Long Squishing Poems

When I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as those wings unfurled

Within my long travels I happened to meet
Two...

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We danced in the downpour

The rains falls
not hard, more of a drizzle
this late Winter night
leaning on the light post
across the street,
watching the light in your window,
glowing slats through mini blinds,
outlines of your silhouette,
damp steel seeping...

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Mosquitoes Please Beware


With an audible snort of disgust, 
I pushed back this chair of mine...

In my head, I angrily exclaimed...
Oh, no! Mosquitoes, they are at it again..

Dreaded mosquitoes, they make my life miserable..
Incessant buzzing and...

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In the middle of the night
With sleep still in my eyes 
I stepped into my kitchen 
And received quite a surprise 

As I reached out my hand
And flicked the light on
There were balloons, confetti, party...

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The first one

The first one to speak
The first one to want
to thrive
The first one to try and speak
and not to just survive
The first one to shatter denial
It feels like
Aware I’m squishing it inside
The first one...

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When she was reading a novel a moth fluttered around her head.

This season, her favorite season,
	Moth season.
What scares the school yard are the tip toes in dark corners;
the undertone, the whisper’s whisper:
	Moths. They like to...

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You stand at your front door.  Looking down, you see horror.  You freeze in that spot 
as from under the door, comes the bloody seepage of carnage.

It pools around you.  As you...

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And In Rhapsody And Colors Life Flows


There in dear morning's soft glistening rays 
White beach sand squishing between eager toes
Magical humming as waves blue sky sways
And in rhapsody and colors life flows
About, beyond, into eternity
I...

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So far down into my pit of anguish, I find myself.

Slowly, some of my senses are coming back to me. Teh aching pain inside my soul and heart doesn't make this easy, but I try...

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(Wrote this poem when a 6 years old girl was rapped and killed somewhere in Hangu last year.)


WHY ME! 

Above the clouds I was flying on angel's wings
Busy in talks with the rising Moon along...

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I wish I had an umbrella for I feel you falling around me.
And I need to stand under something just to protect my head.
Pieces of you are dropping in a way that's most astounding.
And I...

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I see the shadow on the wall,
my breath catches and hope falls.
He has found me I do despair,
The Axeman is standing there.

Hiding in the house all day,
waiting for the return of his prey.
In the pantry...

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I sometimes wonder what I would do
If I were only as tall as the inch of two
Would I dart and dash amongst the feet
Trying to avoid them from squishing me

Would my home be a hole...

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Holding hands
Walking along the water
Sand squishing between our toes

Tide, slowly coming up
Brushing our feet
Cool, calming

My stomach
Is full of anxious
Butterflies, like springtime

My head not knowing
What to think
Craziness

Love
Filling the air
Surrounding us

Surrounding the world
And everyone who
Breathes

We sit down
He...

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she feels cold, chilled,
as though an icy frost
has blanketed her..

it is mid summer
the sun is scorching
vibrant hues of orange..

yet she feels numb
her pain is not visible
to the naked eye..

she is silent, without words
all she hears...

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i'm no longer haunted by your kind consuming smiles
fallen walls are caved in and stronger.
my pedals have been plucked
one by one
and once I had no more left
you cursed at how I reacted
how I still stood...

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My inspiration comes from my shattered heart
Of all my emotions strung apart

Distance valleys and shining falls
Back me up against mirrored walls

Shattered mirrors fall apart from the walls
Muffled noises and drowned~out calls

Life around my sweet fingertips
So...

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Midnight Madness (Ah! Earth Hour,2012)


All this low tech by candle light
Doesn't do much for my eyesight,
But, pulled the breaker at midnight
Having set up picnic delights.
Marshmellows, grahams, choc'late--Right!
Roasting them o're candle's light.
Toasty charred outsides black as...

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Daybreak 1
                        Frank Halliwell

The glow is in the Eastern sky
The night is...

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Here’s something we did yesterday that was totally unplanned…
In the morning…and the evening…we walked barefoot in the sand.

There is something magical when feeling the sand beneath your feet…
It’s like when two friends who haven’t seen...

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Midst mild and wild tumults like eddy, vortex, swirl, and whirl,
A maelstrom is a summation of curl and twirl and hurl;
Weather and season get amalgamated with currents,
Winds, storms, gales, squalls, haboobs, and wuthers become deterrents;
Vacuum,...

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Sighs yet again

a fold here,
a crease there

origami wings
that are limp,
drenched

looking pretty lonely and pathetic
under, that, crying, sky, , , ,
               ...

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That About A Face

Previously responsible concerning an adolescent resplendent facial hallmark,
Awarded to privileges and sanctioned embellishment favoring enhancement,
Over time, years chip away unnoticeably o'er worn breathless moments,

Taunt texture of an arduous youth evaporates in a...

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Summer
The best season
No other can compare
To sunny days and starry nights
That summertime brings forth
It’s so awesome
     Summer

    Summer
How does it sound?
Like drinks poured over ice
The jingle of an...

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Once upon a time, I was mushroom
I think I was elegant as mushrooms go
I had a grand head and a justly strong toe

I stood tall amongst my mushroom friends
noble and as bold as I could...

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