Long Postings Poems

(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")

It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the bottle of cinnamon whiskey
tantalizingly low, and my feet swelling above...

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Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark prank
to steal himself into a neighboring house,
and prepare an elaborate meal
unsuspectedly nabbed gorging
(ala man versus food
Adam Montgomery Richman fame
Brooklyn, New York boy)
at...

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Please note that this work is meant to follow in Epic Form and will not follow commonly used grammatical rules found in Prose, such as, not following proper paragraph use. Because it is an Epic...

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People are all over. 
Some we see, others we barely
Notice. Some we instantly look
Away from, afraid to acknowledge.
I am talking about the beggars
Naturally.
Some try to pretend they
Are not there,
But they are.

Some we revere and admire,...

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Friendly pirate wannabe flies his Jolly Roger...
while surfing cyber seas today March 2nd, 2021.

Actually yours truly quite a literate codger
(ah shucks just missed being draft dodger)
no not for baseball team, but Vietnam War
circa November 1,...

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It takes this version of you awhile for
Me to consider, as an illusion your so
Consistent i can lean on the 
Imaginary love i create to spend time
Being out of love, walking a path i
Can’t share...

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Good evening, folks...trust all is well.
First of all, let me congratulate all those who commented on the first Poem 
Contest posting I had.  Bear in mind, as Judge and Jury, only I am permitted...

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This is now my unofficial Poetry Soup Blog.
I know you're only supposed to post poetry here,
but as far as I can tell, 
I can blog here as well
as long as my blog rhymes poetically to...

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Born with a complex like a tormented fugitive in a constant flight from a life of acceptance, his Life is filled with questions and complexities. There is no room 

for blame. In a secret place,...

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Redundant Again

By Elton Camp

There’s an expression hard to beat
It’s a reference to “hamburger meat”

Here’s another that’s too often seen
Come and use our “ATM machine”

In a storm, folks always “hunker down”
But to “hunker up” is not...

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posted--no swimming, strong under tows
no guard on duty

what kind of life is that, no swimming 
it’s my life and I don’t need a guard
I’m taking the sign down

He spotted a another sign, ‘no boating’
He had...

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I was never a great athlete, just a sub-par one at best.
I don't sing, play an instrument, nor did I ever learn to dance.
As a young boy, I felt and accepted the call to preach...

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I have written a lot of poems and stories about this, that, and the other,
but none has captured the interest of "Soupers" more than my poem about        ...

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friendship, imagery, imagination, inspiration, muse, poetry, word play,

Poetry Soup ©

Posting of one’s poem has come to be an inspiring word play
We’ve read one another’s word/worked poetry world wide
We first draft and so fine-tuned our poems...

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I went surfing on the Internet in the year Two Thousand Five
When I chanced on Poetry Soup and paused there for a bit.
I read some of the poetry and posted some of mine,
Then turned away...

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Phantom Readers  

I thought I had it all figured out, given the difference in location of countries and time,
Local time here is something like 12 hours ahead of USA which uses Pacific time..

As a...

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You never see his name anymore, but believe me he's still here.
He open's the soups' door, making it possible for me to write beyond this 
atmosphere.
He makes it possible to enter these contests, for it...

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I just can't wait
to post poetry again,
it's been a long time
since I've joked with online friends.

I keep on writing
try my best every day,
there are times though
where it doesn't turn out that way.

Don't take it as...

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“OMG! here we meet again”.
Kisses and hugs
“… just look at you!”
“Oh you’ve changed so much…”
“No, let me see…not so much”
“I think you’ve put on some weight”
“Ha ha ha” giggles…
Excitement in the eyes…
What to say and...

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CHRISTIAN FRIENDS

Christian friends on Facebook, Christian friends at church,
Christian friends I’ve talked to, Christian friends at work.
Those I have heard preaching, or who testified
How they met the Savior for whom He has died.
Christians from the...

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Upon receipt of this paraphrase whenever it visits upon your person--free of dire straits and in trepidation, its infamous adage, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong," subject to limits. 

I've equivocated or tossed-up...

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Drawn to the graves

Unbeknown clarity develops like root canal treatment
festering wounds and scull bones loom on the route

In reason and feeling I have no choice but to venture
an ancient drill grinds away carbon in my...

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He was my friend 
For just a few years,
Our friendship cemented
Over ciggies and beers,
And chatting up birds
On long boozy nights
And standing back to back
In barroom fights.

We had an arrangement
That we never abused
We drank on credit
In...

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We sit here quietly every day in our little space,
Taking phone calls and doing our job better than most.
We’re just like everyone else here stuck in the rat race
Working so hard at our job, while...

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I.

Higgledy piggledy
Roger de Coverley
Fonder of hoofing it
Than of romance

Found himself typified
Characteristically
King of the Reels and the
Lord of the Dance.  

II.

Willety wallety
William the Conqueror
Wanted his subjects to
Quail at his power,

Crowing to Londoners
Hyperdespotically, 
“Look, everybody, I’ve
Built...

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