Long Sties Poems

UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LIII - Tongue Teasers

Whether the glass is « half full » or « half empty », what counts is WHO « drank" the "other half », the « better half » ? Lucky...

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Alien talk I can’t understand
A Pifflewig performed a handstand
He verbalised through his ass
Gross putrid wind he did pass
Like many blokes throughout the land!

I farted, perhaps it was fear
Foul wind was expelled from my rear
The pifflewig...

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The noblemen control the pen, indeed they own the farm,
but nonetheless exude finesse (and need I mention charm?)
with revenue to sate the few, exulting arm in arm;
for all the rest, they wish the best and...

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Ted Weymouth rang me up to see, if I could do a job he had…
‘His trucks broken down’ he said, so I told Ted ‘I’d be glad
to do a favour for a mate’, he said....

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Always on my mind
Nibbling at the core, fiddling at the soft centre
Quizzing, teasing me to find
Space and time to enter   

The pantheon populated by caring
Daring divinities whose flight
Into ether left me wondering
If I...

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Remonstrations, protestations, recriminations
In the wake of a calamity that strikes below the belt
In communities decimated and disabled by insinuations
Brought to a head when fickle feelings melt

As tempers in embers flare
In scenarios of utter disbelief prompted...

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Tongues loose, tongues in a hangman’s noose
Wag without care to declare nonsense
As wisdom salvaged from the sluice
Where nonsense whacked common sense 

Lost in a sea of error whose terror
Harmed victims concealed by protagonists who opted...

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FOR HE KNOWS THEIR ABODE--THEIR GOING, THEIR COMING 
AND THE DAY THEY'LL BE VISITED IS APPROACHING 
APPROACHING LIKE A SUDDEN FLASH OF LIGHTNING: 

ALAS FOR THEM, ON THAT DAY AND PLACE! 

FOR AS MUCH AS...

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Break free from the love madness
You claim your heart feels
In the sea of sadness
From which common sense heals

If you give him the chance
He needs to weed you out
Of the love stance
Which beyond a shadow of...

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the season I turned eleven
was the season that I died
there'd been blood betrayal and famine
and I thought I had survived

my neighbor killed my kitten
and for that I could not cry
my mother went to handle it
told...

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Bah!  The sound of quelled cries
Tempered timbers tales and ties.
Malevolence, mischievous
Mine heart; mine lives.

Serendipitous meetings
With resounding sighs, of life.
Quaff strange brews
In still stranger sties. 
Careful wispers
around still stranger allies.

Lashings! oh, still the burnt
Back bleeds...

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Rackets, rockets and sprockets of lies in their sties fly fast
Treasures and pleasures of truth offer orphans wisdom to last
Choose to cruise in lies and perish
Cruise to groove in truth and prune proof to furnish....

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Villanelle: Too late too few the tears she sheds on cradle

Too late too few the tears she sheds on cradle
Bosom-fed mouths sing no tame lullabies
Innocence raped in the womb heeds no fable

Each child on its...

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POEM 50 HER HEART 



ALL OUR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER COME FROM GOD ABOVE. 

WE ARE A PREFECT MATCH MADE FROM GOD ABOVE. 

OUR HEART ONE TOGETHER WITH EACH OTHER IN LOVE. 

FOR THE LOVE...

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POEM 50 HER HEART 



ALL OUR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER COME FROM GOD ABOVE. 

WE ARE A PREFECT MATCH MADE FROM GOD ABOVE. 

OUR HEART ONE TOGETHER WITH EACH OTHER IN LOVE. 

FOR THE LOVE...

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A humid day
mosquito clouds swarm and separate
along the dirt road to the farm
pig pens hazed by black flies.

Bob (an old friend), said, “man,
you picked the wrong time of year
to come visit,” he chuckled.
Hogs grunt and...

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Monkey chant and fake fraternity front
Brandished on the grand soccer stage
Rush Russian bear invectives to decant
Insanity and indignity rolled into ribald rage.

Monkey chant and plastic smile politics grow blunter
In post-Soviet soccer stadia. Russian bears under...

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Don't let them see us
tremble! – it is what
they want.  Don't let
them drink our tears of
sorrow...it will prompt
them to create more  
heartbreak tomorrow. let 
them hear, loud and clear,
of our definitive resolve –...

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In my mind somber sorties unfold
When morbid movements scar a hundredfold.
Normalcy dead, transparency scared
Empathy bearded, intransigence endeared. 

In my mind sordid scenes grow cold
When vulnerable voices no longer hold.
Brash brands undead, harsh hustles prepared
Phantom forces...

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Wail not when I die
Spare your tears, spare your lies
Enjoy yourself to the fullest when I cry
Swallow your lies in the sties alongside the fake ties

In your hearts you never meant
When in your hearts of...

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i was taken by surprise, ive never gotten any sighs, the feelings i disguised, she could see them in my eyes. one thousand real failed tries, trapped in spiders web like flies, it doesnt matter,...

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