Long Stretching(a) Poems

Pawn
You've been a peon, lowly pawn your whole life
Never amounted to much,
nothing much ever went right
Grew up dirt piss poor,
never knew the reason why
you were put on this earth for
So you start cyber chasing every...

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Temps of the Morn
         Jeannie Flinn Furlong

Frozen in time, brrr isn’t it chilling!  But, thinking what a cool way to go!
Red that color starts at the...

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April

Admitting that I don’t 
Still care even though it’s not fair
to be without everything
that made me 
exactly what it was to feel
what it was to be real
and now I don’t care anymore

Like the hands on...

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It seems the roots of our humanity
    Began its civilized nature upon land.
As much as nearby waters flowed & nourished,
    Firm ground was needed as most would stand.

Like the...

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He loves being incorrect,
politically and otherwise
He revels in how bad he disrespects
anybody who don’t agree with him
His supporters staunchly defend
all of his boorish behavior
His critics call those supporters,
his crutch enablers,
who don’t have a leg to...

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Banks of fading sunset silhouette stood silently beyond, 
Stretching a great bronze bundle of clouds over the sand, 
An illuminating vociferous formation of wrinkled band, 
Finding the timeline skies to cross bridges over land.

And the...

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Stretching words
 stretching a bird unheard 
Unheard chirp is sung
 unheard heart beats tongue
Tongue sweet desires
 tongue kiss inner fires
Fires burn the lips
 fires passionate kiss
Kiss forehead cheeks lips
 kiss tears as they slip
Slip armd...

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Do you have a will drawn up for your family, people ask?
Well, here is my will; I will take up this task

I will to my spouse and each of my children,
All of my motivation and...

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January Sunrise

Arresting carnations through divulged eyes,
o'er bursting citrus stretching a punchbowl
--drapes prized quilt of January's Sunrise.

Underneath confident amorphous skies,
a year dawns, snowdrops grow in icy knoll.
Arresting carnations through divulged eyes,

fan a nippy faint frost neath...

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I'd offer this world
if worlds I could hold
Build you a fortress
with immortal gold
rid the sun
of power and age
orbit the stars
around you, engage
opposite poles
gravitie's might
to float on a cloud
of endless delight
tame the lion
beast of field
bow him...

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Temptation pulls us all into sin with gravity force
Wading in with human desires sweet sugar coating gloss
 
Strengths are nurtured and grown from our creator's breath of light
Filtering through densely chaotic thoughts stony cold walls
...

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“It’s a total lie, never happened, fake news”, 
Trump utters these words every day,
And he utters them not because any are true, 
But to turn black and white truth into grey.

Then grey becomes a voice...

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My wife joined yoga to stretch out her core;
Though extreme moves sometimes made her holler.
Yet when they raised fees, it hurt a lot more,
So she now has to stretch out a dollar.

Downward Dog used to...

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There it is again,
stretching, a wide toothy grin.

Parallel to an Odynophile,
forcing that heartless smile.

With knowledge it causes,
agony unseen, pain it obliges.

Each encounter sustained,
a knife wedged, an inch gained.

Perforating into the marrow,
stinging, dripping, each cut shallow.

Fragmenting...

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