Long Subsist Poems

In a sudden nodding shift,
I was lifted into the air by the hard wings of the Devil
His putrid stench waking me from what seemed all dream
And upon a balcony of singed vine and blackened soot,
He...

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Keep Me Good Company…

TODAY MY MATE SAVES MY DAY... 
From spiraling into unconstructive decay, 
Plugging my volcano of negative gossip & hearsay, 
Planting productive advice to direct my way,
Removes pokey cacti from under my feet,...

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I…breathe again…
Meditating on flowers of my pasture, plucked with my eyes,
Resting…open, like buds blooming, and resting…

“Take me…” he said weakly, so softly in my ear…

I greeted the demon with the warmth in my eyes, 
Upon...

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[They lived in terror.  A dark cloud seeping inside souls tearing love
and kindness away]

I am lost for words to describe the agony of my reflection inflicted upon me;  the beast born by a...

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Paris at 51

Bless me Father for I have sinned
it has been forty years since  my last confession.
My life Hell, I seek Heaven. I ran 
away from home at eleven. Sold my body.
Fell to drugs....

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In the bleak night, ‘pon lonely street of Capitol Bye Pass,
Mine stomach’s growl, louder than thunder’s clash,
Mine lips, pink and cracked like parched earth’s skin,
I lift mine gaze, pleading to the heavens for a drop...

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When folks are young, they may feel blessed
But I coped with bullies, life felt stressed,  
I started eating a lot, food always there
In theory a good thing, in my case a snare,

I ate whole...

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The New Year has come wafting on the wings of winter
The high latitudinal areas of the northern hemisphere
Would be in the grip of frequent snowstorms severe
Throwing life in desolate isolation and out of gear.
The cold...

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We were miserable and exhausted by the rife. 
We leave the severe planet to fight for itself. 
Be patient, though! We admit in another life. 
Will toss the earth; however, we will not strife.
 
We...

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- Contest Entry -


There can be only one in my mind,
Impressing my every thought into the service of your image,
I experience your beauty a thousand times a day even when you’re absent from me,
I can...

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Love, O Love is now laid a wreath
Love, O Love is now laid a wreath
There with her beautiful heart, lies in state!

O dear life has wearied you to boredom.
In its wild, wild pursuit you are...

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IF I could make maize grow in a desert
Then that power I possess by your will,
That which can make static air become wind,
That which can cause trees swing side by side.
If I feel down and...

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IF I could make maize grow in a desert
Then that power I possess by your will,
That which can make static air become wind,
That which can cause trees swing side by side.
If I feel down and...

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Walkin around head down
Praying I'll soon be casket bed bound
Whether it's from a gun when it spreads rounds
Or catch a disease that causes me to shed
pounds
And I pass away alone no tear drop sounds
Come to...

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Under inexorable gravity’s pull,
galaxies often move toward one another.
Closer and closer they come to each other,
till astronomic smashups happen in full.

For no less than two of them, possibly three,
such a scenario has been predicted,
as computer...

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Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I...

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"Reflections of pink, and gold on heaven’s floor,
  a hint of memories that came millenniums before,
  and the radiance of God’s glory, eying from behind the shore,
  is a new dawn, for...

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Oh, my name is Ian Phillips
   And I'll quickly tell the tale
      Of a few men chasing shadows
   And their wealth that flows in pails,

There isn't...

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The heaven's lanterns she commands,
The harmony of ocean's harp.
Her moonlit shadow firmly stands,
And merges at the hem of scarp.

As I approach, afraid to speak,
Her illustration disappears.
Alone I brave the mountain peak,
Her cosmic voice still in...

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I don got nothing but terrible
reviews bruited about
dip pressing field day
me (Lothario wannabe) 
trumpeted execrable lout,
a garden variety baby

boomer father without doubt,
his own shameful paternal
shenanigans cavalierly he did flout
dwarfed teapot dome scandal,
thus one look no...

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I walked the garden path holding all the intimate hands,
nurtured in the impermanent world the hope of durability
of me loved and belonged, and me owning and retaining. 
Times changed, didn’t know why storm of dismay...

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BLOOD LUST  06/25/2013


What sinister secrets
lurk within my mind,
What raging storms
grip my heart,
What malicious maelstroms
swirl in my eyes,
What demonic forces
torment my soul...
You don't wanna know!

It will only entice you
in its dreadful dragnet
And drag you through
an...

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as usual,
another day has passed

for the sun is near the horizon
the moon will probably soon rise from the lake east,
and as the moonbeam reflects on the surface of the water
the stars, as many as my...

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by Michaelw1two

 What to think on this day’s rise
 to summer’s praise and spring’s goodbyes,
 wish upon one’s life and sigh
 or gladly breathe and greet opened eyed,
 what comes or passes one’s thoughts and...

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This candle doesn’t burn as well as the others
It’s smell is sharp and sweet but the light is delicate
Flickering 
trying to fade
Away
dying until another day
I subsist for
Someday when the flame is intense and the craze...

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