Long Staving Poems

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...

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My ebbing physical prowess and strength

noticeably decreases in one direction.

I take lock, stock and barrel 
to revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his...

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It's unfortunate that some humans and animals conduct their lives as if they                      ...

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So it's become aware
Another ounce of revolution to dare
A dream rather a statement once declared
False, now a lie
Hardly a surprise
Feels like that is my lot in my life
I so desperately want to belong
I so desperately...

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III.
“We do not know how we missed them,”
he said, his voice becoming said.
“Hundreds of them, some big, some small...
the heavens all seemed to go mad.

“Some struck hard into the oceans,
and tsunamis scoured the coasts,
the ones...

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Prescribed blood tests
present no qualms,
unlikely nothing askew i.e.
ticking time bombs
nor prone to catastrophization,

albeit anticipatory anxiety
plus demeanor of poetically titled
medical practitioner allays, calms
alleviates agitation exhibited
by dad's and/or mom's

panic minimizes si? no sweaty palms,
nonetheless precautionary measure taken
thumbing...

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Since advent of Homo sapiens
objection overruled against immortality
all across millenniums humans
generated, amplified, and

idly reverberated (Billy me) rebel yell,
when finality 'twixt consciousness
eternal existence doth die as well
grievous news laudable hospice staff did tell

us (meaning yours truly...

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Foxes found themselves at home 
In a match they could dial in by phone 
A villain came into their midst 
Trying to cure themselves from the bottom half EPL cyst 
Noted as the visiting team...

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Irreplaceable!

This world that I know of, is, - 'the family's' living room,
visitors, weaving fabrics of many designs in this loom!
Generations searched, yet - still unaware 'where from'!
But, established a relationship and a working decorum!

Every equation...

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While outside nor'easter
howls like banshees
vents temperature dips
into low double digits
fire breathing friendly
dragon (cue Barney

purple dinosaur)
crackling hearth,
yours truly snuggling
close proximity warming,
thawing, quelling...
cockles and muscles

atavistic visitations hover
brushes within subconscious
purring, mew zing catacombs
kickstarting, harkening,
dawning... Homo sapiens
lion eye zing...

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He stared at the pictures,
faces of the love searchers,
twenty first century wanted posters, 
scanning their rewards,
nothing pecuniary ,
preliminary,
maybe,
move on.

“Shall I advertise myself,” he thought,
no one appears sold or bought,
given to the mass,
on a screen of...

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Come with me, to where the river-water
Snakes around and through the rocks,
Lit by the sun,

To where the rushing stream
Cools hot, tired feet
 Where  all noise is stemmed by the stones.

Join me in this world...

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CPR

Not again call the code
Again in life saving mode
Grab the patient from the dark abode
This is a burden and heavy load

My heart is hard and callous
Working for years in the medicine palace
No criticizing you’ve your...

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I look at the future and worry
as shops shut down 
because of the internet
as people lose jobs

because of advancing technology
as companies struggle 
with the future loss of income
as countries struggle with lost tax 

where will...

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Right? You're probably just sat there,
Barely started out, and your writer's getting blocked.
Never has a beginning felt like the end of the world.
The beauty of an infinite canvas is the curse of being lost in...

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What am I missing?
every day I
bounce in all directions
through the door
off ceilings, walls, floors
rattling around wondering
what am I here for?
husband kissing
off to work
while I stay in
and create a din
of crazy commotion
out of my notions
I'll do...

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Africa

Let me be me
For what Africa
Nothing in the 'be me'
Just political propaganda
What you are is black
What's in you is poverty
And  you are corrupt

A zoo ruled by rabid mokeys
Armed with Herculean scathes
Choping off heads
Heads off...

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The wealthy couple

who live on an island in the Far East
but once a year, they visit Europe
every year when I see them, they have changed 
Alas, I wish it had been for the better
both are...

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I went to my tub
Turned on the tap
Watched as my sadness
Filled it to the top
The worries of many days
In the water crystal clear displayed
Deep beneath the surface layed
Summoning to me
Please come in

I stripped down
To my...

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Your castle has a moat
to mark for the unawares
the point of danger,
the change of rule.
My fort has a juice box

Your castle has a drawbridge
to allow in only those
who pass the "Hark! Who goes"
test and cause...

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Once I remember, I was pupil a decade behind
Nada flowing in my gist,but parent rememberance
Who toured, Pearls me a day and infinity
To be onto twinkle today's milieu
Oh a nibble was a villager of its effects!

Abhorring...

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They painted masks to hide the lie,
A façade staving off an expectant eye
"It's who we are!" They tell themselves
A repeated prayer one seldom tells
And in the mirrors harsher glare
Are they disgusted standing there?
To play pretend...

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If ten unemployed people formed a group
if ten people saved only ten dollars a week
after the first week they would have
One hundred dollars to invest

One hundred dollars would buy
equipment to wash and dry cars
a start...

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Bad news visited us today, and made us cry.
Good news came our way, and made us cry.

Gladness explodes when a child is born; and we cry.
Sadness surrounds when a loved one dies; and we cry.

O...

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BLUES THERAPY

She’d had a tough day,
her aging mother struggling
two siblings wounded and worried,
a gray day with snowfall, darkness
early and long
The husband knew what she needed
and when she started on dinner, staving
off decisions for yet another...

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