Long Snips Poems

Pandora's BoX

Whom to blame?
What woman now walks, the lethal ancestress
Of the original ancestress, that one named 
Pandora, that one with the gleaming eyes that said:

   "I want; I need, to know?"

Where is she...

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Encomium for cumulative collection of trash

The pyromaniac within yours truly
beckons sacrificial ritual
mine burning (man's)
sacred plastic bags
of rubbish (comprised of: hairs combed,
ditto trimmed from dead head,
filthy lucre - ha, phlegm
wrapped in tissue paper,
snips and snails,
and puppy...

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The fear
In here ..
                  The chair
            ...

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“Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. We get caught up in our daily lives and rarely take the time to appreciate the simple wonders around us.”
    ...

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Sponsor: Shadow Hamilton


I seem to keep punishing Bo my naughty Golden Retriever,
He sneaks and lurks and is suspicious with Rosie our sassy cat,
My daughter says she caught them snuggling, I don’t believe...

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Oh you know the type—
the orchid woman

a cosmopolitan who cosmo sips
between snips of gist
her charisma a starship —collides
with your star-full eyes
supernova for Casanova
her pouty lips knit a magazine smile
rows of sugar-white pearls
strung shiny straight
behind wet-red...

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The poison parrot is repulsed by me, hates my art, laughs at my poems.
sneers when I enter my imaginary world, pokes fun at it.
She throws roadblocks into my mood zone,
destroys my great ideas as fast...

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A fairy born of light and joy and laughter
Born of both Sun and Moon and Earth
What all fairies are made of
A human boy befriends her
They’ve had some laughs
Carved in their memories
Soft and sweet
Vibrant and vivid
She...

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Memories: Friend and Foe, 
collaboration with Lin Lane

"Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy."
                    ...

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Quiet, the leaves drip from slender woody fingertips
as shadows cast spectral dreams that breath through misty lips.

In the deep the Sylvan rests against the hoary staff he grips
and feels the ancient magic flow between the...

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"Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy."
                           ...

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We were born with out the choice of choosing to be a girl or boy,
But we are here.
We never asked to be part of your life
lying with my mom smiling
Kissing caressing and creating life
My day...

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#Snippets,Tidbits, and Pieces minus Peace...

Flecks and Specks sprawled evenly and eventually...leaving no room for possibilities and puzzle pieces scattered haphazardly; no room for building inevitably, it's a choice, depending on a conclusive voice and it...

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FOR THE UNSUNG MAIMED AND DEAD—2015 

On the ragged edge of brittle time, the paddle of life
Plays ping pong minuets of war and peace.
Yesterdays’ enemies have now become today’s allies;
And old war buddies are now...

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LIKE FALLEN LEAVES…


                     I

Here in the winter of my long lived life,
the leaves of my...

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LIKE FALLEN LEAVES…

Here in the winter of my long lived life,
the leaves of my head now fall to the ground.
Destined like leaves of trees gone dead, 
the winter winds will soon blow my dust around;
and...

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Arise! Africa

Arise Africa and let the mills wheel along.

Arise Africa and feel the wills meal prolong.

Enclosed in the winds, the milks of nature endowed,

Enmeshed in the oceans, topography of landscapes around.

The talking drum with the...

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I am cleaning out my junk drawer 
It's been on my list to do 
My junk is over-flowing 
It's now long past over-due 

Inside is my collection 
Of things I sometimes use 
Bits and nails...

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How shall I love again if love leaves me in tatters?
Love invades my heart and turns it upside down
Driving at high speed adrenalin in my arteries where it matters
Little whether I make a scene or...

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In a regular year, there’d be galas and balls
And we’d watch little snips on the news,
But since things are on hold and all protocol falls,
One big party was set for our views.

On a virtual stage,...

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brushed
soft hair
Rapunzel’s
untangled mess
sunlight flickering
her heart beating
as prince climbs
up her
nest

snips
her braids
cast down eyes
unattached love
they gleefully slide
he grabs her hand
they bury
cuts

witch
returns
to empty
tower, she’s ill
hurls herself toward earth
she soars on scales
flickering
loathsome 
flames

dark
smoky
plumes of hate
follow princess
fairytale sunrise
fool closes eyes
Aurora
wrapped...

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On the Potter's wheel
I am clay - 
sticky, messy red clay,
being kneaded like bread,
'till pliable.
In firm but gentle hands
the Potter molds and shapes me into
a vessel of honor,
a vessel worthy of a King.
God is not...

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The snowflake, so beautiful and refined
Its divine sparkle, created by “The Master” of mine

Christ is the Master of whom I speak 
He is “The Master” of you and me

He creates the snowflakes in His own...

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When Death comes knocking at your door
Rail,resist or recoil at her call
The inevitable and rarely welcome visitor
 To Her succumb must we all
To Her cold and chilling embrace
When with Her we come face to face
...

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There was a distant mournful pitch
 a tease that played push and pull with the clouds 
 fierce, frightful, frenzied perpetual motion,
cirrus, cumulus, altostratus mix at play;
first, 
 grays, darkened purples, subtle blue patches of...

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