Long Quickstep Poems

1861

Dust rises from the rutted road.  Cannon laden caissons rumble slowly forward.  A red sun competing with the campfires glow. Weary troops break camp, joining the ranks of
colleagues on the move. An enemy,...

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Woke up this morning
With news headlines spawning
I do not know if it's winter yet
Because of old age I often forget
Got to realise how weird it is
When I can brush my teeth
And scratch my nose
But try...

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Ten swift turns of the calendar's pages bring me to November,
when autumn breezes sweep clinging leaves from their trees.
They lie in heaps on the ground, carpets of crimson and gold.
Misty rain falls from cloudy skies...

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Myrtle the Turtle

There once was a turtle named Myrtle.
She could speed through a maze and climb a hurdle.

While she was small, she was a friend to all.
And remained safe from a kitchen overhaul.

Years passed as...

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Where we run
Where we slide with ease
Where we push forward rapidly
Where we dare to be something we most possibly could not
Where we hope in view of real failure
Where we dance
Where we scream 
Where we gaze...

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I've almost forgotten it.
It got too big -
holes appeared,
entire towns fell through
my memory.

The Forbidden City
is a convoluted red and gold ribbon,
my mind cannot now untangle.
Images float off the ink
of curling maps.
Snapshots flutter
like flags in a...

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I've almost forgotten it.
It got too big -
holes appeared,
entire towns fell through them.

The Forbidden City
is a convoluted red and gold ribbon
my mind cannot now untangle.
Images float off the ink
of curling maps.
Snapshots flutter
like flags in a...

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No
no name
frozen rose
lost cause
and so simpleminded that it is
mindless

Quickstep my dear
that or Slow fox
no labdance
(my penis is only for pissing)

I own 6 nights and 8 days
they are only mine
(and yours
and yours
and yours 
and yours)
need more
but...

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I can make you dance
 hum to songs sang soft or loud beneath the setting sun,
 tap and clap to the quickstep jumps and turns and runs;
 you could spin and twirl and glide along...

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While careening with Carene,
a boogie-woogie with Wanita, wow!
Then, a whirl with Pearl,
a jiggy jig with Jacqueline.
At intervals rhumba with a Rosalie.
An experimental ballet
with Bonnie, Bob, and Blaire.
Thanks, Charlie, for the Cha-cha-cha!
A quick shimmy with Shailene,
disco...

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We danced quickstep before the storm
 my pups eager -- eyes wide
 we raced in the rustling grasses
 the early winds whispering beware to the trees
 then the rushing air and the sky drumming began
 the...

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A blindfold is taken, removed clean away
A guvenor is standing.' As bidens mouth goes astray
He needs help in the matter, thats just all that it is'
As his mind goes to quickstep, as its all his...

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Green velvet-covered limbs rest 
on carpet of azure and amethyst.
Chandelier light spilling out
golden shards, illuminating
figures dancing a quickstep.

Orchestra on the wing, melodic,
worshipping delights of Spring.
Whispering of huge, ancient oaks,
fluttering green foliage, re-birth,
emerging from winter’s long...

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dance party of summer

blue waves rock and roll
 seashore tides shimmy and shake ~
  sunlight tap dances

white clouds pirouette
 delphiniums deep plies ~
  ebb tides grand jettes

meadows slowly waltz
 forests polka with raindrops...

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I never danced not a stride
 hard as I tried
the rhythm and the songs
 pushed two left feet along
ever turning to the right
 but I watched you in the midnight light.

A spin, a twirl
 along...

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Frenzied, melodic tunes are playing, in the lime green forests,
In whistles, croaks and chirping, where jade growth is lawless,
And nature is humming and dancing, all over the azure world-
Then colors dance on even skies, where...

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