Long Suddenness Poems

Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...

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It looked so right on paper to everyone; but when the night embraced her she was alone, still wanting to believe in love. 

Her footsteps echoed through her cathedral of a house which offered her...

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Early last October, on a cool and breezeless morning, one o’ my grandsons, Grant, and I had a half a dozen lines 
Bobbin’ near the cattails, in a small secluded bay…catchin’ perch and crappie…when the...

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Interwoven in my DNA
Disjointing chain links
Always lopsided
Never any balance
Overreacting
Overly emotional
Distracted by everything
One day somewhat normal
The next day absolutely abnormal
Super friendly one moment
As reclusive as a funnel web spider the next
No way to truly explain
It's like...

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Time 

                                 ...

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I believed in fitness and healthy living, including obtaining sufficient sleep,
To revel for years in buttery sunshine, which makes emerald willows weep.

I consumed only healthier foods, including plenty of fruits and vegetables,
As the glassy, black...

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some-tin-can-tan-man 
playing in the sand
with paper tigers
  a bear with many tentacles
red everywhere
	in the skies
  clouds streaming down
hispeed downsload online power lines
  pavement-red trees ripe for slicing
 and many motored mobiles moving
i...

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I missed you today. 
With an suddenness, a bereft slap across my skin.
When that familiar hair ahead of me on the sidewalk
turned.
And it wasn't you.
I missed you in the hollow of the moment of the...

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This place is a prison surrounded by thousands
of seemingly endless ruptures of light
Glittering like bees armed with non-permitting swords
That shine in the graceful glow of the moonlight,
Constantly drinking the colors of the night
in the unfamiliar...

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A Quiet Conversation In Church

Someone behind me stifled a cough
Turning around, the stranger nodded back
In the dim light
I made out a determined jaw
Felt thick fingers holding on to the back of my pew
I’ve been coming...

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She was just a regular girl
Not different or unlike any other
But lived in a fairytale world
And dreamed like no other.
 
She set herself faithfully apart
Unavailable for anyone else
And waited from the start
For her prince nonetheless.

Though...

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the hour late, I hesitate
to lift the shield of isolation
the walls lean in, as if to hear
they make believe, by breathing hard,
as if they sleep,  
but I am wise to them, I am...

I know...

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Why am I hurt so sore, my folks 
Why does my heart bleed
Why do I take it so personally 
Why do I need to worry at all

Yesterday my General, his men
And the family were here...

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The only way 
Take a picture of my heart 
I hope you see the dot
I hope your felt my soul 
I hope you saw my courage
I hope you can see the fears 
Look closer you...

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With speedy, gutsy ease
          her Irish father rolls up the front room rug
          Gaelic music lathers the...

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A   RANT
               Oh, the suddenness of the constant screams of shout
        ...

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I never saw the coiling snake,
The suddenness of its striking,
But I quickly felt my mistake, 
Stung with terror while hiking.

That quickly turned to burning rage,
A response uncalculated-
A sudden and angry rampage,
And the snake was annihilated.

Then...

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I'm paralyzed by the suddenness of my awakening,
Frozen with uncertainty as my heart pounds within my chest;
And my eyes and ears struggle to make sense of the darkness surrounding me.
 
My body frozen, not a...

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I was just walking down the street
when it hit me
a quick jab….followed
by a crushing right cross.
I staggered….stunned
by the suddenness of
a seemingly unprovoked attack.
Life, fate, Karma…WHAT!!!
I covered up, rolled, bobbed left,
feinted right, slid along the ropes
found...

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She arose from within me,
in the quiet contentment of a day, filled with dogs and digging,
white fluff falling from the trees and blowing in the wind.

I did not see her coming,
had no intention of calling...

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An underlying theme
breathing sleepy, ice clear and blue
to stop you in your tracks
on a warm summer night,
after having pulled into the driveway
under the honey suckle awning
and hummingbird flutters-
To wait.
To plug up the windows with glass
and...

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You hoped there’d be another
but it’s another night alone
the empty vines of memories
is a wine you call your own

It’s the ritual in a cigarette
unshaved, unwashed
and couldn’t care less
a single seat
a solo time
the prediction of it’s...

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WHITE LIGHT

daylight
coming in
intrusive
caught sight
of
the
minimal
 after-images
hanging
in the air

time
 become
 often
a
beginning
 unstretched
 uneven
 or
discarded
curls
 in
 layered
texture

a consistent
touch
 of
traces
of
actions a
come together

a residue
of
the
unfinished
thoughts
petered out
dwindled to

an excerpt
&
a
sigh

a
faltered
  interruption
barely begun
delectable
yet
truncated&
 improvised
 suddenness


 a feeling
of arrival
a
reassembled
happening
a
boundary
  overrun
 &unfocused
throughout

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus...

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Oh, let’s us not forget,
Deep sorrow,
Especially that caused by another
Overcome with grief
Tears and suddenness of quick relief, release
Sorrows misery
Sadness, anguish, 
Pain’s, distress, agony
All so real…
All I see…
Torments, affliction,
suffering, heartache, heartbreak;
Grief  broken-heartlessness, heart of heaviness...

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Absurd Walls:
By Mark Miller 03/08/2018

I sit in wait,
For melancholic relief
Consumes self-trust resistance.
Out from the clear and into the black shatter dust. 
Although, I cannot explain its purpose or meaning for there is none. 
Awareness prevents...

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