Long Telegraphs Poems

When I was just a  little girl, we lived by railroad tracks;
we loved the steamy, smoky stacks, the wheels clickety clack.
On many days we would find, knocking at our door,
a hobo who had jumped...

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Your walk away into the echoing stillness
Of a crimson autumn sunset
Gently stepping over the leaf-strewn forest floor
As withered leaves under your feet
Bid you soft and gentle adieu.

The wild blossoms by your wayside smile
And lend you...

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I take a deep breath, then I breath out...
I breath doubts, but I guess I breath now
But my breathe shall allow me tear this industry down
Can ya feel this chemistry, About to make history
At this...

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It's a Myth until it's Acheived

He doesn't take what he's doing seriously.
he goes in with a script: he's going to
do what he has planned, not taking
into account that people are watching him
and his opponent is...

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I see all things as a pattern

to be recognized and reckoned with ideas 
that are wise all things that can be 

seen and unseen 

I recognize the units that fit 
the things that slide neatly...

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All across the nation

such a celebration

people in motion…

 

The radio station 

in my head

plays on

with Scott McKenzie this time:

 

Are you going to San Francisco?

Be sure to wear flowers in your hair…

 

I can hear...

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Soft and smooth, freshly manicured with
No trace left behind of struggle or woe;
Hard to gauge the multitude of daily trials
Or the enormous good and success bestowed.

He’s not afraid to let harsh enemies see his strength.
Strong...

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sometimes they appear effusively ebullient
need curtailing, pruning
succinctness of clarity demands simple concepts
a fresh way to express tired vernacular
see contrasts that light and dark embody
simile is like a bridge, connecting this to that
ideas behind envisioned conditions
what...

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Good morning, here's a book of photographs,
It has all the pictures, all you can see,
Families coming, they bring telegraphs,
Remember this one, it is just of me,
So long ago when I was only three,
Here's you, sitting...

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What bridges the stale, hot air of summer?
Icecream 
Soulful pageant of flavors
A cone piled high
              Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry
    ...

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As the burn of fires burn
On ridges ripping skylines
The flakes of snow they paraglide
As fragile as my words;
When the seasons melt and turn,
Autumn journals fraught with by-lines,
Scripts of lovelorn suicide,
Of written pleas unheard.

As my words...

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Love notes posted on laminate:
Revisiting thoughts persistent;
Staring at head-lights
Driving through stary nights.

Stuck in motion--
Longing for somekind of devotion;
Sinking memories flood over me
Like a deluge of forbidden fantasies.

Rampant voices of love & romance
Visit me like a...

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Doors that lead to rusty windowpanes 
Wooden frames longing for photographs
A marathon without a finish line but several lanes 
Buzzing and signal losses of telegraphs

Multiple doors and a single key
Which door would you unlock? 
A...

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