Long Thom Poems

"The Broken Valkyrie"



when 
the artificial 
sun 
replaced 
true Light,
revolution 
was a forgotten 
Valkyrie, 
Liberty 
had been 
put to bed
broken whore 
of Babylon
no longer holding
the torch for anyone;

women and men 
grew to love 
their servitude,
complacency 
skewered...

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"Breath, in Blue"



Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath battered in the honeycomb maze
vanished all my bees belittled forgotten...

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"Symposium"



where do you go 
when you try to 
dream your place

in my life 

gone now 
from your 
quicksand shores

once I rolled over 
placed my mouth 
against your throat

what used to be

as if you 
could transfer
some...

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Joe Bonamassa is famous for more than just guitar skills.
but as for the lovely array of ancient antiques,
His "Nerdville" house is filled with tools and artifacts.

Joe Bonamassa hankers for blues-rock as pioneers age.
Danny Gatton taught...

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A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
  
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering 
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours truly 
(an aspiring wordsmith) vamoose!

Hey diddle diddle the...

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"The Drowning Machine"



Pulled from my mouth
a string of raw gold to build a tower
built from one understanding
a united ziggurat of words sucked
backwards played before broken mirrors
translated anti-clockwise slow speed all that babel
an alter laid down...

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"Fits the Need" 


All people want 
is a stable house
a place to call their "safe" home

to "LIVE"
outside of all cages -
free

live life 
how "we" 
were meant to feel

to have no hell 
continually raising chaos
in this...

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Dear Thom the Train
Attorney Page,

Defender of all Creatures
here below
in these DisUniting States
of throwback uncivil disunion,

What is your root foundation
for a constitutional argument
that all living residents
of these remaining United Democratic States
have a right
to restoring healthy justice,
to...

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METICULOUS 

Thom Love Pruett – his effect on absolutely
      everyone around him –
Impeccably dressed
Moderately slight in stature and weight
With features suggesting a certain hauteur    and
With promise of...

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"Diamond Light"



Downy soft 
Love Light sharply glistens diamond prisms
from rainbow's seven colours, in each colour a meaning
imparts a visitation message from fallen angel off a gosling’s wing

A mother whispers secret stories
A child cries silently and...

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If it were only me, I will be doing anyhow
Nobody would have been there to challenge me now

Now I look back into the face of the future,
What I see, golden grains, people of peasant pictures;

Red...

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P.S. IT’S POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 5
Many thanks to you selected poets;
Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it;
Each letters and each word;
Reads so...

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Das dada = codified bonafide anachronism

me thoughts infused
with thom hankering for yesteryear
circa antebellum i.e.
American Civil War era veer
rilly, teetering, smoldering, rumbling
upon iniquitous tier

United States greenacres crossroads
with petticoat junction spear
ritually hexed courtesy anti abolitionists
pitted against unfair
slavery,...

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Somewhere between the Poseidon and Azure
Is his double shaded blue that always allures;
Between the lush and chrome, green hues
That glow in layers of velvet like necklace;
With rufous brown tail feathers and long neck
With strong twig...

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“The Gideon Edge”



We walk the thin line
Alone, but in the 
crowd of humanity

We are walking 
towards
The Edge

Feeling our way 
in the dark 
fingers tracing our pasts

on walls that sound
like braille 
rattling, perishable, frail

Instincts in the...

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you might think 
I'm that lazy student
who sits at the front of the class,
puts on his earbuds
and ignores the presentation.

i'm not lazy. 
it's not every day you want people talking in your ear,
with all of...

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"The Watcher"



You said, “Never me...”
I said, “Saltwater stings, when cuts slashed deep are bled”.

Somewhere sharks are circling
Swimming black eyes numb
Do sharks have souls?
The crowd cried, “None”.

You said, “Honey, life’s so sweet”.
I said, “Do you think?”

Somewhere,...

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Razzmatazz. A long lost song
From a long lost band, Pulp
Freed from your Orange Juice,
Hailing from Scotland, who’s final king
Was Forest Whittaker, trophy winner
The only one Cleveland’s ever seen (but apparently, it rocks)
With its gray skied...

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"In You"  

What more to be said
or thought, when 
poetry flows like water

a never ending tap
of dreams and thoughts
spilling from a full heart

overflowing 

onto blank pages
pouring into the mind 
of you

the writing stops
eventually
but the...

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"Next Poem, Erased on a Sharp Black Line"



The more I try to erase you
The more you present sharp and present
Oligarchy claps on, 
Teeth sharp and tongues bite venomous in numbers

There you are walking
barefoot and blindfolded...

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soak up the side streets of Montmartre, 
Paris, 	Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy
class less 	art combusts	then drips 

- street beggars & tourists cant

writer Rubbish pastes   lace traceries
ala mode 	decoupaging decay 	
his cut-paper layers	grace	...

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In God Begin to Grow

Things may start out great or grow grim
What happened is being tested by Him
Our glorious God about what is required
To ensure that success has just transpired.

From God, what waits for us...

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"....... I would never have imagined
          The slow passion
          To that deliberate progress."

    ...

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Sometimes I feel small
Small but dangerous
Like a single, radioactive atom

Barry Manilow, the Beatles, They Might be Giants, Harry Cow, Madlib, Thom Yorke, Corey Taylor, Theodore Geisel.

I don't write the best poems.
I wish I at least...

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"The Daily Troubles"



Put on pause -

paws like a dog
begging for 
some scraps
that loyalty matters

Dreams wake up
and all the other 
broken hearts
laugh

Love is 
a two up 
making sense 
of Scrabble

You offer a 
kick start
coffee for 
a...

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