Long Reveler Poems

                     In the depths of the cosmos, a river flows,
a conduit, and vessel of prose,...

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The beautiful enchantress I call you or the revered Goddess;
So many sunk at your feet to death slow, by your beauty besotted
While for a holy task you surrendered to please an anchoress.  
A mystic...

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If I had a secret life,
 it wouldn't  be secret very long
 for I'm a talker, a reveler of words
 filled with stories that long to be heard;

in the moving shadows of my days
...

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People think I am a freak

Wondering what chaos I shall wreak

Seeing me they want to gag

Just cos I am dressed in rag

Shamelessly begging for alms

Cupping my blistered palms

Destitute, I have no home

Throughout the day I...

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Spring’s Abysmal Guile
By Sy Roth

A vapor rises, rank as the charnel pit,
a corruption of a miasma vast,
as though some sepulcher, long sealed,
split its stony jaws to breathe.
Vile exhalation of a corrupted world.  

The reveler,...

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During colder winters the river freezes over
A vast sheet of ice spreading shore to shore
While the traffic awaits March’s spring thaw,
Old boatmen share traditional waterway lore
And skaters, cautiously marking the depths,
Note where the ice is...

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Two toilets converged in a murky room,
Frustrated I couldn't decide on both
And be a reveler , long I fumed
Stared em down, my dignity in doom
To where it no longer became a joke;

Then took the other...

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I order a Guinness and a shot of Pappy Van Winkle.
My green paper Leprechaun hat is crushed
and lopsided on my head.

That shot of bourbon cost me more
then I used to earn for a day's work.

“I'm...

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Congratulations to Donald Trump
Who gave Hillary Clinton the dump
She looked as clueless as Forest Gump
As voters saw her as Obama's chump

Election night went bump bump, bump
Republicans began to jump, jump, jump
Democrats now in a slump,...

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CULTURE

I AM AN AFRICAN WOMEN
A AFRICAN LEGACY
AN A PROUD NATION
I AM WHAT MY MOTHER SAID I WILL BE
 I AM WHAT MY FATHER THOUGHT I MIGHT JUST BE
I AM THE TRUE REVELER OF MY CULTURE
I...

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In the bush the dancing begins early 
     Leather drums call from far and near. 
          Steady rhythms mark timed steps, and...

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