Long Sideway Poems

The True Story

A Poem of the time, when as a 16 year old young fellow, and fresh from Blighty I spent 7 years as a Ringer in North Queensland, Australia. A Ringer is the Queensland...

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 chaos seeks an impression
this paved means to extend 
leading to the latest of bitter ends 
the intent of happenstance
suits my pen
down to the motives 

compromise strives for a process
the page in my view
staring back...

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They arrested my anger:
my fingertips, they ink painted
These defiant ebony eyes
were given a sideway rearview 
racial profile
A police photo shoot, 
criminal style
I became a most colorful, unwanted poster child
for the rabid redneck white crowd,
who were...

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Awaken to remain asleep, Leaving to stay
Standing to take a seat, Laying flat on the ground 
just to keep on my feet. I am such a loser.

Breathing, am I alive? Or was I dead?
Never had...

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The Dance
Hobbes

*Quick note*
Not exactly a sonnet but pretty close so its what I'm gonna call it

I saw him looking from across the room,
He stared at me through a fixed sideway glance.
One smiling face amidst a...

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Anybody that’s ever done any kind of prison time knows,
that within those tall stark walls
there’s a lot of little scared girls flexing big muscles
And there’s a lot of deep thinkers
whose got tough cranial shells
When the...

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Haven’t you had a look?
I am such a flawed character in your book.
My mind goes mad as I sit and wait
Drowning in all this fragmented hate.
Believing the truth
While accepting these lies
I’m parlayed,
Inside I hide
Inside I’ve...

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Step into the date-stamped time DeLorean,
move forward
on backward spinning nostalgia rims
Centrifugal hourglass ... 
short hand and long
Distorted view of time,
kinetic highway romantic destiny
Blurred future sideway images,
past memories rearview exit gone
Engine gunned to the max,
space curvature...

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                         Motherly Love and Frowns


Treading down the memory lane streams to...

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She cries over broken rearview things,
sideway decisions 
that can never be back pedal changed
Sad memories be gastric 
fumes of the last emotional wrong turn
Past petrol vapors 
igniting present date swerve heartburn

Pulse accelerant tears 
kindle sorrowful...

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THE TREE COULDN'T FLY

This lonely desolate tree wanted to fly
The southern wind told this strange tree
Go up high with the branches and try
Catch the sun, free you would be.

The tree didn’t move up an inch
Couldn’t...

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Loneliness the circles
In which the daydream never ends
I wish you'd go away those times
So I could find you once again

Perhaps a hole-in -middle whirlpool
The nothing that ever stays
A fist of clenching handful
A farmer begging God...

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Stalling asleep
dragged from my bed
a currency exchange of wet sheet rhetoric
begins flowing through my head

this isn't
really 
happening

chubby red devils
polygonal angels 

Gods and Goddesses
Playwrights and charlatans

What an event
taking place
here

this can't
really
be
happening

Fog rich terraformed formations
ferment within my grasp
yet...

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To find and use a rhythmic way of rhyming
Something sorta slow and fast and slow
A hawkish circle swoop of perfect timing
A half a step and turn on heel and toe
Musingly methodical musicly melodical
Remembered in an...

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Retaining lips on the entire length?
Where forth the magic found,
Exhibiting the display of passion restoration?
Waiting the nights into the quarterly.
Yes!
Over-rise in the slumber,
Sideway expression in the darken season of the day.
Moment of enchantment awakening.
Butterfly's peck...

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