Long Stalky Poems

Oh yeah if you’re a fisherman,
and you’re rung up by a mate,
there’s always time to put down tools
with no need to contemplate,
‘cause fishing has that magic draw
to take you to your peak -
and evening is...

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The fly
          buzzes
              over my bed
Spawns 
      ...

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My EarthMom used to stand easy
at our kitchen sink,
looking out across our fertile backyard
vegetable garden,

Rising from humbly short
but brilliantly red/green
bodhisattva radishes
inside white but spicy,
not the least bit sweet privileged
with vanilla nonperformance,

To the back soldier rows
of...

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Zephyrus, mighty God of wind,  slips over western slopes

to nudge the winter, in quick adieu, ..unfurled against the blue.

He is husband of Khloris, a goddess of the green

He is father of the fruited vine,...

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Beneath the opal passage of the morning
I surrender to my gaze, and I am thrilled
Where the cattle graze upon the hills
The grass is wet and chilled by morning dew

Under haze and clouds, and glow of...

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The Seven Dwarfs of Facebook

By Elton Camp

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to Facebook they go
Each dwarf represents a type of person you know

Lonely the truth about himself does hide
How little is in his life others mustn’t...

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Stalky lupines add a purple fringe
to rugs beneath the lodgepole pine
In tall cool grass, where deer have been
the sun slides down between the limbs 

The blue wild flax,  on slender stems
will bend and bow...

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Smooth, effervescent glowing skin
Free of blemish and blighting toxin
Undulating curves of glossy satin
Red cloak shrouds comely Saracen

At the core a being of fibrous substance
From stem to sternum burgeoning affluence
Delicately woven fabric with scintillating elegance
At close...

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My home is confinement
trapped within a metal wall
it has been six years now
since I first took my fall
I now shower naked
with all cell block b
many other unfortunate men
of all different criminal breeds
my space is with...

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