car towards her did steer. 

She rubs shoulders with Crockroft, 
As a...

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A day to marry carries merry
Mariyah has carried my berry,
A just author of my story
Born come with mightier ferry
Nevertheless a beautiful glory
Smiling even in real tears
And the willful pearls sandwich
My day to marry my real...

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Eye To Open Eye
       by Odin Roark

How steadfast the gaze
At times gentle
Most disturbing
Other times angry
Most transparent
Few times without shadow
Most obvious

The dead see better
Say those pursuing truth
While in our face
Podiums...

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Wonderful wonders woven within wild. 
Titillates theatrical tender thoughts
Consistently creation, contrives conservation concerns. 
Ecology evolves equations, entitling entities essence.
Empowering equality, enlarges existence.
Life lovingly leases Longevity.
Biodiversity braces, blatant brutal balding.
Deforestation, destruction devoid due definition.
People physically, plundering...

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Bat-blind to looming gripe and cold decay,
Clueless shoots jump onto life's gay stage,
Oblivious of Grim Fate's scything designs
That waste with disease and stealing age. 

They wouldn't turn around and at once behold
Slowly waning sires with...

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I'm the glitter that rains on birthdays,
And the bright rainbow in the sky!
I'm as high as the moon, 
And when I come down I fly!

I'M A TICKING TIMEBOMB,
AND THE WORDS THAT SLIP OFF THE TONGUE,
I'M...

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They stood on highly placed podiums
In densely packed stadiums
Making promises, unwitting and false
And now we wait as time slowly crawls

Now we see
The so called promise of a fatherland
Smeared with cruelty and blood stained sand
Treachery and...

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Elected in election's, year after year
They stand on their podiums, declaring their seer's
Telling us proudly in the hope that we'll sap
Basically it's all lies as they tell so much crap
 
How can they stand there...

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Our backyard
Whirlwind of summer firefly
Embers

Stirs up
From the long graves of grass
By the sprawling brooms of July 4th fireworks
Booming distant in the furled sky

Up high
The fire flies swirl to tree tops
Breadcrumb stars for swooping bats

Too many...

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Mongrels gyrating on the edge of town
This it now- its going down
The chant electric, the doomsday count
It matters not that no one speaks a word
We knew it was coming, but you havent heard
Just know how...

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Thinking of Whitney Houston for some reason ?
Her beautiful voice like flowers in your hair rising....
Acappella and such a strange vibration; people in motion
Spirits, love's potion ? Nay these altars nor volcanos; sacrificial
Blades their children...

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