Long Sluggishly Poems

[Before you read, here's something you should know. Parenthesis after the line means the definition of that line.]

Chastened by sudden change in mind - I'm exhausted, so stop treading my trail of thought if you...

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Time to choose? Time to change?

When I feel Love 
It feels like I am falling into a deep blue lake
Of a baby’s eyes.

When I hate,
Darkness consumes me like smoke,
Smothering light and extinguishing all hope.
Knots in...

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My on call (Uncle) Muse Never Sleeps
(aunt that title niece – ???
in this context pronounced nice)

Well...hm...I really did not wanna
     let the cat out of the bag,
    ...

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Old servile sleep descends on heavy wings
From laden summits wrapped in icy clouds 
When, glassy-eyed, the owl cold midnight rings
And snowy mist the starry light enshrouds. 

Atop the ancient firs, the birds lie still
And cling...

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Welcome to your new home! 
Tucked away in this lovely town of harmony
where tourists visit often
and our bears wander in society!
Please, make yourselves comfortable
feel free to settle in
should you have any questions
my numbers on this...

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The waves crushing her tiny body with striking blows
White creamy wash caresses her golden skin as the wave slows
Moving sluggishly towards the horizon
Because of a recurring vision she hopes she’ll arise in
Her feet digging deep...

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Drowning 
 
Cold creation has bequeathed him progress
Useless and torn from his children
A mockery becomes less than human
 
Casual use his habitual life buoy
Disconnection from his own culture
Less than a man in his borrowed suit
...

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The dark merlot stains my lips blood-red
Casting me in a vampire light
The bottle sits half empty by my elbow
As silent and motionless as I
We keep each other company, the bottle and me
Two cynical sentinels keeping...

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Seed - scattered strewn or downtrodden.
Grain stuck on passive flytrap mucus.
Wild life biomes ripe with  open sesame.
Frantic birth pangs stiffen their gestations as green  leaf ferments bubble underneath.
Mother of all wombs, diva pulse...

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Denizen of abyssal labyrinth,
legendary ancient Wyrm seeks succour
within prodigious sepulchral cavern:
her domicile for an ageless lifetime.

Ethereal shafts cascade through ceiling's
stochastic rifts, piercing tenebrous tomb;
vicious viscous scarlet smears juxtapose
against shimmering iridescent scales.

Aeons past, Faustian pact formed...

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Christmas is almost here
And just as I feared
Those ghosts came back
Even this year they appeared

Doubt came and sucked the happy from me
Smiled and sucked some more so greedy
Astonished I wasn't ready
My footing shaky not so...

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A voice fills the ears of the dead
There are walls covered with red paint
In the heart of the slums

The sky is eternally gray
The clouds moving along sluggishly
Like the people walking the streets

The buildings feature glass-less...

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A Father and a Daughter walked onto
The bus.
One stop away from the highway.

The whiteness outside creeping up around,
Silently,
Like a cat.

He sat in front, 
She sat behind.

She had long hair down her back,
He had white feathers...

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Do not blame the snail
When it drags along sluggishly
Or draws back in its shell out of fear.
But what do you say of one
Who competes with a turbo jet
And makes friend with a sledge hammer?

Do not...

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Love Might as Well be a Million Miles Away



Demented silence 
Thuds dreams to nothing
In empty hands
And desperate lips kiss
Air

Tears beguile emotion to feeling
Something
Anything
Squawking
All of it a lies distraction
From the yank and burn

Don’t look to deep
Into...

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deep, deep into the coven
Men gathered in black red
chanting of loom doom to come
Spiritualism shrunk and shrieked
Enchantment of idols of life 
Chanting rumbles of voidness and
tempest and hailstones and hell
Devil's advocates gathered in tears
Demons gathered...

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A MAN WHO FAILED TO LIVE 

I have lived life like a trader with many a crate of eggs 
Treading carefully to avoid the judging eyes of men
A freedom from condemnation have i consciously begged...

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My Turquoise Pillow
Rest my slumber into the night
Onto a journey, fraught with no fright
Seek to align with allies of good
Weary of strangers with tales of delight

Take the forked road less traveled and dare
To roll with...

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The marsh is thick, and my shoes are ripped.
Treading through the swamps of my mind.
   Sluggishly moving onward through the quagmired 
lands of this perceived world.
   Constant mental struggles conflicting, go...

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According to Doctor Google, I am actually dying.
With the symptoms I have, surely it can't be lying.
I'm living on borrowed time, I really should be dead.
My head is so dense, I look like Mr Potato...

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MYSTERIOUS       MEMORIES


November night train halted on the bridge. 
Arrested by constant mystery of river, I see
Her   mercurial charm  changing.
Winter is late this year.   Her...

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Somewhere out there, in the cold
A homeless child seeks warmth
When the world has gone to sleep
And fat bellies on warm beds snore

The night creeps in slowly
Time crawls sluggishly, on sleepy feet
The restless wind, caresses the...

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A flight of birds
Flaunt their enormous wings
Spying the light blue skies,
Of a city protected by trees
Whose sheer leaves 
Dance with the January breeze
That hovers over
A people of different origins

A chrysalis unborn,
Wrapped tightly with love
Soon to...

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Enough of golden daffodils, romance and paths not taken
Let's lend poetic airing to a subject quite forsaken.
An opportunity's emerged to give a little plug
To that much lambasted creature called the common garden slug.
Though snails have...

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Have you seen, with no word,
The immense, cold voids
,among the slender, patient buds,
Received hollow seeds?

Have you beheld the earth
Lay the masks of dreams upon itself,
And like a sullen cradle,
Crush them within its embrace?

Have you seen...

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