Long Simpleness Poems

I feel as lame as a whale without its fins to swim in fine waters
Blue blasphemy break a spirit of slumberless insanity that rips up my poetic loves, likes, unlikes and hates
Debates on TV…flee from...

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“Irish I am,” my mam speaks in hushed tones to the air
She questions still, seeming to her alone
Intones, “Ireland, O Ireland, what are you?
Where do you keep yourself, so I may rediscover you?”
Her speech unknown...

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Stuck inside of a nightmare
lookin' like I might just slight tear
myself from the light there right
barely a knife couldn't share me a slice of the right hare
even if I slice up the bright hair
this rave...

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be careful 
when you
invite new 
metaphors
into your
fresh built 
box of a poem.

a small 
house is
perfect
or a poet
that has 
few silver 
words left  
in their 
pocket. 

lower case
       ...

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Sometimes I feel insignificant
I try to school my son about my past ignorance
I paint the pictures vivid hoping that he gets it
don’t chase the fast change
Son stay out the fast lane
It leads to where dreams...

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It came to me in madness as my eyes began to dry, a tender love song playing and at last I
did not cry! I reached the gate of solitude and found peace in my own...

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It came to me in madness as my eyes began to dry, a tender love song playing and at last I
did not cry! I reached the gate of solitude and found peace in my own...

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Don't need a beat, don't need to eat
feed for free fast food, sitting in me
I devour the hour and soon
the hour glass breaks to
sand 
time turns tables
like you're able to be fine
so make of everything...

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In 1860 life was good, 
'Till its simpleness ceased one day. 
The North wished to save the Union 
While the South chose to break away.

America was torn apart 
As six hundred thousand died. 
Throughout four...

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There’s a house in a field somewhere 
A sea of a sky out there 
Begging to be born again 
With my hands to till, 
Your heart, and a windmill 

A weathervane that tries 
Without the...

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I’m left perplexed. How vexing, how complex…
the plight of a simple man, (one’s ruin is another’s choosing) is moving and  doing the least that he can, no oil changes no wedding band.
All this just...

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I'm sipping a cup of warm tea while I read, and 
it occurs to me how simple and good some 
things can be without a convolution of extra

ingredients supposedly to make it “better,”
which kind of...

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Today is a day of wonderment
as I sit and wonder and even ponder
of the many ways in which my love has grown fonder
on a day like today the blues are chased away
as cherubs come out...

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A warm breeze to soothe away my pain
 A gentle nudge a kind reminder
 that with every momentary loss is gain 
that all things go through the grinder
 to stress less is a small blessing...

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I count blessings as I gaze up on stars
Watch the dawn arrive in a pink aqua tint
Hear a rooster crow me his morning memoirs

Each day offers a different fingerprint
Swirls of overlapping richness
Joys to discover, fresh...

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You liked my hair long,so I cut it short. 
You liked my smile, So I stopped smiling so big. 
You liked my simpleness. So I became as complex as possible. 
You liked my hair dark,...

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