Long Short changed Poems

I was really impressed and refreshed                             ...

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 Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
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"LETTER OF INNER RE-EVALUATION"

As I think about the future moving forward, it seems that I miscalculated the opportunity laid before me. In this moment of strife and turmoil, should I act, without taking a full...

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Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn
				                             …at the...

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SPRINGTIME MEMORIES



Mountain sentinels
By ancient town;
Clear waters cascade


Cobblestone streets
Winding pavements;
Trade offerings buzz


Fertile plains
Crystal clear waters;
Shady trees guard


Treasure-hunting stroll...
Through Lijiang Old Town;
Curiosity detours


So many things to see
Pleasant fare tempting;
Buying spree bargains


Artisans at work
Township flings open trade;
Silver metal...

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Thirty years working as an Early Childhood teacher,
With spells working with children of all ages,
Including teenagers with messed up lives,
Has taught me that gay or straight,
Or anything in between,
The one thing you can do for...

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Rear view mirror

Objects, objectively put, are  closer  
than they  appear. But it doesn’t say it all. 
With the fair signs that spewed  forth once turning to
a slew of  pre-twitter ...

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Murmur no things
or strings of sounds...
Could not care less
more-ish whispers
were Wicked
Whips of Words-
Weighted.
Tongue- lashing sharp
fork- tine Torture.
Cat-0-nine-one-one-tales...
Thirty-nine...
Forty-less-one
thrashing...
thrashing...
Thrashing...!
                  ...

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Let me begin by saying that I'm so very sorry
but if I don't kill you, you're going to kill me.
I wish there was another way but no other solution will come to me.
If I Don't...

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I guess this had to be said
The root causes for the way
I am kept awake at night 
Summer heat no sleep
My only companions are
Past events and the opinions
My soul resents. 

I guess it had to...

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It is 9:17am on Wednesday, October 14, 2020.
As I was leaving Folsom after an early morning doctor's appointment,
I crossed a very familiar intersection that I have traversed many times
before. But this time was different, and...

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tell them i’m gone
tell them i’m gone to change my name
give them any name
i’ll not give them another name

tell them i’ll not take my father’s name
no more father than i’m my own
i do not create
i’m...

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Chinks of light filter
thru pitchblack emotional prison
vestigial shadow figure hunkers,
an atrophied, mortified, petrified old man
implacable self destructive nemesis
birthed in league pitiful human shambles,

his abysmally forlorn existence
scotched, sabotaged, severely short changed
agonizing depression tortures psyche
family abandoned nsync,
entrenched...

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I believe
our current overly competitive economy of commodification,
our environmental critical climate transitional era,
is a blip on the screen of history
and autonomic, intrinsic perma-culture,
a Positive Deviant aberration
now drawing to a quick close
because both history and culture...

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The being , being of human in structure and form
O human being i have observed you, living lavishly
The being , being civil in manner and attitude but yet
Unable to maintain the civilian in the human...

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Grizzled veterans gathered about their brother's bier,
To reminisce and honor their late departed peer.
They talked of yesterday when they were young and gay,
The good and bad times they'd shared along the way.

They had shared the...

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I haven't got what it takes to quit
'just play my hand n' get on with it
some might pray or say it's written in the stars
Holding up answers with exclamation marks
     ...

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The shock that I felt was enormous,
as the tab on the cat food I pulled,
a fountain of biscuits shot out of the top-
the box, it was actually full !
I stood, disbelieving, bewildered,
this never had happened...

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"A hand that gives receives" 

Sad ! Sad to see we've been reduced to nothing but beggars
Lining up on the streets to receive 
The same streets that we lined up our voices
Chanting out for change...

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In the midst of myself I see all a named through a blame of crystal ball garbage self imposed heaps of anarchic monumental fever itches slowly coalescing compost inflaming frolicking one step beyond destitute drowned...

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SYLVIA WAS AN ‘A’ STUDENT 
and Alpha woman

The Abyss was bared, and malevolently yawning,
The deep black pit of endless loss to rile
You, and you didn’t know the world was turning;

And you saw the winter trees...

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In my dreams
I am limitless
Laws of nature
Are suspended
Force of gravity
Is amazed.

In my dreams
I can fly
Visas are
Not required
Immigration officials
Are bemused.

In my dreams
I am cashful
Bureau De change
Is short-changed
Demand and supply
Are hereby suspended.

In my dreams
I fly to Eldorado
Desires...

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Is there a light you cannot see?
Is there darkness you cannot feel?
Do you need to know what you’ll be?
Do you need the world to make you feel real?

I’m a little lesser when I have more
Explains...

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The same cross you nail someone else's sin to; will be the same one used to advertise you. 

The day gold became more important than bartering; was a time the world had been bought, and...

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SHORTEST     DAY    TRICKERY


Again  December 23 is almost here 
Frost’s darkest evening of the year,
Ok.  But what really bugs me
Is that it is the date when we...

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