Long Scoop up Poems

Eric’s revitalised me and my home 
Over his body my fingers would roam
He’s great at fixing and gluing
Expert at banging and screwing
I’m so happy that I sparkle like chrome

All my friends are pretty jealous of...

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I have been searching for a song to sing that has a perfect melody and a special rhythm, I have searched the entire town but that melody was nowhere to be found, I have searched...

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Five miles of neatly spaced suckered palm planted 
Bustling promenade,
Not withstanding a provincial cafe-culture 
Of restaurants and exciting little bars,
Enhance upon regal elegance of the crammed hotels
Regency period style facades;
Their fashionable shadows slowly lifting and...

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GUM AND GUNFIRE
I SIT AT MY KITCHEN TABLE COMFORTABLY EATING A MANGO WITH OREO COOKIES
while a father fights off fearfulness fervently in a far off forest deep in Da Nang
Where even the trees have fangs
And...

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Tea Leaves On The Bosphorus

Seated at a table by the stirring water,
My eyes absorb the shore of Asia.
Minerets and aged worn stone
Stand haphazardly along the banks.
Istanbul is a lady with secrets
She'll lure you with her...

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It’s a quarter after seven, a cloud of silence immerse,
Six frightened souls, the situation a constant curse.
The candle burns dim, it’s almost out,
Dinner was scarce, not enough to go around.

The kids are edgy; the mother’s...

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All these racists with their lies,
filling the airwaves with propaganda and strife,
Stalins with soundbytes, Magellan their drivebys
 the pasts dead end street -topically jacknifed 
like it was the only course for a heading, point A...

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How is a rainbow formed?
Can you explain where the colors come from? Why they fade away?
Next time the rain brings one into view, won’t you pull it from the sky for me?
Travel to the moon...

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Newtonian physics say what goes up must come down
sorry not in the camp of horn tootin, high falutin clowns
justice serves only to rebuke you, not too astute of you
when youre bragging of genetics, a sword...

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Have you ever gone out to the garage, slid behind the wheel of that Bowtie, twisted the key and lit off that big Rat …
Rolled out to the middle of the culdesac, two clicks down...

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On a passing cloud there floats a beautiful dream, an untold one, a secret mission, a magic quest.
Unobserved initially as the sun has gently and graciously adjourned only minutes ago.
Tomorrow’s whispered truths stir in my...

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Moon Spoons

We dive into each other with love from highest peaks of the mountain
               quench our thirst with no parachute needed...

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At the water’s edge I stood.

Oh my heart was invigorated to see the soft ripples in the water.

There was a warm breeze that also moved my hair.

I felt the Lord’s presence all around me.

I took...

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Hello folks, I am your loyal fork - but had to laugh
At a comment below' hard to find a loyal one nowadays',
Fish knives are smelly, 
Many centuries ago, designed for the sharp edge,
To be away...

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I sit here and i wonder , why i have my soul in my lap and this pen in my hand, i've earn my stripes they said, and the blood is not mine to keep,...

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I can’t ever think of giving up,
Giving in to defeat, overcome by the load,
Overwhelmed and overthrown –
Doubting my own worth, my own strength,
The vigor that comes from believing
Even when in doubt, I can make it...

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consider that you have discovered a place that was once
a exotic place for the rich and famous of the world which
is in utter overgrowth of scattered blocks of fireplace
blocks and cinder.  a rather ghostly...

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Skagway, Alaska in the late 1890s was sure a rowdy place alright!
It was seethin' with humanity a-raisin' hell all through the day and night!
'Twas the gateway to Chilkoot Pass beyond which lay Klondike gold!
Why! ...

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I like to think all my memories are floating…some separate…some combined…
in an every-deepening ocean…somewhere in the recesses of my mind.

Sometimes as I walk along the shore when sparked by a feel, a taste, a smell…or...

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            Heaven's lampstand is in it's umbilical 
surrogate station, feminine machine,
golden crystal-mobile nannying the fore-runner of the King of Kings.
A mothering stalwart-synth-work-Defender, 
of the...

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Between Jordan and Israel lies the Dead Sea 
biblically known as Sodom and Gomorrha, 
salty waters where no living thing breathes 
and no known fish in its currents frolicks. 

Just how salty is the Dead...

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My calico Samii
   Has a unique personality
But her peculiar eating habits
   Deeply amazes me.

Whenever I have dinner
   Steak, Delmonico potatoes, broccoli and salad,
Samii always gets into the act
 ...

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I saw a bird on the side of the road the other day. I wondered if if was hit by an airplane way up high in the highest heights. I wondered if it became sick...

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Let’s play.
Tigers have eyelashes.
Crocodiles smile.
The moon is made of cheese.
Shall we pull it down and see?

No? You want to keep it there?
You paint stories on its face?
Share your secrets in its ear?
Without the moon, there...

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If the earth is a cage, I'd break the door and fly  into space on a whim.
The earthly trifles are wearing thin and I wear their badge proudly as I fight from within.
I am...

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