Long Prickle Poems

This has been a hot minute to say the cold hard truth. I second that! Glasses full of hours turn hands into long time. Darkness saves the day. Light work is easy. Take care; bear...

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In shot snap seconds, everything changed.
The horror was sudden -
a shatter-shower of bullets
bouncing off rock.
The picnic I'd laid so carefully
blew apart - black olives
tossed into the air like fat flies,
the watermelon's pink guts splattering.

Gun aimed...

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Alan as Buckminster
delivers Fuller Watts.

Left-Brain partisans of deductive "prickles"
and Right-Brain partisans of inductive "goo"
have reduced mutually antagonistic arguments
into something resembling a pile of boorish poo.

Prickly Reds are tough-minded,
rigorous competitors,
precise calculators of economic wealth priorities
for global...

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The desert breaks each man open,
at the crossing of dunes-
Where the sun sets,
God enters
 
violently, for survival
to begin
 
without water
without shelter
without raiment
without poison
 
each man
with his mind only
 
crosses sunsets to find freedom,
first in the...

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Goodnight my dear boy and what's that you say?
You want me to chase the bad monsters away?
Well, I'll tell you a tale that may just be true
And if it's made up, it is done just...

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Wow well that's clever. I mean really really intelligent. Must have done all the research well. And drawn exact plans as to not make any errors. Roaring fires sit down in an ice bucket whilst...

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SPHINX STONE 

I am Sphinx Stone
Sun stationed statue
silent sculptured synoptic 
not marble or granite 
nor black tourmaline or
crystal sapphire quartz
vortex for Void actualising 
sacred amber ambles

Timelines cutting cross
my magnetic magenta 
miracle to dissipate in
dry desert...

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A yip
And a yap
And I am
Out the door fast
With a dog in front
That really needs to go
He sprints outside
And I follow in his stead
Only staying in the yard
So I’ll only close
The door to the house
Outside,...

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So you're stuck on 15-down for the name of a barren of mules!
Groups of creatures...

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On a lovely Sunday morning now that winters turned to spring,
I sit at my kitchen table listening to the blackbirds sing.
Warmth filters through my window from the rays of morning sun,
so while I drink my...

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Just the awe of your charismatic sexual looks makes
the down part of me wanting to possess 
and build a park beneath your fleshy covering.
My Junior’s ready to let your licks spoil nature’s tricks
and your play,...

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A regal black Prince stood atop a college curb.
Standing majestically at 5'4 however, slightly more than I atop the stone.
He was narrating a past fight he had fought with a tall white antagonist; who was...

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On this winter's night
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I was born in a very small town in the middle of a vast, vast land. 
It was filled with ranches, cattle and grass and the world’s toughest breed of man. 
I was raised with...

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The Wandering Yogi 

From city to city, from every  town to town
Catching every smile to smile, every frown to frown.
His allegiance goes to the exalted one, not any nobility nor the...

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Life ain't no bed of roses
We're not destined to 
drown in a pit of despair
Aguish is unknown until flesh
grazes a blade of barbed brair

A prickle that pricks
A nettle that nicks and
stings my gaping gore
A scab...

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Never been one much for food, always caused too much fear. “Geeeeez” would there be 
enough? Enough food was always a concern. I’d think of cold days when Dad was gone. Mom 
was crying and...

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I'm of two pieces
one piece of mine is
an island
the other is the sea
in over all of me
has brought me in
the middle, is in my
everywhere
warm/tender, shining
bright, deep and
silent
every day, ever
moment I go beside
doesn't see, doesn't
hear, doesn't...

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There's power abounds within our worlds,
that science will deny.
Just silly folks with twisted minds
who rant and rage and lie!
If they can't see, or touch or smell,
they know it isn't there.
Until the day, to their dismay
it's...

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Oh dear Rose, you prickle me
That if I do so much but breathe
I will be full of scars and pain
Though I love to see your beauty close
I cannot out of vain

Oh dear Rose, you wounded...

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How is it going to be, If you are not interested in me any longer? 

From the depth of my soul, I can still feel the bruises.

Even though you can no longer bear looking back,...

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Sky above crimson and spotted like a lantern fly 
After the setting of the sun inspired to 
pull out a fan bush and dabble
Hastily dash away at the canvas of its vexing black yonder 
Illuminated...

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When you're lying awake with a dismal headache,
and repose is this a state of panic and anxiety,
You've suddenly got to sleep, 
when the use of languages is thrown at you, without impropriety;
First, you uncover your...

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Life is challenging, but we are here to learn and grow. Our souls are infinite and our lives enhance the Universe's knowledge, experience and blessings. 

Natural pearls are extremely beautiful and rare. Remember that you...

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Does the hair ever stand up on the back of your neck,
When you walk through the Desert alone?
Do you ever feel like someone is out there?
Or perhaps something unknown?

Do you feel like someone is watching,
When...

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