Long Spin off Poems

The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...

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September   2017
Warm sunny Saturday early 
Afternoon
Damian was indulged in stock
Market purchasing. He was 16
He believed he needed to spread
His wings. Damian made big
Purchase that would net boastful 
Future funds. He bought 2 shares
Of...

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Conversation with Omicron

I’m speaking with Omicron. Omicron is a well known antagonist of the health care system and frequently mentioned in political discussions. First, why did you come here?
	
	I didn’t “come here”. I was brought...

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~Compassion~
( Free  Style )


Compassion is something wonderful that we all should feel,
Every human being should experience it  just like love everyday,
God surely shows His divine love and compassion for  all of us,
He...

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At three a.m. the annoying telephone rings
“Hurricane Kate will soon be making landfall;
Drive to Panama City, start collecting your things” 
Microphones and tape recorders, I pack them all

Just one week till the end of hurricane...

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gravity
homeboy got capped in the knee
out in the streets 
let the truth be told
where as years ago
with Grandmaster P
he was born in the gutter 
his momma was a whore
selling her junk in the trunk
in back...

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They laugh and roll their eyes when I
stand up for heroic western types,
for pulp-adventure, and old-school action,
they say this shouldn’t bring satisfaction.
With a haughty air they claim it’s cheap,
‘mere entertainment,’ and nothing deep.
As if popcorn...

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Mechandroid 
Mechandroid 
 
 
Eye was always small and never given much to physical displays or showing out 
and fits of strength were not my style the strongman of the circus type is more the...

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Heads spinning around and round,
Truth no longer first thing that springs to mind.
Integrity hanging on by a thread, as spin takes it out of orbit,
Trust buckled in for a bumpy ride.
Empathy losing ground to spin.

Lovers...

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A little bit of spice and everything nice,
Let's make sure there is no vice
Every time I roll the dice
I am being pushed sidewise,
I always hear their cries,
"Let live by our size,
Don't have to tell you...

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When it comes to being a parent at an early age, it's the end of one's social life. And
when it comes to watching "Teen Mom" on MTV, the drama never ends. "Teen Mom," currently
airing on...

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               Azura de'palls the grid, 
surveyor on placebo crystal pillar lampstand, 
mid eyeing treeline,
at curmudgeon sky.
Angels filter embrionic ether sift of...

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i don’t want to hear.

stop your racket, let me curl up
into my
self.

forget the new, the change,
freeze the turning point
melt my bones into quicksand

	
		love is like a disease;
		wherever you go, i
		most certainly will follow

my body is...

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With carousel horses chipped and broken
wires and wrappers littering the ground
People chattering, waiting in line
house of horrors and house of mirrors
A ferris wheel that doesn't look too happy
carnival roadies moaning and groaning
A smell very vagrant...

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Flower Power was an ongoing craze
That was way back in the 70s days.

War was raging; folks were talking jive.
Young military men fought to stay alive.

No spiffy crib for those Viet Nam dudes.
They camped with Jack...

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I’ve been having nightmares every
night.
They seem so real and It’s extremely 
hot and I feel trapped and I can't 
breathe. 
But each time my torcher ends when
I  hear bells and alarms ringing in the...

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He smiles and for
A split second the universe
Stops and I can’t breathe
Falling through the sky
I wait to hit the clouds
They’ve frozen
I’m surrounded by the birds that fly from his
Lips 
Bluejays
Red backed sea hawks
I carry the...

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Fun for Marriage

We were in those universal battles of fingertips and of massages
and of hips and of erotic urgency, which she etched
reddish my mind to pound upward to heaven,
tearing my heart in pieces from bone...

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Shall I compare thee to a winter’s night?
When death kills all and life slowly decays,
Cold has no mercy and the sky no light,
And lasting long, the end so far away?
I do compare thee to a...

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It’s unnerving how so easily
And nonchalantly I deviate 
Spin off in odd directions
Off on a tangent lose my path

Without roots and effortless
adrift I sway in the first passing wind
And let myself be carried away
By any...

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City lights shining
            at night
lead us to believe
   that the ghosts of the past
        ...

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Spirits riding time,
in swirling clouds, mist and fog,
off the bluff they rolled.



Special thanks to James Marshall Goff for taking the time to explain haiku to me in a manner 
that helped me to appreciate its...

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The love of dancing's such a heady thing
That all the body gets a-bubb-l-ing.
Fizzing, whizzing, popping, in and out,
Then truly-smoothly circling round about.
Hold on! to your partner; let rhythm pull and bend;
Foor-compelling action bumps into a...

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" When the Soul wants to experience 
something she throws out an image 
in front of her and then steps into it."
Meister Eckhart

Little bits 
spin off like sparks
from a grinding wheel,
as if you are
being honed...

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