Long Preempted Poems

“Might you have an opening for an auction fairly soon?   If I move, I'm gonna have a ton of stuff to sell.”
“I'm trying to find a building at the moment,” he replied, “a...

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Day 38

Pugnaciousness set aside, 
Phantasmal was the anticipation, 
Possessing each moment
Some shutter fell over him
He knew, at least, that he had me 
He knew that I cared enough
Ours together, in his hands and mine,
I gave...

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Trump Poems and Epigrams VI


Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for you are my retribution.

May I offer you dark-skinned scapegoats
and bigger and deeper moats
as part of my sweet...

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I had three of that particular thing,
One I had purchased some years back,
And was not using it as it was old,
Though it still did all that a new one could,
The other I had purchased because...

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I had three of that particular thing,
One I had purchased some years back,
And was not using it as it was old,
Though it still did all that a new one could,
The other I had purchased because...

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If you could but in one moment
trust something
let go
release yourself from controlling
the unknowable

Immediate present be
to an indeterminable future
the short explanation
to a lifetimes conclusion
of uncertainty

But this moment is predicted
preempted
always supplanted
as it clings to the illusion of...

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Pablo...according to me (Part 1a), read Part 1b to finish

Re Pablo Picasso printmaking exhibition at Bellagio Hotel's Fine Art Gallery.

(1) Left Profile of a Woman with Blue Hair
   The lass you slay here...

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“No matter how low we fall, God holds our hand ~
All’s enabled, if this truth we understand”
                  ...

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Limericks Lunatics Likely Will Love

Digested, invested, protested.
Reliance, compliance, confidence.
Repeated, conceited, defeated
Repetitive, sedative, creative
Connection, deception, reception.
Tempted, exempted, preempted.
Amenity, obscenity, divinity.
Extension, contention, mention.
Reassured, cured, neared.
Retention, ammunition, suspension.
Liquidate, hate, contemplate.
Elected, protected, connected.
Dissipated, hated, situated.
Devour each hour all the...

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What would I do with a larger canvas house,
I need about thirty square feet space to sleep,
And a little less to sit,
Perhaps a little more to walk as I rest inside,
Barring common area multiply the...

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Silken whispers greet the blithe morning
damp mist spring tap on red  oak door
joyful treat preempted faint dawning

Felicity a phase one can’t ignore
bright daffodil white and pink bloom
fragrant garden bouquet stuff of lore

Alyssum’s plump trailing...

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EXCEPTIONALLY EXEMPT

Her words were worthless
Her promises preempted
Her vows were not vehement
Until from her life I was exempted

I buried my soul within her hardened heart
I dug a grave for a most grave situation
She took my picture...

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Photo's capture so many scenes
Love and War, peoples dreams
In black and white
Colour too
Even off, me and you
 
En-captured vista's of mother earth
Every one a persons worth
Taken now or long ago
Every photo has its flow
 
Photo's...

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