Long Rolling along Poems

A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...

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Ghost Of Tsali Comes

Lost in mist and maze
Ghost of Tsali in the corn
River water runs

Colors of fall alive
“Til moon replaces sun
That’s when Tsali comes 

Corn roots cling to bone
As he tends the empty weirs
This spot...

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Mentors with the BeeTrees

From NorthWinds
come darkening winter
as newborn discontent
waiting to spring forth.

From SouthWinds
come summer's diastasis
climax of full-born wisdom,
contentment for and from all four directions
spread across sleeping hearts
of each nighttime regeneration.

From normalizing WestWind toward East colonializing
patriarchal...

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Allegheny rail train has been rolling along since dawn.
I can hear the patchy sounds of the horn ushered by the wind.
Sounds at first are muffled but become distinct as the train gets closer.

Gulls hovering over...

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As I awake this morning
I remember a Barney song 
for my more oppositionally misaligned daughter.

I love you
and you love me
even if I couldn't realign my four B's,
Brain,
and Branches,
and Belly,
and Butt, 
these four aligned
good government.

If you...

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Right now

A sign out of slight
When I get to it
There will be no surprise
A memory of 
gods behaving badly
Cut it out
The bother and the brother
When do you know
When your not in favor 
I can try...

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I remember being 19 and turning 20.
It was a most troubling transition.
It's rather difficult to explain except that
there was something deeply meaningful
about gradually turning from boy to man,       ...

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New Moon new, new tune
It’s a lovely afternoon
New broom sweeping the town
And spiritual cleansing is scattered all around
The wind is blowing lightly 
And the race is running politely
The crowd is out once more
And people are...

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They have been wandering for decades
Journeying to the land that was promised by their forefathers
A land that would seal the faith of future generations.

They rove night and day guided by a single pillar of light
Looking...

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Over the course of 25 plus years,
I have moved some 20 times in 4 states.
The course was neither aimless nor casual.
It wasn't heavily winding, but the route was crooked.

I have lived in a hotel and...

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the dripping blood from her heart needed to clot

the couple was rolling along in their boat
on a river to nowhere, on a cloudy day
when she decided to push him overboard
she was tired of his cheating...

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the world order became so chaotic 
way after ape already evolved to a man  

	it’s nonsense, if you call this an evolution 
	the ape shouldn’t step on the earth and stand upright 

the sun...

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“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” - Virginia Woolf

Crisp October passes into November,
Risking the silence that seems to be promising…
A whisper...

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I.

I’ve lost my sense of silence…

I’ve lost my self
So now I hate everything
I want nothing to do with anything
Does this make you sad?

It makes me sad, sure,
And even as I curse even that sadness
I cant...

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Old Sof'town*

1.

In old Sof'town,
the jazz struck chords,

the jazz lived, it exploded,
out of the cramped homes,
rolling along the streets,
of old Kofifi,

in tune to countless blazing heartbeats.

In old Sof'town,
Bra' Hugh breathed music, Sis' Dolly too,
and Bra' Wally...

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On this blessed shore,
every gate opens wide around sunset and dawn,
and the foreigners flow in...like waves rolling along;
all movements and images sketched
in linear prospective as if reality didn't exist,
permitting subsistence not to evade
from the sublunary...

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Colours, Revised
  (Revised 1)

I once sought to find my favorite hue
so many colors from which to choose.
Bright reds, shining gold, so deep blues
days later had it down to only just two.

Blue and gold both...

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Under the feet of heartless passersby, a name no one knows 
where from, rolling along the path blood-stained; the name 
wounded from time after time is kicked and trampled
by the absentminded strollers drifting along the...

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It so early it's only four o'clock and it's dark on a freezing cold and wet morning,
A man with a cap rings a bell to let us know times getting on and dawn’s dawning,
As the...

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It feels like today 
is falling into place
when I determine your face
It is bright…
A touch of light
is shone 
as glorious as the sun
Then I slip on my own face

What a fine day
I’m not ashamed to...

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We fell asleep in each other's arms, again.
My arm extended and sat my hand down
firmly against your hip bone. 
I loved the way that felt, even with my elbow
strained, and locked in place. It felt...

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What is the most crucial differentiator; separating an Inventor from a Creator? 

*Notoriety  Patent Greed 

The creator of an invention is given his title as an Inventor—A subclass Creator 

How many other ways may...

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I come whence I go the Lord alone knows 								            like this wheel in the sky this a true rose 									   ...

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"Mother’s Milk"

I don’t know -
what would you have me say?

Life is a gourmond perfume 
rolling along on the notes of air 
intoxicating musk a jubilee
music you breathe and reign in

words lactonic heaven scent
stimulating the beginning...

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You thought you were a big wheel in a big town
But your just a small wheel in a small town
We just keep rolling along when you're not around
Please put your right foot forward
Think of how...

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