Long Sunned Poems

This SoothSayer's Warning – July 24th, 2021

Dire prognostications 
(terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded)
with contemporary age
fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning,

sans total mortal kombat annihilation
when human (and many) other innocent species
(stalwart cockroach adept to survive)
pitch headlong toward...

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The day was long and she was spent
off to the pool our hot mom went
asked for some lotion
and dreamlike potion
drifting away she was content

Before to long she had awoke
sounds of pleasure the pool boy spoke
she...

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It must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode

You pretend it isn’t there
But now and again it shows
In what you say
In what you write
The sarcasm hidden under...

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My Last True Love I Have Found
By Rick Rucker

My last true love I have found,
Amazing, as I was lying on the ground

As the previous one died,
Some months ago, and still I cried.

So many feelings tied...

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LIBERTY MONGER NOW OWNS PROTEST 
   AGAINST COUP FOR SUPREME COURT TO IMPEACH:

HIM AND BUNKUM "FAKE"  AS HIS TAJ MAHAL 
   ANALOGOUS TO A PSEUDO PHALLUS SIZED LEECH

SIMPLY VISIT THE...

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Dire prognostications 
(terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded)
with contemporary age
fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning,
sans total mortal kombat annihilation

when human (and many) other innocent species
(stalwart cockroach adept to survive)
pitch headlong toward critical limit stage.
That eleventh hour fast...

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While sailing out on morning’s tide
A mermaid on a rock I spied
She was a lovely half-fish girl
With a necklace made of whitest pearl

She smiled and blew a kiss to me
Then disappeared into the sea
She surfaced...

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(following on figurative heals 
   sans, l'amour, 
i.e.,and that bastard conception 
   of life, liberty, and the
pursuit by George - Marshall ling, Grant 
   ting, and Bing Frank.)

Expectant motherhood...

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2022 Polar Vortex - Across Wide Band Of North America

Power outage here within 
mine happy hunting grounds 
(as well the ghosts of Lenni Lenape),
viz Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania
December twenty third 
two thousand twenty two wrought
(lasting greater...

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This Damed Family Man - Sad Commentary

The personal issue asper role
     of fatherhood, I did address
in psycho therapy
     earlier today, particularly dynamics
     between...

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Harpoon Loouey - Pseudonym Pen Bukowski

although just a pint size Notre Dame 
hunched quarter back 
     with rock solid state frame
Pen (short for pennilessness), 

     a generic...

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I Roundly Square Prayer...

Despite imprecations
     yielding "FAKE" impact
     upon the head of this atheist,
especially when thy
     (untamable) shrewish wife
    ...

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2019 Polar Vortex - Across Wide Band Of North America

Ordinarily, the weather
considered non trees
son us, a neutral subject on par
with non nose wrinkling odoriferous cheese
usually ranks as minor distraction,
without whether yours truly agrees

or not, except...

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THE BLACKER THE BERRY..

Misconception dims the path that leads her brown Clay
To shallow waters where she can never float like a butterfly but always stings like a bee
She is only good at germinating in dim...

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Generating a ring
     of bright waters, which
currently meanders, ponders,
     and then streams - twitch
ching reflexively as flora
     and fauna lap rich
text chard liquid
...

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My love, you have disappeared
Where have you gone? I cry 
I have shed a thousand tears

I search for you in every face
On shadowed street corners
But of you I find no trace

My life is broken and...

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T      h      I      n


Thin girl
What are they selling you
In those multi-flavored packets
Boxes
Of completely free fat
Cereals

The ideal
Skinny girl

Pre-fashioned femininity
Of skin and...

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Florida Everglades Wind by Mark Mazzarella



Trolling over the deep backwaters of the Everglades, 
turtles snapped and alligators sunned on banks, still as statues. 
The lush landscape was quiet except for the occasional 
splash of a...

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© Charles H Keys, 2011.  All Rights Reserved

Talking anxiously to myself,
Thoughts fresh of the new,
Some deliberate, others not,
Thoughts old and forgotten,
Mostly familiar or so it appears.

Still wondering why 
Am I here? Or maybe not.
Is...

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Every buddy get his own nigga 
So do every beauty gets his own beholder
While mantrap rides the horse of preference
Duty drives the car of everlasting home 

No one will ever wish losing better thing to...

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each thing living on
Murdth ‘sorbs water chiefly wet
backards of arid-
zona an’ the holmby hills’ 
chlorine romp ponds drawing the

scant as blue blood for
the thirsty altar as a
mercedes to the
mccam bridge carwash on
la cienega for the...

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For an instant we are sunned and golden, lounging by the pool,
An arch suspended like a bridge, or cathedral, above our satisfaction,
And while eyes behind sunglasses narrow to slumber
Our dreams play a degraded video:

First, the...

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The Sixties
By: Tom Wright
3/11/98

In protest
"Hippies" burned our flag.
fashioning clothes
that some wore in drag.

Protesting a "Conflict"
they were not for.
Espousing a slogan
"Make Love Not War".

They gave peace signs
while "Grass" they smoked.
As young men died
they sunned and joked.

Draft...

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I floated fatigued as a ship with none to steer,
Banging and crashing with no sanctuary near,  

And then she dawned blooming: a crimson rose,
Soothing with an angelic smile my heart that froze. 

Heart leapt...

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Burst out the dark wood
tearing laughter through the sunned blued sky
cartwheeled I spin
breath sucks in between grinned teeth
I pause
slammed by beauty
green gives way to a burst of wild flowers
swaying giggling naked across a field
overwhelmed I...

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