Long Sleuths Poems

Perpetual Quandries of Dischord

Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder
A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border
A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder
The incriminating evidence on an old tape recorder 

Elements of discontent shivering through a crowd 
Firmaments of promises...

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"PreOccupation"

spiced

cut up poetry
divides 
numbers 

intentional 
drivel moved 
to the side

on a blank page
into neat lines
sucked up

a much loved 
addiction 
novel and short

Pre Occupation 
of all the glossy 
shrouded shrouds

minds spiced
scab picking, their
word salads, tossed

the windbags
blowing...

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A golden spoon gilded vase by heirloom.
Acolytes shouldn't be anxious with gloom.
There never seems to be a shortage of cash.
One person's treasure is another's trash. 

Gratitude from a large group of people
Gold sludge had fallen...

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THE UNKNOWN GOD

Heavy the burden, but light is [the way].
That’s when you put the Lord [in its place].
The sun may not be shining, but your [spirit shows].
That’s your [inner being aglow].
Never a path undefined.
This is...

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It was from the early 1800s
This phrase was first used
I'm sure it has other meanings
So please don't get confused
If your understanding of the term
Was just like mine
I thought "to pull the wool over someone's eyes"
Were...

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THE AMERICAN DILEMMA 
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



There was a time when the town crier spread the news
Terse, straight, unfiltered, unbiased with no personal views
Alas, those times have disappeared into days of yore
We now have more news...

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I'm ready to step into my role
to discuss
and observe
to teach
and to learn

to be part of a group
capable of piecing together
PEACE

to lead by example
breaking down the absurd walls
laws have built

we all are unique sentient beings
mirroring one...

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Hope in Hopeless

Hope for the hopeless, you make me rise above the crowd
Watching the dawn for the forgotten and dusk for the greedy
My soul sinking in error, still you endorse me in your unfailing love...

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I stand freezing while our eyes gazed,
Your smile melt my frozen look down,
My world appears new: differently big,
Lacking raw tease in gay enthusiasm.

Smile
Differs
In strength's sight,
To teasing grin, lust looses...
Reaching out for only pleasure seeking-
Smile.

Blessings meet,...

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“Flipping the Bluebirds” 

There’s no point playing
Norwegian Wood
when your keyboard’s 
like a gun calling  

murdering 
all your darlings 
for other meaningful
glories

lavender doesn’t sit well
when violet’s riddled story
winds up the beat 
dodging silver bullets

like sunshine...

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Diving into the depths of dams of disdain,
Scaling the seas, searching for success, 
To prove the truth along with the pain 
We endured and the challenges we have slain. 

When they see us devouring safe...

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Classic Radio

I crave classic radio!
Boston Blackie and The Shadow;
Captain Midnight; Fibber Maggie and Molly;
Ace detectives fighting crime;
Or comedians making up limericks in rhyme.

Keep the TV for my husband to watch now
As I wear earphones, letting...

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IT COULD NEVER BE

It could never be
only me,
as I search, 
and research
for a missing connexion,
for end to a puzzle that baffles,
and confounds and confuses
even the best of sleuths,
and when the rummaging around
seems hopelessly lost,
that as...

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The lucid stereo vomits archetypes
For all ages. Primitive vengeance escapes into light,
Blanketing the fables spread upon pages,
Hushed voices commingle into a murmur of fright.

Unto goblets raised, we praise scoundrels
Whom were dined with gods who've since...

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Is it wrong to be curious
Waiving scarlet badges as sleuths 
When seeking universal truths

Dangling notions precarious
Willing to eviscerate all
Nimbly tantalize or extoll

Worrisome beliefs fallacious
Distorted enough to inflex 
Then twirl in a blurry vortex 

Dubious if...

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Politician; “IT’S NOT MY FAULT,”
as someone digs another burial vault.
If people think the job is cushy,
they can kiss my oval sitting tushy.

Politician; “I’M NOT TO BLAME,”
we had to play this stupid war game.
Always send our...

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Damn this isle of mine...
solitary awkwardness surrounds
  stifles, and strangles, and estranges
    deranges, debases, encases, entraps
      ...singing this song lonely crazy

Damn this isle of mine...
coast eroding...

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“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” 
Rumi

It was the summer of 1967 and the sun was almost bran new 
me and Tony L. skipped to the corner to raid the candy...

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Jungle clamour
Banter twisted like vines
Lions with psyche scars
Monkeys as crackpot sleuths
Snakes in a labyrinth guise
Parrots preen an oily beauty
Giraffes creak in rumpled posture

Immersive labelling
My colleagues salivate slippery ambition 
Pre-occupied with image
Our digital frontier, computer glitches
Terrain...

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Drawing a blank, now how's that possible
Unless you use invisible ink
Then what's the purpose if no one can see it
Kinda senseless don't ya think

However it seems I can kinda remember
The comics offered this kit
You wrote...

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Should the darkness come to you
 where would the light shine through?
The waters are mere muddied sleuths
 with lies stacked higher than any truths.
The Government rule has so much to hide
 and the honest citizen...

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I've passed the long hot summer
by robbing local banks
and though I'm a newcomer,
I've risen through the ranks

But if I must be candid,
the money that I stole, 
the acting like a bandit, 
was just to reach...

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In this age, rage has become the norm,
an angry world looks at people’s faces 
with suspicion in the streets, 
and elders are beaten black and sore,
petty thieves crashing the store windows, 
while families lock their...

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Lithesome lines of rapturous rhymes and torrid truths,
Written with piteous pleas and tantalized tease;
Left to others' wits to be interpretive sleuths
Of our loves, lusts, confessional musts and envies.

Rhythm ripping or cadence caressing penned words,
Weeping a...

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