Long Speeded Poems

"Phew! got here in time to catch The Glacier Discovery Train. This journey is to be seen
to be believed. I am in Anchorage, Alaska. I am so out of breath running to the station.
Right, that's...

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'Quit! Give Up! You Are Beaten'
They Shout At Me And Plead
'There's Just Too Much Against You Now'
This Time You Cant Succeed'

And As I Start To Hang My Head
In Front Of Failure's Face
My Downward Fall Is...

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The world is so mechanical
It is so scientific 
It's getting to be so-so difficult
Everything works at a fingers touch
Everything is speeded up too much
Neon lights the night
Smog darkens the sunlight
Time is to the seconds
While details...

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Pain is a solitary shaft of sunlight
piercing the fathomless depths of a wishing well,
reflected off the tin-can shards in dark prismatic waters,
refracted spears of realisation and the blinding truth they tell.
Looking backwards with somnambulistic vision
I...

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Will Voters Rule Sperm are Persons?

By Elton Camp

When a recent referendum was voted down
There came a smile after the initial frown
Another group of folks, protection needed
So to arrange for another vote they speeded

Folks down there...

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Time crawled silently on soft paws.
After years of anxious waiting,
Our little nest became alive, 
With childish pranks and prattles
Two adorable boys ran round playfully,
Making our silent nest ring with noise.

Still remember those hectic days,
When my...

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Even though days of life lived with 
(all my children now grown) ail
ling soul of stifled for want of indulging 
in ordinary experiences bewail 
ling deprivation of accomplishing 
healthy milestones regret a cold detail

reminding me as aging...

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I had a lovely little doll got at the tender age of seven.
It was made of fine plastic, with twinkling eyes and golden hair.
At a time when my generation had not heard of Barbie dolls,
My...

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Staggered by the virus burning through the city veins,
Stop motion, speeded up, the slam of distant trains,
Rattled through the concrete as forgotten people die,
Howling jets of power chords go crashing through the sky.
The cardboard jungle...

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this very troubled old maid
so beaten down by life
wanted nothing so but not to fade
without being someone's wife

but until that time came about,
she had no choice but to carry on
and when she needed bad some...

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Whispers as the trees gently swayed,
Each leaf having their own story to tell,
Millions of voices quietly Jabbering,
Incomprehensible to human ears
They prattled to each other,
Sometimes as people walked by,
They would rustle their leaves,
As to draw attention,...

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He sang seven songs of freedom
Whilst his cat danced a jig
And his monkey rode side saddle
On this pot bellied young pig
And the people of the village
All looked at him in awe
For none had ever seen
His...

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Stephanus Marcus Book 1
Canto 4
Verses 4 and 5

This blow dealt most hard broke Marcus's glaive
and second strike that Cedric gave hurt knight.
Ben Brooster laid Sir Marcus low with stave.
The blow put knight upon the clay...

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".... could not stop for death- he kindly stopped for me-

               the carriage held just ourselves and immortality."   

...

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Is the Watchdog Asleep?

By Elton Camp

According to what we have been told
To Medicare a bill of goods has sold

Fraudulent billings too often take place
To steal our tax money is a disgrace

Some medical providers have speeded
To...

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Children of the Electronic Age

By Elton Camp 

Many parents will know exactly what I mean
Kids, a time without technology, haven’t seen

“Back in the day,” cellular phones didn’t exist
Thus, what we never had couldn’t be missed

Only...

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Fred Enrolls in Obamacare

By Elton Camp

Fred liked what the president had to say
Enrolling in Obamacare should be okay

Because affordable insurance he needed,
To his computer Fred eagerly speeded

The government site came up right away
He thought, “Hey,...

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Throughout the history of human kind spirituality
has been the vehicle that leads us to a new modality 
As breath is linked to life, it is the transient carnality 
of the spirit, the one forever flow...

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Time Today
	
Time 
does not behave 
as expected in this place 
I find myself. 
The very thought of a clock
on the wall is somehow... 
profane against the moment. 
Things have slowed down, 
and speeded up, 
in...

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2/26/18


Standing behind it, is a legion
The mystery continuing to deepen
Beyond all logic and reason
Occurring every season
Shining like a beacon
In any region
Where the terrain may steepen
Or remain even
Making the best of having freedom
Even though they want...

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Life in the Slow Lane

By Elton Camp

If you live past sixty, things slow down
So that it takes a lot longer to get around

And another thing that you will find, too
In turning out work fast, you...

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