Long Skeptically Poems

I was skeptically listening 
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;

An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.

But, I found...

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As I awake this morning
I remember a Barney song 
for my more oppositionally misaligned daughter.

I love you
and you love me
even if I couldn't realign my four B's,
Brain,
and Branches,
and Belly,
and Butt, 
these four aligned
good government.

If you...

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For “EARTH HOUR” we pledged  without words rearranging,
Let us try and attempt to stop things from changing
Am doing my bit as promised to myself and me,
wrote a poem on “earth hour”, published it and...

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Squalidness—Squabbling squeamishly;
Scrutinizing stigmatized scandalization, substantially scarce
Sprightliness...skeptically surrendering
Shamefully—Scolded sardonically;
Snarling splenetically, severing sensibility, scowlingly simmering
Strenuously...sought survival
Sparring—Sinister sisters;
Seductively swiveling soreness, sarcastically snared, swirling
Storms...sporadically striking
Slowly—Sacrificing stories;
Scorching slanderous subversiveness, suffering suffocation
Senselessly...smoldering serendipity
Sinfully—Silent stranger;
Sneaking skillfully staring
Presumptuously—Pursuing pretentiousness;
Promises protruding pithiness,
Potential problems...penetrating
Frantically—Forsaken fantasizes...

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The scorpion and the turtle? Have you heard this story?
They are mortal enemies in natures scheme of things it can be gory’
Anyway this is a message about different creature’s nature.
So they’ll see this story and...

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February 13 Scripture Meditations Based on Joshua 1-5

Key Verse – Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy...

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we walked  three miles in the country  
in the dark 
down the lonely roads 
and past the deep swamp
too far away from home to be intimate with, 

to the nearly deserted farmhouse whose...

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Popular Mozart melodies are playing on a low loop.
Five people tense as a clinic nurse
calls us in or leaves us hanging.

I know the drill,
she’ll lead me reluctantly to the scales,
the usual sighs of ritual humiliation;
“Are...

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Popular Mozart melodies are playing on a low loop.
Five people tense as a clinic nurse
calls us in or leaves us hanging.

I know the drill,
she’ll lead me reluctantly to the scales,
the usual sighs of ritual humiliation;
“Are...

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The congregation eyed him skeptically
     Long hair, a beard and sandals on his feet
Beyond his exterior they’d not see
     This rambler had just come in from the...

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Blown beyond simple comprehension;
Finding hidden whirling tasks,
Reaction reeling to unwind.
Sucking wind from vacuum.

Bouncing ideas off rejection;
Landing in unmade puddles.
Impressions one would steal.
Cold hard metal facts.

Looking at nothing seen;
Flying past undaunted future.
Head above swirling tomorrows.
Bottom drowning...

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With jaundiced eye I look at the politician’s vow
To make our world a better place in four years,
Cure all our ills, and provide calm for our fears,
And I say to myself, skeptically, exactly “How?”

With jaundiced...

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I want to apologize for my burden of wrong
To your ears where my penitence does belong
I lingered in vain, the gray swiftly took hold
Now my contrition will stifle mute and untold

It is too late now...

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This agonizing pain I feel, seems to have placed itself permanently in my life.
Such Anguish, Indestructible distress; somewhat like a wife petrified for her life, battered 
My brain is disorderly disfused, rather scattered
Optistically I envision uncondensed...

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Female, I felt! Chirped differently than on other days!
As though crying and screaming in many ways
It might not be owing to the change of weather, I know.
Nor, due to the drizzles, visited its nest like...

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To a dog, an empty hand's cause 
even a well-intentioned one
flinches an involuntary jaw.. 
your neighbor's just the same.

Have you grown leery the open palm?
wearied away as your brother's keeper.
Not responsible to his good name
nor...

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Trouble came from afar
To tell me a secret: that
The stars too shed tears,
And this is why they
Twinkle during the night,
Glistening under and beholding
The great moonlight.
Yet, Trouble being Trouble,
I hesitated to agree.
"'Tis because the sun
"Has set,"...

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Awakening near the new dawn full of joy, 
[this inexplicable sense of happiness] 
feeling that all is well within my soul when 
gladness, like soothing water, rolls over me, 
bathing me in the fresh glow...

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dog hears
His Master's Voice
music to a dog's ears
iconic RCA Victor's
Nipper

December 29, 2020

Contest: Trademark ~ Quintain
Sponsor: Sara Kendrick

AN:  After he had finished his famous painting on 11th February 1898,  Francis Barraud (Liverpool) thought to...

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I was at a friend's pool after school.
She loaned me this impossibly tiny bathing suit
I looked at it skeptically but I didn’t ask whose it was.
It smelled faintly of chlorine.
we were supposed to be alone
her...

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