Long Spreadsheet Poems

I circled around the park three times and continue journeying towards the west
On my first cycle I met a couple sitting on the corner watching me like big brother
The young man shouted at me in...

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In numerology twelve has special meanings - they’re twelve days of Christmas, twelve months in a year, and Taylor Swift’s had twelve number-one albums. All we care about at Yale, are the twelve days until...

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November second two thousand twenty two...
abuzz with Autumnal thrum

Approximately six weeks since August sum
er re: lazy dog days witnessed lolling about 
sipping cocktails, whose primary ingredient rum
pulled and sated esophageal tract nsync 
with thirstily quaffing...

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Late in life I struggle against my insignificance
When I should enjoy the freedom from performance before an audience.
Applause is happiness but if they withhold applause, embarrassment.
When Da Liu put me to work crunching hexagrams and...

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October twenty third two thousand twenty one...02:44:06 PM
Eastern Standard Time abuzz auld Durin 
(ya know whit I'm Tolkien about 
Elder days long regarding) Autumnal thrum –

The perfect balm to avoid feeling glum
supine upon greensward 
I...

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YES I AM
I am that tall,good and kind man
I have the longest legs on earth
I am the fastest man on earth
I am deaf and dumb
My eyes lead me like a sheep and its lamb
I am...

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November first two thousand nineteen...
abuzz with Autumnal thrum

Divine myriad biota amidst
heavenly Lily of the valley
(Convallaria majalis),
he didst imaginatively greet
Edenic heavenly terra
incognita immeasurably sweet

nature's ensemble proffering
Gaia's quintessential orchestration
resplendent sensational treat
natural splendour regaling,
this fellow wayfarer
happenstance gifted autochthonous...

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It’s Sunday morning, about 8am. My BF Peter and I we’re doing our laundry. Most of the time, we spent in my dorm common room, sitting side by side on a red corduroy couch, while...

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The more I learn, the more
     I realize how little I know…
which insightful, gutsy,
     entrancing, catchy apothegm

     attributed to Socrates by way of...

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POIGNANT ECHOES 2
(Combo Mixed Verse Forms**)


Dark canopy, skyline deep black;
Morn suddenly flings radiance back.

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Dawn hurls
Fiery outburst;
Shadows flee

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Sparrow bird song,...

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A man woke up one day
Lost in inner space
Went so far down
The proverbial rabbit hole

That he did not know
Where he was
Nor what time it was
Nor when it was

As he stared out
At a bewildering world
A world...

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Love is ultimate, but with you it was fatal.
I had lots of laughter not until I said “I love you too!”.
Number two was my certified location
b’cos I’ve always reverenced you so high
at the topmost of...

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Lot of money being made in death sales,
plenty pints of iron-copper deposits
Body bags coin-wrapped
are rolling out of the blood bank sin-ters
to the holey pocket hospitals

Everybody knows the 911 cellular bar code:
Zinc life is an Alloy...

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I am all confused about income tax credits 
Now you ask about something called debits? 
This is really driving me insane with a pain. 
Do I get interest at all for capital gains? 
What can...

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Fruit smoothies
Peculiar notions;
Forget-me-not

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Mimosa carpet
On the grass verge;
Violet orbs greet

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Floral bouquet
A lover's gift;
Joy escalates

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Odes and sonnets
Words in-sync;
What's the occasion?

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Date with fate
Don't be late;
A full plate

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April intervenes
Abrupt endings;
Motley stuff

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Old lovers here
Vintage furniture;
Clumsy clutter

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Those sad eyes
Staring at me;
Lost...

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My first spreadsheet went without a hitch
I'm delighted with everything I’d achieved,
but my new computer develops a glitch -
I'm distraught and feel very aggrieved!

My spreadsheet file has just disappeared,
my hubby Peter hears my loud scream
A...

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The story of a Criminal Grandma
Not a good one
A crime spree old lady
One that is witty, Grandma Dynamite
An Old lady who robs and steals
She uses dynamite to explode
Stealing from banks
Never saying thanks
Even Police warrants her...

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The mining towns are shadows now
just memory's of lost miners dreams.
The empty shops and for sale signs
reflect the closing of the mine.
The corporate spreadsheet spoke
and people's lives it wrecked.
To make the share holders rich
and to...

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Autumn dreams adorned the meadow
in a starless blue dome at night.
The moon, like covering stream flow,
Warmly spreadsheet was silver light.

With worn-out tone of joy and love.
Autumn dreams adorned the meadow.
Dark flocks of birds...

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So, from birth we’re taught to aim high.
Not the height of the garden fence, the side wall, the house but for the stars in the sky.

So, we’re indoctrinated to believe that the acquisition of power...

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Just now the sun is set
Leaving behind a blank cloud
Then another scene evolves
Alerting the nocturnal world
To the clarion call
A world gloomily and dimly lit
For the brightness of albino’s lens
And the sharpness of bats’ and rabbits’...

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Wake Up Big Mike

By Elton Camp

At nine o’clock Mike’s secretary opened his office door
And there at his desk was a sight she hadn’t seen before
Mike obviously had stayed in the office the whole night
With his...

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In Full View
David J Walker

Twice this week 
I failed the test of
mirrored self-recognition 
Denying any demesne of the
face refracted in the broken 
glass of time

It is not me
	It is not mine 

A patronized visualization of
which...

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From monsoon streets to emerald isle,
I navigate uncharted ground,
Each spreadsheet marks another mile
While voices fence my world around.

The pixel screens of yesterday
Have vanished in this northern haze,
Now bound in corporate array,
I count the cost of...

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Replacement is a mark of worth
gauged by those who hear the voice
of a world that seems to care
for dollar’s sake and dogma’s bane

one dictates a bottom line
measured by where profits lie
with the spreadsheet all shall...

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