Long Pushing the envelope Poems

That "FEELING" ...

The one that makes you believe
That everything in your life,
No matter how messed up or negative,
Is actually wonderful ...
The feeling that, for a few hours,
Chases every bad thing in your life away ...
The...

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The bar is tacky and unclean. The lighting early modern neon.
dead insects litter glowing tubes.
I found him in the corner nursing an empty glass.

“Are you recording this?”
“Yes.”
“Good, very good”

“Let’s get started then. Are you a...

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The name 
mistakenly saintly, 
the other one 
a rite-of-life, 
a gauche passage 
for some, for most
the contract costly,
imprints its meaning 
post firey baptismal dive
to rise again somehow
from each our own
calamities, the personal
cataclysm we confront
or shun...

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I want make an old dance new,
Show you how to follow,
Build a romance, 
Pushing the envelope as far as you allow,
We knew we would mambo at first glance,
Going from vertical to horizontal now, 
Starting with...

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Are you looking for joy and satisfaction
 that you “haven’t got?”
The peace and joy which you seek…  
Simply can’t be bought…

Do you seek some kind of fulfillment
 in your daily activities?
Meanwhile, pushing the envelope,
”...

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The hands of time seems to always keep us near.
    As we wander through life’s portals full of its mystery’s and fears.
Like an old mother hen who keeps her young drawn in.
...

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"Intermission: Flutterby Reveille"




Impromptu like a moth
pale words flutter out of his 
psychodelic mind

curious funny flutterby…
for a second then, I didn't move, 
deadpan, I said, 

"... try again with some panache, some style" 
incredulously, I smiled,

he's...

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Sing to me silly
of cracked silver eggs
in nesting bowls
under key and glass
in white corridors
Ruffle my hair
when we reach Cezzanne
my brain is alight
my colors wrong
The winter is spinning
The tide rushes in
Hand on my shoulders
the artist begins
Leave...

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Our Universe is unimaginably large.
Tendrils of galaxies spreading out in every direction as far as the eye can see. Hundreds of millions in every direction. Some estimates suggest there could be 500 billion galaxies in...

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TITLES

Miss Fay’s Day started out well
Thought she might skip out on work to play,
So she covertly leaves her little cubicle, the cell from hell

She really wanted to be a Storm Child Again
Chasing rainbows and pots...

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YouTube and Chis Hodge 

It came as a surprise to me that Chris Hodge 
has been banned on YouTube, a man of knowledge 
worth listening to
He is an honest intellectual; as such, it is hard
not...

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I reminisce, I miss those good ol’ days long ago 
When I was a teenager, carefree and bold 
	lusting after chicks, 
		inviting a fracas,	 
Life was so full of excitement and adventure-- 
	looking over the...

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Don’t know what you’re thinking
I can’t read your mind
I can read your actions
After all this time

Don’t know why you say things
Or do the things you do
Always pushing the envelope
When it comes to me and you

Don’t...

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Must thank the censors here on the Soup
Been pushing the envelope lately
Writing some naughties about bums and farts
Allowing me to bend the rules slightly

Letting you know I appreciate your leniently
Like turning a blind eye so...

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With the unlikely proposition that winter would end
	green tips took

form

             beneath the softening crust of snow around the

mail
	box, a

collage congealed by road salt...

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Pushing the envelope is what I do.
Sometimes I bite off more than I can chew,
  but that's how I am and how I roll.
I say what I say with my all my heart and...

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If it's going to be
It's going to be me
It's a do it yourself process
That requires personal responsibility

I'm not looking for any handouts
I'm not praying for a sign
I’m pushing the envelope
To make changes in my life

You...

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