Long Shunts Poems

[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]

SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...

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Unquotable quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads – XXXVII

( No aspersions are being cast here, willingly or otherwise, on the fairer, stronger and infinitely more sagacious sex. Even if these over-used words are somewhat overloaded...

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As long term aspiring
     gurgling (stream of consciousness)
     paperback writer, there doth appear
an imponderable quandary

     most likely experienced
     by...

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They both know what they want
Yet cannot let go of what they have
Stolen kisses and coffee in a car
Before they part their separate ways

This is how the lovers would meet, cosy café, dark alley or...

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When you have in abundance, you don’t think twice about giving. 
More often giving to those who are not in need
They play on your emotions, make you feel guilty for what you were granted. 
You...

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On through the ripples,
Through the shunts and the brushes,
The flickering chants,
The whispered gloom.
I walked, in a still coldness,
Watching in through the firm, glass panes
Of this pavement I made.
There stood three evil eyes
Perched high with a...

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The Sacrifical Child

Llandudno Wales 980 BC-1846, Sierra Leone, Congo,
Niger, Peru, India, Pakistan, Russia, China & Philippines 2013

Chapped, scabbed skin, dirt encrusted, blue-pallid in the moonlight;
the stars still glow radiant light when they rise, a wolf...

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As I lay upon the floor
Hubby at the bedroom door
Ready and steady
What girl could ask for more
A smile upon his face
A twinkle in his eye
Jogging on the spot
A shy man he is not
Preparing his pace
I...

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accursed creepily haunting
Phantasmagoria wraiths
vandalize residents psyches
within their sleep induced state

Sublimation shunts
slumbering souls
unknowingly held hostage
successfully sacrificing

Semi-smothered silent species
snoring simians steadfastly succumb
subsequent sibilant sounds
woo woebegone wicked transmogrification

dilapidated divested bodies deposited
wizard waves wand
watching whirling wretched lovely bones
whipsawing (in...

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Powered by vapor and shoveled coal
On leveled tracks to take it to its goal
A mobile kettle seething at the seams
Polished with care, see how it gleams

Smoke billows and rolls out of the stack
Fleetingly turning the...

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US SCHOOLS, US RULES

Yes, in the USA and probably some other places too
Distances are such that they still do bus kids to school
A good local service, as many would agree that’s true

But car drivers in...

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swallowed up 
by the darkness
this is a ride, this is a ride
permitted passenger
solitary journey, solitude driven
a knowing plunge to despair. down
and looping existence
relinquished control
tethered somehow. still 
held in place 
by gravity's hand. twists 
carve me...

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This thought embedded deed in
my mind like a seed.
A secret pricking its poison
compelling me to scream.
A decision I contemplated noble
indeed.
But magnanimity isn't without its
penalties

My conscience nears dwarfism.
With every blow, as gilt swallows
me whole.
Cold from lies...

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Megaphone diplomacy disparages diplomacy 
Weakens links cultivated at great cost
Only to vanish in the twinkling of a fallacy
Spiced and iced for a tit for tat toast.

Megaphone diplomacy hobnobs with a misnomer
For nations blighted by the...

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Man and woman meet and crumbles
Effect of alcohol and wine, they stumble
Bit by bit slowly they bare
Was it truly love or lust they share?

The moment beginning to seize
Moving devouring slowly abyss
He kiss, hold, caress her...

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