Long Stiffens Poems

LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


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I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet and sour coated seeds
I grew free standing expressions and then...

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I woke up suddenly with a burning sensation in my back
It felt as though my whole body was on fire and literally I was sweating all over. I took off the covers to appease my...

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This is about a man whose name is Jesse
Born In Kansas and raised in Missouri
 Was called to fight for his beloved country
And  assigned to defend an outlying territory

Jesse fought as hard as any...

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I stand alone
on the precipice of life,
watching the Herd.
It is me 
   the judge
       and executioner,
the one who chokes out the weeds,
the reaper of the weak,
 ...

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Again, she arrived another eve
That same cloudy birthday
Her blood crawling up and down
With her heartbeat rising to a countless pace
She had frowns in smiles
Embedded in a web of desires
She comes with a flag of beauty
Waving...

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THE EYE of I

What is life? What is love?
The eye of I took it in…
The material rolling sweeps highs and lows--valleys cuts, grooves, gullies and gorges eye engorge crevices of porphyry
heat flies from the ravines
places...

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Approaching the solitary window,
Cold bites deep to my veins,
The belongings to the window's innards,
Crack out wards, light up my way.
The glowing warmth and smell of it's doorway,
Invites you, to the 'All Night Café'.

Breath lightly on...

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It seems that there is no shortage
of blind fools in the world today,
wishing that masculinity
would die, or whither away.
As if it were a simple choice,
and not written into our cells,
not realizing that without us
their future...

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You humans walk about with ease 
With no care nor mere concern
Where every step could maim or kill
And pilage upon return

Whether consciously or unaware 
Your ignorance is noted 
Oblivious to basic laws of motion
Where walking...

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My braces are pinching me and I remove them but really I only want to get closer
The harder grasses prickling our arms but why does she complain so little

The sun beats down and the clagg...

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Breathe


Dry twig collapse on concrete 
Begging to stand once more on its feet
To go through the closed door 
A crisp breath in the air 
Dreaming of warm sand , rocks and seashells
Catching fireflies
Standing still for...

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She stares lost, into the distance
far removed from the sounds of life.
Her book, she ignores, as she ponders
soft are her eyes as memories surface.

She starts as her hand hits the keys
then plays a few notes...

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Sleepy trees remain still
in the cool, crisp air
as joyful sparrows dart from tree to tree.
Clouds in every shade of grey paint the sky,
and a silence
-heard only in the dead of winter-
is present.

Soon, a newborn breeze...

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A million stars lie at my feet
	with red and oranges flickering bright
mists of darkness flow by them
	with the scent of burning wood

here and there I can see
	bundles of rags that so still lie
and with fear...

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The storm that is you thunders
slow and brilliant in my heart,
spliting my beliefs into bliss and blunders
tossing the limbs of my love from finished to start,

The hail sows no hate
temperatures taste extreme,
your fast weather pummels...

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*Silent grave yard*

Calm,dry,stale air
no one comes to visit here
dead and forgotten
________________________
*Earth Core*

Hungry hearts collide
sweet love under a full moon
earths core is spinning
________________________
*Mix Breed*

Fangs break through your flesh
your blood flows into my veins
vamperic embrace
________________________
*Drive by*
 
Stars...

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tears
silent
roll down
her face
flow
into
>--------=----------her mouth---------=---------<
she detects the salty flavor
on the view of her other eye 
Its inherent leaking springs[ugh] 
wetness starts tumbling down 
right down her red cheeks
things will improve
as they usually do
It lends her some solace
her eyes...

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Children Poem 
Children Poem 
Eye eat meat eye eat a lot of that stiffens mostly fish though sometimes beef and 
others even mutton but very seldom and they always say you are just what you...

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There is something special about the way 
the early morning light is drizzled across the park.  
A yawning of softness lingers in the air. 
Better pictures are stolen before the light fully awakens; ...

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The hypnotic thrum of the wheels
Drumming smoothly along the tracks
Inside the early morning hush
Broken by the rare stifled cough
The casual rustling of a newspaper
And the whisper of sporadic conversation.

A body slumped against the window
Business papers...

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As Autumn’s breeze caresses the forest
there is a mellow sadness to her movement,
for fallen leaves beneath my feet 
crumble to flakes of brown, the tears of trees.

Past midnight 
in morning’s quietest hours,
just before the lids...

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perched upon 

gray branches in leafless trees

blackbirds rest

on their journey to nowhere

an icy red wine sky leaps into our mind

just over the horizon

a mysterious radiant mortality looms

as it waits

church bells toll in the valleys 

a...

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TO SOPHIA


Water turning into pebbles
Ceasing to roll
With you
Sea means sands,
River, a bed of dry rubbles.


I gaze
You struggle to utter
I hug
You stumble to shudder.

Yet in a desert of bones
The oasis of tear ripples
Yon 
The wonder world
Where...

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AC Benus translation of "O süßer Tod"
by August von Platen


O mellifluous death, who stiffens most men,
You've received but artless tribute from my tongue,
For often I've yearned for you since I was young,
And for the slumbers...

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In middle America — a small earth tremor,
not enough to scare the cat,
the cat felt it, and it told the mice
who lived in the walls.
"It wasn’t us", they said.

A mess on my desk;
the glass inkpot...

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