Long Standing room only Poems

Damian Stood in the Hugh room
Surveying the expansiveness of
The place. "Yeah, this will be a
Imperial family event in my house.
The judges will be here too. 
There were two large tables 
The capacity was almost 
Immeasurable....

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Long ago, a long layover in Tokyo persuaded 
my flying partner and I to venture out to
visit Disneylando, as the locals called it.
We started out early in the fog about 8 a.m.
We had our map...

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It is a final long dreamed for by the organisers...
It is a final matchup between the top 2 contenders...

Here in this for off island of Borneo, 3 days of frantic matches...
Will end with this crucial...

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Here in far off Borneo, junior squash players are gathered in numbers...
Young and energetic, these are Malaysia's young hopefuls and contenders...

In the numbing heat within this immense hall, the muted thuds of hard hit balls...
Interrupt...

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I awkwardly, ineptly, and submissively fumbled thru life...,
whereat purposefulness rarely gained traction

Fatherhood (half my life time ago)
bolstered reasonable rhyme
manifesting itself before
these myopic bespectacled eyes.

Infancy, babyhood, and Childhood
evidenced, noticed, and witnessed
adequate basic provisions,
and no shortage of...

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Attorney General William
Barr black marker in hand
kept promise to censor vital
details of Mueller Report
swift as Usain Bolt candidly,
grandly, lustrously, roundly

youthfully blocked out more
rapid than an elegant eland
vibrantly, regally, magically,
and gracefully skirts borderland
which favored topography
constitutes grassland...

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Silent sobs echo through an apartment whose walls are cluttered with pictures of 
what was.
My tears coming too easy, too quickly.
The flow of release not bringing peace or resolve.
There's no deep sleep following this.
My eyes...

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It is crowded standing room only.Door slides shut.
I am not able to get very far from it as I
grab the nearest pole. A young man
who has a grotesque face
stands against the door as he is...

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So in standing as a part of me,
as much as the pencil tip still in my palm
sharp broken under fluorescent white rooms
in a pod in 3rd grade,
I wish to know promises beyond good intentions
for this...

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You remember me from my past books
I remember you from your scouring looks 
No sales were made; I landed a job that’s not obscure
selling newspapers on the corner is my entrepreneur  

Sales begin turning...

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Having been a journalist for the past forty years, now ready to make my final accord, I had to cover this one last story.  My days have been long, and my shuteye has been...

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I read the news today, oh boy
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
The fox in is charge of the hen house
Gates are secure but the creature is inside
Feathers fly in helter skelter patterns
“You’ve got to crack a...

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That’s The Way These Things Go

by Edmund Siejka

 
I was in a bar 
By myself
In one of those places that I hadn’t been to in awhile 
And yet still recognized 
By the turn of a...

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Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  B.B. King
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  May 15, 2015


 
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I find myself sprawled on the floor
Frantically trying to gather the pieces
My heart has been shattered
Jagged, sharp, crimson colored shards
I lay wounded, unaware of my surrounding
The surface is hard and cold, a slab of granite
A...

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I'm immobile by deafening chants of my fans.
Mounted on a grand stage draped in humiliation 
The arena is packed standing room only
Murmurs of insults produce a grievous boom echoes in my head
You, Me, Someone, Anyone...

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the last supper only twelve were invited for betrayal and the cross
and today only ten make it to share the table of control
when I open my door I run out of chairs as a meal...

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The west winds of springtime
Brought forth April showers
That rained on the pavements
Of Southwick for hours.

It was standing room only
And full to the brim
As people sought shelter 
At the old Tabard Inn.
    ...

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CULLING2
The culling of the Kangaroo,
has been here a hundred years or two,
And they are there in millions yet,
Cos they'll out breed you blue,
(we got Kangaroo plenty in Australia)

Human culling on the planet,
overstocked with humans, damn-it,
monkey...

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The Texas Lunch lies in my memories
A corner hamburger stand
Just a counter and standing room only
For the best burgers in the land
Now Texas Pete didn’t hail from Texas
From Greece came he and his wife
They came...

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The type of place you hear about, 
The locals tell you ‘Go check it out.’

The walls trap echos of laughter, 
haunting the outdoor heaters long after;

It could be a break up that leads you there,...

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It was the school semester of 1971,
I was a volunteer usherette at the university theater,
in order to attract more people for plays,
our uniforms were red hot pants and white blouses,
we seated the audience including wives...

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Some days the trouser snake wont sleep,
he has a simple mind, to take me to the place
men like, that rests with womankind

And in a dance when only twenty, tight 
trousers were the rage, young waist...

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Bar is standing room only
Poetry reading
Hopefuls and veterans make the scene
Rub shoulders
Drinks in hand
Crowd at the bar
The place closes down
Quietly people move
Like silent shadows 
Leaving
Without saying goodbye.

Nighttime
Second Avenue alive
Young people congregate 
Hustlers stand on corners
Neon...

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