Long Shush Poems

Frankly bewildered…
I find life so absurd
Your serenity shines on
God, I want to be like your son

Why was I pushed in the margins?
Is it because of my abominable sins?
I threw them all away long ago…
Into garbage...

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Damian Sr. spent two nights in
Saint Michael's Medical Center 
With his wife and his new 
Beautiful baby boy.
They were welcomed home by
Damian's friends Sébastien 
Shakespeare Malcolm Justin 
And Shannon.  Delilah came
down stairs to Present...

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"The Name and Blue Sky on a Sunlit Friday Morning"




“There is something missing,” he announced.
“Oh,” She said, “in what way?”
“Well, “Love”? I wonder where it is, in all of this?”

A breeze moved hauntingly through the...

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Red fish, blue fish, green fish, yellow fish
a rainbow in the pond, lets swim upstream
change the course of evolution, grow two feet and wings
proceed to fly like Pegasus to the end of the rainbow
find this...

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Middle of the night Caren is here.
She jumped out of bed, and she blew me a kiss.
My clue to stay put, next to the dog, no small feat
As we share the same body.

I decided to...

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Saw Old Scratch the other day
Wanted to talk but couldn't stay
Seems he was up to no good
But then for him it's understood

Fried chicken for my Sunday dinner
Nothing is satisfying for saint or sinner
When I was...

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i avoid every kiss he tries,
its so tiring sometimes,
soon ill just make him go,
because he knows,
he knows,
he knows i wont kiss him now,
i never have wanted to anyhow,
he knows where my heart lays,
yet he still...

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Adultery is an amiable adulation 
Excessive praise and admiration..! 
Relationship with love outside marriage is divine
Relationship without love inside marriage is un-divine..!!  

Though we all value love
Still we engage with wow
In extra marital affairs...

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I got your back
Numb is my heart
Night tearing me apart
Unfeeling you came to be
Numb is my heart
Night tearing me apart
Unfeeling you came to be
Numb is my heart
Night tearing me apart
Unfeeling you came to be
Unfeeling you...

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These thoughts.

 

These thoughts, within my head.

 

Must they fill me with this dread? 



Angry, distant, always resistant.

 

Tired, weary, and so dreary.

 

Loathsome, fearful, oh so tearful.

 

Always these thoughts, these thoughts within my...

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On asphalt, wet with blood and sweat (down streets with no address), 
there lay a man, snuffed by the Man and left to evanesce.
The Man then strode along the road and smiled at his success
and,...

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“The devil is alive”, someone yelled out. A congregation downing crosses crossed their hearts and prayed to God to extinguish the devil. Right then and there, a sensation ran from my toes to my head...

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I am in the medical clinic
new baby squeaks out a distress cry
sounds like a drowning cat
we are all masked
I forgot to wear mine in
so they slapped a pink one on me
I am the third in...

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With darkness scintillating in my soul,
And the seven of wands in my hold,
I take up the challenge upfront,
Paper planes ready to fold.

The sea washed away my sandcastles,
But isn’t history made of the remains?
Lies may plunge...

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Yes, she loves art.
She craves for the flow of the brush,
on her broken canvas, it fell apart.
No one knows though, so hush.

She likes to imagine her razor as the brush.
Herself as the canvas, where she...

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"Snapdragons and Dandy Lions (Part 1)"


“Don’t move,” she smiled gently,
“stay there, stop fidgeting, let me put these in your hair”,
I was sitting cross-legged 
on the lush green bluegrass lawn
it felt like 70’s Shagpile carpet, 
long...

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Do you see that girl? 
The one over there. 
With earbuds in and curly hair. 

Curly hair that no one liked. 
That’s brought mild contempt a good part of her life. 

Do you see that...

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Hark there kind sir, what brings you here?
A message for my lady, from Sir Lyle Gere
He penned these lines, for her gentle ear
Would you have this delivered, pray kind sir
Indeed I will, my word is...

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Written: August 26, 2023
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Oh world, all swollen with pain,
The opulent smell emits an almost harsh refrain.
Languor fills the air as the sun still hides.
Behind a shroud of clouds, where it softly abides.

Every surface is damp...

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Alas, my sweet child you shan't!
Get used to an insane, world of can't!
Our brilliant brains are fully scrubbed,
As sniling and kids in a foaming bath.
Rub-y-dee, rub-y dee-dub.

We've been brain-spanked to
not ask any questions.
We don't dare...

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Quiet were we and without a single care,
but, "shush…did you hear that over there?"
A small sigh and a rattling on the floor, 
couldn’t be the baby, I just closed the door.
I just couldn’t figure out...

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[This was written for Matt Caliri’s Dialogue contest but
withheld because frankly I’m not convinced I can call it
a poem… 
But whatever it is… I kinda like it, so here it is.]
    ...

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Shush Sushobhan, 
she’s pushing her hand to my rock hard in the back of reception 
your girl wowing at my fat long perfection, 
I guess she thinks of you as rejection 
after you spent a...

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Shush be calm, it’s okay I’m right here,
You’re hugging my pillow and shedding a tear

You have my memory and I feel your heart,
Always forever till death do us part.

We’ll always have Paris and the empire...

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The grasses were the first to arrive
Sprouting slowly all around me
Hardly more than enough to sway in the hushed wind
Steady, steady they rose to shroud him
Days became a flooding of months
Still he lay where he...

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