Long Ravings Poems

The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.

The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...

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I was half-mad with despair,
hopeless in love and life,
at the end of my rope--
so I chose to drown,
to cease all pain in
sweet oblivion. to be
no more, to be gone....

And when I flung my
young and strong...

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Pride goeth before a fall,
It shall be said, long after.

How well the phrase fits this Argive king,
Come far across the wine-dark seas
In his gleaming ships of war
To rape the wealth of other men's homes
All for...

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A hundred years have come and gone
 to what wonder and tragedies 
  have you belonged?

My father:
Born in the aftermath of a world at war
 danced to the flappings of the twenties roar,
a time...

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III-Jana

Four months following Marie’s conviction,
Jana walked calmly into the prison,
there to see her former sister-in-law,
doing twenty years for sale and possession.

She had a purpose she needed to see through,
Jana had to see Marie and tell...

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You ever heard those people who
always spout these conspiracies?
Think there’s schemes behind everything,
it’s just so laughable to me!
Like remember a few years back,
in the days of the orange man,
he claimed that his first opponent
had hatched...

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I preach love
to hearts sterilized by hatred.
No joy,
only trauma in these grieving souls.
My dignity has never worn chains.
I appreciate my life
by watching all its dramas unfold.
To be a free and just man
is not a crime.

No...

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Mother would patschke
early that day in the kitchen,
and recruit any guest, who
blindly ambled thru front door
suddenly trapped unwittingly
squarely (triangulated) into kitchen
forcibly impressed to help

set up buffet tables
and/or given carte blanche to prepare
some mysterious dish,
(a hodgepodge...

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Everyone says no 
It is not to be so
Down that road you are not to go
For it will only be paved with pain and woe

Everyone seeming to know what's best
Rantings and ravings leaving no time...

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By nature, zetetic,
he doubted the yetic,
but xenogenetic? That just seemed absurd.
A known workaholic,
scoured feeds from Videtics,
but was unsympathetic, in a word.
At best, theoretic,
and in large part, synthetic,
only the rabietic were on board.
Tilting towards quixotic,
their fevered...

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"Good morning and welcome to Personal Savings…”
Here we go, it begins – the rantings and ravings…
“At last!,” screamed the lady, “what’s taking so long?
To pick up your phone – I can’t stand that song!
Your service...

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No way to dodge fiat decreeing death sentence 
for this rambling man
cheesy alias con commit tented mouse élan
Who felt unready to kick the can
On account of violating ban

Against abominable illegal mandate
With no way to commute...

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THE BOOGEYMAN WILL GET YOU-LOOK OUT!!
They have said that to me ever since I was a wee boy
Lurking under the sheets,in the closet,behind one's back
Especially at night when we are susceptible to  the vivid
imaginations...

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suddenly from somewhere
a street urchin
an untamed bird of the wider sky
dropped down into the circus tent.

before him unfurled,
scenes eerie, awesome!
soaring lions and tigers,
gibbering baboons, caravans of camels,
animal tamers and acrobats,
artists balancing on poles,
swinging from bars...

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Nor are they null…..As in null and void
Annoy     annoyed
Overdrawn    overjoyed
But who the hell would be overjoyed to be overdrawn?
Yawning……yawn
Yawn as in what I do when my girlfriend begins...

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Nor are they null…..As in null and void
Annoy     annoyed
Overdrawn    overjoyed
But who the hell would be overjoyed to be overdrawn?
Yawning……yawn
Yawn as in what I do when my girlfriend begins...

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Are you offended by my Careless word
Do I Despise

Paradoxes of Similes and Adjectives of the Absurd
Can you not stand,the Meaning of my simple Word
Dressed rather plainly
Upfront in what I have seen or ,perhaps, Heard
Children can...

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Ravings. Arrival of eggs of the oval shaped lands. Dominated by rivers if bright yellow and encased in mortar shells. Atomic wisdom sticks. Canes to punish the bushes. Yet the murmur from a cacti is...

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I wish that I could, like that famous bird,
stick my head into the sand.
I’m so weary of their lies.
It seems to have gone on forever, 
this bickering and denials.
Each says he’s right, the other wrong,
leaving...

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She love herself a slice of lie,
with a cup of confusion early in the morning
It gets her day started off royally right
She loves to hear something went wrong,
and the job just done was all messed...

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Creating in me learner’s wondrous cravings
Alluring my mind around discovery arena
Painting possibilities, vividly picturesque 
Teachers* lead toward pursuits, triumphant
Instilling in my heart values, illuminating
Vanquishing ignorance vis-à-vis great ventures  
Always captivating soul for exploration agenda…...

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Am I living a delusion, for I have
a mania, a verbo grapho obsession
oh yes, I have a fixation
for words and writing . . . 
sometimes I am wrapped in melancholia
free-floating in strangeness
euphoria is when I...

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I lie and watch the clouds go by; 
the birds flying high… 
wondering if Batman and Robin, Spiderman, 
or Superman was once a kid like me. 
Did they ever doubt what they 
would grow up...

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She plunks down a plate of egg rolls
Man, oh man, do these greasy pieces of heaven take tolls
On my heart, dear Mama
Shows me love with food piled on tables that never end
Iced tea, Pho, spaghetti,...

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She introduced herself to the staff as their new vice-principal.
It was not the truth,
Not quite a lie yet either.
In truth, she had
Warned the principal
She was after his job.
The principal did not get to choose
His own...

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