Long Retaking Poems

Acid has become our rain
and oceans with mercury do we stain
dioxin lies beneath our ground
in everything toxic materials be found
 
E-coli is used to alter genes in food
where recombinant DNA is understood
heavy metals do the...

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Tyrants Walk 

What shall I feed my children? 
The garden is empty, 
the plants have been pulled up. 
The dog, we ate already. 
There are no rats in the traps. 
Instead, they live in the...

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even her name evoked colorful images
Ginger November, a student of mine
quiet girl with ebony hair
a blessing to teach till family troubles intervened

divorcing parents of a Catholic schoolgirl
Ginger tried to keep the burden hid
enduring much hardship
struggling...

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AntiPoem 19
“Apache”

(Poet’s Instruction: Softly play “Apache” by Jorgen Ingmann, 1961, while reading)

Olathe and Yamka
Cochise and 
Mescalero 
Varlebena - forever
Ya’ateh – Hello to
These streaming flower gardens 
These feathered priests of Gaan 
Their white flags of truce...

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The Return!
 
Echoes resonate - in vast empty streets
Confining humans with apps and with tweets
Papers flutter down dark hollow caverns
Shops now closed - and so too the taverns
Cats stroll their beats – midst mice and...

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You tell him said the sweet tooth elf
With candy cane all over his face
I would said the supervising elf
But I'm too busy running this place

Maybe Dasher could tell him
For he likes him the best
Dasher's not...

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You Fall ...

the ground of your reality dissolves in this
stream of distraction, this inconvenient passion
the mawkish pop music you mock
is now singing your story, as
your thoughts, your breath, your blood
all consumed by his eyes, his...

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Am I made of chocolate? I don't feel sweet
But when I am near you I melt at your feet
This puddle you stand in; it used to be me
A bit of a mess now but still...

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Another war, another truce
    Israel leaves so many ends loose, and yet
  Dozens die, so Thousands may live
    The horrific result full-scale war might give

  The Jewish...

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Something seems amiss,
 yard creatures abound today
 demanding and fighting over seed and food.
The usual half dozen squirrels
 have doubled up,
 unfamiliar birds have come.
Each more determined and persistent
  than the residents
  the...

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I have lived a hundred different lives -
Each as different as water is to stone.
I have dreamed a few far-away dreams
To discover that they were mine alone.
I have felt at times a trace of love
But...

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Oh mankind what loathsome and perverse creatures you are.
You talk of giving yet you steel.
You talk of peace yet you make war. 
You talk of love but still you hate.

Oh mankind you are the great...

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I'm a new creation, going through 
construction; He's replacing and 
erasing my sinful nature that had 
me facing destruction...

Finally I've awakened, after all the 
breaking, I've been shaken, no 
mistaking, this walk I'm delightfully 
taking,...

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Legends were created here within script 
edges required in content to carefully encrypt
Breaking harmonic rules outside the norm 
Retaking realities in rhythmical uniform 
Baptized them in the atmospheric emotions
Arising with the highest of promotions 
Alternating...

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AUTUMN CLEANING CLEANSE Part One.
It’s time for fall cleaning, a cleansing;
And in this the autumn of my life.
I’m retaking my vessel God has loaned me;
I’m cleaning His house renewing, rejuvenation, revising throwing out;
All things not...

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