Long Replacements Poems

He who is contented is rich
He who is determined has strength of will
                      Laotse,...

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During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith in plodding persistence.
We were...

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Each day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minerals,
‘cheap’s’ turned to ‘gold,’ not by Chemistry’s...

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Carson’s got a football game at 3 o’clock in Solon, and if he’s going to make it he would have to leave right now…
And Landon’s got a baseball game at 3 in Cedar Rapids…it’s two...

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Danny’s got a baseball game at 4 this afternoon, and Sarah’s playing soccer at 4:30. Holy cow!
Tommy’s in a tournament that starts at 3 p.m., and if he’s going to make it, he would have...

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She lay on the sofa,
Two arthritis pain pills nearby, 
Holding a thin romance book
With a thin plot involving
An empty heroine, an empty hero,
Explicitly but tastefully making love.

I’ve heard, she said, closing the book,
Marking her place...

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Step right up it's all the rage, 
 it's the dawning of a brand new age. 
The wonderful world of Iron and Clay, 
 finally our time to shine, let's not delay. 

Come get in...

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Gold is the color in the veins of that ore
and red is the color in the veins of war.
Bankers have bested alchemists of old
and found a way to turn blood into gold.

With a false flag...

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Fantasies float through the psyche
Replacing all thoughts of miscommunication
Infatuation and lustful Inspirations of a lesser form
Gurgle over closed eyes and slanted head
Leaning toward the floor
My pencil keeps tapping the side of the paper
Blank even though...

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I walked next to the still lake named after a saint in the rain.
The roots of the pine trees, 
gnarled knotted,
 	twisted pushing against the rocks and clay, 
dissolving it providing for life.
Rain drenched me,...

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We make it in digital so that nothing real exists
Beyond the firey belly thought horizon
Far beyond the fraudulence of existence
Numbers and symbols form and this replaces our language
The heart is gone, nothing but rom and...

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My Grandfather's Grocer Shop

I was born in Liverpool - England and
I remember back to when I was a child
how I marvelled at the way things were done
in my Grandfather's Grocer shop. in the early 1950s.
I...

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I was born in 1943
in a rural backwater safe from the bombs
also a safety net still akin to the 19th century.
Neither electricity nor gas
only an old oil lamp and candles for comfort.
The luxury of the...

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I can't connect, I won't
This life knows no other option
I am dying daily
A piece at a time, I'm numb
You keep coming undeterred, driven by a higher force 
Somebody is keeping the score but the results...

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Do you believe in Politics?
If not, that means you don’t care you.
Politics is only a path to develop,
A civil society, where everybody,
Without any barrier, can enjoy a life.

A person who understands politics,
He never blames when...

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Have You Ever Hidden an Ide Before?

To where would I be riding and abiding?

If and when I ran over a Glad Tiding

Who had forgotten to bring his starch

Then turned out being in an ide of...

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God’s Kind Of Poetry Over Lunch

It starts off like a molecule but much smaller
God goes on vacation in that deep ocean there within
It takes centuries at great speeds to find the place
To locate the center...

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She stood apart at the other end of the room defiant, alone and resolute. No matter what they thought she would not let them define her. She felt the air heavy with avoidance, not that...

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How come I never looked like Hot Stuff in a sundress?
My sundresses by comparison look anemic and shapeless
My figure is not what it used to be (it is hopeless)
It’s fallen down, spread out and looks...

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I'm a clothes addict, my flow's magic
8 miles underground to choke rabbits
Nose habit that grows when I overdose 
But speak truth so it shrinks like Pinochio
Take lines a pony won't, stay unstable
Experiment, opperate and lay...

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Living in my bedsit in the tower of  the old folk
Watching television, I heard somebody speak
A robot does my cleaning and it does not even smoke

I think I am invisible, I wear a ...

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sense when did Isreal replace the Nazi's as 
an evil oppressive regime
how in the world did it let APARTHIDE! 
become it's terrible theme
why are it's officers acting like
the old German SS
terrorizing citizens, women and children
in...

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The publisher of Roald Dahl’s books
Thought changes should be made
To make the books “inclusive,”
But attention has been paid

With many writers speaking out
To criticize the plan
(Despite the fact that Dahl’s ideas
Made many not a fan).

An example...

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sometimes love is
a world misspelled
a cold that burns
a pain that yells
a gulp of whiskey
instead of water
besides an angel
the devils daughter
a cure that makes 
things worse
a blessing that turns 
into a curse
where cheeters get
the first place...

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I can buy almost everything I need
All of the essentials, paid with my credentials
Sideline items, and pleasurable travels
Scrumptious food and sweets to fit my mood. 

I do need to borrow some time
Many places to go,...

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