Long Retread Poems

What I have for you today is not so much about re-treading an outdated fuel-based system--
little bit like reshuffling the chairs to fix the decay 
of a segregating Country Club.

No, this is addressed to economic...

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Oh to vacation behind the heavy metal door
To escape another election year.
All news is stopped at the door by the guards
Whoever sit in the same place
Waiting
Always
Waiting to retrieve all banned goods
And outside time. 
Between med...

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His thick-soled hiking shoes
tread too loudly
to celebrate time's homing invitation
to hear and see, 
feel and smell resonantly hidden diversity
within Spirit's wooded ridge.

He stops to break from sacrilegious pounding
plodding echoes
reverberating through ears attuned for inside voices,
languaged...

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after dark April 26th, 2022

Prometheus bound out the heavens
to strike fear in the hearts of men and women
reminding us mortals how like oxen yoked
(together via a wooden beam forced
to undergo strenuous labor)
unlike most elderly residents...

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and lastly I'd like to thank my agent
Shifty Placard unkempt as they come
nutty as squirrel cheeks at the Ritz
a little like Santa Claus and Nero
Shifty made me walk the line
between the rolling green hills of...

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Subsequent seances of satorizing sanctities signal two fold sinfold shat sightings of nevertheless neverings that all ways 
super suggest our innate inadequacies pertinent to socio precious
 pontifications post prevalant askings of  the revr
irrevelant rationings...

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Seems I awakened within a dream flying, though staying within 
 the dream, as an eagle I soared. With wings of immense importance 
 not to miss a journey, into the great cosmos. I did...

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I'm living life stuck in the past
To see the light where I lived only dark
A marathon like a walk in the park
That's my perspective on the past

A wind chime's song in a hurricane
The greatest pleasure...

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They looked at me with doubt
The light had long gone out
I was long past my prime
Ripples in a pond subside over time

"That's him?", an onlooker thought it odd
"Yes" his brother said, "I swear to God!"
A...

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Marry a poet 
Who will write you poems 
And treat you; a pet 
Composed many anthems 
With kisses that presents you his QUEEN in a banquet 

Marry a poet, a great bard 
Who will take...

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there's a song stuck in my head
ba da da daaaahhh...
not a lot, but a bit of a bar
ba da da deeeee...
spinning 'round my ears too near
never able to get out of there, i fear
it'll never...

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The thought of seeing you again fills me with dread
I know the day will come; it’s inevitable
Mileage on my heart, feels like a worn out retread
Recycled emotions are undesirable

I know the day will come; it’s...

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Lo! What a fine day it is
All the creatures are basking in bliss.

The sunlight has found his essence in the rippling river
Look the way it flows and dance,
Gleaming and singing passionately by making her voice...

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Lost Words

It was only later
After seeing him hooked up to a ventilator

That I realized what he had said 
And a reflection came that I would later retread

For deep down inside I always knew
That my dad...

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Why are we here on earth, 
because the Lord has something for us each to do.
He has not told us what it is,
but it is not to pine over lost love.
It is said he never...

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Impulsive were the days of youth,
Nattered all through busy evenings,

Thrived to exaltation, absolutely naive,
Harmonious cheerful charm is now a history,
Extravagant fancy now a great mystery,

Modesty with age took a sharp turn,
Obsession faded, as if never...

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Back I go retracing steps.
Against the tide I must tread,
Following the arrows down in reverse.
Each arrow head points back to moments gone,
To a time before the dawn of days past.

The footprints I must retread
Lead backwards...

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Shes' got me changing gears...

burning rubber everywhere...

she can drive this stick shift...

...ramming road blocks...

stop signs and red lights...

crime of passion...

speed is of the clock...

in my rear view...

I see the crash crew...

breaks have failed...

no pulling to...

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Some daysI feel it's time to move and
live by the sea, especially when the ghosts of
Altoona are haunting me..
Many cities in Pa., so rich in history,

They were hey days in their time.
It's no mystery...
This once-booming...

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INSIGNIFICANCE


On earth’s unimagined vastness we creep
Yet unaware that she swims an even vaster pool
Whose abysses can not be plumbed deep
By the longest line of reasoning or rule


Each man tills his small part of the ...

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Peace dwells in mind
Peace is an occurrence of harmony in mind
Where it treads violence retread in fear
Peace is never armed but shields itself in honesty
It it silences conflict behaviors
And ushers in the freedom from fear...

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Life is not finite
We live to live
Not solely to find our place in the limelight
Be and Exist
A tryst must be made to come true
Do not evade and elude
Life is your chance to be you
Shudder at...

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