Long Sharpens Poems

Hate the feelings of ew's and ugh's...let's pause before we put our paws on this unmanageable cause with silent applause (quiet interest or hushed enthusiasm)
What's the cause of these negative, gross, worthless flawful laws that...

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Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...

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DO NOT FOLLOW ME

Me, myself and I
Get the likes you try
Addicted to self and my
Inflate yourself a lie.

Do not follow me
I don’t pretend to be
Nothing, a nobody
Human not a diety.

Social media making scars
You are not...

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At the exact moment of dawn,
             that micro-second when the sun,
            ...

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I long have been a trail-runner,
and my name is Art Constantine,
sprinting peaks is a thigh-burner,
just as tiring as it seems,
I started this at seventeen.

Most people thought that I was nuts,
I suppose I can’t say they’re...

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Spirit whose work is done
The produce of my poetry
A scented gift 
Designedly 
Bearing the present moment.

I´m unable to make a living from my poetry
Even though i would not freeze in most 
In any winter
In the...

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We ain't lived the blues yet
How the hell would we know
We ain't been there dying
How the hell would any of us 
Ever hope to know

We never even felt it
The hunger and the crying
The orphans and...

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2: SLAM verb: SLAMMED; SLAMMING  1.) to strike or beat hard.
                     2.) to shut...

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I AM A CHILD OF GOD AND I AM  MY BROTHER'S KEEPER---

What’s the matter in this here evil and wicked world?
No cares no love for each other;
Rather fight than hug or just hold hands;
Jesus,...

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This was written first night of my recovery from complex spinal surgery to fix my paralysis, while in ICU.  Still there

.Wee Hours of a Chess Match
I have still been passing
The long, wee hours of...

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I saw her there….A little girl, a baby really… so sad, so alone. How very much I 
wished to go to her, to comfort her and to hold her against my cold dead flesh. 
Yes….I...

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THE CIRCLE OF FEAR
 
It's a world of creatures, great and small,
Living is for all, both big, small, short & tall.
The crocroch, trembling & tiptoeing from the store,
Would scurry away, at the slightest crawl.4

Afraid of...

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The Age of Innocence

The age of innocence now far behind
The levels of love pass slowly by
The elusive joyous one to find
The drive diminishing to even try

Then a voice within cries out
This is not your time...

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The cliffs were very high in Euthyphro's dream ----

   so aloft they seemed many a mile of mystery upon mystery.....

   and cities of pillars and mighty pallisades, and ghost-mists

  ...

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Ready for round one...subject, verb, noun...done.
First, you tried to run, so now let's have some fun!
I got the message at the "PUB," when you poured it in my cup.
Now, get a dose of reality. It's...

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I AM is who you are and what you desire to be or not to be, for I AM You and the honest story.
When I AM is stated there is a reverence for the presents...

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"American Grafitti" took me back again to High School in the 1960's
"Back to the Future's" nifty hot rod took me back in time and almost left me!

"City Slickers" took me way out west, to rustle...

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Struggling in the dark to breathe
I flip the light switch underneath
It's glow surrounds me like a wreath
I've landed in a cave
An icy mountain cave

My pod is running out of air
I pop the canopy and stare
An...

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So we matured, mama, but, it feels that we are still ever-lasting and it seems,
That time smoothes, levels out our movements but it sharpens our faces and our whims
We’re no longer gun powder and honey,...

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A Pinch of Pride

                            A pinch of pride...

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This is war, these are my enemy's.
Standing at attention astride my destiny i look over mine enemy on both fronts. The different 
colors representing pride, adrenaline pulsing threw my eyes, scrupling the battle field of...

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There exists a lake, both deep and black as the darkest night, 
Its surface reflects not a beam but captures all life’s light,
As still as death and not a ripple mars its glassy top,
Nothing moves...

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From the tomb of the ancient bloom                            ...

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The sertraline queen of New Orleans
Getting high on her brandy and coke.
Perched on a bar stool, surveying the scene,
While she lights up another smoke.

Tom Waits is playing on the radio 
“In the neighbourhood”, plodding and...

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 I lost a part of me but it ain’t my heart I try to find,
Its myself that I left in the unknown,
The snakes are around me looking in the path I walk,
Lost in the...

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