Long Ransacking Poems

Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date

While yours truly sat here 
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous readers,
he unexpectedly, noisily and effectually
exploded out rear...

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Through April and May not a single Indian has been noticed
along all the serpentine bends of this rambunctious river,
however I feel we are being espied by a jealous warparty
immortal in it's protection of this pristine...

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GOD & ME

They told me of God, his name, essence, demeanour
Men of knowledge, wisdom and inside information
But I, lacking such arcane wit, being  only a gleaner
Inspecting what I discerned from my simple station
Found that...

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Fierce fighting raged, but surprise was gone,
the Americans rallied and pushed hard,
the Indians fell back, out of the ravine,
the patriots driving them that far.

Hand-to-hand combat broke out brutally,
with knives, clubs, and rifle-stocks,
Iroquois would wait until...

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Bewitched with irri-
tating glows,they ransacks the
purse and 'ijawo'; those rats!

Breaking news;
The Headline: "3 husky rats
ransacking the purse of the nation."
The news: As noted in the
headline of today's consciousness-leaking
news. We'll have to say this with
Annointed regret...

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Get out of my head mister chatterbox!

Ransacking treasure trove 
of maximum headroom.

To remedy a fate worse than death
or orange hair oaf becoming 
forty seventh president
or contracting one
of several viral diseases named pox
permeate heavy shut tight...

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Pulled together
by a magnetic avoidance of loneliness,
fueled by an insatiable ardor
to evade a shortage of love.
Mutually splintered souls searching
for a place to embed and
implement a façade which conceals
mutilated minds.

Spurious attempts to disarm 
the timebomb which...

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The year was Ten Ninety Five, 
Christianity by decree.
Off to the Holy Land men were sent, 
to set all Christians free.

Peter the Hermit was first to go,
church unsanctioned was the start. 
Whipping followers into a...

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Word Painting In Black and White

Cubed ice dismantling the plank bridge with pliers 
made of syrup spilled with a dash of grief and brawn 
the reptilian doughboy mixes up another cosmic batch 
of truth cookies...

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The awful feeling tightens my vocal cords
that praised another god who never denied pleasures;
I abandoned faith and despised kindness:
it's time for God to show anger through ransacking,
taking away all favoritism and getting
a payback for disobedience...

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Which is it: you can't get started unless
you're riding some current bigger than your reporting voice
or the best time to write is when you don't have much to say
and without plenty to say about everything...

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People aren't pawns...pushed to places strategically
but the more I seem to disagree....with this pawnscape, politically
My stomach sours watching a globe played like games of "Risk"
  or Chess to bring back that we are not...

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I felt home
In its presence I felt warm & home
With no contact, I feel touched by just staring
Distance meant nothing  for if I could see I could feel
Its light made our nights as we...

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When ignorance led to disaster.  
And citizens became a throng -  
Angry hearts knew not love’s master.
When ignorance led to disaster.  
They beat man-beast; death winds blew faster.
Hatred misplaced was very strong.
When...

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FRAGILE - bold word ;;
illiterate & disturbed coming
& going unheard, ransacking
looking for a something not
here (long gone) take me,
take me where you fell,
so i can fall too- (closure)
misnomer, what a wonder
_____ shaped & reshaped-
your clay...

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Jolted out of my sleep state,
I'm weary-eyed --- it’s 4 am.
It takes a minute to clear the haze
as I wake to the scent of distant fires.

Recalling the news of yesterday,
slowly reality begins to set in:
we’re...

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i never knew
 love could hurt you
through and through
ransacking your very core
shattering the truth of trust
the weight of a single teardrop  
can take the strongest to their knees

i never knew
passion can be a two-edged...

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To Thief
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Thief
His seed is to steal
With his fingers long of sorrow
He will have no regrets tomorrow
Looting and ransacking freely
Escaping plainly and frankly
Everything is now on his back
His sneaky goal is now infamous
He just doesn't...

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There are many,
the threads of a public life
always unravelling
into more sadness.

We read of so and so
and his ending
her dire departing.

The sadness is a gesture,
an acknowledgement
that we knew all along.

Last days
withdraw into a quiescence,
a sequestering of...

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There's freedom in blankets of void
Petulant perception provides but a wash cycle
I'm driven from miles high to sink back among
Notorious ransacking nothingness

I hear the lips clapping
Smacking on ill digested words
The movement and oasis
Triggering fog mirror...

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He smells wood smoke in the air.
It is autumn, and the smolder
of inert sap fills every nose,
ignites flameless fires in shrinking roots.

Now he buries that nose
in a pile of russet and gold-flecked leaf,
a squirrel scolds...

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Always plucking away one by one the seams that construct my well-being and when everything spells out, you run and hide
Like a tornado ransacking my soul, slowly wiping me out, deleting my existence
The impact from...

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Your blasting from the back.
You know your under my skin.
 This is a constant battle.
 Here we go once again.

Your sickness is feeding off of me 
Havent you had enough.
Time to lay down your cards.
Because...

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I'm on a treacherous journey down a barren mind,
a cavernous abyss of unintelligible revelations,
void of any comprehensible inspiration.
I am perpetually staring at a blank canvas,
continually foraging for that illusive phrase,
ransacking my hollow coffers of recollection.
Parchment...

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