Long Slipshod Poems

Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank, 
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...

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Highlights from Highland Manor

Courtesy Goofus and Gallant 
who began their broadly-drawn 
moral plays in the 1950s, 
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights 
indicated the two were brothers, 
but not twins, and...

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Written: September 12, 2023
Ocean Poetry Contest                             ...

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Conceited clericalism is encroaching scientific study and educational exploration, obdurate obscurantism engulfing people's normal mentality and judgment, ramrod racism routing ethnic equality and melting harmony~~~~~~
After 4 years of punk-sunk domestic complexion and skunk-drunk diplomatic stance...

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Written: February 1st, 2025 For contest by Sponsored by: Brian Strand

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Morality and self-fulfillment
attainable without belief in God
similarly yours truly
would figuratively crane
his credulity to ascertain Ichabod
mentioned in first Book of Samuel
as purported son of Phinehas,

I reject entire Biblical text,
and prefer to remain sacrilegious
eschewing faith no more,
(cuz...

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Written: October 09, 2023   
Coconuts Poetry Contest           Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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Over the tropical sun, where palm trees sway
I'm depicting palm fronds with a...

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I cannot breathe -scuffled


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a day we went round in cycles until our senses cracked open
our eyes into the vangogh
greens birched our ears smacked by seabirds gulls
gobbing off perchpolluted in our nostrils the toxic bay
and ozonescent that seaweed belches...

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Coltrane with Giant Steps coming downstairs, feeling A Love Supreme after two weeks
King going up the mountain and dreaming as he speaks 
Miles said, So What... Kind of Blue
Malcolm, By Any Means Necessary, sees it...

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The day is conceived,
tossed bedsheets birth landscapes.

Apelike, a grin gawps.

In the backroom of a slow thought
I dress for breakfast -
recall the tropics,
sticky rice, coconut milk and
one huge river prawn,
all wrapped in a banana leaf.

Slipshod I...

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Written: December 06, 2024
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We were born into tribes
cinctured by...

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JOY FROM SORROW   Pesach  Puzzle

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Sometime before I was old enough
to be this vessel of seawater reflections
          she began to dissolve.
Husband dead, son revolving
around one woman after another.

I did not notice
the...

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Sirens sounded secretly securing source. Strait sacks swooshed scamps scaling sensitive sentries (simply spayed seals) surveying surrounding staked spy sotted sham semicircular slipshod shelter. Snappy, Snippy, Snoopy suited Skyhawks surprisingly swooped somnambulant senseless scriveners. Sargent...

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The fire alarm went off
Water sprinklers came on
Near pups will not writeoff
Pups are my obsession

The floor and walls hotter
Dry hot air_no way out
Get faint start to totter
There's crash on door without

Master early today
He will care...

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Slush coated figures
have been drawn on the sidewalk,
dribble people, their disjoined limbs
twisted into guesses to be pecked over
by hammer driven beaks.

After the hard-packed snow
acrobats were doodled flying slipshod 
below a trapezing wind. 

If the frigid...

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These thoughts we frame and title
hang now from long defunct dendrites,
made branchless by the passé and pointless
now all strung-up upon threadbare strings.

Ones or twice the hanged are molested
by magpies seeking baubles for their nests,
yet most...

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Broken and battered
slipshod and shattered
we've all but hidden
amongst the scattered

Lost in our wake
we fake and then take
shelter oblivious
to what's truly at stake

Trembling in fear
from the darkness near
trying to hold on
to what we hold dear

Our heart...

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The woman has no place to be put,
the man is restless; his feet are slipshod,
The child won't eat greens,
he prefers beetroot slices from a sickly can,

The family may once have been human,
now they have been...

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FRAMING THE PIN-UP GIRL

His hands, they frame and catch, the pin-up girl.
Tanned hands, they're hot - he drops his sweaty palms.

     Her lips - plum succulence. Hair’s suavely curl ~
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It's very, very cold and very, very dark.
Slow breaths of Pluto's bark are coming in,
Barking to alert Earthlings of imminent change,
Signs of a paradigm shift now,
Things are beginning to feel strange.

It's happening now, right now,...

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Fall leaves tumble to their slipshod decay,
oozing from the crowns of tedious trees.
A mephitic scrunch with their latter sway,
as they are raked into wide whisking seas.

Coral-hued yew berries grace the yard's path,
late hollyhocks, and sunflowers...

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In poetry’s fond verse we save
All matters of the heart,
Our thoughts that may be sweet or grave,
With which we’d hate to part.

Our fears of what may come to pass,
Our sadness at what has,
The desperate state...

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One lady waits
for her long dead mother to visit,
another, earnestly informs her husband
that she is far too young to marry him.

One guy stumbles up to a care-worker,
his tongue drooling rakishly.
He wants her badly
but his pick-up...

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