Long Testimonials Poems

HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.

Firefighters bow heads in silent paean, 
while polished trucks stand...

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When the mirror of 
               life is a gossamer film,       
 veiling v i n...

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"It's all in the earlobe," I heard him say,
And I wondered where I went wrong.
For my ears were lobeless , and I was weak,
But this ear full of lobe man was strong.
As I eagerly listened...

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Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020

Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or

art appreciation...

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Joke was on him

A lie can perpetuate with a blinding speed
Growing on the heels of shameful greed
If enough people believe a con-man's spiel
And blindly proceed to invest in a dubious deal.

He began quite small with...

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The tea I use was born in Canada.
Holistic doctors told me of its name.
This strange concoction does a lot of good
with curing cancer its main claim to fame.

A nurse and doctor took its formula
and bettered...

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Spinning like a wagon wheel in the dust
Swinging like a kid on a park swing…these wild days…
Beginning to lose touch, turning to rust
Like an old bicycle, left in the rain in its watery rays…

Reaching out...

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It's strange how God talks to us.
Sometimes in the wee hours of a sleepless night,
Sometimes a sweet voice appears in the background music of the vaccum cleaner.
Maybe while driving home from a tedious workday with...

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"Diversity is to Unity
as Strength is to Power"
said Speaker Pelosi

To democratic LeftBrain economic Identity
investing a self-assured shout-out
to RightBrain's ecosystemic political Integrity,
silent 
when most interactively stunning.

Meanwhile
cacophonous money
overflows an overpowering partisan swamp
while climate health feminists
popcorn-style erupt
into MeToo...

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INTRODUCTION:  Hold all applause to the end
Erasing all challengers by moon of night.
Mark of the PANTHER with claws lock jaws
Branding its territory with swift  swipes.

He stalks the jungle
Polite stealth steps, rip raw
He crept
He...

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The dial-up whine, a familiar slow embrace, 
Connecting to a world in a digital space. 
And there it was, that friendly, teal-tinged hue, 
Friendster calling, "Come and join our crew."

Remember profiles crafted with such care,...

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what answers do you need to calm your curiosity 
	do you so doubt the truth of our first kiss
	have you watched so long that you no longer see me
	what secrets did you think i could...

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While walking through the familiar road,
Connecting my commence and the destiny,
The road that took me to the humanity of knowledge,
Delight, opportunities and revealed mysteries,
My college, a bastion of courageous queens and the influential,
While I marched...

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Present-Day Snake Oil Salesmen

By Elton Camp

In the past, hucksters came, patent medicine to sell
“It will cure all human ills,” is what they would yell 
“While supplies last, only a dollar a bottle,” the call
“It’ll cure...

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Under the skies of love
Quizzically forever stretched to thin 
One question of many in life
What is love made of 
Through all EMOTIONS testimonials

And commotions PS an after thought
Of NOTIONS this love ideal must be
Nurtured ...

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Child born to be used
Born with a veil over its face
Born protected from birth 
God designed they life 
Life to appear one way
Held them back 
Run them through situations 
Situation average Joe...
Average Joe couldn’t handle
Gifts...

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TIME

A.
Time exists in testimonials encased and framed. 
Each singularity proud and erect standing beside 
and supported by a lone consort. 
When recalled and rendered within, 
No pause is seen nor heard, except 
when played in...

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 some hear Audible Voice some see Vision Some Dream dreams and that I wait my predestined estate I asked for what's for me can't I'll wait await my confirmation

Some with a third eye they...

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Swirling vistas of such sweetness found floating through the auspian air ~

Pen to pad calibre idioms beyond the verbs measuring these tidewater inkwells aside

Beauties, evergreen genetives in red, white and pinks, pronounced; Camelots dreams.... 

Testimonials...

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Off from formal stage's pageantry 
Collisions of pewter play tenor to horn 
Vessels filled with mead, wheat-gold,

Foam. Monks trade lines with scops 
Who tile a church, swapping agricultural 
Know-how. The technics prepare 

Bard for a...

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Tick tock, tick tock, tick, time ticks tirelessly, tick.
Tricking trance’ers, testing too. 
Touching tenderly, thoughts, tick. 
Takes time to think, take time, tick. 
Try to transcend to the tested table tops. 
Tinker, tickle, take the...

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crying out in agony
I growl at the hollow
I'm shivering
arguably

odds aren't in my bias
utter something
seal my orbs
purblindness

testimonials for verse 
deny verve's blunt truism
rather not realize
pick a sleight

plagiarize
one abundant
to survive
inhospitableness

Written: March 30, 2022

A BRIAN STRAND PREMIER CHOICE...

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corruption, discrimination, feelings, judgement, nonsense, poets, spoken word,

ScatterBrain/ Misdeeds! ©


From my scrambled mind brews quagmires of twaddle--- 
I try to assimilate wisdom with lyrics….  
My mouth slags ‘lost’ for proficient words ---
And fall short...

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Devil sends his advocate to recruit us from the office.
Is this a joke? I ask, thinking it must be.
The advocate comes in with a flourish,
Throwing her red satin cape around with a swish
As she sits...

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A pink tortoise shell is neither a flowery design or a baked jelly mould as babies can move very quickly in a midday sun and muddy middle aged cars can rise to form circulating capital...

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