Long Rovers Poems

MEMORIES OF WAR 


In prison we turmoiled 
packed up cards to fall 
whilst they sucked 
genitals like bonbons 
a quartz on a table
gleamed its knowing

War torn ghettos with 
swollen stomachs 
stretched wide, auras 
shattered, splintered...

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We turned off before reaching Kings Lynn and headed down a road that would take us to Henderson Aerodrome a local flying school, we were waved through the main gate and headed onto the main...

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The world today is split in two
… or three... or four... or maybe more,
but nonetheless, one must confess,
all wage their wars as heretofore.

While blunderbusses prey for us
within our world where gods deceive,
atomic war, white phosphorus
and...

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While rambling like a vagabond in a seraphic poetic submersion, in a remote region, witnessed the most captivated sight ever, 
a sleeping valley rippled in wild blooms, as sparkling in mystical celestial beam, in the...

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The first
close-up of Mars      was 1996  since then-
a flotilla of  fly-bys   orbiters     landers     and rovers

fourth planet from the...

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Let the honey drips from your lips and spill into my sacred dish
Let the sorrows that you feel melts with the dark clouds as they fade with the beaten skies upon which your destiny lies,...

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Once upon a fairy tale,
Lived a colony of tiny folk
Who decided to set sail,
Because across the pool 
Lay greener pastures
Of which they wanted
To become masters.
For tiny folk to cross this pool
Took courage, had to be...

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I am the prize catch
I live in an artificial lake
	fed by a nappe phréatique
I was put there to keep 
	lesser fish: carp
      from taking up too much space 
I live...

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Mars the fourth planet from the Sun and named after the God of War,
      The first close-up was in 1996 and since then a flotilla of orbiters;
Fly-bys, landers, and rovers...

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Red planet in the dark, 
Iron Oxide lights your spark.
In search of great, there is not much greater,
then the planet of valleys, deserts and craters.
Spots of white look not unlike snow,
but, in fact, are storms...

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sunday morning angel
blue wings and purple hair
fingers tattooed at the tip of her shoulder
if the sun vacates your skies it's over
children sing songs of burgundy rovers
I am your rent my lover

camel crushes
rated your sweet plushes
crowded...

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Yes, This Day Is Done

In the corner of the deck unseen,
An old lady with a floppy straw hat,
Tired, arthritic, reads in afternoon's cool,
And listens for the dogs.

For first there is a hum on the roads,
Then...

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Opportunity and Curiosity
Lost their sweet little velocity
On a sojourn in space to a volcanicity

Mars, the god of war reddened to see two freaks
Were they the angels that Zeus had sent to bring life?
Or were they...

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Similar to the way a poet begins his creative process
I'm not writing this—I craft hastily as views progress

Doubt often sneaks in and affects how a choice feels
The words used in charming, deceitful deals

Limiting their ability...

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Looking back now on my adolescence
so many years ago much has now past
many struggles came across my path
but in time the dye was cast

Living in the sixties as I did
the music scene affected me
loving the...

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In this trying time
I try to find courage in living
To feel the essence of my breath
In the  ravaging moments of a conscious treachery
Chaos echoes at my sanity
As I question my existence 
In the presence...

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The sun drenchs and heat soaks the air.
It throbbs with fumes.
The drivers of the three wheeled, canvas covered
taxi’s curse, beep, and press
their way between motor cycles
with garishly clad riders.

Males in western-style helmets 
drive women, dressed...

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A Son's Tribute (spoken at my Dad's Funeral)

A quiet man,
A family man,
A proud to be a father man.
A handy man,
A lively man,
Not known to be a dandy man.
A humble man,
Clear thinking man,
A need to know...

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Not that long ago,
humans were hunter-gatherers living in caves.
And along with the Neanderthals,
we figured out how to create fire.
But unlike them, we also learned how to sow crops,
domesticate animals, and construct shelters;
that edge allowed us...

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Pot belly men of our great 
Nation 
Ambassadors of poverty
Looters of National treasures
Breeding nest of corruption
Masters of lies and deceit

See what you have done 
See what you have turns our 
daughters into 
Making them slaves...

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In pursuit of curves, some choose the lift,
A quest for beauty, a transformative shift.
But amidst the surgeries, a deeper tale,
A journey where self-love might set sail.

No judgment for choices, the paths we take,
Yet ponder the...

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A One-Way Trip to Mars

By Elton Camp  

Thousands are clamoring to take part
When colonization of Mars does start

To inhabit this planet, humans choose
And existing technologies will use

Mars rovers will prepare the way
The base where...

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Trip to the moon.
We hope to leave very soon
We packed our bags
And into our spaceship we zoom
Up into the sky
And into deep space
We have never seen such a beautiful place
So strange and grotesque
As I write,...

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Dead planet

Walk, just walk, deserts, mountains, valleys, ravines, and craters give the view
In horrific landscapes, no life exists, oceans, seas, forests, or green flower fields.
Silence the ruler of this planet, the invisible frozen past from...

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From storied myths, unicorns surface,
though hard to see for they're shy.
As dusk pauses and stars show purpose,
they visit dreams in slumber's soft sigh,
yet, sometimes seen in blink of an eye.
Unicorns play in fields of clover--
planting...

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