Long Souring Poems

How unparticular the day had particularly been,

On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,

For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,

Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.

 

‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,

From either...

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Written 23 November 2023
Placed 1st in :
Stoicism as  Way of Life Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Sotto Poet

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My Love, my Hope, my Goddess there can be no words formed by mortal lips sufficient to proclaim the glory which lived in me the season your love bloomed so completely within my life. My...

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You View Me Arrogant- Beholding My Values Bullish.
I’m A Problem Inevitable- Only In The Eyes Of The Foolish
A Philosopher, In The Thoughts Of The Wise,
For I Refuse To Take A Step Before I Think It...

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"The perils of a possible crash landing with a touch of humor to end it" 
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The warmth no longer comes
it seems to only leave.

The furry ones, all
caught in hypnotic disbelief:
hardening ground's
taken root
where once
gardening grounds
(forsaken, mute)
were once and again
makin' fruit.

Each beast, shaking
like a leaf
(though, truth be told
I've only ever 
seen 'em...

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A Song With no Name
From my grandfather and my dad and performed by their son and grandson, me.
It was an old melody with no name of a ballad my grandfather wrote a long time ago.
The...

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Men glassed, broke, gunned down, dying 
Why do they feel the need for all this fighting,
Over pigment precious postcodes and petty people lying, 
Now there up in the sky flying.

Lay down your guns,
To save our...

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Drop dead gorgeous dark eyed bus boy chased
Peer assured status, focus of my fascination
High fiving idol guffawed and elbowed adjacent
Mates in droves, admirers in rows, dreamy Damon


Enriched to glimpse soap opera face as I boarded
From...

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Be there the bight of a November drain
turned off tattered ruffles blotted feign
a ledged I removed and tender earlobes
waif yonder spectral possession probes
cracked nut overture eighteenth twelve
emptied shells retiring indicative delve
drain feign earlobes probes twelve...

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when they met
the discussion went as such
a.“do you see yourself having 
children?”
b.”no.  there are far too many things
that i want to do in this life.  a
child would just complicate matters.
besides, the responsibility! ...

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Exchanged smiles and smirks
Yeah always between you and I
With the constant tugs and jerks 
Our emotions, they now run high

It's like that when ever one lurks
A constant murmur and a loud syh
When the supernovas and...

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"As a child I maintained a stoic attitude.
I exhibited patience, restraint, resignation, forbearance, and lack of complaint.
The ideal child you might say. As I grew, I realized the error of my ways." 
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This thing that they call love can not be measured
it comes to us all whether we want it or not.
Sneaking up it hits us in the eyeballs and
turns our lives around giving us both strength
and...

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She isn’t dormant, she moves through the dark in this new phase, 
as exact as a silver snowflake.  Despite her voicelessness, she speaks to me.
Her swollen body is idolized in the black that she...

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Where ever you choose to set your fortress                           ...

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The sun shines again; bright on my face.
Another day gone; that is gone like my thoughts drift away another text illuminates my smart phone, 
but I didn't respond.
As I was deep in thought of her...

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It was like that of a breeze it carried, that of an elegance it soared.
Through the heavens she roars as she stood among many.
There the eagle soars with lift of the wind.
It’s there on a...

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The sound of your voice echoes down my ears
You make me calm each time you come near
It's like souring to the corridors of heaven
Wishing to stay with you twenty four / seven
You form a piece...

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My beloved wife

It was the crows calling that gave the final warning on this mid October morning.
Just as the mist began falling upon the hills in a strange manner that was almost unnerving.
This morn shall...

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Forgotten life

Forgotten life, loosed love, broken heart, death laughing on the sky
A souring soul lost, its dead desire was slain, death laughing on the sky
Destroyed life is gone, its far soul was despised, death laughing...

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I

For once he banished all birds
from the air
       not just Mynas tick-picking
on twitching backs
       but all birds, unnamed
and high bred
with each wave of...

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Wine is a mocker, strong drink
is raging: and whosoever is
deceived thereby is not wise
Prov. 20:1

Darkened oxidation
		 changing personality
Liquid fermentation
	altering perception of reality
Look long into the bottle,
you see fire in the water
It burns you as you...

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Magic Beans come in all sorts of colours and favors,
Some are sour,
 some are sweet,
 some are the ones you do not eat,
In my bag of magic beans,

Drip your hand in,
see what color you discover,

The...

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Yesterday i was told a story
it involved celebrities and stardom
two people well known and wealthy
came to be lovers
they married and were friendly
 and cordial through out
there time together.
the guy made millions one year.
 Some say...

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