Long Scavenged Poems
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And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
scavenged, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck World
I.
In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll—
left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat
of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice
between being and non-being, the eternal paradiddle
of consciousness striking against the drumhead of reality.
Listen: the Buzz Roll...
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Categories:
scavenged, childhood, identity, introspection, loss, memory, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Spoken Word
The Future Child, Part I
I will tell the tale of what happened then,
how ruin came upon this world of men,
what we did to fight it, and how that worked,
what we can do now to escape this hurt.
There’s not many...
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Categories:
scavenged, death, emotions, future, love, science fiction, sick,
Form:
Narrative
P
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The first today.
The first in some time now.
Beneath the strained and toughened husk of tissue,
a heart given shape by the corregated cardboard armature scavenged and rigged together in haste for the sake of offspring.
Years pass,...
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Categories:
scavenged, addiction, betrayal, body, courage, dad, heartbroken, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
Ruins
It's about time we talk of ruins.
So, let us talk, for you never know,
How long ears of hope will remain receptive.
Your lips are missing, and your kisses fall,
Like ripe plums and tint my confession,
Like coffee...
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Categories:
scavenged, age, allegory, allusion, angel, anger, angst, april,
Form:
ABC
Leather Piecemeal
As mortal veils dissolved, our bodies merged in the ossuary's somber symphonies, two mistress awakened by the velvet-wrapped cadavers, our disinvested hands tracing syllabic patterns across the olive verdure of our skin, as maelstroms of...
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Categories:
scavenged, art, beautiful, beauty, cute, dark, deep, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Glorious mud
A simple recipe of water, silt, soil and clay
Nature's potion; so powerful, so useful, so dangerous
Uncontrollable and untethered is this egalitarian mixture
Loved and loathed by human and animal
Low tide, the muddy shores of the Victorian...
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Categories:
scavenged, environment, fate, life, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
We Are Not Built To Last
HE: I felt so alive for a minute there.
The moonlight struck your face.
Beauty fired my senses, arousing.
SHE: Tell me, I need to know you care.
HE: What will that tell you, what will it mean?...
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Categories:
scavenged, life, love, time, love, me,
Form:
Blank verse
Old Brick Wall
i dreamt
i moved into a apartment
with an old brick wall
and its decaying face
the old light hanging from a thread
swings on the open breeze
from the window
time seems to slow down to a crawl
so i can see...
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Categories:
scavenged, angel, good morning, magic,
Form:
Ballad
Miracle On 10th Street
On many long, drawn out nights, his routine was to
shuffle aimlessly along dimly lit city streets.
Much of the time, his only companion was a
concealed remnant of cheap bottled wine. He
scavenged for food and money. He...
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Categories:
scavenged, loneliness, loss, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Holy Georgina
Holy Georgina
Mother of Regina
Pray for me in this sanctified arena
That I may escape your Hurricane Katrina
With your scintillating fingers around my oesophagus
How do I stop your wind and take a breather?
Maybe it was I that...
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Categories:
scavenged, addiction, allusion, crush, desire, funny love, hyperbole,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Snow Child
.
The child, the crow and the old man
A solitary crow on stilted tree was perched
An ugly black bird with beady eyes that searched
For carrion across the shady contoured scape
Where glimpsed a bent and shadowy shape
A...
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Categories:
scavenged, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Song of the Phoenix
Trodden down and beaten out,
That is me for you and whole of the world.
While inside me I still shout,
"Wait to see my rage unfurled".
Since long have I been messed and marred,
Raped, ravaged, killed and...
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Categories:
scavenged, blessing, encouraging, faith, humanity, identity, meaningful,
Form:
Verse
Longing For Absolution
He spent the night seeking the smoke of the lucky
for the things once known:
the warm bed, the place to shower, the cup of hot coffee
and the things unknown.
He wandered deeper into the city where the...
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Categories:
scavenged, longing,
Form:
Free verse
London 1647
Like the mediaeval skirmish, defeat with stale dismay
Adjacent to every dwelling the silent donor plague;
Masquerades of scarlet doom as those who pass away
Unhygienic circumstance with umpteen reasons vague.
Black Death buboes mystery and evil stench of...
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Categories:
scavenged, animals, sad, social,
Form:
Ballade
the crows know me
(inspired by "Gifts of the Most High" by G Alan Johnson.)
The crows know me, and I, in their untamed glares,
and wild, accepting, onyx eyes find a solace.
No need for ID, for they’ve been watching me,
my...
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Categories:
scavenged, beauty, dark, death, fantasy, humor, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Hot Wheels
The honesty of kin, childhood, the win
to have it all, the prize, the goal,
a Mother's prayer, the senseless maul,
somewhere within my reach, still small!
The hot wheel, faded, paintless steel
within my hand ~ my heart did...
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Categories:
scavenged, childhood, son,
Form:
Monorhyme
Back From the Dead
Back from the Dead.
I viewed others lives through a telescope
For far too many lost years
For I, lived in limbo
Gave up hope
Tried to climb a slippery slope
I know what darkness is
It's a place in hell
I know
Only...
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Categories:
scavenged, anxiety, depression, heartbreak,
Form:
Verse
Love Cast Out
Cast out and ashamed
People did not mention her name
She roamed the streets
Scavenged to eat
In a judgemental world
That saw her as weak
For loving someone that she shouldn't
And though she was cast out he was allowed
To carry...
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Categories:
scavenged, beauty, betrayal, humanity, lost love,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
When Heidi Klum ( For Chris )
When Heidi Klum
Only the secrets of nights enveloping
Could hear the whisper
Heavy breath gasping
Heady whimper murmuring
The lover’s touch
A purring black panther
Set all at once to devour her
In tender mouthfuls
Of the Teutonic fruit
The flush of blond
And...
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Categories:
scavenged, fantasynight, night, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
He Leaves For the Leaves
HE LEAVES FOR THE LEAVES
Leave work? Then I want to be dazzled by the crop
Of fall trees still...
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Categories:
scavenged, allegory, nature, river,
Form:
Couplet
The Alpha Male
The howling of the lone gray wolf
His fingerprint sound waves
Reaches out to his alpha female
And to enemies like staves
His hunt unfruitful this night
No ungulates found alive
Few scavenged tidbit pieces
Barely enough to survive
His alpha mate...
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Categories:
scavenged, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Scavenger Survivor
I'm a carnivore who craves the taste of meat
and yet, I can't kill anything. It just isn't within me.
Until now, all of my protein has been provided in great variety,
all pre slaughtered and butchered and...
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Categories:
scavenged, life, nature
Form:
Rhyme
Our Own Is What's Left
A loss of ambition,
The gradual loss of motion,
Chained down by a comfort addiction,
Through messages in bottles I can display emotion,
Ballads of personal insecurities and holy benedictions,
Yet for all of my...
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Categories:
scavenged, christian, confusion, depression, emo, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
May Visitors
Several small visitors came today.
Arriving one by one
they gathered on the back of the worn cushions
of the aging tattered lawn chair
shaking off the cold drops of rain upon...
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Categories:
scavenged, bird, may, rain,
Form:
Narrative