Long Prowled Poems

Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...

Oddly enough even 
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping 
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...

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CHAPTER ONE

They closed the county zoo for it was sick financially
They thought they’d take the creatures to their homes across the sea
The Silverback Gorilla soon in Africa would be
And then they’d go to Asia where...

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The Owl and the Crow


The hunter captured the owl
He brought her home to his castle
Inside a cell she was put
Away from the rain

The owl, never went hungry
The majestic avian had the greatest of comforts
Perched on...

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And all the world would change forevermore,
for solitude’s content has come undone.
Its island bliss could harbor it no more  
as destiny unleased the rising Sun.
The sleeping giant woke to see its rays
unfurl their wrath...

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Victorinus preached to free pearls trapped in soil
So plants may grow and unearth all bright pearls
To bring pearls back to their home through light’s secrets
Secrets for the downtrodden and dirty
Not to the high and hearts...

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(first you must Read Out of the Shadows - P1 and Out of the Shadow - Hit Man)

You wont be disappointed!!!!!
 

As his wife resigned from the garden pool that summers morning
Joe smiled then left...

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The river boils and burns
Churning the soil downriver
Silencing the calm quiver
Halting the anaesthetic shiver
This fissure in the earth was the sliver of hope in this dearth
A cool spring, the fuel to my being
The Sun has...

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The first born sister was delivered by a bear, the master of the forest.  
Bestowed upon her by this master, was the spirit of courage and strength.  
Through legends and time, she learned...

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In a realm where feuds festered, fierce and free,
Two clans clashed, Kovacs and Petrovics, starkly set.
Amidst the mountains, a tale of sorrow spun,
Where bloodied bonds bespoke a bitter debt.

Within the heart of Europe's emerald embrace,
Their...

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He was a serial lover.
Like no other.  
His words flowed like smooth swoon song.
Led you away, took you along.
Feelings spun, you lost control.
Dressed to kill, he knew his role. 

Wandering across the night,
He moved...

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The swollen lake had begun to settle again as the 
brilliant sun seemed to dance between the clouds 
I’d fondly remember the quiet calming warmth 
beneath the trunks of big cypress trees morning 
golfers could...

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As I stared out my project window into the streets were the predators never 
seemed to sleep and the dope heads that kept the neighbors in the private homes on 
pins and needles as they...

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'Bee' put on a bar-be-que for bringing up the past,
and of course he added drinking. Now the die was caste
for stories bringing laughter from dubious glory days,
when our oats were being sown while living single...

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Celluloid produces, like robots, many superheroes,
Who, like rat-snakes, in real life, is cowardice zeroes; 
A Tamil-hero, for instance, catches flying bullets,
Re-sends them and massacres many villains, like pullets...!

There's heaven-hell difference betwixt real life and reel,
Though...

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Shhh!  We turned at the sound and beheld the stern scowl of the public library monitor as she admonished us.  Steely eyed, with piercing glance, jaw set so tightly even her wrinkles retreated...

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There was a beautiful ship, 
That sailed from east to west,
Carrying thousands of passengers,
It was named “The Nest”.

It was the biggest ship,
Built in any of the decades,
And it had taken about 10 years,
For the complete...

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'Tis said that the first Thanksgiving feast was celebrated in sixteen twenty-one.
'Twas the Pilgrims' first bountiful harvest so they decided to have some fun!
(That was the genesis of church potlucks that are popular to this...

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Adapting the Craft

			My father looked up Zealot Street
			toward the mountain where ore
			buckets hung to cart the coal.
			“Don’t go near the mine” he repeat-
			ed, the chant of elders who fore-
			warned him of the dangerous hole.
			He’d just...

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I was relaxin' on the patio the other day, musin' as I often do,
About a few things that brought about vic'try in Dubya Dubya Two.
There were no computers, cell phones, night goggles, drones or such.
How...

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Yesterday as the sun was rising on our walk…what should catch our eye….but one humongous…elongated white feather…stretching across the sky.

Our weatherman is quick to inform us…that it’s a cirrus cloud and in it we will...

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VERSE 1
I am in love once again.            
I am in love once again.        

Peace calms my mind...

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The mighty steed was black as night.. (Cobolt was his name)
His rider, Blade,  a Warrior Knight
Swiftly through the dark forest he rode
A realm he ruled with an iron code
He was in search of his...

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There were two old women in a town.
The healthy one often wore a frown.
She never helped an earthly soul,
nor saw the beauty of life unfold.
All she thought about was herself.
How she could save and keep...

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I was dreaming that I was running fast all around,
feral, wild, untamed-   and I ran like a hunting hound.

Then, I felt changes in my bed and a sound,
so, I lifted my head...

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He was a professor of difficult sums,
Thought in quadratic equations
And from the works of Lobachevsky
He could spew forth quotations.
But, he had a hidden secret,
Not a creature of the light,
Dressed in Robin Hood suit
He prowled through...

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