Long Shim Poems

inexplicable to me why your being:
beguiles, fascinates, intrigues, lures,
orchestrates, radiates tantalizes this
CVS patron, who dares himself to

let spill forth (like sought after shim
mer ing liquid (perhaps the elixir for
eternal life), aware that thee might
partake draughts...

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Brenda Chim Chim Cherie;
Chimney happy as can be.

While my many poems I am compiling, 
What you should be doing is smiling; 
Mind with load,
Can corrode;
Others may be fooling and beguiling.

Fatality A Reality

Last second was ...

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Once, there was a love grown from fear and sadness.
A sheld of hope built on a shim of confidence.
Delicate but brave. It doesn't seem fragile.
A house caved in from the atmosphere it unraveled.

Once, there was...

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Standing hoeing garden stones
Eyes awash with tears
As memories flood back from
More than sixty years,
To the little village churchyard
For which my dad cared
And which duty I, as a child,
So very unwillingly shared.

He dug the graves, cut...

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Baila, Lilah; move your thing.
Ragtime; Turkey Trot!
Magic step into the Swing.
Show us ALL you’ve got.

Boogie Woogie; Lindy Hop;
Shim Sham Shimmy it.
Snazzy-jazzy, quick-quick, stop?
Jitterbugs don’t quit!!

Hanky Panky; do the Stroll;
Hand Jive; Twist and Shout.
Mash Potato; Rock...

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You see him in photos of black and white,
standing atop logs drawn by big horses,
he wears a thick wool to stay winter’s bite,
almost as this as the draft team’s courses.
Then he’s in a shack built...

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Galactic Soup 
The strings flailed
Gathered in the mist
A universe unveiled 
To what had slipped
Into the darkness 
An unknown abyss
Sucked like a black hole
Where timelines were missed
Endless time warped
Like a void 
Into the everything 
Man had...

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A pristine, hidden stone
Lying in a crevice all it's own
No coroding wind, human hand to bemoan
Virgin beauty to a pilfering world unshown

Steely mason's hand o'er rocky divide did skim
Extracting rocks at a sculptor's whim
Purloined quarry...

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