Long Purveyors Poems
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In This Taoist's ViewCould we be doing our best
to invest in Earth's cooperative health markets?
While you sell our most competitive killing machines
to our Saudi Arabian cousins.
Referencing this touchstone as an ecopolitical WinWin,
unlike Parisian multicultural investments in climate health,
as...
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Categories:
purveyors, destiny, earth, fear, hate, health, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 2 FinalNightmare 8. To Lose the Gift of Feeling Heard
Is each person not poet when he spills his heart?
Has your verse lost its edge if it’s true no one listens,
Or does God mean that no one...
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Categories:
purveyors, anxiety, christian, fun, humor, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Afflictions and Perspectivesfoisted upon her was the merry go round crystal chandelier
it stuck in her beautiful mind like a beacon of flaming desire
of clouds fried by a cuckoo with an indestructible socket
her eyes wide upon pupils dilated...
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Categories:
purveyors, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
What I DeserveThe personal is political and I take the political quite personal
and please do not get me wrong because I am not one to moan
for only those taking responsibility themselves should be allowed
to criticize what the...
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Categories:
purveyors, judgement,
Form:
Political Verse
Anticipatory Anxiety Fosters Catastrophizationanticipatory anxiety fosters catastrophization...,
especially bombardment of online scare tactics
courtesy fiendish insidious loathsome sinister oafs
rubbing their hands at aggrieved party;
punch drunk cyber thieves ecstatic
acquiring by hook and/or crook
sought after precious, priceless, and proverbial data
after loosed ransomware...
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Categories:
purveyors, 12th grade, anger, computer, cry, evil, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Je T'Aime 'Neath a Banyan Tree - Erotic Verse
The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and White’ POTD 6 March. They wanted to know more about...
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Categories:
purveyors, i love you, inspirational, sensual,
Form:
Verse
Asian Epicurean QuestAsian Epicurean Quest
At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors of street food, rude t-shirts, and rubber sandles to put...
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Categories:
purveyors, food,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Tongue Ever So YoungAn eggplant need not taste nor look like egg,
Nor in a hamburger ham need be there,
Where's pine, apple in pineapple, I beg?
Nor yet french-fries in France invented were.
They native are— American pure blood,
Wherein was born...
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Categories:
purveyors, language,
Form:
Free verse
The Mallards of Bedford SpringsThe late night storm rushed into the valley,
Pouring down,
Creating the sleepy ambiance only a mountains lull can provide.
The crisp damp air crackles to life at lights first caste over the mountain,
into the...
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Categories:
purveyors, america, nature, river, spring, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
The Evil That Kids DoYet again we turn on the TV
And witness horrible scenes
Of unparalleled violence, hatred and despair
Two teenage boys
Decide to kill all of their classmates
Hold their school up
Bombs waiting to destroy
And the cry goes out throughout the...
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Categories:
purveyors, anger, anti bullying, anxiety, evil, murder, school,
Form:
Free verse
The RescueChildren toil with their buckets and spades sculpt castles into the sand
In joy and in innocence they build towers gates draw bridges and moats
Know deep in their hearts that the tides are stronger than fortifications
Nothing...
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Categories:
purveyors, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Negotiating Wateronce upon a time there was a handsome dude
made water into wine and then walked upon it
a sorcerer diviner hero and likeable companion
washed sore feet and sins in anterograde fashion
but just the same a clairvoyant...
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Categories:
purveyors, christmas,
Form:
Free verse
Hair Washing Heralded Huge HappeningEarlier today April 4th, 2022,
which supersedes bald faced headlines
pointing finger and
Putin blame for Bucha killings
squarely on head & shoulders
of Russian autocrat, née
yours truly lathered
his hirsute higglety-pigglety
thinning oily tresses.
Hark….the herald angels...
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Categories:
purveyors, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, april, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Distractions and AdvantagesWatch then the battlefield, from the comfort of your chair
And push the button carelessly, when you can’t stomach any more.
Tell us of the sights you’ve seen, from your bought and paid for seat,
Boast of bombs...
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Categories:
purveyors, dedication, political, warwar, men, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
January 24th, 2023 Hair Washing Heralds Huge HappeningJanuary 24th, 2023 Hair washing heralds huge happening
Hark….the herald angels sing, and twitter
for mass communication
mediums stop the presses
when I, a regular schlemiel
take shampoo to mine matted mass mop
(no less than...
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Categories:
purveyors, adventure, anxiety, devotion, fun, hair, happiness, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Generic Germane Groveling Guy Still Wallows In WeltschmerzYours truly does readily confess
the following poem crafted more or less
approximately a year ago,
when coronavirus (COVID-19)
wrought havoc creating global mess
when panic against collective temple did press
a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness.
Along luscious green acres banks...
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Categories:
purveyors, 12th grade, america, anniversary, confusion, death, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Admirable Peoplealone inside with me, less than inspirational
so look out for the more interesting folk
momentary excitement, the fiery motivational
beyond the familiar, to stoke and provoke
daydream departure from mundane...
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Categories:
purveyors, character, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form:
Verse
The Silk DemonThese people make me sick
These false prophets
These religious money pits
These well dressed demons of deception
Nothing but
Con artists
Liars
Purveyors of pure sacrilege
Pretending to offer you salvation
Offering you the comfort of the lord...
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Categories:
purveyors, faith, god, heaven, hope, inspirational, life, me,
Form:
Free verse
Noel 2020the end nears with Jesus and witches
let us hope there are no more glitches
little baby wears a mask in the manger
conceived socially distant without danger
no Golgotha crowd but liked tweeted clips
zoom calls for blurring out...
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Categories:
purveyors, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
YellowFumbling through a sheen of yellow
the land and sky merge as one.
and earthly song goes silent.
The stage is set for death to breed,
tendered by phantoms, catching the unwary
these purveyors of men’s souls
The rats...
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Categories:
purveyors, war, words, yellow,
Form:
Free verse
Lusting For LoveLust has such a bad press
one of the seven deadly sins
...
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Categories:
purveyors, love,
Form:
Free verse
Generic Germane Guy Wallows In WeltschmerzAlong luscious green acres banks steep grade
(in close proximity to
Petticoat Junction) naturemade
Perkiomen Valley watershed,
verdant landscape displayed
yours truly, (a garden variety
proto human) arrayed
solely donning birthday suit,
whose fifty plus shades hair gone grayed,
i.e. one infinitesimal measly...
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Categories:
purveyors, 12th grade, environment, humanity, humor, nature, planet,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
A Look Back At Eighteen Months Here-The Show Is OverA Look Back at Eighteen Months Here-The Show is Over
When your poems reside in a shoe,
like mine,
pounding the pavement to nowhere.
The onset of blisters isn't imagined.
Those blisters take roots,
hindering your motivation
to move-
and to continue to...
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Categories:
purveyors, change, sad, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxxii - 82IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXXII
for Carlos Bousoño, the eminent Spanish critic, poet and professor
who maintained that if...
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Categories:
purveyors, humor, poetry, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Back In the Hippy Unhappy SixtiesWhen I was in high school,
late 60's,
we were concerned
about the ballistic lose/lose climate of hate
in Vietnam
and spreading across the U.S.
The only smiling winners
were purveyors of ballistics
and their transport vehicles.
Mistrust of an unfederating nation,
bought and sold...
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Categories:
purveyors, health, peace,
Form:
Political Verse