Long Slickly Poems

“Barking Up the Wrong Tree” 

ghost gums
shed their bark 
the min-min 
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to 
imprint and write
thoughts, like the 
ripening welts of 
green ants 
small bites sting
subcutaneous and 
meridional, 
terra...

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My ebbing physical prowess and strength

noticeably decreases in one direction.

I take lock, stock and barrel 
to revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his...

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Am I unhealthy and unsafe oppressed,
suppressed,
repressed,
right-brain negatively depressed?

Not really all that:
competitively left-brain impressive,
first through last impression 
newsworthy,
enticingly marketable,
profitably commercial,
slickly corporate,
predatively intelligent

More camouflaged
unnoticed and undefined
unrefined
and, frankly, perhaps unstable

Because of my environmental circumstances?
as liberal lovers
would have failing...

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I take stock and revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his Macbook Pro
today February 20, 2021.

Since January thirteenth of this year
(two thousand and...

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On a rural Pequot River,
with steady New England flow
toward Long Island's warming Sound

Then on and out, 
whispering drowned memories
of Atlantis

Slumbering on eastern bank,
surrounded by Native Elder spirit grounds,
ruined medicine's monolithic altars
worship insanely leviathan 
brooding bruised...

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The Atlantic ocean...,an unrelenting mistress

More'n ten thousand leagues under the sea
next to an octopus's garden in the shade.

OceanGate manufacturer
of the Titan Submersible,
which vessel that set out to reach
Titanic shipwreck with five passengers
officials believe the suffered
a...

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Gently lying on my bed with my slickly Pink Pajamas,
I fell asleep like a peaceful baby,
then the windows opened in complete excitement,
and the seas breezed in like a stampede,
raising my night dress from legs to...

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Your body smiles at me
so let me reciprocate the inviting gesture
with the natural gifts of arousing pleasures
well presented in erotic packages.

My curiosity is unfairly punished
by your hypocritical skimpy skirt
flashing the flesh so systematically and hiding...

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At long last... Beatle browed 
Beastie Boys attained Nirvana
routing hellish existential crisis
courtesy Earth, Wind And Fire
rendered null and void celibate Journey
knight in shining armor
forever staind and tarnished
compliments verboten extramarital whoopie.

Herewith I forthwith take poetic license
linkedin...

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Slickly marketed
evangelical leadership packages,
whether liberally or conservatively dressed,
but not when green conservational liberating undressed,
return party favor favorites
for further runaway capital investments

Reinvestments in gloriously cancerous growth
exalting competitive ecopolitical changes
these voices self-predict
should we be wise enough
to elect
and...

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Quest the shove your fate, my mate.
With the advice of the dough of joy sate,
To coincidentally run into one's soulmate.
In the way of other options, we baste.

Though worries were springing up thus briskly,
Settle on the...

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The pretty red hair girl
at the Houston Station
gave me heart palpitation,
but she got all my revered admiration...
because she resembled a Barbie doll;
and I became so emotional!  

Across the platform
two green eyes smiled;
was it fate...

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They grin and sneer, then turn away quickly
Following their lead, my heart slowly recedes
Never without their tales, some quite sickly

They listen to many stories, gossiping thickly
Spirits winking at the darkest of the proceeds
They grin and...

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Searching for the Good


Alas, the search continues
peering eyes in all the venues
as the pure and holy seek
all the virtues of the meek
their old and brittle bones
re-sounding creaky church pew tones.

Cold blinders to their views
force the...

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Hot tar slickly melted on the road,
Hedgerows died, browned in the drought,
Sizzle of egg frying on the sidewalk,
I felt my heart was burning out.
Blue china skies, polished and glazed,
Jet trails, silver vapour scars,
Mercurial sweat trickled...

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The docile ducks toddle out in the sunny morn,
being in the winding file they are never forlorn.  
In fluffy random rows the downy ducklings trail, 
their frisky frolics aren’t ever listless and stale. 

In...

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She was a sexy young mosquito named Fey
Had no qualms about chewing your flesh away
We did not realize what a hard bug she was
Until she flew in and began chewing on Cuz.

Cuz let out a...

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Red shingled roofs rise and sink,
slickly buoyant with new showers.
Cars drive behind cloud-skyscrapers.

The park is soggy with small dogs,
colorful umbrellas are set aside
beside paddling pigeons.

Dewdrops slide over hanging buds,
while lush leaves
breathe their own green aroma.

By...

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I introduced my fiancé to my best friend.
Knowing they would not get along at all.
I was the one not happy in the end.
For their love affair was not a bit small.

They both dumped me quickly.
They...

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Slashing vibrant colors humming ceaselessly
Swirling roiling hues blending unmercilessly
Royal blue piercing sanity's tenuous hold
Crimson streaks tumbling like molten gold
Streaming screaming colors weave insanity

Interlocking webs of reason slowly unravel
Melting resonating spectrum of sanity travels
Sunshine bright yellow...

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Poems are sliding out of my eyes today
Running down my cheeks and smearing my fey
I tried to catch one, but it bit me on the petootsie.
That will teach her, said a new muse name Mootsie.

Mootsie!...

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“Older Sibling”

Your eyes, they shine like diamonds in the sky.
They glow and gleam and make my day complete.
But yet, in those same eyes I see goodbye,
As you look out into the world upbeat.

Your hands, they...

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a simple wish...

no fancy words
no more clever rhymes
no more slickly crafted verse

just a simple wish
to cherish the moments
in-between the hue and cry of this life

no more the dull-edged jab
no more the anger and the strife

a...

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