Long Sweetmeat Poems

"The opposite worldviews of Reality and romance attract not --
the base of the former being Facts."
-- epistemology, the scientific theory of Knowledge,
as opposed to "just a theory"

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I woke...

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Hark! Halloween breeds an open season of gloom,
 For others, the very thought would not fill the room,
 Tonight, Jack O' Lanterns give off a soft warm glow,
 With the guidance of moonlight and young...

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Our bond being utterly delicious
We three will surely cherish
Let’s explore the ways of joy
That can by shared by friends tri
May I know what’s in thy mind
Or let’s try- together we find
Expecting your tweets now daily
Without...

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Walking down the quaint city street entering the sweetshop,
Oh yes!  Hershey’s Almond Milk Chocolate tasty flavor
Sweetheart chooses sweet licorice and hot fudge brownie delight,
Sweetie pie and I flavor sweetmeat crystallized fruit.

Sweet tooth such a...

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Setting the traps to kill men, 
The only word they utter—
Humanity! Humanity!

The stain of blood is on their hands 
And burning fire into their eyes;
The drink for their thirst is human blood;
Their hearts are harder...

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"life is like a maypole", I heard him say through the cell bars
I knew his voice, unmistakeable, rasping (like a corncrake) 
in a midnight field

now I had entered his world, his maelstrom, his sweetmeat-coated 
world...

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