Long Spars Poems

Unquotable quotes: Fat People – XXIX

(I know this piece sounds mean and cruel but as every single parent must have experienced, this is also the expression of utter exasperation, and perhaps there’s also the slightest...

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Strategically placed when raised 
Upwards
By your masterful and well 
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing 
Skylines 
That frown down with arrogant 
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous of 
This just and tolerant island.
To study and pontificate upon...

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(Valentine's Collection)

(Super Crown Of Sonnets)

9.
We shall forever hear love’s own guitars,
within dreams, we shall share our love divine.
Once again you do join me in the stars,
Your beauty illumines the stars that shine.

When together we hear...

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" Ship of Doom "

Ship of doom so sailed to sea ~
Dark her course... 'twas meant to be ~

Into seas this great ship sped ~
Her past... her history... of naught but dread ~
O'er those waves...

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SENSITIVITY

They’re all ignored by us, but they have feelings too :
A black  gravestone  in  New York, down in the world, 
Recalling its halcyon days as a part of 
The impressive strata ...

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"Damn Bird"

All the King's Corsairs & Grand Sailors them all!
Went to winds in efforts enthralled~
Ken o'lone sailor whot's ayre so then gone~
Nay naught e'er whot's seen any day's dawn~

For once they did'st sail seas then...

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You gaudy stars do not get giddy when I grieve
Nor wrest through clouds to melt this darkness
That so befits what logics to your destiny weave
For all dreams, and all theories prove finiteness
Where death draws the...

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Cap'n & the Wench  *part the fifth*

Says the Wench to the Cap'n " We'll dabble in Real Estate!" 
So says the Cap'n to the Wench " 'Twould seem 'tis our Fate!

As Tales are often...

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Pulled off the road
Stirred up the dust
Sat in my car
Over the fence
Campbellton dam
Built in nineteen e-
leven by pow-
erful alien workers
Twenty-four hun-
dred five feet across
Keep off the dam
Danger Beware
Waters may change
Strong undertow
No swimming allowed
Over the fence
Right...

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The UN Rides on Human Skeletons
                             ...

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Gossamer silk strings were woven into a work of art.
Dandling from a shrub and glittering with dawn impart
As dainty as a mutter, obliterated by an odd downpour.
And the artist must start at the inception of...

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A squinting eye peers through a lens. 
Far down the aisle, a tri-pod bends around bouquets,
to snap the file of wedding guests, 
dressed sublime, in summer's finest
who now arrive to share the day

Her older brother,...

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All Hallows Eve, that spooky night,
          She hiked the mountain path at length,
             ...

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The lakes edge 
Shone in silver light 
A moon , so bright, 
in a dark forest night 

The moon rose silently 
In a clear starlight sky 
The creatures of the night 
Came out in a...

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Written: February 21, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Craig Cornish

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After God had set the worlds to spin
Below the splendid canopy of stars
Cyan skies to let each breath begin
Dangled o'er an orb of earthen spars

Each river, lake and rill so set with care
Feeding all the...

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" WildWind "

This wind does howl with glee it so seems~
'Cross me bows & alongst me beams~
Wild abandon seems so such her realm~
Challengin' now to stand fast at me helm~

Aaarrrgh! Says me to this wind...

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Urban Harlem
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"I Urban Harlem-Pokes up inland outward Like gray/black otters
Bumpy spars Cotton skies murky waters
Urban scrape building huddles
Broken and bundles like a jigsaw puzzle
~
Checker board black and read
King me, non rich selfish and poor
Looks like...

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I have from the earth grown pumpkins
Pregnant with a golden lust for words
And scattered seeds white as stars
Across the long green of desire. Birds
Have left wing loops in my brains, spars
Featherless in the wind for...

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Through sea smoke 
Sails, ripped and torn 
Sails, stained and worn 
Ghostship, 
awoke 

Creak and groan, 
of well worn timbers 
Whispered moan 
Shivers 

Ghostship 
rigging ,trailing in the sea 
Masts, bleached grey 
Ghostship, 
appearing on...

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A wind blows here
From distant far
Cold and rare
Swept from a star
And little bits
Of bones
And little bits
Of souls
Through the forest wanders
Filtered by trees.

A wind blows here
From distant stars
Set churning mere
sea like spars
Whipping
The flesh of belief
Sipping
Randomly
The Fahrenheit...

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Crowd of entertainment, chapeaux and gowns, of Renoirs,**
not unlike the expansive midnight sky brimming with stars.
Capture of long ago memories, like lightning bugs in jars.
Knee deep, flood high - boxes of snapshots…our memoirs.
Whimsical caricature of...

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As night became day
Stars dimmed ,
then faded away
 
The sea, tinged with white spray
Welcomed the dawn sky
The red in the east
Brought in the beginning,
of a stormy day
 
The wind rose
Storm clouds gathered on the horizon
The...

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Broadway
Awed play

Groovy
Movie

Bernstein
Earns screen  
                 
Bernstein
Churns scenes.....


   
         ...

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Patrolling this part of ocean
we met French vessel of line.
The white streak neath gunnel
showed us a many gun ship,
a very dangerous
lady of war

We beat fast before a strong wind.
Our gun ports were opened wide.
Giving and...

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