Long Scald Poems

Isaac's son
saac's son
Saxon
O Israel where are you
I know you are not a Jew
Joseph come home
come home O child come home

I spy David's thrown
we'll have to make preparations
to bring it back to Jerusalem
so that when our...

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A priest once told me that the lump
on my hand was a ganglion,
a fortress of fat besieged by health.
At last it burst and the hand swelled
like an old man's,
shovel shaped and splayed.

It was her black...

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She rose from the table moving slowly to the sink. This was not her favorite time, too much time to think.  Her body moved from memory now, the right bit of dish detergent, she...

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In you lies the timeless bittersweet dichotomy of divinity
The darkness and the light breed in you, their delicate fleshly host
God...God is in your eyes...
In that divine light gleaming from the black hollows of your pupils
God...

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13/3/2012. 

Doleful lugubrious quests feverously churn within my mind,
To quell thirst of my hunted and sought cravings consigned.
Every night and every day they scald and scorch,
Thoughts charred smothering move in and fade away, akin a...

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A Woman’s Wake up Call 

So many regrets,
I wish to send, 
a mend, 
a fix or change.
Numerous decisions,
Not yet set,
Only just rearranged. 

A life time of broken hearts, 
Now presently one.
Preheating each mistake,
I’m left to...

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always ...
       "always", you confessed me ...
              "until the stars themselves grow cold ... "
 ...

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Nobody Likes A Know-It-All

(Or ...  'Kamikaze-Mouth)



Nobody Likes A Know-It-All
Especially If They Spout Like A Big Gas Ball
Especially If Debates Turn Into A Brawl
Until Everybody Thinks, "Oh, What Gall!"
... Nobody Likes A Know-It-All

Nobody Likes A...

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In a ever expanding vast ,
dense,dark ,wild forest,
crooked ,cracked,bent trees,
which provide shade ,bearing
fruits venomous ,with
roots rotten deep down
and spreading to its offshoots.
In the midst ,lies a sandalwood,
spreading enchanting fragrance
without acknowledging its inner
essence and withering away
for...

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All that glitters ain't gold
Weighs that we've been sold
Don't let my words scald or scold
Listen
Hear the wise 
Of an owl with eyes
As old 
As the first
Uni
Verse that I learned
With a scowl upon my brow
Only to...

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he’s a raver, deep from marrow, born
who screams at moons to curse the morn
and though his flesh is bloodless, torn
he woos the beast inside him
for night alone won’t hide him

he creeps the nettles, scratched and...

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On a grassy verge above the surging rill 
she stood fair haired and proud,
three leaf clover substrate at her toes.
Clutching saline bouquets I had plucked 
from my neighbours walk-in green house.
Woman of resplendent peerage cast...

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I revere you here, in the midst of the flames
Which scald incinerates and purifies the faith,
And hurled ash and smoke into the frames
Where flowers blossomed before our birth.

Which scald incinerates and purifies the faith
Where you...

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In perpetual slow motion the wheel of fate will turn,
What is given in abundance will surely be taken away.
Leaving only questions of why that scald and burn
When the bill seems so unfairly high to accept...

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…  Violinist Play…
A Melody Today
Be My Accompaniment
And Ambient Confidant

… Violinist Play
A Tune For Me Today
You Have Skill To Squeeze …
Arrows - On Long-Bow Breeze

… Squeeze And Score Thru Symphony Halls
… Squeeze And Scale Up...

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Acrid tears have dried upon my soul.
Their tracks painfully erode
the partition I hold before myself
and the world I need escape.

Thin as rice paper, are my emotions.
A false step rips the calm I hold.
Displacing my hopes...

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The new sun hath risen again and shone
O beauteous sun, its flawless perfection it hath shown.
Thus light from it wast of haven impeccably urged,
For the destiny of its evil deeds’ concomitant wast yet purged.
None hiatus...

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Bound by the unchained*the brave Scald                             ...

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Beginnings Excite but Are Difficult,
Getting Out of Bed to the Alarm,
Deciding What Needs Doing is Occult,
Showing Up at the Office Can Harm,
The Urge to Exclaim "Halt!",
School Often Makes One a Worm,
Lines Blank on Paper May...

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Brand those scriptures, honey
Brand those scriptures, darling,
Brand those scriptures, honey,
Brand ‘em fleet and wild ---
Cease and retreat, honey,
Scald those chapters.
Scatter them over, darling
Now! Advance
... With your dagger.
Brand those scriptures, honey,
Brand ‘em, honey darling.

Believers are going...

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I  HAVE ONLY ONE DAY TO LIVE

I  really I want to be close beside  you
But am writing because you are too
Far away to travel, now at sunset
It is too long since we...

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The blind self righteous scald dreams
The rotting of robotic conformists
Shadowing every new dawn
Weaving the web of lies snaking around the necks of the sentenced
The punishment of invisibility
A life confined to the masks of the ball

While...

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(vrs 1)
dont touch the fire
the fools always said
dont make the mistakes
you'll only end up dead

(vrs 2)
dont touch the coals
they only can burn
so i waited in line
till id have my turn

(chorus)
you never know until you try
so...

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June has raised her fiery head!
Consistent and grating schemes commence
to appear from her adamant attitude.
Searing flames are felt
against my touchy coddled skin,
the arrogant sun
smolders me in misery;
my face is slapped with only
random drops of rain...

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Jalapeños popped 
with that french kiss;
You may just have the heat 
to handle me;
Careful, dynamite explodes with a 
single spark.
Savor spicy slowly…

Blood and lust;

Your villainous eyes so vermilion,
possessing the vile light of the macabre.
Ignite me...

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