Long Thens Poems

#moon in Scorpio... 
As a result,
poesie naturally gravitated
toward intimate situations
that allowed her free reign 
to openly express herself. 

After I gave her psychoanalysis
I found her to be only half-baked. 
Inquiry into her private matters,
mainly an...

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'plumb the depths'
______________________

I. (slow melody begins in G minor)

i cannot fathom the sound soul you seem to wear when i’m near,
perpendicular passion without fear-
for the depths are not deep enough to measure our love,
 ...

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Knowshow

All nodes firing all the time
Shine on—the glare focusing the hacks
Everything shown
Everything known				
Metamalice is good to go
It’s the Knowshow
		
The devolving snarkyskanks are trickling it to the remember-whens
Viral krankdaddies are upsiding leveraged retro to the never-thens
Bouce...

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Life is ups and it's downs, 
                it's shorts and it's longs
It's crooks and it's straights, 
   ...

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I'd almost forgotten what we were like
so many thens, so many "do ya remembers" ago
the days fat with warm summer
dripping off golden smiles 
melting like wax in the sun

it was all just a race against...

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tryptophan fills my veins,
lost in lingering lullabies-

i sort out what used to be mine
he was enchanting with evocative eyes,
feverish in tantalizing touches;
a fraction of forgiveness without
atonement made me weak-
and i am left
BREATHLESS

but

i am placid and...

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I open the bottle and sit here alone 
just trying to find words that rhyme.
But the words seem to pass, so I pick up my glass 
and drink of the poets' wine.
All my tomorrows and...

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like heavy snow 'pon cedar boughs
those shadows, long through winter
my conscience weighs the thens and nows
yet morrows - naught a splinter ...
where hangs the hope in autumn?

as masts tick off the sea's green swells
like clocks...

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I HEARD THEM
THEY WERE THERE
I SAW THEM
THEY STOOD THERE SPEAKING
THEY SPOKE OF THE DAYS AHEAD
AND WARNED OF THE NEW BEGANNING
THEN THEY FADED AND WERE NO MORE.
THEY SPOKE AND I HEARD THEM
YOU COULD HEAR THEM TO...

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She means the world and thens some more
looking through the blossoms of trees
her beauty flows gracefully
she has my heart and has for all time
her caring loving voice sublime
looking through the days before
her beauty only grew...

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SO I CAN’T CALL A DUCK…A DUCK
                     …..if someone’s PERCEPTION
				………..wishes  it a SWAN

I cannot...

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The heathers spans the great Isles
Homeland to many souls 
Souls whose offsprings on the tides rolled

These souls who hath spareness
Spareness which sharpens haste
To harnesses path across the great waters

Seraphs thens protected their path
To a new...

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If you turn out to be right, at the end,
and no one ever knows I held a pen
or wrote anything virtuous other than
my Christian name in scribble/cursive blend
on legal forms, thus failing to defend
my structure’s...

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loves abyss hates skank taint
cruel ships paint tank
sinks pinks plank
drank stank
alibi
alibi
steam
cream glues
dream book shelf
pearl helps curse nurse 
times cries fried thens eyes
stone stars catch green stare
known knees knead knife knots
ready round found sound whind times
ticks...

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