Long Splats Poems

Nylon waste is often akin to a brushed out stable, manger, or stall. But brushing the carpet is often a resemblance of a swirling cloud of dust and tobacco shards and tobacco shards are not...

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Running fast thru Autumn’s dream, Vincent-bright in village winter’s light
Topaz-treed streets, eaves-filled , singing with saffron and  gold,
A Rocky Mountain cold cornflower sky over English hills
Vivid with Vincent-fuzzy ice-finger edges 
Photo-album best parts of...

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Some healers counsel us not to count the cost
of healing deficits

But
successful greenest healers
win by counting costs
yet not worrying too conflicted much
about how we will cooperatively pay them
and when
and over how long a climatic time period
and...

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I remember being a little remote control. My chassis 
was sound and I was beeping all the time. My handlers 
were amused to drive me around. I was happy to please them.
It made me feel...

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Mr McCheesy has large feet
wears size 40 shoes, no simple feat
plip! plop! thud! phud!
was all you could hear
miles before he would appear

Many would hide to hold themselves safe
not wanting his cheesy feet near their face
many...

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Hearing the whispers and hisses of a dreadful day
Without a word to say
Only the voices of winds howling "look how they sway, sway"...
Puddles It ruddles it will stay...
Never will it go away...

Rain is coming...
But thunder...

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12/26/21


Time I make a splash
Got to fulfill important tasks
Can't rely on hiding behind masks
It won't always be what you asked

Staying intact or full of bug splats
Broken and cracked windshield glass

The wings of bats
Continuing to flap
Before...

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Water, water,  dear water, Mater Mare.
Where would I be without you, my wet, wet milieu?
Water is the medium that bathes my cells, my blood, my fluid within,
derived from the primordial ocean, aeons ago, still...

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And so they sat, this learned three
in full pursuit of liberty,
the turkey, eagle and the dove
looked down upon them from above.

The declaration almost writ
they rubbed their chins a little bit;
looked heavenward, and there espied 
their...

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Along with the stench 
From the Vietnam swamp
Lingers many other stains
Far beyond mud and muck

I’ve washed and scrubbed
‘Til my fingers bled raw
Trying to remove the souvenirs
From my uniform cloth.

Splats of blood, of a friend,
Buried without...

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As a moth attracts to a flame,
 I became; blinded by his blaze.
Leaving me wounded and dazed, 
On the battle Ground is where we remain.
Leaking trust like a weak bladder,
Discharging accusations like violent explosions, of...

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Centre stage: a white slab displays the cuts from 
recent cattle kill. Fresh meat show boosted to 
brightest red with the Salox dye. Prime joints at 
some shillings a piece – argue the toss. But...

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That first cup of coffee, what could be sweeter

It's starts the day right, it's a sadness defeater

We wake up all groggy and stumble over things

Into walls and doorways as to the table we cling

Lucky if...

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It's a flat summer day
   the sun pushes down hard
      so it squeezes the color and
         the juice out of...

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Eccentric? Ha! I throw off my goat-hat and laugh.
My mother adds something, but I do not hear.
I am busy drawing another cartoon to paint.
The fifty canvases on her living room walls do not deter me.

You...

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The first thing I smell,
after I step off the plane,
a Boeing 757, to be exact,
the pungent scent of jet fuel is permeated by flowers,
tropical flowers of pink and white,
a small, long legged bird struts through...

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Jazz piano scale skip quick notes implore me
Siphon symphony verve blurred by saxophone sass
Floated lilly pad leap frog spring legged surety
Splats on brass buttoned soldiers dedicated amass


Bulbous glass swirl burgundy grape stem bitter 
Absorbs oak...

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May showers come and go, not loitering,
    not lolling about long, to drench and drown
    the seedlings you planted, hoping for rain.

Hand watering hydrates, but not like rain;
 ...

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Plunk plick plat splat
The drip of faucet compels me to 
Throw down a few notes
Words I had not thought of six seconds before

Cardinals and sparrows 
Twittering and chittering
I listen hard, capturing nothing 
Yet inspired by...

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On the top of my delicious spaghetti 
Always covered with cheese
I miraculously lose my poor meatball
When someone uninvited sneezes
It rolls of a marble table
And splats onto the floor
Then my poor meatball
Heads right out the door!

It...

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In dark rock-cleft with guano splats,
There dangle many thousand bats.
A lowly worm evolves therein
And in bat flesh begins thriving.

Now man arrives for bats to eat,
For hungry poor, some tasty meat.
And so our worm transfers to...

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Now, 
I'm not one to jest, or protest,
-or say "I'm the best".
And I'm not one to pout, or put down,
-but I have little doubt...

That I should have won.

Oh yes, there were good entries,
Thrilling tales, brilliant...

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( RIVER RAPIDS )

R- Riding in a raft, heart racing, water splashing.
I- Intense situation, always careful, of any crashing.
V- Voyage underway, up and down is the motion.
E- Extreme class 6, dangerous magic without a potion.
R-...

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It's a universal soup for two --
The medium for all known life.
A magic, elemental, H2O stew.
In fat storm-puffs of water rife.

Breathing in and over the world:
In a rare, thirsty-desert deluge;
On peaks of snow, wind-whirled;
Beneath the...

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The glimmering magic of my watercolor painting
a reflection of my mystical ways.
Moonlight witch’s fat black cat next to jack-o-lantern gleans laughter from me.
I drip watered down paint onto the page with giant splats and splashes.
Possible...

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