Long Tauntingly Poems

with midnight dreams we dance
unyielding, i stir unwilling to awaken
incessantly seeking
You

like virgin wings of the monarch, your shape gently unfolds
i clutch the edges of slumber
aware in my wakening you will be gone
Again

you have come before,...

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Peering at the radiating faces of happy families
So much joy emanates from well-to-do children’s sparkling eyes
Wish I could replace the grief, put smiles on the faces of my sons
Without a glimmer of hope even promises...

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As I lay in  meadows green  outstreched on the grass
 Ignorance comes blinding as the fleeting day goes past. Blissfull blindness leaves  ignorance to the fading light. 
Approach the dark let all of day demise...

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Come the dark, come sleep:
music box tunes commence as commanded
by Father Time to prance tauntingly in years gone by 
and the daunting hours inevitably to come.
Melodies visit long buried memories of faded visions;
adoring their distorted...

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I come to my senses a little every day, 
to lose myself with the morning.
I have no country and know no flag
My morality, in body bags
lies at the foot of the stairs,
under the sputtering oil...

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Caught in a vortex
Gripped by turbulent fingers 
Drawing me downward
Panick stricken stimulation
Rushed through my mind
Mesmerized by depth 
Of the murky waters
Where rusty relics rest
Capsized. Relentlessly
Thinking furiously
Thoughts radiate recovery
Repose is resistant
Seeking refuge
Trinkets tearing tides
Strung on moonbeams
Villain’s...

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Who do we search for, in this wilderness
Oh weary lama, there is no one here
That that is, is just ourself as oneness
Known when we choose to hear by inner ear
As magnetism each pore of form...

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Yepper-doddle, today I’ll use my own noddle.         
My prized antique frame sustained a despised bust.    
Wanting to show my man the tough dough in...

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Enamel finger-smeared thick with butter
Yellow onions, yellow butter, floured and browned
Just add cream
From roux to dream
Now spice to glue that hold my world together

The team assembles for its tasty mission
Cheddar, gouda, mozz and more
Thick sheets...

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She was dancing alone in the moonlight
with a pair of arms wrapped around her tight
she was dancing alone, with nothing in sight
as the pair of arms twirled her tauntingly into the night
her heart pounded while...

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I am a mongrel.

Roaming the countryside.

Feeding on fast food trash thrown from a car window and various types of carrion that has not been stripped clean by the vultures of animal society.

Shaggy and unkempt. Just...

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In the fifties,  I was a child of six
we moved to a small town in what some might
tauntingly  call, the middle of the sticks.

A picturesque Montana town so small,
it was growing into its...

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The Strange And Gray House-

Whose house is this? I think I know?
This the strange and gray house
Why does it tauntingly glow?
Its owner is quite sad though.
It really is a tale of woe,
I watch him frown....

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Sitting cross legged on an upturned bucket
Back sagging against stubborn  rough barked old maple
Edges of soles twisting socked feet from worn shoes
Plastic circled reinforcing cutting patterns into buttocks
The shade  combined with sudden breeze...

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A clatter in the backyard
quickly got my attention.
Curious to see what was happening
I rushed to look out my patio door
and saw a scurry of noisy squirrels.
I'd hung a new bird feeder,
tauntingly, just out of reach,
and...

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Yes I know love, I know her well
For I'm a hunter who excels
Who knows his prey by sound and smell
And signs that tell, and signs that tell.

I've hunted love so long it seems
I'd know her...

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SO WHERE DID VAN GOGH GO? 

Van Gogh gave his ear, I gave my heart
Van Gogh had his art, I was torn apart
Van Gogh had a starry starry night
I have daytimes that never seem so...

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Mischievous Moon

The moon was in a mischievous mood
This morning before the twilight
Peeking through clouds it had tried to elude
In order to flaunt its golden light.

Full and round it followed me
Up and down the valley hills
Emerging...

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There are days like these when life patently doesn't come easy
like peas and carrots, tea and biscuits, moonshine & sun's resign,
more so resembling ill-assorted poked chocolates' wrongdoing of
dissemblance discombobulating conceivability mid hokey designed
disorderliness, inasmuch mute...

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Reverberations

Moist, heavy air settled upon my skin
tauntingly teasing undulating hair.
Reaching out I clutch at the mocking wind
as its fading coolness flees into cloud

my tongue tasting the torment of the air
inhaling brimstone scented vibration
roiling within a...

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Oh!  How he sauntered like a lord with his flaunt
The bluster and strut so nonchalant
The swank and sway blew me away
And swept me under the table like child's play!

My!  His handsome style
His arrogant...

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Meet the mother - old Miss Jenny
She gave birth to chicks aplenty
(Never dreamed she’d have so many)

But sly Wiley, a hungry fox
Was more threatening than the cocks
Tummy growling, he picked the pen’s locks

As her chicks...

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A consistently poor wage
Licenses rage:
An ugly fight against the cage,
Steady enveloping of stagnant wage,
A temper warning every wedge,
Rising while lowered with vintage.

Hirers open a sterile page,
Not a complimenting line for a sage:
Reflections of his usage,
Not...

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Vowels stir in the back of your mind,
yet consonants lack a foundation.
And the page taunts, with its virgin white,
while doldrums morph into frustration.

Ideas trip over each other,
unable to realign anew.
And sparks of inspiration get doused
by...

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How daintily she holds her cup
And brings it to her lovely lips!
How light, how gentle, now she takes
Her drink in slow and little sips.

And while her lips are on the cup,
By accident she lifts her...

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