Long Rivaled Poems

Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022

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Friday May 13th, 2022

An excerpt taken from a lengthy tome,
written courtesy a favorite poet of mine.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia  struck within a blink,
I swear yours truly never took a drink,
nevertheless he witnessed
and falsely accused of being a...

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Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history

Predicated on his paying obese sense
to Ronald McDonald patron saint
buzzfeeding his pie hole
courtesy "two Big Macs, Fillet-O-Fish
and a chocolate malted,"
he hungrily nabbed the ?Tuesday,
November 5, 2024? election
ofttimes series of unfortunate...

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When he reached the courtyard DynDoeth stepped from the shadows and greeted him.  One by one each of the Elders also stepped forward.   Erlenkönig greeted each in turn.  There were only...

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Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it corrodes your soul
To see how the stench that follows your...

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I recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof...

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The putrid, malodorous and fowl nauseating smell 
   can still be conjured nearly fifty years later wracked
I never forget ineradicable tangy, sulfurous 
   acrid odor rankled olfaction tract
entire sinus cavity, yet...

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Chapter Three: The Storm

      Suddenly a terrible 'KA-BOOM'! sounded, and thunder shook the ground! The critter congregation began to shout 
and jump around!
     
Preacher thought a...

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She That Rivaled The Glowing Moon

Thy *hyacinth* hair upon white shoulders laid bare
thy face, mirror of love in heavenly skies.
The miracle of thy body, so sweet and fair
its soft innocence, destroyer of worldly lies.

Walking behind...

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August is ending with a heat that gives no mercy to the land or man
so intense that the air swelters off the river into the tree tops,
looking ahead, its as if we are passing through...

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Her smile is unfit, as it illuminates beyond the masses,
a misfit in a world of hollow and half-hearted expressions,
The connection to comeliness, its source, not here –in there, away from the 
world, but evident to...

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AN UNFORGETTABLE EVE WHEN THE WIND OPTED TO  BLOW            
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AN UNFORGETTABLE EVE WHEN THE WIND OPTED TO  BLOW            
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For miles, nothing came remotely close that rivaled her attraction.
No one ever told us, but she looked like some kind of smoke stack,        
utilized for burning debris or...

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Her neighbors claim her as their fairy,
And gather around to protect
This little wood nymph of their forest
Who so needs their love and respect.

They don't know how she came to their woodland.
It seems she is one...

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Once upon a time in the gardens there was a beautiful rose. It's beauty was rapturous. Of to 

what could it be compared? Each year in Spring it would cry it's rebirth and announce to...

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Funny how a sound can be so stirring,
so evocative of the past,
of a certain time and place in our lives.
Yet each time I hear the chimes, I am transported.

Once again, my youthful feet traverse the...

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An Invitation 
from Salt Lake City
(1)	In this great nation, the 
United States of the America,
	People who had been 
residing for quite a while,
	And if you have never 
ever been to Salt Lake City 
altogether
	Should come...

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The wounds split open
My sight goes black
Agonizing, terrifying, panicked 
 
This darkness
So thick
Like cascading velvet
Almost beautiful at first in it’s deception
For my eyes were shut so tightly
I hadn’t seen it falling upon me
Enveloping me in...

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Once I knew to laugh
with the abandonment of youth;
unmindful of shocked gasps and disapproving glares.
Joy and merriment the wings underneath my laughter. 
For the sublime buoyancy laughter gave my soul, I laughed.
My laughter rivaled the...

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We've known each other from the start. 
Now it is time to separate and part.
It has been the greatest thing, having you as a brother. 
If I had a choice, I would never choose another....

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Even when time stands 
Still the wings of smiles 
Crumble in darkness
Life stands still in places
Even where moons twinkle in

Passing moments the only
Picture hanging in this corridor is
One blank captioned “Silence” 
Is always seen when...

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Late one night I found myself caught 
in the moon's gravitational pull on my heart. 
Oh what a weak human, once was I
To be lured by the moon up in the sky.

I thought of myself...

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She studied the Space exploration 
act of 3033 to find where
in history she might
use her Time traveling Machine
It had been said that
she was likely to be seen
as one who interferes in
the activates of space
and would...

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It's probably my attention deficit disorder.
I guess that my attention span is shorter.
Than most other people's anyways.
Stuff gets inside my mind but never really stays.
I'm frustrated irritated and my patience is depleted.
To be honest right...

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