Long Spiderwebs Poems

"Peace in the Nowhere"

Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words 
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere

someplace relevant to go

Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...

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It's the weekend (Friday night). Lisa and I are hangin’, music’s playing, and we’re rummaging through my suitcase, for an outfit option, for me, tonight. Call it cliché, but we like going out - and...

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“Mindgames, Figs and a Dictionary”


Have you ever wondered 
where you’d be 
if there were absolutely no 
dictionaries?

You could make up almost any word
and give it any meaning.
Like Figs are jewels for chewing on
and words are...

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I am the blessed, I am the cursed,
I am Society's mistake, I am my own worst frenemy.

I float above the catwalk of shame,
Shame for being me, for being free and strange in the eyes of...

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Written: March 28, 2024 For Constance La France Contest

Quote: (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.) Marcel Proust
 
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Like glass catching light
scatter across the sky 
each shard a silver of history
a world once whole
now dispersed into the quiet 
between afterthoughts											

Time drips at its edge
splattering of seconds
glistening like rain on cobblestones 
reflecting what I...

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(This time I've quoted my own poem titles. Everything in quotes is a title.)


"Dear reader," again, this monolog persists.
We're no longer "sparring" with figurative fists.

"The blood of an Englishman" is my last token,
"cursive curtsies" for...

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Nestled in a valley in a clearing of large oak,
while sunlight touched but treetops where the baby robins woke,
stood an old abandoned cabin that had seen some better days,
had once seen better fam'lies and had...

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One hot summer day,
Unable to bear the scorching heat,
I was lying on the floor
In front of the portable fan, and
I saw 
My neighbour's two year old boy
Toddling in with uncertain steps.
He had no cloths on,...

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I went to visit my friend, Frank
I shouted his name and to no response...
this was the first time in six months 
that I went to visit him....
he already depressed about losing his father
and having his...

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We are born into a world of sublimated madness, calculated with the precision of a broken clock,
amid the shattered stained glass of desolate factories, where the echo of emptiness reverberates,
in taverns where silence bears the...

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In Search of Lost Meaning
In the twilight of my thoughts, where shadows weave their silent dance,
I drift through the labyrinth of existence, a whisper in the void,
A fleeting echo in the vast tapestry of time,...

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What you don’t see: I do
A derelict house lumbered down the street
— it had enough of sitting still.
The prickly weeds and spiderwebs spawned ghosts and shards of glass.

People stared and pointed out; aghast they turned...

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Withered hands that have lived a thousands lives over,
hold me above the sinister ways that life has tricked me.
A grandfather with the weight of the world on his shoulders,
selfless skin tearing itself off again and...

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I invited friends for a Halloween party
and with the decorating I got real arty
so many spooky and evil decorations
oh, yes I was very proud of my creations
there were spiderwebs and spiders and flying bats
you...

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Hide me in hell, not long, less I'll be wait...
Unto her whispers and cursed crooked floors
'Twas many a year ago when I was eight
That I traveled beyond my darkest tours

A game of hide and seek...

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The girl and her smile straddle the rainbow
neon hair the fluid cascades of northern lights
seafoam cloak the ripples outgrown by the shore
she adores the breeze adorned with gems
emeralds fly from silk strings in the wind
kites...

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When the world was youthful
spiderwebs sang as they were spun.
Language was woven in the air
as accents of winds and trees
conveyed by an eloquent sky.
Untrammeled meadows annunciated
upon the lips of dens and burrows
scooped by shrew, mole,...

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9/21/16


Spiderwebs
Close and far from water levels continuing to ebb

The skies overhead
Occasionally not blue, they red

Plants with broken branches and damage to the stem
Some of which too sickly to mend

I don't recommend
Getting caught up, and copying...

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Such a fool inside you are
You've built your castle of glass
On sinking quicksand
Sadly now it falls

With all the stones you've tossed at me
I've added them to my arsenal
Now that I've started launching back
Your cracks they...

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A rifle is not the weapon of choice this year
I am not here to try to shoot a deer
My eyes, my ears, my camera are the tools I take
My desire is to discover incredible shots...

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This is a love 
that is bitter as citrus
that leaves me burning coldly
bowed head, clenched fists
on a park bench 
in the middle of winter

The people see
but they can't help it
they can't help me from falling
so...

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I am nothing

pariah     outcast    a worm

I have nothing to offer, nothing of value

except these words

for when I see the sunlight reflect

in your chocolate brown eyes I envision 

paradise

eden...

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Before my birth you knew my name

For you are the holder of my fate

Your compassion has extinguished my transgressions

My day of defeat was the day i was born

Because before I knew you my soul had...

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The Dew Ball

Early in the morning I rise and make a cup of tea,
The windows are covered with dew, nothing I can see.
I step onto my deck to let my dog have a run outside,
There’s...

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