Long Songbook Poems

It is called the American Bar in the Savoy Hotel, in the Covenant Garden area of central London just off the Strand.  Tonight, it was awash with indifferent lovers searching for another dramatic romantic...

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Between conjecture and classification there is
observation, experiment, data (collection and analysis),
statistics, calculus, and a good guess
about God's intentions - probabilities, fractals, chaos and complexity.
This is the thunderous city.

The form of the poem, the rhyme.
 Form...

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In his songbook,
are raving songs of beauty,
which thrushes around the phrases of my mind

and embroiders my soul on an errand 
into a white night of a white Christmas, 
in a white dreamland, 
and having sleepless...

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How can there be despair when the entire
natural world unfolds with new life?  
When the anhinga alights from the Nowhere
he was into the Somewhere you are, negotiating 
his spectacular landing, spreading out his 
Gulliver...

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This songbook that I'm thumbing through,
uplifts my soul, I sing anew.
""Amazing grace how sweet the sound,
that saved a wretch like me."
(John Newton, thank you for this song,
you changed your life, you righted a wrong)

"At the...

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History is the mirror through which we see tomorrow. 
She is the apartheid portrait and silhouette of liberty in Port Elizabeth.
In Cairo, the pyramids would show you her hidden hollows.
Through the Niger River, she led...

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She reaches far into my chest 
And pulls out a handful of emptiness
Our embrace, enough to drive a master lockpick to madness
Both our hearts, pounding rock hard
Hard enough to shake leaves from the tallest, wisest...

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“birds care not for whom they sing” - Silent One

You have your place in nature's choir,
Singing creation's songbook.
You're divine when you sing what you desire,
Like water in a brook,
Or leaves when a quaking aspen shook.  

When...

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If you look at Stephen Foster,
who wrote songs for the minstrel shows,
you wouldn’t expect a genius
that all of the world would know.
He was another bookkeeper
for a steamship company,
until he started writing tunes
that to this day...

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You may feel about the planet what
you feel about a great baseball team or band:
that once there was a moment when, unknown
to us at the time, we convened
and lost and found ourselves in what we...

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Her song is the luring of a beloved beast
with a soft black, blond coat, and sunflower eyes.

Her song is the colors captured 
within any sky, 

every sky within the celestial sphere 
 that adorns the...

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blueberries gasoline and prostate gland
breast cancer Wonderbread and pacifier

controlled experiment space travel and honey
peanuts inductive reasoning and electricity

tornadoes torture chamber and biscuits
copyright car radio cantaloupe

golden eagle lunch break tomato
Romanian songbook rhubarb and barbed wire

always hungry...

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When my eyes glanced upon her soft caramel skin
I knew right then and there this is where it all begin
The time where my true love would instantly appear
My eyes couldn't deceive me, it was all...

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We are still at the mercy 
   of the elements 
despite our technological advances
    Today the city is 
covered in snow
     No cars moving, no mail
Inside...

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X marks the spot - teeny fingers tap colors.
Youngster’s attentive to the rainbow bars.
Language of a rambunctious or prissy toddler.
Oscar music songbook exalts experience.
Potent stick and head, of a kinetic hammer,
Hones in on the eight...

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