Long Shallowly Poems

What my kids too often fail to notice,
and what I am guilty of weighing too lightly, 
to avoid timely discernment,
are contrasts in density of opportunity
and toxicity of risks
hidden within our values and disvalues
themselves.

Disvalues shallowly accepted...

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Moon flower

You lay on white cotton sheets with the hospital logo imprinted
on the cloth and on the fabric of your life talcum powder for
your bed sores anorexic washed out gastric spittle dribbling
from ulcerous mouth facing...

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There is an irrepressible field of thought
We learn resiliently better
more profoundly together
than competitively 
and shallowly apart.

We feel better
in eco/ego-therapeutic teams
more than as isolated egocentric wanderers
more eccentric
than supported by nurturing environments 
ego/eco-centrically populated
with WinWin players.

EcoCentric thoughts
informing...

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Sun hindered sultry earth, wet mound of mossy growth, 
       Cast to my grave way too early, untold secrets held by oath.
     My cross bearing...

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Side by side we lay,
She breathes shallowly 
and I feel her chest rise
slowly, gently against my body
her breasts press against my side
And I quiver, electricity shoots through my nerves
quickening my heart and melting me into...

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After the trauma of separation 
after the slick delivery, the breaking apart
of fluids that fed and breathed for you
while you were still a suckling life-raft 
in your mothers emptying ocean.

While you were that blank slate,...

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Draw a straight line shallowly within the beach sand
The world is on the other side but I have your hand.
Step over it and were both off and running
Take a deep breath the wave is coming

The...

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Trainspotting 
isn’t fun 
not when she’s dead tired 
arms of jelly 
ears full of tears 
	baby wants 
	baby wants 
pick the kids up 
from school
strawberry jam 
sandwiches uneaten 
traffic jam 
	ma I’m hungry 
	baby wants...

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When you are just about to move
And all your stuff is in boxes
You can't really remember what's where
But you know you'll take it all and sort through then
That's my mind at the moment
All packed up
Just...

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Vengeance Is The Sweetest Nectar

	What will it take for the dawning of the truth,
Deny all the gutter trips, mangled by your sweet tooth.
	Deceipt, and deception, immerse eternaly into luster,
Aroused by the desire to possess, a...

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Grounded are the feet that be in the elemental earth
Bounded we the legs that keep the motion of walks
Rounded is the dirt beneath as the pressure begins to mound
Founded the discovery to uncover knowledgeable talks...

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Time is not justly counted by increments...

like a pie all crust can have space without filling 
it disappoints – 

too much wasted by reluctant planning – 

few visions of living ever leaving the station of...

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By a clear mountain stream an enchantress sat skywriting,
her bracelets seemed to jangle a melody as her arms moved.
The wind stopped blowing lest the clouds corrupt her work.

The knight, dressed in black, wore a mask...

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No need to mention any of the names of those who ask me, “Why so quiet, James?”

In truth, I’m quiet since I do not choose to shallowly discuss the evening news, 
to idly chat about...

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There are hands that extend. 

Crookedly they creep, their twisted branches reaching for me. 

Decaying twigs resemble fingers, fingers that coil in midnight locks. 

Ebony hallow, where the beast bay’s at the alabaster moon. 

A...

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No matter where you are
you are with Him for ever;
no matter how far you travel
it is His distance – all matter
and spirit, the substance of
His being. 

No matter how fast you run,
it is His pace...

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Listen,
I'm just as needy as you are,
Maybe more so,
You thought you was narcissistic,
Look at me lost in my own world,
Unable to hear your woes about your own.

But I would never tell you such,
I know it...

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it courses through my mind it burns
covers all the thoughts the yearns

brings me numbness, seeks to tank it
covers grief, a warm soft blanket

clears all thoughts and brings relief
brings surcease to all my needs

the mind is...

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Oh this poem is good, very good.
So unrevealing with its likelihood
of ideal rhythm –
I like its theme.
Oh ideas, these ideas I’m having, falling from behind,
Are whirling shallowly in my mind.
These consonants are diverging away from...

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It's beautiful isn't it? 
Beautiful in it's own wicked way. 
The way they're turning the Earth from inside to out, one so unnatural.
Our skies and clouds are as fake as the women who tread so...

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