Long Third party Poems

Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, 
When I was twelve and he fourteen, 
It took away his ambitions, 
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam. 

I understand being born with...

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This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.  

Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking...

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Oppressor and the oppressed.

Who is the oppressed and who is the oppressor?
Who has the right to beat a random person on the street?
Who has the right when to pronounce a person guilty or to see...

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They tell us once there was a crow.
Wavering alone in the peril zone 
The feeble is not straight on a clue.
It has been winging since the era of stone.

The crow saw the cost of the...

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Where have you been?
We stopped taxing investments in worker-owned cooperatives
decades ago.
They all have missions to do one or two of two possible things,
To recycle matter to highest use
with least carbon-based effort/loss of reinvestment values,
And to...

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Pop (corn) Music


Introduction

It’s time to dance, time to tango
There’s a Canadian on the banjo
When he sees the guitar strings
Jack’s mirth grows soaring wings;
As he scans the rhapsody drums
While busy the Banjo he strums!


He strums with...

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RESPONSE TO RUMI

Tell the Friend I’m coming, with a wine sack and a thirst.
Been too long in solitude, got a sickness in my bones.

Pray? Where was Shams when my need was so great?
“Suffer the pain…it’s...

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A follow up from the previous poem: Mystery 

THE SEVEN DISAPPEARING MEN

7 men upped and left and then where never seen again
Nobody in the factory had a clue as to where and when

Jack's, cup of...

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Oh, the folly of words, false!
     Lies, rumors, hate, jealousy ...
          Anyone who utters or listens to gossip,
    ...

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Watch me creep upon your virgin abode
without a husbandry humping request
to take what is mine from no/mo/mojoe months of 
exsocietal solutiservititude of sexlessages unimpressed. 
Finally, the the universaladity of our fauxphysicosexual spirits melding
into a one...

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Some who claim they know me,

Because they know a member,

Of my large family will soon wish,

They had taken the time out ,

To communicate with me,

Because soon and very soon,

Possibly before the light of the moon,

I...

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Free verse rhyme

The political machine, in America is very mean
My statements about it may be to some brash
But what I am about to say, is Love’s cash…….................................(Luke 16:11 true riches)
Biblically said, “upon this very thing,...

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Tuesday

So much hate   in just one presidency
So much division   in less   than four years
How can   just one man   be the reason for
the riots,  ...

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What’s with the frosty attitude,
are you mad at me
for the tough love words I said to you?
A blanket and sheet in the hallway
tells me my bed is gonna be the couch tonight
Sometimes a person gotta...

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"Betrayal begins with trust" - Quote by Phish
  
 Here's the story of a married couple...
      They had the world on a string,
      ...

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I’m thinking about you, with somebody else,
Trying to resist the feeling, arrayed twinkles
The stars set high I can’t stop, gravity truly,
Has a place in the void of emotions, reeling,
Ever so close, to my tentative actions,...

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Romancing The Turtle

A second or third party of unknown origin
Fragmented theories, partially substantiated as of this hour
Fully disclosed an encounter 
Between a man and a tortoise or turtle
They told a tale to a friend of...

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Truth,in today's world,is a vexing word,
by what standard does the superior inferior discern?
is the notion,preconcieved,absurd,
or is it unjust,because of what we learn...

Convenient truth is subjective at best
more circumstantial than accidental,
objectively penetrating conflict to rest
massive testing...

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It makes me wonder if we have learned anything from our War on Terror in the Middle East. Biden gave the impression he understood that. I didn't think that Biden would be a War President,...

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I would like to find God, the enquiring mind said,
But I don’t really want to have to wait till I’m dead,
And when I say find him, I do not mean in spirit,
If he really exists,...

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Been waiting for fifteen minutes to connect my call
Not sure if the location code is known.
Keep getting invalid number please try again
What’s up with this phone?

Oh, I hear some progress in the line communicating.
Hope it’s...

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Our Union
	
My eyelashes bat 
After meeting your gaze
From across a 
Crowded subway haze.
 
My pupils dilate when they
Look back at you over dinner
Where we drank wine and ate.
 
My feet dance with glee as we
Fall...

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rare moments of emotional exploration
indefinable spaces between the words in a conversation
warm with feelings found in romance or those realms & aspects of
physical love,
but owing up to neither,
just pleasures within a context of pleasure
brought to...

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I am seeing your photograph,
I feel the love once again,
I am seeing your smile.
I am falling all over again,

I miss it and I'll save it,
I saved it and it's story,
It's story and its's questions,
Like,How did...

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The TCM channel caught my eye
playing movies termed "film noir"
intriguing movies where someone lies
and theres a body lying on the floor,

The old black and white movie draws me in
with Bogie and Bacall or Stanwyck and...

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