Long Resuscitated Poems

The early hours of a Wednesday morning in a small country town.
An 18-year-old boy struggles to sleep
He had pain so bad 
all he could do was weep 
he, knee was so painful
he had to go...

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My wife Judith opened my eyes
into the world of adoption for pets
with special needs.

   It takes a special person to give
an animal a second chance at life
by adopting a special needs dog,
or cat.
...

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Sing oh Hummingbird Sing
Sing that beautiful love song so melodiously
The song that made him promise to love her endlessly
And made her fall in love with him hopelessly
He whispered, so luring, the words uttered so softly...

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Bum.Boom....Bum.Boom....Bum.Boom
The sounds of a drum beat resounding over me.
In her eyes I gaze and wonder of how deep I can go,
The essence of her eastern beauty inticed me.
Hair of black satin rests on her flesh,
The...

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We came here pretentious, egoistic, hyper-inflated with our meager academic laurels and
filled with self-adulation of our GPAs
You saw us plainly; our minds almost blank like a tabular rasa, but you saw potential and
so gently humbled...

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Gradma singing her passionate Neapolitan songs 
from a balcony adorned with scarlet roses...her deep voice
not a soprano's, but delightful and expressed in humaneness;
her long golden hair brushed by the summer's aromatic breeze, 
to spark a...

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REVENGE IS SWEET

Once upon a time
almost toothless
The hunchback hag picked
~ a juicy red apple ~
With malicious intent

Toward her stepdaughter foe
The sinful fruit
~ perfectly round ~
Like her snow white face

The mirror mocks
The wrinkled old witch
As she...

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We can speak an entire conversation for hours without a word being said
With each rhythmic movement 
We create waterfalls
Like snowflakes falling down
All around us
I am practicing my martial arts
Since first I saw you
No one will...

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These walls are broken, 
termites eaten, the bricks crumbling 
clay, the remains of dust.
was this ever a house, ? 
Their first fire extinct, 
it was never real, 
The early smiles were deception
A makeup never truly...

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey arose from a little town, yes my lord
A Leo lifting Harlem, kingdom bound, yes my lord
Resuscitated religion around the black man’s looks, yes my lord
Cuddling pickaxe, hoe, and cradling books, yes my...

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Paths of my destiny are filled with thorns and thistles

Not only where I walk but where I lay my head to rest.

Rest is my God given ability, the way my body is capable of deciphering...

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It was an island of piety
out of place in Port Adelaide’s 
working class sea of pubs.
Off the main road,
St Mary’s was a refuge
for the Catholic faithful
and a few wino’s 
pretending a prayer
for an hour of...

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THE PRANKER AND THE PRANKEE

Pranking might be a game to a pranker
But an unpremeditated shocker.
The prank might become costly 
Cos when you presumed it'll be funny,
the fun becomes a life breaker.
The prank cost a life...

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Never knew I'd find you, Didn't think I'd be ready. I held on to the optimism baby, I held steady.  Traveled some bumpy roads but asked God to direct my path, kept the faith...

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The first, carefree summer day a somnolent tune doth swagger
An intense heat hovers then releases a permeable dagger 
Sapped of inner resolve, at noon retired to shaded bower, a truant 
lagger
At eventide, resuscitated from the cool...

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An angel proacting as a contradiction to Spawn,
Hatches plans to murder the Spawn and bring in a new dawn;
The hatred turned into a romance, ironically, 
Killed, many a hellspawn, so very sardonically...!

Did Angela able to...

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Backup book, Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal,
prequel to The Magnificent Obsession,
lags behind, but clarifies its kernel,
secret key for a medical profession.
The basic skills of healing are internal,
excellence demands good deeds of discretion.

April 18, 2020

contest:  Harrisham...

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I put my heart in my fascination cause I want to know you more and more each day
Your thoughts captivate me like the gospels of testament of the lord that fills my vessel
Where you are...

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She walked along the warm and salty beaches of a Bahamian dream, while the radiance of the suns kiss danced on her honey baked skin quickly painting a caramel hue of beauty. She illustrated the...

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They talk about suicide prevention and awareness and I just stare messed how can I preach when I survived my peace, by chance, isolated and overdosed resuscitated by those close, pure chance, I took enough...

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Tammy lived a reckless and careless life.
She answered to no one, lived by her own
rules.
Tammy has been on her own ever since
she could remember.
The streets were her home; she lived the
street life.
The average person didn't...

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Undefeated before the cheering crowds,
colors of green,white and red...
a flag that signifies glorious moments
when the fear of losing
conflicted with the joy of winning;
it took  a tremendous courage and an iron will
to put up that...

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Asclepius is staring at the beam of a balance,
heart on pan and gold bars opposite

the heart is pastel gray the gold is glittering 
the heart not beating the gold glaring blinding the eyes

he ponders which...

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I observe the only leaf descend
from the bare maple tree  winging low,
drifting and freely curling amidst
the nipped air to quiver on the damp alley.
It joins about a larger heap--
all leaves rustling together in place;
that...

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We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Yet more grisly deeds yellow in archives
waiting to be resuscitated and refined.
 
Tyrannosaurus Rex awakes in a drop of amber,
takes a gander, decides to go extinct.
A Dark...

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