Long Sturdier Poems

After El Cielo or Bust

I know time isn’t 
on my Mother’s side
for much longer

Her frail body like a delicate 
wine glass that has just tipped 
off the table toward 
a floor
that is sturdier than 
an...

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Prolog:   This poem is about how much you need to struggle to ‘survive’ as an accountable and matured man. Child demands what he desires and the man sacrifices his desire, to fulfill the...

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Now gather around, ye lusty lads, a tale I'll tell to thee
Of jealous Gods, monsters and ill-fated men who sailed the sea.
My tale is set in hoary times when fickle fate was by divine decree.
Then...

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A manic man sits, evenly, confined, conscious, in his four cornered room.  His cell phone 
rings and violently vibrates! The terrible tone slashed and sliced the serene silence he had 
been anticipating all afternoon....

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Story of Afghanistan

The barren land of my birthplace
Green at times but screening a rocky face
Known for thousands of years for its warrior race
Let me tell you the truth,
No one really wanted this “space”.

Up until two...

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It was the final day at the city -
The Circus prepared for a grand show,
Men gathered in packs and sat
On the chairs in the rows.
Even the Chief Magistrate,
Came to see the show;
With hundreds of police
In...

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Gutted. Absolutely gutted.
I know fairytale from truth 
I know not all in life has a happily ever after
I know not everything works out
I know all of this
I never knew it could happen to me
I never...

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Fairies pirouette through the dew drops.
A duet of crickets fills the forest with a mist upon the lane.
Sunlight sprays sporadic patterns of light upon the trees.
The rhythm of spring jumps from trunk to trunk.

She passes...

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I wish
To demolish my sorrow…
I wish
To forget the despair and gleefully grow…
To forgive and seek the challenges of tomorrow…
My downfalls and my failures…
I wish
To disappear
I wish
I had no fear…
For God’s near…
I wish
I could be a...

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Lacovia road
Here once the bambo trees
Dance like native girls
In native half-nakednesss
And farmers trudge a way
Not so long nor forbidding now
Along the banks where lizards lazed
A scampering of children
And trees are with sturdier concrete replaced.
The slant...

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SHARING MY GREY HAIR

“About the Journey”
Lots of things happen in this life
That Gray hair is a symptom of.
Trust, they did not come cheaply.
And it does not prove me be wiser.
However, it does show evidence that
I...

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Your like my backpack
So heavy and stiff
Do you ever get tired of carrying that sack around?
It's heavier than mine

Except i can't see it
No one can
No one even knows it's there
To be honest i don't think...

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Your like my backpack
So heavy and stiff
Do you ever get tired of carrying that sack around?
It's heavier than mine
Except i can't see it

No one can
No one even knows it's there
To be honest i don't think...

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"I am better off healed than I ever was unbroken."
                         ...

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The battle ground is smooth
and well-defined.  Love is the defender.
Hate dies of its own neglect; 
then when forcing its attack, 
invokes the solemn rite
of stand your ground, 
of casualty by friendly fire,
and of preemptive...

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Questions

If form follows function,
why does everything have too many bells and whistles?
Especially cell phone.

If everything is so simple a rocket scientist could do it,
why aren’t we all Werner von Braun’s?
Checkbooks are a mystery.

If the early...

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Have we dreamt the crystal morn, this day of beauteous bones,
tinkling icicles which ping, as they melt, this sun warmed day.
Lilac boughs appear egg white dipped, now over-glazed, amazed, 
in the mirror-like majesty of a...

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Have we dreamt the crystal morn, this day of beauteous bones,
tinkling icicles which ping, as they melt, this sun warmed day.
Lilac boughs appear egg white dipped, now over-glazed, amazed, 
in the mirror-like majesty of a...

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Citadel of wits and tricks
Who appears wimpish;
But your back is stronger
And harder than Olumo rock,
And the great walls of China;
Citadel of wits and tricks
Who staggers like a Kampf panzer,
Through thick and thin, 
Rough and tough...

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Being alive, feeling the bright sunshine and breathing new air,
as this New Year approaches is enough:
health, happiness and love matter...
Lord, strengthen my desire to live happily until my death!


I wish life were as wonderful as...

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A mighty fortress is this venerable plane!
A flying fortress indeed - the adversary's bane!
Though she groans as through the celestial dome she flies,
There's no sturdier old queen ruling the skies!

Though badly battered by bursting flak...

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Disastrous free-fall
 Into consuming ashes of heartbreak,
     He landed with deafening thud.

          Wounded, spirits deflated
       ...

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Wicked generation asks for a sign you said to them.
Could they, in their thought, word, or reach your divinity's realm?
As though puppies bark at the elephant that's on a stroll
Could any of their denouncements play...

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Like her name, so slender and lovely;
And I recall she smiled so prettily.
She was my aunt; born with a disease;
But took life like the summer breeze.

My best friend was her son, Jose,
Until suddenly he passed...

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I'll walk through ice and numbing snow
Though slaying cold be its freezing feel, 
And trek through roasting deserts drear,
Taxing grip betwixt soil and mortal heel. 

Not lonely climes shall my strides deter
Though forbidding such motions...

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